Stacy Dean will be the first executive director of the José Andrés-backed Global Food Institute at George Washington University. Dean was most recently deputy under secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services and was previously vice president for food assistance policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
“Under the leadership of Stacy Dean, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has been innovative and forward-looking in their efforts to enhance nutrition security and put healthy food on dinner tables and in school lunchrooms across the country, resulting in some of the most significant milestones in the food and nutrition space in decades,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.