Walter Abrego

In addition to serving on the Coleman Foundation Board, Walter is a Program Officer for Builders Initiative, an impact platform that offers versatile philanthropic and investment tools to people and organizations building a more humane and healthy planet. Walter is a systems thinker working to transform the food system to center on the well-being of farmed animals. His work drives toward a world where consumers are encouraged and able to make choices that are good for animals, the environment, and their own communities.

Walter brings a depth of philanthropic expertise having also served as a Program and Grants Associate at the McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program. While there, he helped the foundation identify and fund regionally-based research projects in Africa and South America.