Eva Goulbourne

About Eva Goulbourne

Founded by ReFED and World Economic Forum alum, Eva Goulbourne, Littlefoot Ventures is a food systems and sustainability consultancy dedicated to empowering businesses, nonprofits, and foundations to fortify our food system. We exist simply to amplify and accelerate strategies for food brands, retailers and philanthropists that are looking to make meaningful change in our food system as a means to mitigate the climate crisis. We do this through corporate philanthropy advising and fundraising support, strategic communications, marketing and impact narrative strategy. Littlefoot Ventures represents a culmination of knowledge and experiences from Eva’s 13 years as a food systems practitioner driving change on global agriculture and food issues within the foodservice, restaurant, and retail industries.Before creating Littlefoot, Eva was a founding team member of ReFED, the leading non-profit dedicated to reducing U.S. food waste, serving in several roles including Director of Communications, then Director of Business Engagement & Programming. She was responsible for the wide distribution of the original ReFED Roadmap report, which has had millions of impressions in the mainstream and trade media and continues to influence corporate strategies and policy agendas to this day. She was also successful in securing over $1.1M in funding for the organization.Previous to ReFED, she worked at the World Economic Forum serving on the food and agriculture team. There, she supported multi-stakeholder partnerships in 12 countries across Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America to mobilize investment and coordination amongst global food companies, heads of state, ministers of agriculture, and farmer organizations.She is based in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two beautiful, goofy children.

Experience

1. Imagine Leader

   Imagine

   Apr 2024 — Present

   IMAGINE is a global leadership community for impact. We’re a group of disruptive innovators, corporate executives, investors and civil society leaders all teaming up to scale up to accelerate systems change across food & agriculture, fashion, beauty & personal care, and packaging & materials value chains.

Education

• The George Washington University

  BA, International Affairs, Conflict and Security

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Nonprofits
• Social Media
• International Development
• Strategic Planning
• Editing
• Africa
• Food Safety
• Food Security
• Food Waste
• Food Systems
• African Development
• International Relations
• Policy Analysis
• Management
• Capacity Building
• Foreign Policy
• Food Technology
• Platform Development
• Communications Planning
• Food Policy
• Non-Profits
• Microfinance
• Community Engagement
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Human Rights
• Convening
• Strategic Partnerships
• Strategic Communications
• Agriculture
• Research
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Strategy
• Program Management
• Public Policy
• Leadership