Featured in Forbes: Heidi Kuhn, Roots of Peace Co-Founder and CEO

Kühn is the founder and CEO of Roots of Peace, a nonprofit she started in 1997 to transform landmines into sustainable vineyards and orchards.

  • After overcoming cancer, she started the organization to eliminate landmines which she says she saw as a cancer to the Earth.

  • Roots of Peace has removed more than 100,000 landmines and unexploded bombs and helped over 1 million farmers across eight countries.

  • Roots of Peace has garnered the support of the U.S. government, the United Nations, the World Bank and other governments and organizations.

  • She published a memoir, "Breaking Ground," in April 2020.

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