Center for Regional Food Systems

Meredith Freeman is a highly skilled practitioner with extensive experience in nonprofit management and community and economic development. She earned a Master’s Degree in Management and Urban Policy from the New School in New York City, and worked as a Community Programs Officer with Citibank Global Community Relations and a Senior Program Officer with Detroit LISC. Meredith has also served as an adjunct professor at the New School and Seton Hall University, where she taught graduate-level courses in nonprofit management. As a consultant she developed and led innovative programs with Fair Food Network and the Detroit Food and Fitness Collaborative, and consulted with nonprofits and entrepreneurs on organizational and business development. Currently Meredith is a Senior Program Officer at the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation where she leads the foundation's impact investing practice, and capacity building and arts and culture grant portfolios. Meredith is a New York University Wagner School of Public Service IGNITE Fellow, and a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellow.