2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Anna Hammond is the founder and CEO of  Matriark Foods. Matriark upcycles farm surplus and vegetable trim from fresh-cut facilities into healthy products for food service: schools, hospitals, corporate cafeterias, foodbanks—simultaneously diverting waste from landfills while creating greater access to healthy food. Matriark has participated in the Food Systems 6 accelerator, the Huhtamaki Circular Economy program, and the Kroger Zero Waste Zero Hunger accelerator for which they won the peer-selected investment. Matriark was also selected to participate in the Foodbuy accelerator program for minority and women-owned businesses and has national distribution with Sysco and US Foods. Before launching Matriark, Hammond built a healthy eating program for youth and families living in public housing in New York City.