Judy has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Business Enterprise Trust award, founded by Norman Lear, for creative leadership in combining sound business management with social vision. More recently, she received Business Ethics Magazines first Living Economy Award. Other accolades include American Benefactors Americas 25 Most Generous Companies award, Conde Nast Travelers list of top 50 American restaurants, and Inc. Magazine's 25 favorite entrepreneurs in the country. Judy co-authored White Dog Cafe Cookbook: Multicultural Recipes and Tales of Adventure from Philadelphia's Revolutionary Restaurant.

With a four part mission of serving customers, community, employees, and the natural environment, the White Dog Cafe has created numerous educational and community-building programs which focus on topics such as economic & social justice, peace & non-violence, drug policy reform and community arts. Through Table for Six Billion, Please! !" the international sister restaurant project Judy began in 1984, she has organized trips to Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Vietnam, and Israel / Palestine in order to understand the effects of US policy. A local sister restaurant program promotes minority-owned restaurants in Philadelphia and Camden. In 1992, Judy began the White Dog mentoring program, which introduces inner-city high school students to the restaurant business. Her adjacent gift store, the Black Cat, founded in 1989, features local crafts and Whole World Products, promoting an inclusive and sustainable global economy. White Dog Enterprises employs over 100 people and grosses over $5 million annually, demonstrating the concept of doing well by doing good.

The Cafe sources all produce in season from local organic family farms. All meat and poultry is humanely raised, and most fish and seafood sourced from sustainable fisheries. The Cafe has helped lead campaigns to ban the sale of endangered fish and the use of GMO products. One hundred percent of electricity is generated by wind power, the first business in Pennsylvania to do so. Entry-level employees make a minimum living wage. Twenty percent of profits are contributed to the White Dog Cafe Foundation and other non-profits. Foundation projects include Fair Food, which connects local family farms with urban markets; the PIG Alliance, which supports pastured pig farming as an alternative to confinement pork production; and the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, which supports independent local businesses committed to building a local living economy.

Judy has appeared on Nightline, MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, CNN, and numerous local TV and radio shows. She and the Cafe have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forturne Small Business, Washington Post, Whole Earth Magazine, Utne Reader, Yes Magazine, Fast Company, Healthy Living Magazine, Business Ethics Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Hope Magazine, Sojourner Magazine, In Business, Orion Magazine, The Other Side, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine and the Philadelphia Business Journal. Judys business career is featured in several books including Making a Life, Making a Living: Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and Life by Mark Albion, Good News for a Chance: How Everyday People Are Helping the Planet by David Suzuki and Holly Dressel, and Aiming Higher: 25 Stories of How Companies Prosper by Combining Sound Management and Social Vision by David Bollier.

Judy was co-founder of the Free People's Store, now called Urban Outfitters, in 1970, and general manager and co-proprietor of Restaurant LaTerrasse from 1974 to 1984.

She was also co-founder and President of Synapse, Inc. a non-profit publishing company, and editor and art director of its publications, the Whole City Catalog in 1972 and 74, and the Philadelphia Resource Guide in 1982.

Nominating Speech:

Promote commerce to enhance citizens' lives, not simply to enrich investors;

Promote decent, well-paying, environmentally sustainable jobs;

Take the initiative in developing a Genuine Progress Indicator to replace GDP which does not adequately distinguish between good growth and destructive trends; Work to provide new guarantees for pension security;

Support very small businesses, minority and women-owned businesses;

Direct and manage the patent and trademark system to promote the common good by promoting valuable inventions, research and intellectual exchangee, as a higher priority than protecting corporate profits.