Visiting the Foundation's website I found out Charles Gardner (who was the only and closest of an advocacy person) was not listed any longer as staff.
Apparently he is not the only one to have departed as of September 2020: tobaccotactics (click on main staff on the left) notes:
"In September 2020, FSFW updated its website to reflect that it has lost 14 staff members, which represented 38% of its total staff the previous week." But they wrongly state that Carolyn “C.B.” Blanckmeister is the Foundation’s Chief Health Science Technology Officer. In fact she was not listed any longer when I visited. What happened to explain such an exodus that also includes the recently hired COO, Nittin Mittal (his linkedin page is not updated yet). Several of the other staff who left were with the Agriculture program, including the Head, Jim Lutzweiler (linkedin page not updated yet), Chris Gray who mentions a 'strategic shift', Rob Henning,
Alexandra Solomon gender specialist, Matthew Waterson, and many others.
Also disappeared from the Board of Directors, Zoe Feldman. What gives? Any comment available? Those 'changes' take place 3 years after the launch of the Foundation on September 13, 2017.
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