Session Lead

Rachel Zimmerman is a public health dietitian and food systems advocate dedicated to bridging research, policy, and practice to build more equitable and sustainable food futures, with experience across Latin America, the Caribbean, and East Africa.

Rachel has coordinated randomized controlled trials testing nutrition interventions and contributed to peer-reviewed publications on maternal and child health, animal source foods, and food aid localization. She is currently a Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center, with placements at Oxfam in Uganda — supporting smallholder farmers through agroecological practices, crop diversity, and farmers' rights policy — and at InterAction, where she supports U.S. legislative advocacy on global food systems, engaging Congress, government agencies, and multilateral organizations to keep food security and nutrition central to U.S. foreign policy.

Rachel holds an MPH from Washington University in St. Louis and a BS in Dietetics from Indiana State University.

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