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Emma is inspired by the power of food to connect us, nourish our bodies, and restore our natural systems. She is excited to lead a team of content experts and organizers at Health Care Without Harm to work with health care institutions and health professionals across the country to promote sustainable food systems. When she’s not working, Emma spends her time creating an urban food forest in her backyard in Portland, Oregon.
Type: Staff
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
Shanda is a nurse with a green thumb. From bedside cardiac nursing to serving as assistant nursing professor, she has worked to help health professionals and students see the natural and built environments as determinants of health. Shanda hails from Minnesota, where she spends her spare time growing, cooking, and eating good food to fuel miles of active transport on the roads.
Type: Staff
Keith has been passionate about sustainability since graduating from college. His dedication to sustainability is rooted in his love of the outdoors and his understanding that we live in a closed loop system. Hiking, cycling, kayaking, paddle boarding, surfing, and any chance to be in or on the water are activities that bring him great happiness. He also enjoys being the head coach of a high school girls lacrosse team, running his nonprofit summer sports camp for visually impaired and blind children, writing songs, recording, mixing, producing, and playing music.
Type: Staff
Kimberly Dasher Tripp is founder and principal of Strategy for Scale, where she advises high-impact organizations and private foundations. She partners with new and established philanthropists to build clear, impact-oriented strategies and processes to accelerate systems change. With social enterprises, she works on issues related to the nuanced art of scaling impact: strategic plans that drive measurable outcomes and can be operationalized; governance; leadership and talent; development strategy and growth plans; and impact measurement. She also conducts research and writes about… Read More
Type: Staff
Kate's background is in public health, wellness, and health care sustainability. She believes that for people to thrive, they need a healthy environment to support positive behavior change. She is passionate about helping partners persevere on their sustainability journey. On the partnership engagement team, Kate manages California and other regional facilities. Kate was born and raised in the Olympic National Park and resides in central Washington. She enjoys experimenting with plant-based recipes, exploring the outdoors, and chasing her son.
Type: Staff
John has been in the sustainability field for over a decade, and most recently at Harvard University’s Office for Sustainability, where he helped advance their healthier building materials program. John earned an MBA and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, and he graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.S. in molecular and cellular biology. At the start of his career, he worked as a cancer researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. John is excited to be advocating for his two passions: sustainability and public health.
Type: Staff
Josh works to build a zero emissions, climate resilient, and more equitable health care sector. Since joining Health Care Without Harm in 2005, he has established a series of initiatives including the organization’s Global Green and Healthy Hospitals network. In close collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Josh spearheaded Health Care Without Harm’s successful worldwide campaign to eliminate mercury in health care and led its more recent work with WHO and the UK COP Presidency to secure commitments from more than 60 governments for sustainable, low-carbon, and climate… Read More
Type: Staff
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
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
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