2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 11-13, 2024 | Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Convention Center
Nora LaTorre
CEO
Eat Real
Bio:
Nora LaTorre is CEO of award-winning Eat Real which is a systems transformation nonprofit. Eat Real believes every child deserves a healthy, delicious future on a livable planet. Eat Real is nourishing the future by working with 600+ schools to solve the root cause of the health crisis facing our children. Additionally, Nora is a One Green Thing Board Member, Tufts Nutrition Security Council Member and California Department of Food and Agriculture Advisor on Health, Data, and Systems. She is part of XPRIZE, HATCH and the Aspen Institute Socrates Scholars program as well as a leader on numerous national public health coalitions. Nora contributed to the White House Hunger, Nutrition, and Health Conference and is a top speaker at global conferences. Her impact has been highlighted by ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, Fast Company and beyond.Nora built her career sparking the conscious consumer movement: working with and advising nonprofits, startups and Fortune 500 companies on the triple bottom line and consumer activation. She works to inspire results and collaboration. She invests in future-changing ideas, female leaders and rising stars. Nora is motivated by her two small children and her love of the mountains.
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.