MEET OUR TEAM
Student Organizers from US academic institutions
This event was spun out of a group of graduate and undergraduate students at different schools across the US that are invested in transforming the food and agriculture industry to protect our planet. Together we have put together this event to grow the community of students interested in the space and lower the barrier for students of all backgrounds to step into the industry.
Jasmin Kern is a German-American citizen who grew up in Frankfurt, Germany and moved to Boston for her undergraduate studies at MIT. Through her love for food and fascination with chemistry, she switched her studies from physics to chemistry with a focus on Cellular Agriculture. In 2019, she co-founded EZHealth, a student organization focused on giving MIT students access to easy recipes, cooking classes, and skills to build balanced meals with limited kitchen space and ingredients. In 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic she worked with four other MIT students to build Cell Ag @ MIT, a student organization working to provide educational, research, and professional development opportunities in the Cell Ag industry for students. Through Cell Ag @ MIT and connections to Sloan Food & Ag, she met students across the US interested in building a network for students interested in the Sustainable Food industry. This launched the ideation of Cultivate Tomorrow, the first US hackathon in the cellular agriculture space.In her professional career, she was Tender Food’s first hire and worked as an R&D intern for 9 months. Her experience at Tender Food substantiated and deepened her interest in the field. In the summer of 2021 she worked as a Materials & Texture R&D intern at Impossible Foods, and got to experience a food tech company at a much later stage of development. Her favorite thing about Cell Ag, is the innovative, dedicated, and welcoming people all working towards a shared mission. In her free-time she enjoys cooking with friends, writing, playing piano, and biking.

SUSHMITA VENKATRAMAN
VP of Partnerships
Northwestern Kellogg Business School

RAMA TENTU
VP of Education
Yale Business School

SOPHIA PINTON
VP of Programming
UC Davis

IVY FERNANDES
VP of Marketing
UC San Diego

SEAN BAKER
VP of Marketing
University of Wisconsin - Madison

AGA GUGALA
VP of Press and Programming
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

LAUREN KINSEY
VP of Programming
Ohio State University

IRFAN TAHIR
VP of Communications
New Harvest Fellow | University of Vermont
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PAST ORGANIZERS AND ADVISORS

REINA ASHIZAWA
TUFTS

TIM FLESCHNER
Harvard Innovation Labs | Duke University

FABIAN GOSSELIN
University of Chicago
Booth School of Business

JESSE LOU
Harvard Business School

NICK JOHNSON
UC Davis

JAKE MARKO
TUFTS

KARINA VASUDEVA
UNC at Chapel Hill

SANGITA VASIKARAN
MIT