About Dancing Deer Baking Company

As CEO and cofounder of Dancing Deer Baking Co. Trish Karter has found a way to marry her creative, artistic, environmental, community and business interests. The woman-owned enterprise is lauded as one of the nation’s most innovative natural food companies. It has received the food industry’s equivalent of the “Oscars” many times over, and many other accolades and honors.

Trish’s first business adventure was to leave her studies in Classics and Art History at Wheaton College, just a semester shy of a Bachelor’s Degree, and help dig her father (and hero) out of a Chapter 11 Reorganization. He had pioneered the recycling of bottles and cans on an industrial basis and his company went on to write the book on how to reclaim that portion of the waste stream. She continued on from there to a series of business challenges which had in common the characteristic of being in relatively unexplored territory – a comfort zone for Trish.

A graduate of Wheaton College in Classics and Art History, she received a Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale University in 1982. Years later, Trish set aside

her business interests and, taking a deep breath, invested her full energies in the pursuit of her first great love; to draw and paint. Five happy and productive years in the studio and outdoors doing plein air landscape work greatly influence her choices and perspective today. An unintended turn of events led her back in to business and the formation of Dancing Deer. Trish has committed the company to continuing its leadership in the natural food, green and social responsibility movements. Dancing Deer strives to further green practices and use the company’s success to demonstrate the validity of the socially responsible business model.

In 2007 Trish received an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science from Bentley College McCallum Graduate School and in 2002, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Wheaton College in Norton, MA for her accomplishments as a mother, entrepreneur, activist and artist.

Trish serves on the Boards of: The Social Venture Network, a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business and Simmons School of Management Business Advisory Council, formed to assist the school in its mission of educating women for principled leadership. She is an activist for the environment and social change on many fronts.

In addition to all that serious bio stuff, Trish loves to sing and dance, walk on the edge, challenge nature, engage the people around her in silliness and fun, be useful and creative every day and generate as much productive chaos as possible.

Her two children, Eleanna and Dimitri, are her greatest joy.