Ellen Gustafson

Ellen Gustafson is the Co-Founder of Food Tank: The Food Think Tank.

She is also the founder of the Apron Project, a social business selling sustainably produced aprons to encourage people to get in the kitchen and change the world. Ellen also founded the 30 Project, now part of Food Tank, and co-created HealthClass2.0, a New York City in-school healthy living program. Ellen speaks around the world on global food system change and getting people to look at hunger and obesity as two sides of the same malnutrition crisis.

Gustafson is also the Co-Founder and an Advisory Board member of FEED Projects, LLC, a charitable company that creates good products that help FEED the world, and Co-Founder and former Executive Director of FEED’s non-profit partner, the FEED Foundation. FEED has provided over 60 million school meals to children around the world.

Previously, Ellen was a U.S. Spokesperson for the U.N. World Food Programme, a research reporter in the ABC News Investigative Unit, and a research associate for the Military Fellows at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has a B.A. in International Politics from Columbia University, serves on the University Alumni Board of Directors, and in 2012 became one of the youngest people in the history of Columbia to receive the John Jay Distinguished Alumni Award. She is also a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations.

Gustafson was named to AOL and PBS’s 2011 list of MAKERS, trailblazing women who are “making” America, Fortune magazine’s 2009 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Inc. magazine’s 2010 “Top 30 Under 30” list, and to Diplomatic Courier Magazine's 2011 “Top 99 Under 33” in Foreign Policy.