Food & Society’s Food Leaders Fellowship unites the country’s most promising early-stage food system leaders to ignite personal transformation, cross-sector collaboration, and scalable change. Drawing on the Aspen Institute’s history of successful leadership and policy fellowships, the Food Leaders Fellowship is the foremost community of emerging leaders working to create a fair, sustainable, and healthy food system.

Launched with an inaugural cohort in 2022, the Food Leaders Fellowship motivates fellows to support and challenge each other to think bigger, increase their individual and group capacity for change, and find new collaborators to work with toward lasting impact.

When our fifth cohort of Food Leaders Fellows gathered in Aspen last month, they brought with them a wealth of experience. These were folks who had dedicated their careers to fields like food is medicine or supply chain sustainability. But they also knew how to stay lighthearted. Within a few days, we heard inside jokes and gentle ribbing in and around the seminar room. The cohort proved that while they were serious about learning and growing as leaders, they also knew how to infuse joy into the process. Read more