Molly Leavens

As a Program Manager for the Sustainable Food Lab, Molly works with multinational food companies, NGOs, and governmental agencies to improve smallholder farmer income and livelihood. Her experience has spanned Latin America, Africa, and Asia in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, corporate sustainability strategy, and regenerative agriculture. Molly holds a BA from Harvard University with a self-designed major in Food and the Environment and minors in studio art and Spanish. She also holds an MA in Management and Global Affairs, with a focus on business sustainability, from Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar. Molly enjoys home fermenting, repurposing food waste, and all forms of outdoor recreation.