Leslie Brooks, Author at Food Tank

Leslie Brooks

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Leslie Brooks is a veterinarian with an interest in helping to shape public policy. She graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine in 2012 with both a veterinary degree and Master in Public Health. She has a passion for bringing effective change to our food industry and sees working with Food Tank as a meaningful way to help accomplish that goal. As a veterinarian, she has worked in small animal clinical medicine, run her own house call practice, and helped grow a non-profit from the ground up. She enjoys volunteering, running, reading, and traveling. She currently lives in Indianapolis with her husband, toddler, and cat.

With help from the ReFED Fund, Second Servings of Houston expands food rescue operations in midst of a global pandemic.

Second Servings of Houston Mitigates Food Waste with Help from ReFED Fund

Second Services of Houston is working to rescue food to provide healthy meals to those in need.

The Hundling family farm sustainably with hopes of leaving the land better than they found it and raising their children to be good stewards of the land.

Niman Ranch Farmers Raise Family to be Stewards of the Land

Niman Ranch family farmers, Brice and Melanie Hundling, offer insight into their sustainable farming.

Closing wet markets in an attempt to prevent another COVID-19-like pandemic may have unintended consequences, experts warn.

Closing Wet Markets May Result in Unintended Consequences

Some governments are calling for countries to close wet markets, but this may cause livelihoods to suffer.

Dr. Rattan Lal Awarded World Food Prize 2020

Dr. Rattan Lal, founding Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center at The Ohio State University, is the recipient of the 2020 World Food Prize.

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