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Vivian Chau Best ’03

Vivian Chau Best ’03 was named one of the “Forty Under 40” young Hawaii business leaders by Pacific Business News for her work on her “Give It Fresh Today” program, which enables customers at farmers markets to donate fresh produce to homeless shelters. People normally give canned food to a shelter, but a donation table at a farmers market in Chicago challenged Best to think about “what it would feel like to eat something that was fresh, in season, and locally grown.” Best started the produce donation program with handmade signs, a basket for food, and a jar for monetary donations. In a local TED talk, Best said that they were receiving more than a thousand pounds of donated produce each month. Best graduated from Wesleyan with a bachelor’s degree in art history.
Vivian Chau Best ’03 was named one of the “Forty Under 40” young Hawaii business leaders by Pacific Business News for her work on her “Give It Fresh Today” program, which enables customers at farmers markets to donate fresh produce to homeless shelters. People normally give canned food to a shelter, but a donation table at a farmers market in Chicago challenged Best to think about “what it would feel like to eat something that was fresh, in season, and locally grown.” Best started the produce donation program with handmade signs, a basket for food, and a jar for monetary donations. In a local TED talk, Best said that they were receiving more than a thousand pounds of donated produce each month. Best graduated from Wesleyan with a bachelor’s degree in art history.