2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Shannon Kenny is a Senior Advisor in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development. Shannon focuses on research needed to help the United States meet its goal to halve food waste by 2030. Shannon has more than 20 years’ experience at the EPA, with primary emphasis on climate change. Shannon has also served as staff to the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Shannon was lead author of two recent EPA reports on the environmental impacts of food waste: From Farm to Kitchen and From Field to Bin, which determined the new USEPA Wasted Food Scale.