Josh Viertel
President, Slow Food USA
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Josh Viertel is working to make a good, clean, and fair food system. He previously worked as a shepherd, a teacher, a vegetable farmer, an activist, a fisherman, and a baker. Before coming to Slow Food, he co-founded and co-directed the Yale Sustainable Food Project which brought local and sustainable food into Yale’s dining halls, created a farm on campus, and built programs in and out of the classroom on sustainability, food, and agriculture. His work has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and numerous other publications, and he has presented at, or worked on projects with the American Academy in Rome, The Guggenheim, The Smithsonian Folk Life Festival, and the 2008 Venice Biennale. Josh lives in Brooklyn, New York, in an ex-chair factory, with his partner, Juliana Sabinson, who is an artist, and their cat Louis.
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