Lauren Shweder Biel is Executive Director and co-founder of DC Greens, a local nonprofit that works to advance food justice and health equity in the nation's capital.  She is the co-chair of DC Health's "Diabesity" Committee, has served on the Mayor's Commission for Healthy Youth and Schools, was named a 2014 Toyota "Mother of Invention," and received a 2019 David Bradt Nonprofit Leadership Award.