2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 11-13, 2024 | Baltimore, MD
Kim Severson
National Food Correspondent
The New York Times
Bio:
Kim Severson is a Southern-based correspondent for The New York Times who reports on the nation’s food and culture. She also contributes to NYT Cooking, a website and app based on the extensive New York Times collection of recipes and cooking videos. Previously, Kim was the Times’ Southern bureau chief, covering a mix of breaking and political news. She has covered crime, education, politics and culture as a staff writer for West Coast news organizations including the San Francisco Chronicle and The Anchorage Daily News in Alaska. Kim has won several regional and national awards for news and feature writing, including the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for her contributions to the team that investigated sexual harassment and abuse against women and four James Beard awards for food writing. She has written four books, including her memoir “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life,” (Riverhead).” She lives in Atlanta with her partner and teenager.
Schedule
Wednesday, May 20
9:00am - 10:30am
“Progress in Action: Scaling Solutions to Food Waste”
Mainstage
Ten years ago, ReFED's Roadmap to Reduce U.S. Food Waste set an ambitious vision for transforming the way America produces, manages, and thinks about food waste. Since then, the field has grown, solutions have scaled, and momentum has built in ways both measurable and inspiring. But with urgency still high and much work remaining, this opening session is as much about what comes next as it is about how far we've come. ReFED President Dana Gunders will set the stage with a look at the field's most meaningful accomplishments from the past year and the bright spots ahead on the horizon. A panel of founders/CEOs will share candid reflections on what it took to grow their solutions from early-stage ideas into mainstream impact—offering hard-won lessons on how innovation and investment align for success. And the session will close on a high note with the announcement of the newest grantees of the ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund, celebrating the next wave of solutions poised to move the needle in the decade ahead.