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The Future Ain’t Fried | Rooted in the past. Rising for tomorrow. (Autographed)

A story of soil, soul, and building a future worth fighting for.

Cooking Up Change Where Culture, Climate, and Community Collide

What do you get when a Southern girl raised on grits, gospel, and Grandma’s kitchen wisdom grows up to become a healthcare professional, community chef, and immersive learning innovator using virtual reality to fight food deserts and teach climate resilience?

You get Shemecka McNeil and this unforgettable journey.

From her roots in rural South Carolina to international collaborations and immersive classrooms, Shemecka’s story is part memoir, partblueprint for building better systems. With laugh-out-loud honesty and a side of greens, she connects the dots between food, energy, health, and equity especially in communities too often left behind.

Whether she’s designing a VR-powered community garden or swapping out fried traditions for flavorful healing, Shemecka is on a mission to make sustainability make sense. Her path wasn’t paved, it was planted, tilled, weathered, and walked with purpose

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