Matt Whittaker

With Us Since
2021
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Location
Lakewood, Colorado
School
University of Tennessee, University of Maryland
Expertise
Seafood, Agriculture, Food supply chain
  • Matt has a passion for writing about how the production and consumption of natural resources, including agricultural products, affects everyone.
  • He has attended some of the biggest food conferences and trade shows, including the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, the Seafood Expo North America in Boston, and the China Fisheries and Seafood Expo in Qingdao.
  • As a Denver Urban Gardens certified master composter, he's obsessed with the magic of turning food waste into amazing soil to grow food.

Experience

In his first job out of college, Matt wrote for The Monitor in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where sugarcane and shrimp farming are big business and where billions of dollars of agricultural products, including fresh produce, cross the border from Mexico each year. In the two decades since then, Matt has traveled the world to write about natural resources, including metals, fossil fuels, renewable energy, cannabis, agriculture, and seafood. Based in Colorado, his work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and U.S. News & World Report.

Education

Matt has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee, was a fellow at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, and has an international journalism diploma from schools in the Netherlands and Denmark

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