2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Matt Burke is an organizer and advocate for food equity and sustainability working in his home town of Baltimore, Maryland. Active since 2012, Burke founded Food Rescue Baltimore as a means of curbing local food waste and providing access to healthy food in underserved communities throughout the city. Under his guidance as executive director, Food Rescue Baltimore has grown into the largest and longest operating grass-roots food distribution network in Baltimore, encompassing twelve weekly giveaway sites that serve thousands of individuals throughout the city.