Laura Edwards-Orr, Senior Agricultural Marketing Specialist Impact Fellow, has worked in support of thriving, equitable, regional food systems over several decades. Most recently, she served at the Director of Institutional Impact at the Center for Good Food Purchasing where she helped public institutions buy food in alignment with their values. Prior to the Center, Edwards-Orr was the Executive Director at Red Tomato, a northeast regional food hub, where she developed and marketed transparent and fair value chains for the wholesale market. Edwards-Orr began her career at Farm Aid where she staffed the national farm crisis hotline and worked to connect farmers with advocacy and programming to ensure that they were able to remain on their land and create thriving family businesses for the next generation.