Upcoming events at the Swette Center

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In April 2026, the ASU Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems hosted a virtual career panel discussion with four accomplished professionals:
• Lisa Castrichini – Manager of Healthy Food Initiatives, Local First Arizona
• Nicole Gwishiri – Women for the Land Southeast Senior Program Manager, American Farmland Trust
• Katie Hogan – Sustainability Specialist, Shamrock Foods Company
• Vinnie Trometter – Policy Manager, Organic Farming Research Foundation

These panelists shared enlightening insights about their career journeys and valuable advice for achieving professional goals within the field of sustainable food systems. The event concluded with an attendee Q&A.

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Sustainable Food Systems Career Panel, Spring 2026

Food Tank, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Arizona State University’s Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, and the Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation present the official North American World Food Day 2025 celebration, "Food is Medicine and Eating for Health," held in Tempe, Arizona.

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World Food Day 2025: Food is Medicine and Eating for Health

ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit 2025
Mainstage Session 2 of 4
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

We can’t address food waste without understanding the broader food system and the world in which that system operates. This session takes a step back to help frame up the context in which we accomplish our work—the policies, trends, technologies, and environmental issues that shape the system that produces (and wastes) our food.

Speakers
Joel Gamoran | Homemade
Erin Boyd Kappelhof | Eat Well Global
Shara Orem | Datassential
Julia Collins | Planet FWD
Ned Spang | Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, UC Davis
Dana Gunders | ReFED
Kathleen Merrigan | Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems

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Setting the Table: The Realities Shaping Our Work – Mainstage Session 2