2026 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Andrew Zimmern

Chef, Restaurateur, Entrepreneur, Television & Radio Host

Nadya Alencastro

CEO

SIPRA

Alice Ammerman

Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Director of the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

University of North Carolina

Michiel Bakker

President

Culinary Institute of America

Caroline Baloga

Sustainability Manager, LifeWorks

Aramark

Eliza Blank

Chief Executive Officer

The Farmlink Project

Jay Blazey

General Counsel

Cedar Grove

Ellen Bowen

Site Director

Food Rescue US

Emily Broad Leib

Founding Director

Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic

Sara Burnett

Executive Director

ReFED

Yvette Cabrera

Director, Food Waste, Nature

Natural Resources Defense Council

Jeana Cadby

Environment and Climate Director

Western Growers

McKenzie Campbell

Director of Impact and Innovation

International Community Foundation

Gabrielle E.W. Carter

Revival Suppers

Tall Grass Food Box

Claudia Sánchez Castro

National Leader of Pacto por la Comida

Mexican FoodBanking Network

Kumar Chandran

Policy Director

ReFED

Rebecca Chesney

Vice President of Sustainability

ISS Guckenheimer

Christy Cook

Chief Executive Officer

InvestHER Strategies

Cameron Crake

Circularity Lead

Amazon Worldwide Grocery Stores

Seth Crawford

Chairman

Fieldwork Robotics

Kelsie DeFrancia

Circular Economy Senior Administrator

City and County of Denver’s Office of Climate Action, Sustainability & Resiliency

Renaud des Rosiers

Director of Sustainability

Amy's Kitchen

Nicolás Diaz

Senior Program Manager, Waste and Circular Economy

Global Methane Hub

Maria El Dahdah

Food Waste and Food Insecurity Consultant

LIDD

Sara El-Sayed

Director of the Biomimicry Center and Assistant Research Professor

Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems

Abby Fammartino

Co-Director

Menus of Change University Research Collaborative

Liz Fikejs

Senior Waste Preventiomn Program Manager

Seattle Public Utilities

John Fischer

Deputy Division Director, Solid Waste Materials Management

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

Gabriela Galindo

Program Coordinator

Alianza para la Sguridad Alimentaria

Nora Goldstein

Editorial Chairperson & Principal

BioCycle Group

Ron Gonen

Founder & CEO

Closed Loop Partners

Janine Guillot

Board Member

ReFED

Dana Gunders

President

ReFED

Anna Hammond

Founder & CEO

Matriark Foods

Regina Harmon

CEO

Food Recovery Network

Katy Hart

Director, Finance & Administration

ReFED

Jay Hawkins

Director of Food Recovery Programs

Feeding New York State

Lauren Hill

Environmental Project Manager, Solid Waste Section, Division of Waste Management

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

Tony Hillery

Founder & CEO

Harlem Grown

Megan Holler

Director of Food Recovery and Compost

Toward Zero Waste

Ayurella Horn-Muller

Food & Agriculture Writer

Grist

Ora Kemp

Senior Policy Advisor

Mayor of New York City's Office of Food Policy

Kelly Killian

Director of Communications & Content

Building Impact Through Eaters

Kristen Lee

Director of Business Initiatives

ReFED

Dylan Lew

Chief Executive Officer

Ecotone Renewables

Jeferson Lourenco

Assistant Professor of Animal & Dairy Science

University of Georgia

Adam Lowy

Executive Director & Founder

Move for Hunger

Paula Luu

Managing Director

BioCycle

David Ly

Director, Business Initiatives

ReFED

Emily Ma

ReFED Board Member

Google

Jo Marini

CEO & Co-Founder

Mothership Materials

Tyler Markham

Planner Principal

Austin Resource Recovery

Georgina Morris

Consultant

LIDD

Savannah Murray

Don't Waste Food SC Coordinator

South Carolina Department of Environmental Services

Michel Nischan

Founder & CEO, Wholesome Crave

Co-Founder & Chairman, Wholesome Wave

Priscilla Okyere

Head of Waste and Circular Solutions, Worldwide Sustainability

Amazon

Pete Pearson

Vice President Food, Food Loss and Waste

World Wildlife Fund

Alcione Pereira

Founder

Connecting Food

Gurbir Perhar

Senior Vice President of Compass Data & AI

Compass Group North America

Ida Posner

Founder & Managing Partner

Hawthorne Food Ventures

Joe Richardson

Founder

Lunch Out of Landfills

Gwyneth Rampton

Vice President of Sustainability

Compass Group USA

Jessica Regan

CEO

FoodMesh

Minnie Ringland

Senior Manager, Climate & Insights

ReFED

Leslie Rodgers

Marketing & Communications Director

Biodegradable Products Institute

Roberto Rodriguez

Director of International Produce Sourcing & Project Development

Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico

Brian Roe

Van Buren Professor

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University

Hannah Semler

CEO & Co-Founder, FarmDrop.us

Founder, Whole Crops

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

Sanne Stroosnijder

Manager, New Business Development

Food Waste Free United

Jackie Suggitt

Vice President, Business Initiatives & Community Engagement

ReFED

Jessica Synkoski

Head of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, North America and VP of Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, USA

Sodexo

Sarah Vared

Co-Founder

ReFED

Angel Veza

Director, Innovation Initiatives

ReFED

Demetrius Walker

Vice President of Retail Services

Food Lion

MacKenzie Waro

Sustainable Protein Specialist

World Wildlife Fund

Greg Williams

Director of Public Policy & Affairs

Agri-Cycle

Norbert Wilson

Director

Duke World Food Policy Center

Christine Wittmeier

Organics Recycling Team Lead

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality

Adam Wittwer

Thermo King Americas

Michael Wolf

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

The Spoon