Holly Freishtat

Holly Freishtat is the senior director of Feeding Change at the Milken Institute and leads the food systems portfolio. She is an experienced director, transformative leader, and strategist with a 20-year track record developing and implementing food system policies and programs. Freishtat served as Baltimore City’s first chief of food policy and planning, where she founded and directed the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative. She holds an MS in agriculture, food, and environment from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, a BS in nutrition from the University of Vermont, and an executive certificate from Carey Business School. 

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