2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Todd Lawrence is executive director of Urban Green Lab in Nashville, Tennessee, which teaches communities how to live sustainably.  A Nashville native, Todd’s background is in global health, with a focus on community education and infectious disease.  Prior to Urban Green Lab, Todd worked with the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, the Carter Center’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program in South Sudan, the Global Health Council in Washington, D.C. leading the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia (2002-2003) training community health workers in rural villages.  He has a masters in International Development from American University and a bachelors in Political Science from Furman University, and lives with his wife and little girl in Nashville.