Dana Gunders serves as ReFED’s Executive Director. Dana is a national expert on food waste and one of the first to bring to light just how much food is lost throughout the food system. For almost a decade, she was a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council; she then launched Next Course, LLC to strategically advise on food waste. Some of her career highlights include authoring the landmark Wasted report and Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook, launching the “Save the Food” campaign with the Ad Council, testifying in Congress, consulting to Google, being named “the woman who started the waste-free movement” by Consumer Reports, ​​​​and serving as a founding Board Member of ReFED.