2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Ben Collier co-founded the Farmlink Project while studying Applied Math at Brown University, and has led the transformation of this college dorm initiative into a national hunger relief movement. What was once a hundred students calling farmers with surplus at the beginning of the pandemic is now a food recovery system that has redistributed 220+ million pounds of nutritious food to communities facing hunger.

This work has garnered awards like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Award, the Jefferson Award, and a Congressional Medal of Honor Service Award. Ben and his team envision a day where everybody has access to the food they need to succeed.