Krista Olson

LATCH PROJECT COORDINATOR

Krista Olson, MC-MCH, IBCLC, CH, coordinates LATCH (Lactation Access Transforming Communities in Hawaiʻi), a joint initiative of Breastfeeding Hawaiʻi and Early Childhood Action Strategy. Over the past two decades, Krista has addressed the critical intersection between food security and health equity as founding director of Nest for Families, and as Managing Partner at Kealaola Organic Farm & Institute. She brings experience in community organizing, early childhood, clinical lactation, and herbal medicine, and is passionate about the role of traditional foods and medicines, including breastmilk, in restoring community health. She helps to lead the Statewide Breastfeeding Workgroup and the Hawai‘i Maternal Infant Health Collaborative Core Team, and has worked for Head Start, WIC, State Health Departments, and health centers in the U.S. and Central America. Krista is a Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and holds a Master’s Certificate in Maternal Child Health from the John A. Burns School of Medicine.