Danielle Nierenberg

Danielle Nierenberg
Danielle Nierenberg in 2012
Born	Missouri
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Tufts University; Monmouth College
Occupation	Author, journalist
Website	daniellenierenberg.com

Danielle J. Nierenberg (born February 27, 1973) is an American activist,author and journalist.

In 2013, Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank: The Food Think Tank and currently serves as its president. She founded Nourishing the Planet while working at the Worldwatch Institute.

Nierenberg has authored and contributed to several reports and books, and written for many publications.

Nierenberg was born and raised in Defiance, Missouri. She holds an MSc in agriculture, food, and environment from Tufts University and a BA in environmental policy from Monmouth College, Illinois.

After she completed her education at Monmouth College, Nierenberg joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer in Dominican Republic and worked with farmers and urban school kids. Since then, she has been working to highlight how food system can become more sustainable. Following her volunteer work in the Peace Corps, she joined Tufts University and then joined Science and Environmental Health Network as an intern. Later on she joined Worldwatch Institute.

According to Nierenberg, she has been focused on raising awareness about food quality and availability because she "is obsessed with food." She wants "to know what she’s having for dinner at lunchtime." She is a reviewer for the Africa Chapter for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change WGII AR5 First Order Draft and serves on the Advisory Group for the Zero Hunger Partnership, along with Sir Gordon Conway and Heifer International President Pierre Ferrari. In 2013, she joined the Young Professional's Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) steering committee.

Nierenberg was appointed at the Worldwatch Institute in 2001 as a Food and Agricultural Senior Researcher. In this position she managed several research projects on emerging infectious diseases related to the food system, gender and population, climate change and agriculture, the global meat economy, and innovations in sustainable agriculture.