Katie Stebbins is the Executive Director of the Tufts Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute and was previously Secretary for Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Massachusetts, where she led state investment efforts in cybersecurity, health-tech, robotics, and advanced manufacturing. She is a formally trained environmental/urban planner and worked in post-industrial cities for twenty years addressing the challenges of disinvestment and the opportunities for systems change. Katie is an Innovator in Residence at MIT Sloan School, and earned a master's from the University of Massachusetts.