Founder and Principal, The AgriNutrition Edge

Marianne Smith Edge, MS, RDN, LD, FADA, FAND is Founder and Principal, The AgriNutrition Edge, providing strategic counsel and communication strategies for food, nutrition and ag organizations across the food value chain. Marianne is a 6^th generation farm owner, speaker, facilitator and produces the monthly Meet Me at the Table blog and The AgriNutrition Edge Report newsletter. She serves on the Board of Advisors for Curious Plot, a Minneapolis based food and agriculture marketing and public relations firm. Marianne is also an assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Dietetics & Human Nutrition, at the University of Kentucky.

Prior to founding The AgriNutrition Edge, Marianne served as Senior Vice President, Nutrition & Food Safety Communications for the International Food Information Council (IFIC) in Washington, DC. Before joining IFIC, she was the owner of MSE and Associates, LLC providing strategic nutrition and foodservice consulting services for the food and healthcare industry for over two decades.

Marianne is a former president of The Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics and a member of the Institute for Food Technologists (IFT) and the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). She is a co-author of over 35 peer-reviewed publications and 2 books, as well as a member of the Board of Editors for Nutrition Today.

Marianne is a CARET (Council on Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching) delegate from the University of Kentucky College of Ag, Food and Environment and serves on the National CARET Executive Committee as the liaison to the Board of Health & Human Sciences. Marianne serves and is the immediate past Board Chair of the Foundation for Healthy Kentucky.  

Marianne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics from the University of Kentucky where she was a former member of the Board of Trustees and a past president, UK Alumni Association. Marianne was inducted into the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2024 and the UK College of Human Environmental Sciences Hall of Fame in 2001. She has a master’s degree in public health-nutrition from Western Kentucky University and earned a certification in Appreciative Inquiry from the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.