“What would Dad do?”

These are the words Sallie Jones thought to herself in the midst of the dairy crisis sweeping the nation in 2016. Sallie was a daughter of dairy farmers, entrepreneurs, and a daughter left reeling, grieving the loss of her father, Michael Bowen, who had completed suicide just weeks prior.

Sallie is force of nature. A changemaker. Someone who takes personal pain and channels it into something to improve the greater good. In the aftermath of losing her father, Sallie created Gippsland Jersey, a dairy cooperative that is 100% Gippsland made and family-owned, paying farmers a fair price for their milk while spreading awareness for mental health and producing premium pure Jersey dairy products.