2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Lindsey Loberg( they/them/theirs) is a 2023 Bertha Challenge Fellow. They'll spend the year creating a curriculum for grassroots, non-profit food distributors to transform the relationship between charitable food, corporations, and politics through participatory research, direct action, community power building, and other systems change work. Lindsey is also the Co-Director of Boulder Food Rescue, a Boulder, CO-based, grassroots food distributor working towards a more just and less wasteful food system. Lindsey works to dismantle hunger and oppressive power structures, particularly those influencing the nonprofit food sector. Their early involvement with activism and organizing came as a teacher and union worker during the Wisconsin Uprising and Occupy Movement. They held 25 jobs before turning 25, some in food, all in low-wage work perpetuating hunger. Lindsey is involved with Boulder's Human Relations Commission, a government body intended to safeguard human rights; their local branch of the Debt Collective, a national debtors’ union working to abolish debts of survival and basic opportunity; and a number of professional networks, including Food Rescue Alliance, Community Resource Center’s Root Cause Network, and Closing the Hunger Gap’s Next Shift Community of Practice.