Naomi Starkman

Naomi Starkman is a food policy consultant to Consumers Union and others. She is the co-founder and editor of Civil Eats.com and Kitchen Table Talks, a local food forum in San Francisco; a board member of 18 Reasons, a nonprofit connecting community through food; and is on the Circle of Friends Council for the Community Alliance with Family Farmers. She served as the Director of Communications & Policy at Slow Food Nation ’08 and has worked as a media consultant at The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and WIRED magazines. She was previously a senior publicist at Newsweek magazine and was the Director of Communications for the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). From 1997 to 2000, she served as Deputy Executive Director of the S.F. Ethics Commission. Naomi works with various clients on food policy and advocacy and is an aspiring organic grower, having worked on several farms.