A Year in Review Webinar - ReFED Inc.

Yvette Cabrera

Director, Food Waste, Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program - NRDC

Yvette Cabrera focuses on building a better food system for people, the climate, and the environment. Cabrera oversees engagement on federal and state food waste policy and cutting-edge research on food waste. She also manages the Food Matters project, through which NRDC partners with cities to achieve meaningful reductions in food waste with comprehensive policies and programs.

Brandon Schauer

Head of Make it Personal - Rare

Brandon leads Rare’s program for U.S. Climate Change. Named ‘Make It Personal,” the program engages Americans in the 7 behaviors that have the biggest impact on carbon emissions. Brandon joined Rare in 2020 from his prior position at Capital One, where as VP of Design he led the teams stretching across numerous digital customer experience platforms, including their JD Power Award winning banking app, their incredibly high-traffic website, and the gender-neutral conversational AI bot, named Eno. Brandon arrived at Capital One as the CEO of Adaptive Path, the influential San Francisco-based design firm that Capital One acquired in 2014. Brandon serves as a member of the Institute of Design’s Board of Advisors and holds two master-level degrees from Illinois Institute of Technology, a Master of Design from the Institute of Design and an MBA from the Stuart School of Business.

Regina Anderson

Executive Director - Food Recovery Network

Regina Anderson joined Food Recovery Network (FRN) in 2015. As FRN's Executive Director, Regina is responsible for setting the vision, strategy and fundraising efforts to accomplish the multi-year strategy of FRN called FRN10X. Regina works with the amazing team at national headquarters, stakeholders and partners around the country to achieve the ambitious goal of FRN10X: to feed everyone who is hungry in the US with surplus food.

For over a decade, Regina has worked in the nonprofit sector, committed to social justice issues because she believes it is in this sector that she can make the biggest difference and that people are the engines of positive change. At the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in Pittsburgh, she worked with employers in all sectors to establish internship programs and to match talented individuals with those opportunities. At Independent Sector and LIFT in Washington, DC, Regina worked to raise awareness of the nonprofit sector's abilities to solve our society's most complex issues. Regina received her MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and her BA in English Literature from the University of Maine at Augusta. Regina sits on the Board of Directors for Food Tank, RegenAll and the Pink Noise Project.