When the pandemic shuttered her career in creative agencies in New York, Johanna Salazar didn’t simply pivot—she built the infrastructure that underpins food justice. In 2021, she co-founded FoodStream Network to connect nonprofits, farms, retailers, and schools through a single real-time platform for rescuing surplus food, educating communities, and responding to crises—and by 2025, the network supports an impressive 850+ organizations.
Thanks to her work, unused food is now being routed, tracked, and delivered—rather than discarded—in U.S. cities. FoodStream Learn offers nutrition and food-system curricula across all five NYC boroughs; FoodStream Delivery is phasing in as a logistics layer that will enable faster movement of donated food from donor to door.
Salazar also mentors youth-entrepreneurs in the boroughs and speaks at climate-justice and tech-access summits—placing food equity at the nexus of tech, creativity, and community.
Why Johanna Salazar belongs on the Worthy 100 in 2025: because she didn’t just raise awareness about hunger—she engineered systems that fix the distribution problem.
