Robert Nathan Allen, known as RNA is founder of Austin based nonprofit Little Herds, co-founder and board member of the North American Coalition for Insect Agriculture and has spent the last decade working in the budding Insect Agriculture sector.

He is the producer and co-organizer of The Future of Food @ SXSW Online in 2021, with headliners including Questlove, Temple Grandin, Moby and Kari Byron, and #FutureFoodSXSW 2022, with headliners including Arlan Hamilton, Andrew Zimmern, Adrian Greniere and Chef Tiffany Derry.

He regularly works with companies and organizations interested in the insect agriculture movement, speaks on and moderates panels at academic and industry conferences and is an expert source for a variety of publications and media outlets, including NPR, Reuters, the Associated Press, National Geographic, Washington Post, Pacific Standard, Newsweek, Popular Science, Entrepreneur, Buzzfeed, CNBC’s On The Money and more.