Brooke Kahl is dedicated to leveraging business knowledge and innovation to promote growing practices and food supply chains that regenerate people and the planet.
For the past five years, Brooke promoted community-powered food advancements in Ohio, Colorado, and Arizona by implementing the Nourishing Power Network of food justice leaders in Cleveland with $2.1M in funding from the USDA’s Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and matching partners, managing a neighborhood-level research study that led to 13 peer-reviewed publications, facilitating a regenerative-agriculture-focused funding collective in Boulder, and implementing an asset-based partnerships model for school garden management and food access in Flagstaff.
Brooke is thrilled to be a Fowler Fellow to catalyze business as an agent of world benefit in Greater Cleveland and beyond. Brooke is an MBA candidate at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€™s Weatherhead School of Management and holds a Bachelors in Organizational Studies and Sustainable Food Systems from University of Michigan, where she graduated with distinction.
Brooke grew up on the west side of Cleveland and currently resides in Ohio City. In her spare time, you can find Brooke gardening, with her nose in a book, cycling around town, and watching sunsets at Edgewater.