Advancing regenerative food systems and post-partisan practice to help communities navigate threshold together.
Passionate about helping you grow and make an impact.
Meet Nicole.
Nicole Negowetti is an educator, lawyer, and scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of food systems, regenerative paradigms, and post-partisan practice. Her work supports communities in navigating ecological disruption, political fragmentation, and institutional uncertainty by strengthening their capacity to collaborate across difference on the shared material conditions of life.
For nearly 15 years, Nicole has worked across policy, education, and community practice to help people reimagine food not only as nourishment, but as a site of relationship, meaning, and collective agency. She is the founder of Food for Us, a movement for food democracy rooted in care, connection, and community stewardship, and the author of the forthcoming book Feeding the Future: Restoring the Planet & Healing Ourselves (Georgetown University Press, January 2026).
Nicole has taught food law and policy at Harvard and Tufts, co-founded the Northwest Indiana Food Council, and led the Plant Based Foods Institute’s Sustainable Sourcing Initiative, building coalitions of farmers, food companies, researchers, and local leaders committed to regenerative and relational food systems. These experiences, combined with years of work at the front lines of policy and community organizing, inform her evolving framework for how communities can work together even when consensus about institutions, science, or ideology is no longer a given.
Across all her roles, as teacher, strategist, facilitator, and writer, Nicole’s work is guided by a central inquiry:
How do we cultivate the conditions, relationships, and capacities that allow communities to care for one another and the Earth, even in times of profound uncertainty?
She is also the mother of two boys, a trail runner, and a lifelong learner who feels most at home in the forest, around a shared table, or in a circle of co-weavers imagining what becomes possible when we remember ourselves as part of a larger living world.