Carla Pellegrini is the Executive Director of Food Stash Foundation, a Vancouver-based charity that prevents good food from going to waste and provides dignified food access. Carla has 15 years of experience in community development, social finance and operations management. Prior to joining Food Stash in 2021, she worked for five years to help establish and grow New Market Funds, a B Corp certified impact investing firm in Vancouver, and before that she launched the Vancouver office for Sonder, a global hospitality tech start-up. Before moving to Canada in 2015, she worked abroad with One Acre Fund in Kenya, WorldFish in Zambia and the US Peace Corps in Nicaragua. In her free time, she volunteers with BC Pets and Friends and at her housing co-op. She holds an MPA from Columbia University and a BA from Boston College.