Emily Fredenberg is an international development specialist, bringing more than a decade of experience in global food security and nutrition focused on program management, strategic communications, and cultivating partnerships.
At the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF), Emily drives the organization’s external voice, facilitates engagement with global partners, and serves as a key architect of GCNF’s collaborative approach to advancing sustainable school meal programs worldwide.
Prior to GCNF, Emily was at The Rockefeller Foundation where she managed a portfolio of grants supporting global food security and nutrition, including school feeding. Emily also spent six years with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Rwanda, Lebanon and Italy. During this time, she helped to launch and manage a national school meal program in partnership with the government of Lebanon and led WFP’s communications efforts to support the government of Rwanda expand its home-grown school meal program towards national coverage.
Emily holds dual master’s degrees in Public Administration and International Relations from Syracuse University.
When not at work, Emily can often be found hiking or skiing in the Alaskan mountains she calls home.
