Barton Seaver

Barton Seaver is founder and chief education officer of Coastal Culinary Academy, which seeks to increase seafood consumption through seafood-specific culinary education. A sustainable seafood expert, he was previously an award-winning chef. Seaver has been director of the Sustainable Seafood and Health Initiative at Harvard School of Public Health and a member of the State Department’s Culinary Ambassador Corp, facilitating conversations on the role of food in resource management and public health. He’s traveled the world as a National Geographic fellow and translated those experiences into sustainable seafood innovations. He also was a senior advisor in sustainable seafood innovations at University of New England and a sustainability fellow at the New England Aquarium. An international speaker, he has written eight seafood-centric books.