Beverly Popoola is a sustainability professional with experience across sustainability strategy, stakeholder engagement, and climate-related initiatives. Her work sits at the intersection of resilience, systems thinking, and community-centered approaches to complex environmental challenges. She recently completed an M.S. in Sustainability Management from American University.
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Food waste isn’t just about what we throw away, it’s a systems problem
Across discussions on policy, technology, supply chains, and community partnerships at a food waste summit earlier this year, a different pattern emerged: food waste rarely appeared as an isolated issue. Instead, it surfaced as a signal of deeper system failures.
July 10, 2026
