NEWS OFF THE CUFF
WHY SHOPPING LOCAL MATTERS
Off the Cuff with Local First Milwaukee’s Nancy Quinn BY LOUIS FORTIS
NANCY QUINN IS A VOLUNTEER AND BOARD MEMBER OF LOCAL FIRST MILWAUKEE. SHE IS ALSO DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS AT SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER. What is Local First Milwaukee? We’re a business alliance made up of over nearly 175 truly local businesses in the Greater Milwaukee Area—businesses created and owned by your neighbors for our community. We started in 2006, when a small group of independently owned businesses got together to discuss how to showcase the businesses that make Milwaukee the place where we love to work, live and play. Among those around the table were Outpost Natural Foods, Lakefront Brewery, the Pabst Theater and Schwartz Bookshops, where I worked at the time. We’ve been working hard since then to both support our member businesses and to educate Milwaukeeans about the importance of thinking local first. 20 | SHEPHERD EXPRESS
