Co-Founder
Farmlink
Aidan Reilly is a Co-founder of The Farmlink Project, a student-led movement that has provided over 100 million pounds of nutritious food to communities facing hunger in the United States. He and his co-founders started the project out of their college dorm rooms at Brown and Stanford University during the pandemic by renting a Uhaul truck to connect farmers with surplus to their local food bank. The project became an overnight sensation, going nationwide with an entirely volunteer movement of thousands of students delivering millions of meals to the families that needed them most.
Today, In addition to growing their food program nationwide, Farmlink is now launching a fellowship many are calling “Teach for America for our food system” placing the brightest young minds on the frontline of the food system to learn, grow and create more efficient solutions for hunger and waste.
Aidan and his co-founders have been awarded The Congressional Medal of Honor, The Jefferson Award for Public Service, Forbes 30 Under 30, a CNN Top 10 Hero Award, a Pritzker Environmental genius nomination & more. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, WSJ, ABC World News Tonight, and nearly every national television network in the U.S.
The Farmlink Project is now a rapidly growing team with 20+ full time employees on a mission to make the world’s abundance of nutritious food accessible for everyone. They believe there will be a day in our lifetime when every person has access to the food they need to succeed and want to be there to celebrate that day together.
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