Team FEED

Lauren Bush, Co-Founder and CEO

Lauren Bush is the CEO, Creative Director and co-Founder of FEED Projects LLC. She also serves as the Chairman of the Board for the FEED Foundation. In 2004, Lauren became an Honorary Spokesperson for the UN World Food Program (WFP). As Honorary Spokesperson, Lauren has traveled to eight countries around the world visiting WFP operations, and helped start the Universities Fighting Hunger Campaign in the US.

For many years Lauren was a fashion model, appearing on the cover of such publications as W, Australian Vogue, Glamour, Town and Country, and Tatler. Her involvement in the fashion industry lead to her interest in photography and fashion design, which she studied at Parsons in NY and Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design in London. Lauren graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a BA in Anthropology and a Certificate in Photography. She was born in the Rockies of Colorado, but grew up in Houston, Texas.

Ellen Gustafson, Co-Founder and Executive VP

Ellen is the co-Founder and Executive Vice President of FEED Projects, LLC. She is also the Executive Director of the FEED Foundation, a non-profit that seeks to ways to support a more sustainably fed and well-nourished world. Previously, Ellen was the NY Communications Officer for the UN World Food Program (WFP). At WFP, she was acting Sr. Spokesperson in 2006 and launched the Universities Fighting World Hunger initiative of over 70 partner schools. Prior to WFP, Ellen reported in the ABC News Investigative Unit and was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in the Military Policy and Communications groups.

Ellen has a BA in International Politics from Columbia University and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Food and Nutrition Policy at New York University. She hails from the battlefields near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Ellen loves to cook and sing, both of which are enjoyed regularly by Team FEED.

Kristina Fell

Kristina is the Director of Operations for FEED Projects, LLC. She joins us from Columbia University, where she worked for four years doing communications and marketing for the university. She also received her BA in English from Columbia in 2005, along with a Master of Arts degree in Communication and Education in 2009.

Kristina grew up just outside of Cleveland, Ohio and came to New York in 2001 to go to school and play basketball for the Columbia Lions. She loves her new second home at FEED in the West Village and already knows that burlap goes with every outfit.

Kathryn Tisch

Kathryn joins FEED Projects, LLC as the 2009 MBA Summer Intern, where she is responsible for product development and financial analysis. Previously, Kathryn interned for Accio Energy, an alternative wind power startup in Michigan, as well as African Aurora Business Network, a startup in Ghana that provides business training to entrepreneurs looking to access microfinance loans. She also spent three years working in securities and finance litigation as an Analyst at NERA Economic Consulting.

Kathryn holds a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan. During college, she traveled by ship with Semester at Sea to 13 countries throughout the world. Kathryn is currently pursuing her MBA at Harvard Business School, where she is the CFO of the African Business Club and Co-Chair of the Retail & Luxury Goods Conference.

Friends

Thanks for our FEED Friends and partners:

Whole Foods Market, especially Julie Droege-Thorpe
Harrods and El Corte Ingles
Amazon.com
Colette, Lileo, C.O. Bigelow, David Jones, Vivre, TOMS Shoes, ABC Carpet and Home, Yoya, Joni's, HB Provisions
Michelle Street at Pilot Air Freight
Paul Maier and the Team at Dickstein Schapiro, LLP
HL Group

David Lauren, Charles Fagan, and Addi Hou at Polo RL and the team at Rugby Ralph Lauren
Daniel Stanco, Lynne Nissen, and the entire Clifford Chance US LLP team
Tom Greenhaw and Randy Cochran at Nova Libra
David Black, CPA
Brian Ponto
Greg Barber at Greg Barber Environmental Printing Co.
All our friends at Mercy Corps and the Action Center to End Hunger, especially Marni Fechter
Tom Voute