This event is part of the NYC Food Waste Fair 2021. To see all NYC Food Waste Fair events, visit www.foodwastefair.com
About this event
We’ve all heard the saying “food as medicine” but for chronically ill food and food insecure patients, that concept presents a host of challenges. Everything Food is tackling that problem with FoodFarmacy, a code matching software that identifies funding resources for health care professionals setting treatment plans for their chronically ill or food insecure patients. Everything Food has partnered with Imperfect Foods and EveryTable to orchestrate automatic deliveries of groceries and prepared meals at no cost to the patient by using Medicare reimbursement codes for food boxes as preventative medicine.
Moderator: Vitus Spehar, Executive Director, Everything Food
V is the current Executive Director of EverythingFood and former Director of Impact for the James Beard Foundation. They are a founding board member of Queer Food Foundation, and the Host/Creator of TikTok’s @underthedesknews with over 500k followers, and 18m views. #Underthedesknews offers 60-second daily wrap-ups of current events, political analysis, and special interest stories “explained”.
Speakers include:
Madeline Rotman, Head of Sustainability, Imperfect Foods
Madeline is the Head of Sustainability at Imperfect Foods, the online grocer on a mission to eliminate food waste and build a better food system for everyone. With 10+ years of experience in the grocery sector, Madeline has been a champion of food access and the need to build more equitable and regenerative food systems. In this role, she is helping the company reduce waste even further across their operational practices and food supply system at large.
Sam Polk, CEO, Everytable
Sam Polk left a successful career on Wall Street to follow his heart to fight food injustice. Sam is the founder and CEO of Everytable, a social enterprise on a mission to transform the food system by making fresh, nutritious food accessible to everyone, everywhere. Everytable is a multi-channel, fresh-prepared meals business blending storefronts, subscription delivery, SmartFridges, and institutional food service, all supplied by a central kitchen with meals priced according to the neighborhood.