Food Connects names Lee Halpern as executive director

Food Connects, an entrepreneurial nonprofit that delivers local food as well as educational and consulting services aimed at transforming the local food system, has announced that Lee Halpern has been named as the organization’s next executive director.

Halpern, who has served as interim executive director since March, succeeds founder and former Executive Director Richard Berkfield, who stepped down earlier this year after more than a decade of leadership.