Delaney Berman earned a B.A. in philosophy from William & Mary. After graduating, she worked as a litigation paralegal, before pivoting to pursue her dream of creating a plant-based food startup. She joined the Rice Business Full-Time MBA program in 2020 and interned at the Mercury Fund as an entrepreneur in residence, incubating an artisanal plant-based cheese company. While at Rice, she won the Outstanding Woman in Leadership Owl Award, was a semifinalist in the John R. Lewis Racial Justice Case Competition and won first place in the sixth annual PepsiCo MBA Invitational Business Case Competition. She is now the founder and CEO of Berman Foods.