Rachael N. Ramirez

Rachael Ramirez has helped shape the Frankenmuth community through her personal and professional endeavors. She owns and manages Healthy Habitz, a health food store where she began as an employee in 2007. Today, as a business owner and employer, Ramirez makes many economic and charitable contributions to her community.

For many years, Ramirez served as the education director at the Frankenmuth Historical Museum, developing, coordinating, and implementing programs for students and the public. Her many accomplishments at the museum included revitalizing the Pioneer Days program and directing a historical day camp. She has served as an American Youth Soccer Organization regional commissioner and coach, a member of the Saginaw Conservation District’s board of directors, the director of the Chippewa Nature Center Camp, and a wellness coordinator for the local Home Depot.

After an 11-year 4-H career in Midland County, Ramirez continues to volunteer with Michigan 4-H as an adult. She led the Midland County Fur, Fun, and Feathers 4-H Club, was director of the local 4-H camp, and served as a 4-H Peer Plus program coordinator. In addition, Ramirez has led volunteer training workshops at Kettunen Center and youth sessions at 4-H Exploration Days, and hosted international 4-H youth exchange participants.

Outside of 4-H, Ramirez volunteers with her local church, food pantry, and clothes donation center, with Weiss Centennial Farm, and with the Franklin Avenue Mission in Flint. She is a member of the Gleaners Bavarian Arbor in Frankenmuth and works to maintain the beauty of local historical sights through landscaping and planting trees.