Helena Bottemiller Evich

Helena Bottemiller Evich is an award-winning journalist specializing in food policy and agriculture, with a career spanning over a decade. She founded Food Fix in 2022 as an authoritative newsletter focused on Washington's food policy landscape after nearly ten years at POLITICO, where she established their food and agriculture coverage. Her investigative reporting on the FDA's food program deficiencies and infant formula crisis directly contributed to major regulatory reforms. Earlier in her career, she covered food safety legislation and outbreaks as Washington correspondent for Food Safety News, reporting on the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Evich has won two James Beard Awards for nutrition/science reporting and a George Polk Award for climate change coverage. A Claremont McKenna College graduate, she regularly appears on major media outlets including CNN and NPR, and her work is cited across food policy circles.