Becky Holt M.B.A. is an executive producer , brand consultant, and Assistant Director of the FAU Queen Conch Lab. She’s spent her career highlighting the good work of mission-forward, international brands and telling the intimate stories of those on the front lines of seafood production and conservation. Prior to the Queen Conch Lab, she was a senior executive at the Global Seafood Alliance – an NGO dedicated to enabling responsible aquaculture and fisheries worldwide. There she managed a membership base comprised of roughly 3,000 seafood companies and professionals and produced seven documentary short films featuring the personal stories of aquaculturists around the world.
Her production experiences in the remote locations of Southeast Asia, Central & South America, and Europe have revealed to her the vast amount of work left to do in understanding where our food comes from and the broad societal and environmental impact misunderstanding leads to . Her films aimed to demystify aquaculture production in the eyes of the public and have been shown at film festivals and industry events worldwide.
As Assistant Director of the Queen Conch Lab, s he leads marketing efforts and develops partnerships for community-based queen conch aquaculture projects, toward the vision of a conch farm in every Caribbean country. She works remotely from Southern Maine.
Passionate about career paths that are non-linear, she enjoys relaying how you can go from an undergrad in Oil Painting to travelling the Caribbean in service of saving a threatened species. Every career decision you make is neither “good” nor “bad”, it’s just leading to “you”.