2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Hayden Dansky (they/them/theirs) is a cofounder and co-Director of Boulder Food Rescue, a nonprofit that works to create a more just and less wasteful food system through the sustainable redistribution of healthy food, decreasing barriers to access and building community-led and participatory food access programs that support the inherent leadership of individuals within the community. They are also a cofounder of Food Rescue Alliance, a national resource sharing and social impact network of food rescues organizing to advance health equity and participatory grassroots systems of food access. Outside of food systems work, they have helped to create Denver Doikayt, a Jewish activist group working on Indigenous solidarity projects, Boulder Food Not Bombs and an LGBTQ+ housing cooperative. They are an alumni of the Chinook Fund Giving Project that fundraises for economic and racial justice organizations. Beyond organizing, Hayden spends time writing and performing poetry, supporting transgender people in recovery, and being obsessed with animals.