Sam Kass

Sam Kass was senior policy advisor for nutrition policy in the Obama Administration and is currently an investor in several food technology start-ups. One of the Michelle Obama’s longest-serving advisors, Sam was the executive director of her Let’s Move initiative and helped create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and was trained by one of Austria’s greatest chefs, Christian Domschitz.