Amy Keister, Vice President of Consumer Engagement for Compass Group North America, will be speaking at the inaugural New York City Food Tank Summit, “Focusing on Food Loss and Food Waste”将于2017年9月13日与Rockefeller Foundation和Fink Family Foundation的支持，与Rethink Food Waster合作与Rethink Food Waster合作举行。
Keister holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from James Madison University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She joined Compass Group in 2004 and has since managed a number of enterprise-wide initiatives in the areas of technology, finance, purchasing, and distribution.
As VP of Consumer Engagement, Keister is responsible for driving sales as well as spearheading Compass Group North America’s sustainability efforts. Her mission is to create a great customer experience while ensuring a mindful business strategy that takes customers, clients, and the environment into consideration and has implemented best practices for beverages, queuing, and analytics. Keister personally declared April 28 as her Stop Food Waste Day holiday, helping Compass’s sustainability program reach their goals around sustainable purchasing, transparency, and food waste reduction. Keister also serves as a board member of Loaves and Fishes, a nonprofit that seeks to match a week’s worth of healthy groceries with underprivileged families.
w88优德老虎机平台食品坦克与基斯特谈到了激发她改变自己的行为和对食物的态度的问题。
Food Tank (FT): What originally inspired you to get involved in your work?
艾米·基斯特（Amy Keister）（AK）：My grandparents never wasted anything. Food was precious to them, not something that was taken for granted or thrown away.
FT：是什么让您继续想参与这种工作？
AK:First and foremost my two children. I want to help change our behaviors and attitudes toward food so that they have a better relationship with both food and waste. I’m also extremely inspired by the results we have achieved to date on reducing food waste and am humbled by the task still at hand.
FT：谁小时候启发了您？
AK:My parents really inspired me while growing up in a rural town in Connecticut. It wasn’t a farm, just an acre or so, but my parents acted as if it was. We grew all of our veggies, had fruit trees, and we canned everything that we didn’t use right away. We had chickens, pigs, and a pet cow named hamburger…Nothing went to waste. Ever.
FT: What do you see as the biggest opportunity to fix the food system?
AK:意识到，美国有40％的食物被浪费了，卖出日期是误导性的，传达了每个人所做的一点点变化的容易，以及所有这些小小的变化如何加剧了巨大的变化。
FT：您能分享一个关于启发您的美食英雄的故事吗？
AK:汤姆·科利西奥（Tom Colicchio）。汤姆不仅是一位出色的厨师，而且他是一个真正的人道主义者。厨师汤姆（Tom）于2012年创立了食品政策行动，以使立法者对对食品和农业产生影响的投票负责。他在改善学校餐点，食物来源中使用抗生素以及美国更好的反狩猎政策等问题一直是直言不讳的声音。我很荣幸能在停止食物浪费日与我们与我们合作，以实现我们世界上所需的改变食物浪费所需的变化。
FT：您想解决的食品和农业中最紧迫的问题是什么？
AK:从农场到垃圾填埋场的压倒性食物。我想看到更多的食物从农场到桌子。
FT: What is one small change every person can make in their daily lives to make a big difference?
AK:购物清单。
纽约食品坦克峰会w88优德老虎机平台现已售罄。登记HEREto watch the livestream on Facebook. A few tickets remain for the Summit Dinner at Blue Hill Restaurant with a special menu from Chef Dan Barber. Apply to attendHERE。If you live in New York City, join us on9月14日对于我们的免费户外舞蹈锻炼，百老汇表演者Garjana领导了许多出色的演讲者，他们提高了人们对食物浪费问题的认识。登记HERE。
