Dakota Walker – Magic Maker
By margaret, Friday, August 29, 2008Not one to sit still, Dakota is a masseuse, holistic health teacher, graphic artist and godsend to the women served by Isabelle’s House. She eats out way too much, prefers Muddy Waters coffee and adored her grandmother Isabelle.
”What I loved about my grandmother is that she’d stop
whatever she was doing to engage me in conversation when I walked in the room,”
says Dakota. “She focused on what was important, on the human spirit.” Through
Isabelle’s House, Dakota brings her grandmother’s brand of magic to women in
the community—renovating a home, with all the bells and whistles, for a single
working mother; transforming the women’s shelter dining room at Crisis
Ministries into Isabelle’s Bistro for one night, with a four-course meal cooked
by a former Ritz Carleton chef, maitre-D service and gifts and personal notes
for the guests. In her spare time, Dakota searches abandoned houses for odd
treasures. Her favorite recent find:The
South Carolina Guide to Being an Inmate.Learn more about Isabelle’s House at www.isabelleshouse.org.


















