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Alina Zolotareva is the Marketing Director and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist for AeroFarms, a leading clean-technology company that builds and operates responsible, state-of-the-art indoor vertical farms around the world, enabling local production and transforming agriculture. A Certified B Corporation, AeroFarms has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies and one of TIME's Best Inventions of the Year. Alina leads marketing and product development, leveraging her background in nutrition science and public health to translate nutrition science to consumers, playing a key role in AeroFarms mission to combat food deserts and bring fresh, local, nutritious leafy greens to all communities. Before AeroFarms, Alina worked for a Michelin-starred restaurant group and culinary nutrition foodservice consulting company based in NYC focused on improving health through great tasting and sustainable food. Alina is a graduate of Cornell University and Presidential Research Scholar with a B.S. with Honors in Nutrition Sciences and Dietetics. She is passionate about the intersection of food, technology, people and planet, and is closely involved in both the local and global agtech communities via her podcast Seeds and the City as well as through her board position on the international FarmTech Society.