Jane Rabinowicz works to advance food sovereignty and community leadership at local, regional, national, and international levels. She currently serves as Executive Director of SeedChange, one of Canada’s longest-standing charitable organizations. Founded in 1945, SeedChange works with 30,000 farmers in 11 countries to save seed diversity, spread sustainable farming, and counter inequity in the food system.

Jane is also co-founder and Vice President of the Silver Dollar Foundation, a family foundation that supports grassroots organizations with real estate and educational programming in Montreal. Jane serves on the Board of Directors of Tides Canada, and the Resilient Seed Systems Implementation Committee of The Global Alliance for the Future of Food. Jane previously served on the Boards of Centraide du Grand-Montréal, Girls Action Foundation, Food Secure Canada, and the Centre for Community Organizations. Jane was profiled by the CBC as one of Canada’s young leaders, named one of the 53 most influential people in Canada’s food system by The Globe and Mail, and one of Canada’s leading women changing the way we eat by Châtelaine Magazine. She splits her time between Montreal and Ottawa.

• Location: Canada