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IU McKinney Alumna Martha Hoover Receives Indiana Conference for Women Trailblazer Award
10/25/2023
Martha Hoover was honored with the Indiana Conference for Women’s Trailblazer Award during the 2023 event. The conference took place October 24 at the Indiana Convention Center. It is the largest one-day professional development conference in the Midwest.
Hoover is a pioneer in the farm-to-table food movement and is an acclaimed entrepreneur and restaurateur. There are a dozen restaurants under Hoover’s Won’t Stop Hospitality, Inc. umbrella. Her Patachou Foundation delivers meals to food-insecure children in Indianapolis. Hoover has been nominated for the James Beard Foundation Awards’ Best Restaurateur honor six times. She was inducted into the Junior Achievement of Central Indiana Business Hall of Fame in 2015 in recognition of her work. A member of the IU McKinney Board of Visitors, she delivered the 2019 graduation celebration address for IU McKinney students.
