2026 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Andrew Zimmern

Chef, Restaurateur, Entrepreneur, Television & Radio Host

Michiel Bakker

President

Culinary Institute of America

Ellen Bowen

Site Director

Food Rescue US

Jennifer Bryan-Goforth

WSU Food Systems Consumer Education Specialist

Washington State University

Sara Burnett

Executive Director

ReFED

Jeana Cadby

Environment and Climate Director

Western Growers

Rebecca Chesney

Vice President of Sustainability

ISS Guckenheimer

Abby Fammartino

Co-Director

Menus of Change University Research Collaborative

Liz Fikejs

Senior Waste Preventiomn Program Manager

Seattle Public Utilities

Nora Goldstein

Editorial Chairperson & Principal

BioCycle Group

Janine Guillot

Board Member

ReFED

Dana Gunders

President

ReFED

Megan Holler

Director of Food Recovery and Compost

Toward Zero Waste

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Food & Agriculture Writer

Grist

Kristen Lee

Director of Business Initiatives

ReFED

David Ly

Director, Business Initiatives

ReFED

Jo Marini

CEO & Co-Founder

Mothership Materials

Georgina Morris

Consultant

LIDD

Pete Pearson

Vice President Food, Food Loss and Waste

World Wildlife Fund

Ida Posner

Founder & Managing Partner

Hawthorne Food Ventures

Joe Richardson

Founder

Lunch Out of Landfills

Minnie Ringland

Senior Manager, Climate & Insights

ReFED

Kim Severson

National Food Correspondent

New York Times

Andrew Shakman

President & CEO

Leanpath

Shivani Shukla

Climate Research Fellow

SMAC Methane

Leslie Soble

Senior Program Manager

Impact Justice (formerly)

Moody Soliman

CEO

Ryp Labs

Ethan Soloviev

Chief Innovation Officer

HowGood

John Stoddard

Associate Director of Climate and Food Solutions

Health Care Without Harm

Angel Veza

Director, Innovation Initiatives

ReFED

Demetrius Walker

Vice President of Retail Services

Food Lion

Christine Wittmeier

Organics Recycling Team Lead

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality