Jackie Suggitt
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Jackie Suggitt (She/Her)
Vice President, Business Initiatives & Community Engagement
Bentonville, AR
Jackie Suggitt serves as ReFED’s Vice President of Business Initiatives & Community Engagement and has spent over 10 years working in sustainable food systems. She oversees ReFED’s work with food businesses, including one-on-one strategic advisory support as well as both the U.S. Food Waste Pact and Pacific Coast Food Waste Commitment—the nation’s first data-driven, action-oriented pre-competitive platforms for private and public sectors to collaborate on food waste reduction efforts.
Jackie also leads ReFED’s community engagement efforts to build the organization’s diverse stakeholder network across businesses, investors, innovators, policymakers, and more. This work includes overseeing ReFED’s Food Waste Action Network and the annual Food Waste Solutions Summit.
Before joining ReFED, Jackie worked on Walmart’s sustainability team, where she led a number of sustainable food and nutrition programs for Walmart’s global and private brand business.
Connect with me about
Retail; Business sustainability strategy; High-impact collaboration; Public speaking
Speaking Engagements
Recent Conferences: Circularity (2024); United Nations Association Climate Forum (2023); Technovation (2023); Future of Food Conference (2023); National Zero Waste Conference (2022); VERGE (2022)
Recent Media: BBC Radio, Waste 360, Food Business News, Food Tank, multiple local NPR partners
Awards and Honors
MeetingsNet Change Maker (2020)
Fun Facts
Languages Spoken: English
Favorite Food: Portillo's Italian beef sandwiches, ‘Double Stuf’ Oreos
Favorite Quote: "Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." - Ernest Shackleton
Favorite Book: Any Fredrik Backman book
Favorite Things: Trail running, mountain biking (fueled by Oreos, of course)
Food She Struggles the Most Not to Waste: Her kids' half-eaten leftovers
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