Hanes Motsinger

Chief Program Officer, The Nashville Food Project

Co-founder, The Honey Collective

Changing Food Systems, Lessons from Feedback Nashville, Saturday, December 7th, 10:00 AM, Room 312

Hanes Motsinger grew up on a farm in State Road, North Carolina, a rural community located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In hindsight, that early experience piqued her wonder about the natural world and her curiosity about agriculture and land-based livelihoods. Today, Hanes' professional life is defined by the pursuit of social and environmental justice, and her engagement with this work has consistently returned to food and agriculture. She has spent time working with farm-to-table kitchens, migrant farmworker rights organizations, agricultural land trusts, and the global coffee sector, and she currently serves as the Chief Program Officer at The Nashville Food Project. She is also co-founder of The Honey Collective, a honey cooperative of small-scale beekeepers in Nashville. When she's not at work, you can find Hanes beekeeping, playing clawhammer banjo, tasting new coffees from around the world, or visiting the mountains of North Carolina.