Meet Our Team

Caitlin Seyfried

Caitlin Seyfried has food systems experience ranging from program development, food hub operations, food banking, and small-scale farming. Her introduction to food systems was through her university, where she led and participated in advocacy campaigns at UNC Chapel Hill, including school composting, energy efficiency, and fossil fuel divestment.

Caitlin is a skilled researcher with extensive experience in data collection and analysis, literature review, and stakeholder engagement. From 2016-2017, she worked as a data analyst at UNC’s Environmental Finance Center, and in 2018, Caitlin as research assistant to Dr. Lindsay Dubbs at the UNC Outer Banks Field Site on marine ecology and marine renewable energy. Caitlin published a peer-reviewed article about an emerging renewable energy technology in her time there.

Before joining FWG, Caitlin worked as Programs Manager and Food Partnerships Manager at the North Coast Food Web, a non-profit in Astoria, Oregon. She led the organization’s programming shift through the COVID-19 pandemic, building the organization into a local food hub with the North Coast Online Farmers Market and a kitchen rental and incubator program. Through this work she developed expertise in local food supply chains, licensing and regulation for food businesses, and models for food hubs operations. In this role Caitlin provided technical assistance, coordinated events, led projects, and gave state-wide presentations. She is an active member of the Oregon Community Food Systems Network, collaborating with food hubs and other food-related organizations in across the state. 

Caitlin has direct experience in emergency food assistance, serving as a RARE AmeriCorps member at the Columbia Gorge Food Bank in The Dalles, Oregon from 2018-2020. At the food bank she led community engagement, marketing, and direct support for food pantry sites. 

All the while, Caitlin has nurtured a love for having her hands in the soil: she has worked two seasons as farmhand on small farms near Astoria, Oregon. Caitlin deeply believes in centering people, equity, and community in food. She is inspired by the work in movements for food sovereignty and agroecology. 

Caitlin lives in Astoria, Oregon.