Maddie Keating

Madeline Keating is a City Strategist with NRDC’s Healthy People and Thriving Communities program, where her work is focused on building a more resilient, equitable and sustainable food system. She works closely with city governments and local organizations on implementation of city-level solutions and strategies for food waste prevention, surplus food rescue, and food scrap recycling. She also works on ensuring that food waste reduction is included in local, state and federal level policy priorities. Madeline approaches food waste work with an equitable systems-wide lens, advocating for community-based solutions that rethink the problem of food waste. Her work includes leading the Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes cohorts of the NRDC Food Matters Regional Initiative. In addition to rethinking food waste, she works to address complex urban sustainability issues including healthy food access, equitable communities, climate action, and building regional collaboration. Madeline is passionate about gardening, cooking and exploring the outdoors in her home state of Colorado.