As a Senior Advisor for Sustainable Food Systems, Adam advises on state and federal policy strategy and systems change efforts to advance fresh, local, and healthy school meals for all, and expand regenerative agricultural practices. His career has centered around cultivating a more sustainable food system and a local food culture that respects a healthy balance between people and planet, and values the craft of growing and creating memorable meals. Adam was a co-founder of Acre Gourmet, a San Francisco based sustainable food service management company that offered a first of its kind farm-to-school Real Lunch program. Later, Adam joined the Center for Ecoliteracy to take on school lunch reform in the nation’s public school system, eventually leading the organization as Executive Director when the Center co-sponsored California’s School Meals for All Act making California the first state in the nation to offer free, healthy school meals to all students. Adam has also developed healthy CPG food products, ranging from start-ups to national product launches with Trader Joe’s. He currently lives with his family in Ketchum, Idaho.
