Joanne Lee Molinaro

Joanne Lee Molinaro (born April 24, 1979) is an American attorney, and Vegan/Plant-based author and blogger.

As a specialized practitioner in bankruptcy, she defended the liquidating trustee against almost $1 billion in claims in the second-largest Ponzi scheme case in United States history.

[12][13][14][15] She began posting to TikTok in 2020 under the same name, and sharing recipes along with personal stories [16] that focus on how her family escaped North Korea and adjusted to life in the United States, how it feels to be a Korean woman living in the diaspora, her law journey, and her abusive first marriage.

[23] Her first cookbook, The Korean Vegan, won the James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetable Focused Cooking in 2022.

[34] On July 21, 2018, she married Chicago-born concert pianist and music professor Anthony Molinaro in Rome.