Danielle Nierenberg, a world-renowned researcher, speaker, and advocate, on all issues relating to our food system and agriculture.

In 2013, Danielle Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank with Bernard Pollack, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Food Tank is a global convener, thought leadership organization, and unbiased creator of original research impacting the food system. Danielle is the recipient of the 2020 Julia Child Award.

Food Tank’s Summits, held across the United States and internationally, have hosted hundreds of speakers and sold-out audiences of tens of thousands of participants, with hundreds of thousands joining via livestream, reaching millions across social media. The Summits, some of the most important fora that bring together all sides of food issues for critical discussion, are held in partnership with major universities and moderated by major food journalists including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, National Public Radio, and dozens more.

Food Tank is also publishing original articles daily and partners with over 250 major organizations including academic institutions such as George Washington University and Tufts; U.N. organizations like the FAO, WFP, UNEP, and IFAD; funding and donor community organizations such as The Rockefeller Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Overbrook Foundation; and global nonprofits such as Slow Food USA and Oxfam America. She also runs the largest network of food studies faculty in universities, representing all 50 U.S. states; the largest network of Chief Sustainability Officers, and is about to announce the establishment of a non-profit network connecting all 36,000 food, climate, and health organizations in the United States.

Danielle also conducts extensive on-the-ground research, traveling to more than 70 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. She has met with thousands of farmers and farmers’ groups, scientists and researchers, policymakers and government leaders, students and academics, and journalists, documenting what is working to help alleviate hunger and poverty while protecting the environment.

Her knowledge of global agriculture issues has been cited widely in more than 20,000 major print and broadcast outlets worldwide, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, BBC, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CBS This Morning, The Guardian (UK), The Telegraph (UK), Le Monde (France), the Mail and Guardian (South Africa), the East African (Kenya), TIME magazine, the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France Presse, Voice of America, the Times of India, the Sydney Morning Herald, and hundreds more.

Danielle speaks at more than 100 events per year, including major conferences and events all over the world. These events include SXSW, TED, The World Food Prize/Borlaug Dialogues, American College of Lifestyle Medicine Conference, James Beard Foundation Leadership Awards, Institute, Milan Urban Food Pact Awards, Aspen Institute Environment Forum, the European Commission, the Chicago Council Global Food Security Symposium, National Geographic’s Food Forum, the Sustainable Food Summit, the Hilton Humanitarian Awards, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Global Forum and Expo on Family Farming, New York Times Food for Tomorrow, BITE, and many others.

She has built a worldwide social media and web following of more than 1,500,000 including 350,000 weekly newsletter subscribers from 190 countries; 360,000 combined Facebook fans; and 600,000 combined X (formerly Twitter) followers, 80,000 combined on LinkedIn, and 59,000 on Instagram.

Danielle has an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and spent two years volunteering for the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic.

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