2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 11-13, 2024 | Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Convention Center
Alex Nichols-Vinueza
Program Manager, Food Loss & Waste
World Widlife Fund - US
Bio:
Alex Nichols-Vinueza, Program Manager, Food Waste—Alex supports the US Food Waste team’s portfolio of projects, including work with the agricultural, grocery retail, hospitality and food service sectors. This includes the Global Farm Loss Tool, the Food Waste Warrior program (which empowers students and teachers to learn about the food system by measuring and reducing their school food waste); the Zero Food Waste Coalition (in its work to advance common sense policies at the state and federal levels to develop a more circular food economy and mitigate climate change); and the US Food Waste Pact (a national voluntary agreement to accelerate leading food businesses’ progress toward their waste reduction targets).
Alex brings over 15 years of project and partnership management experience across tech, government, and sustainability consulting in the US and Latin America. He is bilingual in Spanish and English, and holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MEM from Duke’s Nichols School of the Environment.
Alex hails from Traverse City in northern Michigan, where he grew up camping, spending summers in the area’s many parks and lakes, and working on local farms.
Schedule
Wednesday, June 12
11:00am - 12:00pm
The ABCs of Reducing Food Waste in Schools: Nurturing Healthy Habits in the Classroom and Beyond
Breakout Session 1
How can we instruct and instill better food habits from the halls of the classroom to the cafeteria while nurturing healthy habits in students? Join us for an insightful discussion on implementing strategies to minimize food waste and promote nutrition in educational settings. This session will cover how a combination of strategies and interventions — like marketing healthy choices, providing nutrition education, and offering hands-on cooking and gardening programs for students — effectively work in unison to instill lifelong habits of mindful consumption from the classroom to their homes.