Kate Adamick, principal of Food Systems Solutions LLC, is a food systems consultant specializing in integrating operational changes, school based programming, and public private partnerships to implement, reinforce and support the healthful transformation of school meals programs. Ms. Adamick, who is a lawyer and a professional chef, is consultant to The Orfalea Fund’s s’Cool Food Initiative (www.sCoolFood.org) and the former director of New York City’s SchoolFood Plus Initiative. In addition to The Orfalea Fund, her clients include The Colorado Health Foundation in Denver; The Children’s Health Foundation in Aspen; Berkeley Unified School District in California; numerous hospitals and school districts throughout New York; and The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. She sits on the advisory boards for Better School Food and The New York Coalition for Healthy School Food. Kate is a frequent speaker on institutional food systems, sustainable agriculture and childhood obesity issues, and is a regular guest lecturer at NYU