Catalyzing food systems transformation for climate resilience, planetary health, and justice.
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Meet Nicole.
Nicole Negowetti is a regenerative educator, change strategist, advocate, attorney, and scholar. For nearly fifteen years, Nicole has developed, led, and implemented a broad range of initiatives addressing the health, environmental, and economic impacts of the food system, and promoting sustainable, equitable, and healthy food production. Developing and facilitating regenerative learning networks has been central to Nicole’s work. She is the co-founder of the Northwest Indiana (NWI) Food Council, whose mission is to build a just, thriving, and regenerative food system for all, and the founder of the Plant Based Foods Institute’s Sustainable Sourcing Initiative, a community of practice which includes farmers, ingredient suppliers, retailers, distributors, funders, and food companies who are piloting new markets for crops grown in regenerative ecosystems.
Nicole is also an experienced and accomplished educator and coalition builder who has led a variety of innovative learning programs. As a Visiting Lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, she developed and teaches Food Law & Regulation, which trains graduate students in advocacy skills and food policy analysis. She previously served as a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic and Food Law & Policy Clinic, where she developed and led projects and courses relating to food access, nutrition, public health, animal welfare, food technology, and environmental justice. Nicole’s scholarship on food policy has been published in leading academic journals, such as Nature Food, University of Oregon Law Review, and the Journal of Food & Drug Law, and has received international recognition. Her first book, Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet & Healing Ourselves, will be published in January 2026.
Nicole is a mom of two young boys and a passionate trail runner who feels most at home in the woods.