Reporter’s notebook: A Farm Girl’s Fateful Journey to the White House

More from my interview with PLEZi Nutrition’s Deb Eschmeyer

Deb Eschmeyer (center), former executive director of "Let's Move!," Alonzo Mourning (left), and students from "Let's Move!" programs participate in the fall harvest in the White House Kitchen Garden in October 2016. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)

How does a Midwest dairy farmer’s daughter one day find herself at the right hand of the first lady of the United States? That’s not the first question I asked when I recently interviewed Deb Eschmeyer, former executive director of former First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative and former senior White House policy adviser for nutrition.

I wanted to talk with Eschmeyer because I was interested in hearing about how things were going with PLEZi Nutrition, the food-conscious public benefit company that Michelle Obama co-founded and launched last May. Eschmeyer, post-White House, is back alongside the former first lady. This time, she is serving as chair of PLEZi Nutrition’s Kitchen Cabinet. But, there’s more to the story