In the latest episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast, we chat with Kati Cantrell. Katie is a social entrepreneur passionate about creating a healthy, sustainable, and just food system. As the founder of the New Roots Institute, Katie spent a decade leading food policy workshops at universities, government agencies, and Fortune 500 corporations.

She is now utilizing her expertise to implement plant-based defaults in institutional foodservice as the CEO and Co-Founder of Greener by Default. The organization offers strategies to institutions that serve food about how to incorporate plant-based defaults, and use behavioural economics research to help people lean toward healthier choices.

Katie holds a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from UC Berkeley. Her work with GBD was recently featured in the New York Times, and she was chosen for Vox’s Future Perfect 50 list of innovators, thinkers, and changemakers for 2024.

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Greener by Default

“We're being nudged to eat meat. What if the tables were turned?”

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