About

I’m working on humanity’s next subsistence strategy: farming cells for food.

I do this as executive director of New Harvest, a field-building organization dedicated to advancing cellular agriculture at the ecosystem level. We’re entirely philanthropically funded.

I feel we can end our dependence on industrial livestock production by growing foods like meat, milk and eggs from cells instead of animals, a vision I share in this talk from TED 2022.

I coined the term “cellular agriculture” to define a new discipline and category for agricultural products produced from cell cultures rather than whole plants and animals.

Before that, I cofounded two of the world’s first cellular agriculture companies: Perfect Day (formerly Muufri) and The Every Company (formerly Clara Foods). I walked away from those companies at their first investment because I feel strongly that cellular agriculture is much bigger than 1, 10, or 100 companies. I donated all of my founding equity to New Harvest, the organization, to focus on field-building and to establish a longer-term endowment for the org.

Years before that, I published one of the first papers to discuss cultured meat in academic literature.

I have a BSc. in Cell Bio/Biochem and a MSc. in Biotechnology, but I’m not really sold on school as a concept.

I’m most interested in stewarding technology such that it serves the public good, the systems and structures in which we advance science, and thinking about parties and music scenes as inspiration for the facilitative leadership that makes amazing things happen.

My husband is a DJ/musician and most days I think we have pretty much the same job.

Best way to get in touch is via Twitter DMs. Email works but has a long lag time.