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Amber is a dietitian with a master’s in food policy from the Tufts Friedman School. She has worked for over a decade in food and nutrition with diverse experience in policy, education, and clinical care. She works in the Southwest and Oregon to support the health care sector in purchasing more local, sustainable food and investing in upstream interventions to build a healthier food system. Amber is also a mom, runner, and fan of bad puns.
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Nancy is passionate about empowering individuals and communities, and ensuring equity to improve quality of life. She is an appointed member of the Philadelphia Food Policy Advisory Council and a member of the board of directors for the Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger. She is also an adjunct professor at Delaware Valley University, where she teaches food security and food sovereignty.
Type: Staff
Maxie's experience includes managing the San Diego Green New Deal Alliance, working as a justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion organizer and policy advocate with Climate Action Campaign, and serving on the San Diego Food Systems Alliance’s stewardship committee. Her skills in food systems and nutrition, management, partnership development, and organizing at the intersections of social, environmental, and climate justice add value to our Healthy Food in Health Care program and inform the transformation of the socioeconomic structure of our food system in a holistic way that centers… Read More
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Betsy is committed to creating sustainable food systems to improve community health and build local economies. Her experience includes research, policy and advocacy, nonprofit management, and cooking in restaurants on both coasts. Betsy lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and children. Outside of work, she can be found running, cooking, and spending as much time outdoors as possible.
Type: Staff
Diana has over 20 years of experience working with international organizations in development and public health programming. She has lived and worked in South Sudan, Thailand, Myanmar, and Ethiopia, and has provided technical assistance to organizations working in Africa and Latin America. Diana's previous experience focused on monitoring, evaluation, learning, and management roles in climate resilience, food security, infectious diseases, and immunizations. She holds an M.A. in international development from George Washington University and recently completed an M.S. in health policy,… Read More
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Tim comes to us from Climate XChange, where he led their in-state team and local policy work as the Massachusetts state director, led the Green Future Now coalition, and authored the Green Future Act. He also worked as a policy manager for the Climate Action Business Association, a business round table that organized the private sector on clean energy and climate resilience. Tim enjoys exploring local bookstores and state parks with his partner. He can be regularly found volunteering for something in his hometown of Weymouth or being meowed at by his cat.
Type: Staff
Gwyneth is a seasoned management professional with over 20 years of experience in public health, hospital administration, higher education, and strategic purchasing who excels at fostering positive team dynamics and using quantitative analysis to understand complex problems and find practical solutions. She joins Practice Greenhealth after nine years as Boston Medical Center’s director of professional operations. She also worked in the Center for Clinical Effectiveness at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard School of Public Health, and for… Read More
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Nikhil Sahni is a partner at McKinsey and Company, advising health care organizations on corporate strategy, business-unit strategy, inorganic growth, and operational efficiency, and a leader in McKinsey’s Center for U.S. Health System Reform. Sahni serves as a fellow with Professor David Cutler at the Harvard University department of economics. In his previous role as senior director of strategy, planning, and operations at a health care IT company, he helped raise $25 million and tripled the company’s size. As policy director of cost trends and special projects for the Massachusetts Health… Read More
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Ruth coordinates waste work for the global team and contributes to projects on plastics, procurement, chemicals, and climate. She has worked in over 40 countries, investigating hazardous waste, fixing hospital waste systems, and advising on pollution prevention policies. Her background is in biochemistry and chemistry, followed by over 15 years in academia researching environmental pollution. When she is not traveling, she loves growing fruit, flowers, and vegetables.
Type: Staff
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Stacia sees both food and health as personal. As a registered dietitian, she started out in clinical nutrition and food service in health care but quickly realized the need for reform to return food to its rightful role as a social and cultural connector. She relishes time spent with family and building the values of her grandkids as part of our next generation through home-cooked meals, gardening, and walks in the woods.
Type: Staff
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