Valerie Segrest

Valerie Segrest (Muckleshoot) is the cofounder of Tahoma Peak Solutions. Before this, she was the regional director for Native Food and Knowledge Systems at the Native American Agriculture Fund. For more than a decade, Valerie has dedicated her work toward the food sovereignty movement and catalyzing food security strategies rooted in education, awareness, and overcoming barriers to accessing traditional foods for tribal communities throughout North America. Valerie earned her bachelor’s degree in human nutrition and health sciences from Bastyr University and her Master of Arts degree in environment and community from Antioch University. She has earned several certifications in advanced herbal studies and has extensively researched the historical and traditional food and medicine systems of the Coast Salish tribes of Western Washington.