Cathryn Couch

Overview

Cathryn Couch is an entrepreneur, chef and activist committed to creating healthy, just and sustainable communities. She has worked in the corporate and non-profit worlds, including four years as Director of Communications for The Hunger Project’s US operations from 1987 to 1991. From 1993 to 2003 she founded and ran one of the first gourmet organic and vegetarian home delivered meal services. She launched Ceres Community Project in 2007 as a one day a week volunteer project. In 2012 Cathryn received a Silver Jefferson Award for Public Service, one of only 5 awarded in the San Francisco Bay region, was a national finalist for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Health Leaders Award, and was named one of fourteen Innovative Nonprofit Leaders in Sonoma County. In 2013 she received the Leader in Sustainability Award from the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy. She was a finalist for the James Irvine Leadership Award in 2015. Cathryn is a founding member of the Sonoma County Food System Alliance and a founding board member for Meals on Wheels California, a coalition of meal service providers. Cathryn received her M.B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1980 where she was also nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship