Charisse Mcgill Wiki, Age, Death, Husband, Lokal Artisan Food Founder
Trailblazing entrepreneur Charisse McGill passed away on 16 January 2024 at the age of 42. Her family released a statement on Thursday evening on the Lokal Artisan Foods Instagram page,
Charisse was a local food entrepreneur. She was knwon for her creative business savvy and civic engagement. Initially, she ran the Lansdale Farmers Market and later worked as the director of special events at Valley Forge Military Academy.
She was the founder and owner of Lokal Artisan Foods for which the initial fund in the business came from the lemonade sales for her daughter, Madison. Now Her daughter will continue to help run the company after Charisse’s demise.
Charisse McGill told the Philadelphia Tribune during a September 2023 interview that her daughter Madison started her lemonade business at the age of 12 and spent fourteen Saturdays in the summer selling lemonade and making $6000.
The Lokal Artisan Foods was launched in 2018 and her outlet’s best food item French Toast Bites often sold out at traffic-heavy local venues including Cherry Street Pier and Spruce Street Harbor Park.
In 2021, Charisse McGill became the first black woman to sell a signature beer in Pennsylvania with the roll-out of French Toat Ale in collaboration with Yards Brewing Company. Charisse’s company produced a spice product and coffee based off of her French toast Bites.
Charisse McGill was about to become the first black woman to start work as executive director of the Farmers Market Coalition in which she advocated on behalf of over 8000 farmers markets across America.
During the time of Charisse’s historic appointment, she told the press that she hoped she could open up doors for more and more black women. She took risks over the years but it all worked out.
Charisse McGill used to live with her parents Maurice Davidson and Tina Jackson, and her daughter Madison.
Charisse Mcgill Wiki, Age, Death, Husband, Lokal Artisan Food Founder
Local Artisan Foods founder Charisse McGill was bron and grew up in Pittsburgh to Maurice Davidson (Father) and Tina Jackson (Mother). She was born in 1981 and passed awya at the age of 42. She passed out from Schenley High School in 1999.
She moved to Philly to earn a bachelor’s degree in sport & Recreation Management, Tourism, and Hospitality Management from Temple University in 1999 and graduated in 2003. She did a course of meeting and event planning at Temple University for 2 years.
Later she studies at Delaware County Community College from 2008 to 2009. She earned an MBA degree in food marketing from Saint Joseph’s University in 2018.
Charisse McGill started her career as a Sales Associate at Philadelphia 76ers in 2001 and quit the job in 2003 to work at the Atlantic 10 Conference as an assistant to the Commissioner in 2002.
She worked for 4 years there. She worked as an associate competition director at Special Olympics PA from April 2007 to Septemebr 2007. She had been a youth market director at the American Heart Association for 2 years in the Greater Philadelphia Area.
She worked as an event planning and management lecturer at Rutgers University from December 2010 to July 2011 in Camden, NJ. Charisse McGill also served as a Girl’ Varsity Basketball Head Coach at Benjamin Franklin High School for 2 years.
She worked as a meeting & Event Consultant at Ardent Meeting & Event Management from July 2006 to November 2013 in the Greater Philadelphia Area. She served as an assistant Women’s Basketball Coach at Bucks County Community College for 5 months.
McGill worked as a hospitality Management Instructor at Philadelphia Academies, Inc. from August 2010 to August 2015. She served as a director of marketing & Communications at Saint Mark’s High School from August 2015 to November 2016 in Wilmington, DE. She served as a co-organizer at TEDxPhiladelphia from January 2018 to November 2018 in the Greater Philadelphia Area.
She worked as a market manager at Lansdale Farmers’ Market from May 2013 to July 2019 on Main Street at Railroad Ave, Lansdale, PA. She served as Adjunct Faculty at Montgomery County Community College from January 2017 to December 2020.
Charisse McGill opened her own company Lokal Artisan Foods, LLC in January 2018 and launched French Toast Bites in 2018. She has been serving as an executive director at Farmers Market Coalition since June 2023.
Charisse McGills’ personal life details are not known but she was blessed with an 18-year-old daughter Madison who also runs McGill’s company.
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