Growing Plant Based Advocacy & Consumer Access

Sabina is the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives & Communications at the Plant Based Foods Association where she leads their food service, communications, and partnership initiatives. In her role she creates partnerships with food service institutions, distributors, and non-profits to help get more plant-based foods on menus everywhere you eat outside the home (including take-out). She is particularly passionate about sustainability and ensuring access to healthy foods through a diversity and equity lens. She has worked for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the strategic consulting firm ICF, as well as Kaiser Permanente. Her roles have spanned from designing and implementing programs, health education, to providing training and technical assistance for chronic disease prevention in communities. Sabina received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Southern California, and she is certified in Plant Based Nutrition by the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies.