Beth Hunter
The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
Program Director
Beth Hunter is Program Director at the McConnell Foundation where she leads the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative (including the Nourish program on the future of food in health care) and collaborates on the Foundation’s energy & green economy program. She holds a master’s in rural economics from Laval University, is a co-founder of Equiterre where she coordinated the sustainable agriculture program, and previously led Greenpeace Canada's Oceans campaign. She sits on the boards of the Academy for Systems Change and the Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security, and is co-chair the Low-Carbon Funders’ Group at the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network. She lives in Montreal with her partner and two kids.
