Food Waste Prevention

Jenny Kedward is a wasted food prevention specialist for Hennepin County. She has been talking trash professionally for two decades and is passionate about waste management and consumption. After many years of focusing on recycling and composting, she now gets to focus her work on preventing food waste and feeding people. She chose to get her bachelor’s degree in Biology to fully understand the world she wanted to protect. Kedward is trained in social marketing and behavior change and uses her enthusiasm to educate residents on using the food they have and buying the food they’ll eat. Through changing consumption habits and developing a more mindful system, she believes we can protect our air, water, and land for future generations.