American businesswoman
According to Wikipedia, Roxanne Quimby is an American businesswoman notable for founding the North Carolina-based Burt's Bees personal care products company with the eponymous beekeeper Burt Shavitz. Early life and education Quimby was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, a daughter of an engineer and salesman father and a homemaker mother. Although her family was business-oriented, she initially took a different path, attending San Francisco Art Institute, where she was influenced by the "back to the land" homesteading ideas of Helen and Scott Nearing.
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