BrightFarms
Lizzie Zapata Truszkowski is an experienced Recruiting Manager at BrightFarms, responsible for overseeing recruitment strategies across the Farm Support Center and nine greenhouses. Previously, at Amazon Web Services, Lizzie focused on DEI recruitment, sourcing diverse candidates for Data Centers and Infrastructure, and developing strategic sourcing methodologies. As Head of Strategic Sourcing at TalentED Advisors, Lizzie led a team to identify diverse candidates, ensuring applicant pools were at least 50% women and people of color. Earlier roles include Lead Recruiter at Source4Teachers and Talent Manager at KIPP New Orleans, where Lizzie managed recruitment processes for educational staff. Lizzie holds a Master of Public Health from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin.
BrightFarms
BrightFarms is an American indoor farming company headquartered in Irvington, New York. BrightFarms grows local produce, nationwide. BrightFarms eliminates time, distance, and costs from the food supply chain by financing, building, and operating local greenhouse farms in partnership with supermarkets, cities, capital sources, and vendors. BrightFarms has created a scalable model for the future of sustainable, local farming, using far less energy, land, and water than long distance, centralized, and field grown agriculture. BrightFarms employs local, community farmers and makes pesticide-free produce accessible to all