Who are we
Curious about how food gets made, funded, branded, and eaten?
WAFAB brings together students headed into CPG brand management, ag investing, food tech, or who just really like eating
CAREER RESOURCES
Career Resource Hub
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Member Professional Lookbook
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Speaker Series /
Founder Meetups
COMMUNITY
Founder Sampling Events
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Semester Food Bank Initiatives
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Small group dinners
Career Resource Hub
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Member Professional Lookbook
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Speaker Series /
Founder Meetups
FLAGSHIP EVENTS
Future of Food Week
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Fall Semester Industry Trek
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Club collaboration speakers
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Upcoming Events
Connect with industry leaders and peers at our premier student club events and networking opportunities
Networking
Club Fair Kickoff
August 26, 2026
Meet with club leaders and discover how you can get involved in the future of food at Wharton
Stay up to date on our current and future events on Campus Groups
Speaker Series
WECCxWAFABxWSIC BBQ Mix
September 2, 2026
First big mixer of the year cohosted with Wharton’s Climate & Sustainability community
Career
Industry Trek
Join us for a day of site visits to top CPG and food technology companies in New York City
MEET THE TEAM
Leadership Team
Our dedicated board members and student leaders are driving the future of agribusiness and food innovation at Wharton
Namhee Kim
Ikepo Abiru
Ruth Chen
Nannette Boakye
Co-President
Co-President
Co-President
VP of COMMUNITY
Originally from Seoul, Namhee worked in innovation consulting before Wharton and sees food as one of the most human ways to create impact. With her family's business in food ingredients and packaging ahead of her, she's drawn to building products rooted in what people actually need.
Ikepo's path from law to McKinsey to private equity at Bregal Milestone, plus co-founding a food-and-culture venture in Africa, showed her that food systems sit right at the intersection of strategy, capital, and culture, and that's what pulls her toward the space.
Ruth grew up farm-adjacent, with family ties to agriculture that shaped how she sees the food system. At BCG and SIMPLi she helped consumer and retail companies decarbonize their supply chains, work that sharpened her interest in making sustainable food more affordable and accessible.
Raised in Accra, Ghana, Nannette has moved across tech, agritech, and entrepreneurship, always drawn back to inclusive, sustainable food systems and the cross-sector collaboration needed to build them.
FOOD TECH • AGRIBUSINESS • SUSTAINABILITY • CPG INNOVATION