Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future S8-Ep16: Leadership Solving Food Insecurity
Guest: Leah Lizarondo, Entrepreneur-in-Residence (Carnegie Mellon University) & Co-Founder of 412 Food Rescue
When an organization truly understands a problem and an innovative solution is implemented, people get behind it and true change happens. That’s the story of 412 Food Rescue.
Leah Lizarondo saw massive food insecurity, and food waste recovery was the solution. Moreover, she reimagined food recovery as an organization that solves multiple problems.
Leah joins host Maureen Metcalf to discuss food insecurity, entrepreneurism, and leading an NPO to such success.
Produced in association with the International Leadership Association: https://ilaglobalnetwork.org.
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RESOURCES:
Learn more about 412 Food Rescue at https://412foodrescue.org. If you’re interested in starting a food rescue program in your area, surf over to https://foodrescuehero.org.
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About Our Guest:
Leah Lizarondo is currently a member of the Global Leadership team at Ashoka. She is a Rockefeller Foundation/Acumen Fellow and received her graduate degree in Public Policy & Technology from Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
Leah co-founded and was the CEO of 412 Food Rescue, a social enterprise with a technology, logistics and civic engagement model that fights hunger and promotes sustainability by preventing perfectly good food from entering the waste stream, and directly distributing to organizations that benefit those who are food insecure. Creating the infrastructure for national retailers, 412 Food Rescue has prevented millions of pounds of food from going to waste via technology that mobilizes over 8,000 drivers in 5 cities -- food rescue heroes -- the largest volunteer food transport network.
She was born and raised in the Philippines, and currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.