Ellen has been an entrepreneur for over 17 years and a military spouse for over ten years. She recently combined work and life to cofound two non-profits in the military family space.
Ellen is a the Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder of We the Veterans and Military Families - a non-partisan, non-profit empowering the veteran and military family community to strengthen the foundation of American democracy. She is also the Co-Founder of the Military Family Building Coalition - the first military support organization to address the challenges of building a family for active duty military.
She has been the Co-Director of the Summit Institute and President of EG, Inc, an impact-focused consulting business. Her first book, “We the Eaters: If We Change Dinner, We Can Change the World” was published in May 2014.
She previously Co-Founded of FEED and Food Tank and Founded the 30 Project and Change Dinner campaigns.
She has been featured as one of AOL and PBS’s MAKERS, trailblazing women who are “making” America, Fortune Magazine’s 2009 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Inc Magazine’s 2010 30 Under 30, and Diplomatic Courier Magazine’s 2011 “Top 99 Under 33” in Foreign Policy. She's served on the Board of the food-tech company Foodstand, on the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Advisory Board, on the Columbia University Alumni Board of Directors and was a founding Director of Bronx Success Academy 1, a charter school within the Success Charter Network.
We the Eaters: If We Change Dinner, We Can Change the World
The implausible truth: over one billion people in the world are hungry and over one billion are overweight. Far from complete opposites, hunger and obesity are in fact different manifestations of the same problem – it’s increasingly difficult to find and eat nutritious food. Ellen Gustafson—a young entrepreneur, foreign policy expert, and food policy advocate—delivers a wake-up call that will inspire even the most passive reader to take action. We can love our food and our country while being better stewards of our system and our health. We the Eaters is nothing short of a manifesto: If we change dinner, we really can change the world.
Ellen has spoken at the Fortune Most Powerful Women’s Conference, the World Food Prize, and was the Co-Chair of the Economist’s Feeding the World conference and has guest lectured at Harvard, Yale, NYU, London School of Economics, Columbia, the US Naval Academy and given 4 TEDx talks.
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