Culinary Partner
Experience a zero waste meal presented by Rethink.
How can we create a more sustainable and equitable food system?
Enjoy a sustainable meal and learn how RTS and Rethink Food are helping divert viable excess food in New York City away from landfills and provide nutritious meals for the community.
Rethink Food exists to bridge the gap between food that goes to waste and communities experiencing food insecurity. By partnering with restaurants, food purveyors and companies to collect and utilize their excess food, Rethink Food provides meals to those in need while creating better connections in our food system.
Since 2017, Rethink Food has prepared 8 million meals for local communities utilizing 1.3 million pounds of excess food.
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COCKTAILS + CONVERSATION
PANEL
DISCUSSION
SUSTAINABILITY KNOWLEDGE SHARE
FEATURED PANELISTS
Meet the New Yorkers who are rethinking and reinventing their spaces.
Join us as we continue our journey toward a zero waste economy. Together, we’ll exchange ideas over drinks as our panelists share their vision and best practices for how we build a sustainable future.
Caroline Towbin
Director of Development and Communications, Sanitation Foundation
Caroline Towbin leads the Sanitation Foundation’s communications, development strategy and partnerships. A lifelong New Yorker, Towbin is a longtime volunteer and supporter of several NYC civic organizations and parks.
Prior to joining the Foundation in May 2021, she spent eight years building and leading marketing, communications, and sales strategy teams at a search advertising company. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Middlebury College.
Steven Abt
Co-Founder + Chief Strategy Officer, Curina
Stephen Abt is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Curina, the fine art rent-to-own company based in NYC. Curina provides a platform for underrepresented artists and increases accessibility to fine art while simultaneously playing a big role in sustainability.
Prior to Curina, Abt was the co-founder and CEO of Caskers, an online spirits marketplace, a corporate attorney at Wachtell Lipton, and an investment banker at Credit Suisse. He graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School.
Christina Massey
Brooklyn-Based Mixed Media Artist
Christina Massey is a mixed media artist using repurposed materials in her colorful organic abstractions based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work is in the collections of the Janet Turner Museum, Art Bank Collection in DC, Bank of America Collection in Miami, Credit Suisse and multiple private collections.
Massey’s work has won multiple awards, including an FST StudioProject Fund Grant (2019), Brooklyn Arts Fund Grants (2022 & 2019), SIP Fellowship at the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (2017) and Puffin Foundation Grant (2018).
Ken Baker
Director of Culinary Operations, Rethink Food
Ken serves as Rethink’s Director of Culinary Operations in this role he combines his background in hospitality and non-profit management to help provide a key connection between the work of the Culinary team and our clients.
Prior to Rethink he spent time at Aramark managing residential dining programs at Johns Hopkins and American University, interning with the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and serving as Policy Manager at the National Development Council in Washington D.C. Ken also helped launch the best flower shop in Greenpoint.
An avid fan of the Baltimore Orioles and Ravens, Ken resides in the South Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn with his faithful pet beagle Camden.
Meet our host
Gregory Lettieri
Founder + CEO, Recycle Track Systems
Greg Lettieri, CEO and co-founder of Recycle Track Systems, has redefined waste management through a digital platform that emphasizes efficiency, transparency and environmental responsibility. RTS is disrupting the industry by bringing businesses and communities visibility into their climate impact with access to real-time data.
RTS has been recognized in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes and Crain’s New York Business as an innovator in the waste industry seeking positive change. Greg is a recipient of Waste360’s 40 under 40 award and was named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2021 by Goldman Sachs and an Entrepreneur Of The Year by Ernst & Young in 2021. He has also produced two musical soundtracks for NBC’s Peter Pan Live! and The Wiz Live!
WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU!