2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Ava currently serves as the Sustainability Director in the Baltimore Office of Sustainability along with an amazing team to advance a more sustainable and equitable city. At her core, Ava is an advocate for systems change applying her program management and analytic skills to advance policies and initiatives in harmony with social equity, environmental sustainability and economic prosperity. She views food waste challenges through these intersecting lenses. In 2019, Ava was hired to support Baltimore’s Food Matters program in 2019, were she helped support a citywide initiative to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030. Ava is also currently obtaining a Doctorate of Public Health with a focus on Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University where her research interests center on wasted food prevention, food rescue and ways to improve organic/food waste management systems. Ava is also a Lerner Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for a Livable Future.