Sam Garwin

Director of Market Development, GreenWave

Sam Garwin is the Director of Market Development at GreenWave, a nonprofit that builds scalable, equitable equitable markets for regenerative ocean farmers. Through innovation programs, commercial R&D pilots, and value chain coordination, she enables companies to get kelp from sea to sale as ingredients in food, beauty, soil amendments, and more. Sam draws on more than 15 years of experience building sustainable supply chains and socially responsible business models. Before GreenWave, Sam was the CEO of Fleishers, a pioneer of pasture-raised whole-animal retail butchery; and an early employee of Maya Mountain Cacao, a direct trade bean-to-bar cocoa supplier. Sam serves on the National Advisory Board for the Union of Concerned Scientists. She holds a B.A. in Information Science and Biology from Cornell University, and in 2026 will complete a Masters in Food & Agriculture Public Policy from Vermont Law & Graduate School. (Watertown, MA)