At Mars, he encouraged the company's commitment to sustainable sourcing of its cocoa bean supply.
[3] Shapiro has been a Fulbright Scholar, Ford Foundation Fellow, and has won the National Endowment for the Humanities Award.
[12] Shapiro has worked with Google X and other groups on a project to end human stunting through better nutrition worldwide, starting in Africa.
Through partnerships between University of California, Davis; Mars, Incorporated; and others, he helped to establish the African Plant Breeding Academy in Nairobi in 2013.
His interest began at age 15 when he and a family friend rode up the East Coast to the Arctic Circle and back.