"Food Waste: How Did We Get Here?"
Speaker Bios
Norbert Wilson is the Director of the World Food Policy Center. He is a Professor of Food, Economics, and Community at Duke Divinity School, with a joint appointment in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke. Professor Wilson’s research touches on several food issues, such as access, choice, food waste and domestic food systems. Before joining Duke Divinity School, Wilson was a professor of food policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (2017-2020).
Katie Marchini is COO at the non-profit food rescue organization Replate where she spends her time figuring out scalable solutions for the food rescue space. She comes to Replate from the catering world and is passionate about working at the intersection between Food Insecurity and Climate Change. She holds a BA in Psychology from Mills College and a Master's in Food Studies from the University of the Pacific.
Corby Kummer (moderator) is the author of The Joy of Coffee and The Pleasures of Slow Food, the first book in English on the Slow Food movement. He has been restaurant critic of New York, Boston, and Atlanta Magazines and food and food policy columnist for The New Republic. He is a senior editor at The Atlantic, to which he has long contributed articles on food and food policy, and is the editor-in-chief of Ideas: The Magazine of the Aspen Institute. Every week he is a featured commentator on food and food policy on WGBH's Boston Public Radio. He has received five James Beard Journalism Awards.