2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Violet Noe is a project manager at the Global Food Research Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a program whose mission is to provide the academic community, policymakers, and industry with rigorous and innovative methods to measure the influence of industry (factory-to-fork dynamics) on food supply trends across the globe. Violet manages all stages of research projects, from grant-writing to data collection to analysis and publication. As part of a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, Violet works with an interdisciplinary team comprised of nutritionists, environmental scientists, and economists to design and evaluate a household food waste prevention intervention, with a focus on low-income households and households with children.

Violet holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in public health nutrition and is a registered dietitian.