Lori Stern
Chef
Private chef, caterer and artist who uses local and seasonal produce to create vegetarian and vegan recipes. She shares pictures of her food and cakes as well as sample menus on her personal web site.
She spent her time cooking and playing tennis during her youth. She attended the University of Virginia and moved to New York to work in fashion after graduating.
As an artist, she is a painter and sewer. She shares her artwork and food on Instagram and has garnered more than 220,000 followers.
She grew up in the Arbolada neighborhood of Ojai, California. Her father was a symphonic jazz clarinetist while her uncle was a concert pianist and her grandmother, a dancer.
One of the few artists that she truly admires is tennis great Steffi Graf.