“Growing up well below the poverty level, I know all too well what it’s like for families in America who aren’t able to put food on their tables every day. A group like Feeding America
helped my family
once, and quite possibly changed my life, and I am eager to pay that gift forward.”
Shannon Carroll (or Mr Lady, as she’s known online) is the mother of three children, aged 14-6, and is also the conference programming manager at BlogHer.com. In her spare minute, she writes Whiskey In My Sippy Cup, a critically acclaimed blog about nothing in particular, and Cucumbersome, a foodish blog on Babble.com. She dreams of one day being a gangster rapper, and is physically incapable of keeping a hamster alive, or baking cookies.