Speaker's Biographies:

 

Rachael Baker

Michigan Healthy Food Coordinator

Healthcare Without Harm

Rachael Baker is the Michigan Healthy Food Coordinator for Health Care Without Harm, a national coalition of organizations working to transform the health care field into an ecologically and socially sustainable industry.  She has worked in the health care industry for over six years with a focus on waste management and reduction and pollution prevention in both California and Michigan.  In 2005, Rachael co-lead a successful campaign resulting in the University of Michigan Regents’ decision to build the Mott Women’s and Children’s Replacement Hospital according to environmentally preferable standards.  Her current work is focused on encouraging Michigan hospitals to adopt food purchasing policies that acknowledge the links between food systems and ecological, economical, and public health.  Rachael Baker received her Masters of Science in Environmental Policy from Bard College, and resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.