2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Aimee Rawlins is a freelance writer and editor with over 15 years of journalism experience. Most recently, she was the Senior Editor at Fast Company, where she managed the Impact section, which covered everything from climate change and sustainability to labor and environmental policy. She also led the annual World Changing Ideas Awards, which recognize companies and organizations that are driving meaningful change. Before leading the Impact section, Aimee was an editor on Fast Company’s design team, where she wrote about adaptive reuse; one interior designer’s approach to fighting homelessness; and how the Covid lockdowns changed our idea of “home.” She also interviewed Alice Waters about growing a vegetable garden, which was a real highlight of those early Covid days. More recently, she wrote about grappling with the climate-unfriendly parts of her life and trying to change them. Aimee loves cities, and has long been drawn to the people and organizations trying to make them work better—for everyone. She currently lives in Seattle, where she doesn’t have the space for a garden but dreams of the day she will.