Food Tank Summit 2016 - Washington DC by Food Tank

April 20-21, 2016 American University | Greenberg Theatre | 4200 Wisconsin Ave NW | Washington, D.C.

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Welcome to Food Tank’s 2nd Annual Washington, D.C. Summit. We’re honored to partner with American University, and we’re excited to have you all here to discuss some of the most pressing challenges around food, agriculture, and the environment. But we aren’t here just to lament the enormity of these problems— we’re here to come up with long-lasting solutions. Solutions that only come about when all of us—farmers, eaters, businesses, policymakers, academics, youth, funders, media, and civil society—come together to break down silos and listen to one another. We hope that over the next few days you feel invigorated, angry, perplexed, inspired, challenged, and, most of all, hopeful about the future of the food system. We are not here to complain or lament but to figure out the steps for creating more equitable, safe, healthy, and nourishing food system. A food system where we understand that the true costs of food production aren’t always included in the price we pay at the checkout counter. A food system that values women, youth, and workers, and a food system where no one is left on the outside looking in. A food system that looks ahead by valuing the past. A food system where we realize that we are all eaters, and we all have a unique and important part to play in both nourishing ourselves and the planet. The more than 75 experts speaking at the Summit have a lot to share, but the conversation won’t end after the Summit is over. Food Tank will make sure it continues through our articles, op-eds, reports, videos, webinars, and social media over the next year. Please contribute to the discussion and offer your thoughts, suggestions, and criticisms. Food Tank grows from the ground up, and we can’t do that without your input. Thank you for attending the Summit. We’re excited to see what unfolds over the next few days! Danielle Nierenberg President, Food Tank

On behalf of American University and our top-10 ranked School of International Service, welcome to the 2nd Annual Washington, D.C., Food Tank Summit. This event, with more than 75 speakers from the food and agriculture field, dovetails with the work of our faculty who conduct transformational research at the intersection of food, agriculture, and politics. Why is this research important? Everyone eats. What we eat – and how and where it is grown – is one of the most critical global policy issues of our time. I’m proud of our faculty’s research on agricultural biodiversity, conflict cuisine, and the links between environmental policy, agrarian politics, and human rights. I invite you to learn more about them and about our school, founded in 1957 to answer President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s call to train students of international affairs to “wage peace,” during this important event on our campus. James Goldgeier, Dean School of International Service American University

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Food Tank (www.FoodTank.com) is a nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. We spotlight environmentally-, socially-, and economically-sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity, and poverty; and we create networks of people, organizations, and content to push for food system change.

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FOOD TANK SUMMIT: DAY 1

DAY 1: WEDNESDAY

APRIL 20, 2016 8:30 am

Registration and Complimentary Breakfast Breakfast courtesy of Panera Bread. Coffee courtesy of Vigilante. Dinnerware is provided by Leafware.

9:00 am

Welcome: American University

9:05 am

Welcome: Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank

9:15 am

Opening Keynote: Karen Washington Urban Farmer and Activist; Co-Founder of Black Urban Growers and Rise & Root Farm

9:30 am PANEL: Uncommon Collaborations — Finding Solutions by Building Partnerships Moderator: April Fulton, National Geographic Keynote: Jeff Dunn, President, Campbell Fresh Division • Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, Food & Markets and Executive Director, Markets Institute, WWF • William Burke, Research Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University • Amanda Oborne, Vice President of Food & Farms, Ecotrust • Pam Fessenden, Director, Office of Market and Partnership Innovations, Bureau for Food Security, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) • Alexander Müller, Study Leader and Steering Committee Chair, TEEBAgFood • Diane Hatz, Founder and Executive Director, Change Food

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10:45 am

Break Provided by Almond Board of California and Driscoll’s.

11:00 am PANEL: Beyond Calories: The Need for Nutrient Dense Diets Moderator: Simran Sethi, Author, Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love Keynote: Dan Glickman, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program and Vice President, Aspen Institute

2:25 pm PANEL: Food Security and Conflict This panel is presented by Conflict Cuisine. Moderator: Tim Carman, Food Writer, Washington Post Keynote: David Beckmann, President, Bread for the World • Cullen Hendrix, U. of Denver Korbel School of International Relations • Johanna Mendelsohn Forman, Professor, Conflict Cuisine, American University • Kimberly Flowers, Director, Global Food Security Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

• Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow Global Agriculture and Food, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• Ray Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America

• Bill Telepan, Chef, Telepan Restaurant; Executive Chef, Wellness in the Schools

• Allan Jury, Vice President of Public Policy and Senior Advisor, World Food Program USA

• Mitchell Davis, Executive Vice President, James Beard Foundation

• Lauren Herzer Risi, Program Associate, Environmental Change and Security Program, Wilson Center

• Ashley Koff RD, Dietitian and Creator of The Better Nutrition Simplified Program • Spike Mendelsohn, Chef; Chair, DC Food Policy Council

3:40 pm

Break Provided by Almond Board of California and Driscoll’s.

• Ari Novy, Executive Director, U.S. Botanic Garden

12:15 pm

Complimentary Lunch and Networking Lunch courtesy of Chipotle. Vegan lunch provided by VegFund. Dinnerware is provided by Leafware.

1:00 pm

Keynote: Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture

3:45 pm PANEL: Innovative Models for Food Recovery and Reducing Food Waste Moderator: Eliza Barclay, Health, Science & Environment Editor, Vox.com Keynote: Dana Gunders, Staff Scientist, Food and Agriculture Program, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council • Evan Lutz, Co-Founder and CEO, Hungry Harvest • Regina Northouse, Executive Director, Food Recovery Network

1:10 pm PANEL: Protein for the Planet Moderator: Sam Fromartz, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Food & Environment Reporting Network Keynote: Arlin Wasserman, Founder and Partner, Changing Tastes; Chair, Sustainable Business Leadership Council - Culinary Institute of America • Dan Kish, Senior Vice President, Food, Panera Bread

• Roger Gordon, Founder, Food Cowboy • Patrick O’Neill, CEO, Amp Your Good LLC • Nancy E. Roman, President and CEO, Capital Area Food Bank • Riana Lynn, Co-Founder and CEO, FoodTrace

• Rodney Scruggs, Executive Chef, Occidental Grill & Seafood • Greg Sewitz, Co-Founder, Exo

5:00 pm

Closing: Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank

• Michael Berger, Founding Partner, Elevation Franchise Ventures

5:10 pm

Adjourn to Reception

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RECEPTION INFORMATION

3rd Anniversary Celebration 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Restaurant Nora 2132 Florida Avenue NW Washington, DC 20008

Reception

7:00 pm Dinner and Speakers Emcee: Susan Able, Publisher, Edible DC • Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank • The Honorable Mike Conaway Congressman, 11th District, Texas; Chair, House Committee on Agriculture • Nora Pouillon, Chef and Owner Restaurant Nora; Author, My Organic Life 9:00 pm

Dinner concludes * This event is sold out.

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Farm-fresh seasonal cooking with Jonathan Bardzik Get in the kitchen with Jonathan Bardzik, a DCbased storyteller, cook and author known for inspiring people to enjoy farm and garden-fresh ingredients in their home kitchens. Jonathan will join you and a group of up to 15 guests to share the joy of preparing a seasonal meal based on his new cookbook, Seasons to Taste. With years of experience popping up everywhere from farmmarkets, trade show floors and conference rooms to National Geographic and USDA, Jonathan can join either your business team or friends and family for a fun, interactive event. Jonathan shares helpful hints, useful techniques, engaging stories and a menu of delicious dishes easy enough for Tuesday nights and special enough for the weekend. Guests will also receive a signed copy of Seasons to Taste. The day or night-time event will feature a four-course tasting menu over 2-4 hours, depending on your schedule. Jonathan brings everything you need including food and cookware. Event value: $2,000 Valid through April 30, 2017. Dates are subject to availability, please call at least sixty days ahead to schedule. For locations more than 10 miles from Washington DC, additional travel costs apply. WWW.FOODTANKSUMMIT.COM

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Hill’s Kitchen Expert Consultation and Culinary Tools Meet with the dynamic Leah Daniels at her one-of-a-kind Hill’s Kitchen on Capitol Hill (hillskitchen.com) near Eastern Market. Leah has curated her shop on the Hill with tried and true icons, as well as the best and the brightest newcomers, sure to become kitchen mainstays. Leah will meet with you to discuss your cooking style, culinary skill-set and design preferences to make recommendations for you and your kitchen. In addition, you’ll receive the skillet that Leah believes should be a part of every kitchen’s arsenal, a 12-inch All Clad Frying Pan. Leah will generously select some kitchen musthaves, specifically for you after your consultation, that you’ll take home in one of her cool recyclable market bags.

Republic Restoratives Private Behind-the-Scenes Tour, Tasting and More for 10 People Enjoy a private tour for you and up to nine guests at Washington, DC’s small batch, women-owned, craft distillery and cocktail bar. You’ll see how our whiskey and vodka are made in a proprietary process, tour the barrel aging room, and relax in our tasting room. Included is a tasting of our product line, one bottle of our charcoal-polished Civic Vodka, Republic Restoratives buttons to show your Local Spirit, and a tote bag to get it all home. We can’t wait to have you! Value: $500 Terms: 21+ to bid and tour. Private tour tickets valid for one (1) tour of up to ten (10)

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FOOD TANK SUMMIT: DAY 2

DAY 2:

T H U R S D AY APRIL 21, 2016 8:00 am

Complimentary Breakfast and Coffee Breakfast courtesy of Panera Bread. Coffee courtesy of Vigilante. Dinnerware is provided by Leafware.

9:00 am

Welcome: Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank

9:05 am

Opening Keynote: Debra Eschmeyer, Executive Director of Let’s Move!; Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy

9:10 am

Keynote: Raj Patel, Writer, Activist, and Academic

9:20 am PANEL: Legislating Change in Agriculture Moderator: Devin Henry, Energy and Environment Reporter, The Hill Keynote: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, U.S. House of Representatives, (D) Maine • Holly Freishtat, Baltimore City Food Policy Director • Ali Berlow, Author, The Food Activist Handbook • Claire Benjamin DiMattina, Executive Director, Food Policy Action • Deb Atwood, Executive Director, Meridian’s AGree: Transforming Food and Ag Policy • Dr. Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director of Sustainability, George Washington University

10:30 am

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Break Provided by Almond Board of California and Driscoll’s.

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Organic Valley dairy farmers like Sarah Smith believe in the importance of providing healthy, local organic dairy products for the Maine communities they live in. For over 25 years, our farmer-owned cooperative has been committed to producing nutritious organic products in harmony with the earth and with respect for animals. Learn more about our mission at OrganicValley.coop.

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10:45 am PANEL: Investing in the Food Movement This panel is presented by the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition. Moderator: Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos, Journalist, IPS - Inter Press Service Keynote: Eric Kessler, Founder, Principal, and Senior Managing Director, Arabella Advisors • Eileen Gordon, Founder, Barnraiser

2:15 pm

Break Provided by Almond Board of California and Driscoll’s.

2:30 pm PANEL: Fighting for Fair Food Moderator: Jane Black, Food Writer The Washington Post, The New York Times Keynote: Jeremiah Lowery Political Appointee, D.C. Food Policy Council

• Rodney Ferguson, President and CEO, Winrock International • Sara Roversi, Co-Founder, You Can Group • Ruth Richardson, Principal, Open Blue Consulting; Executive Director, Global Alliance for the Future of Food

• Wenonah Hauter, Founder and Executive Director, Food & Water Watch • Lauren Shweder Biel, Executive Director, DC Greens • Ulises Zatarain, Program Director, Washington Youth Garden

• Behtash Bahador, Finalist, Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) Young Earth Solutions competition

• Niaz Dorry, Coordinating Director, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance

• Danielle Gould, Founder and CEO, Food + Tech Connect • Dream Hampton, Senior Fellow, MomsRising

12:00 pm

Lunch Lunch courtesy of Panera Bread. Vegan lunch provided by VegFund. Dinnerware is provided by Leafware.

1:00 pm PANEL: Future of Organic Moderator: Allison Aubrey, Correspondent, National Public Radio Keynote: Dr. Carlo Leifert, Head of Unit, Nafferton Ecological Farming Group; Professor of Ecological Agriculture, University of Newcastle • Charles Benbrook, Research Consultant, Benbrook Consulting Services • Laura Batcha, CEO and Executive Director, Organic Trade Association

• Baldemar Velasquez, President and Founder, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO

3:40 pm PANEL: Farmers Leading the Food Movement Moderator: Jason Huffman, POLITICO Keynote: George Naylor, Family Farmer; Former President, National Family Farm Coalition • Paul Willis, Founder, Niman Ranch Pork Company • Shepherd Ogden, Farmer; Founder and President, The Cook’s Garden • Ben Wenk, Seventh Generation Farmer and Partner, Three Springs Farm • Regina Beidler, Organic Valley Farmer-Owner, Beidler Family Farm

• Dr. Silvia Abel-Caines DVM PhD, Ruminant Nutritionist, Organic Valley • Cheyenne Christianson, Organic Dairy Farmer, Grazing Acres Farm

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5:05 pm

Ending Keynote: Stephen Ritz Founder, Green Bronx Machine

5:15 pm

Closing: Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Dr. Silvia Abel-Caines DVM PhD Ruminant Nutritionist, Organic Valley @OrganicValley @organicvalley silvia.abel-caines@organicvalley.coop Dr. Silvia Abel-Caines is a Veterinarian with a PhD in Ruminant Nutrition. She is a certified grazing planner, and aims to addressanimal health and productivity through balanced nutrition. She is currently theStaff Ruminant Nutritionist for Organic Valley / CROPP. Combining the knowledge from experienced organic farmers from around the world and her technical training and research, Dr. Silvia Abel-Caines provides practical technical information that highlights the link between health and nutrition for both humans and animals.

Deb Atwood Executive Director, Meridian’s AGree: Transforming Food and Ag Policy datwood@merid.org Deborah Atwood is the Executive Director of AGree. Her diverse experiences working for the U.S. Senate and House, three administrations, and the private sector on policy issues related to food, agriculture, the environment, energy, and fisheries prepared her for the collaborative and substance-driven work of AGree. Atwood has held senior-level positions at Mars, Inc., the National Pork Producers Council, the American Meat Institute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, among others. She serves on the board of ACDI/VOCA, an agriculture development nonprofit organization working in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Allison Aubrey Correspondent, National Public Radio @AubreyNPRFood, @NPR @allison.aubrey, @NPR Allison Aubrey is Food & Health Correspondent for NPR News and a contributor to the PBS NewsHour. Along with her colleagues at The Salt, NPR’s food vertical, she uses food as a lens to explore key issues of the day – from climate change to food justice issues. The aim is to reveal how food connects us to each other, culture, history, politics, science and more. Aubrey has won numerous awards including the American Society for Nutrition’s Media Award, a National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism. She is nominated for two James Beard Awards this year for her radio and TV reporting. She’s a Kentucky native, and a graduate of Denison University and Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three kids. WWW.FOODTANK.COM

Behtash Bahador Finalist, Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) Young Earth Solutions competition behtashbahador@yahoo.com Behtash Bahador is the North American Geographic Representative for the Barilla Foundation Alumni Association. He is a BCFN Young Earth Solutions competition finalist, a Master of Science in Health Communication candidate at Tufts University in Boston, and Senior Program Manager with the non-profit organization CISCRP, where he helps lead a global program developing plain language summaries of clinical study results for patients and the public.

Eliza Barclay Health, Science & Environment Editor, Vox.com @elizabarclay, @voxdotcom elizabarclay@gmail.com Eliza Barclay is an editor at Vox.com, where she oversees the site’s health, science, energy, and environmental coverage. Formerly, she was a reporter and editor of NPR’s food blog, The Salt, and covered food, health and science on the web and the air. She has also covered immigration, economic development, and international politics as a freelancer, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, FORTUNE, National Geographic News, The Lancet and several other publications. She holds a B.S. from the University of CaliforniaBerkeley and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

Laura Batcha CEO/Executive Director, Organic Trade Association @organictrade @organictrade Laura Batcha is CEO and Executive Director of the Organic Trade Association, an umbrella organization representing more than 8,500 organic businesses across the $39 billion sector, including farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, certifiers and regional producer organizations. She brings more than 25 years of hands-on involvement in the organic sector including as a certified organic producer and handler, and more than a decade of experience in various leadership roles in the private sector of the organic industry. She has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to serve as a representative of the organic industry on two separate federal advisory committees that advise on issues related to the co-existence of biotechnology and organic and identity-preserved agriculture and on international trade. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for The Organic Center and on OTA’s Organic Political Action Committee.

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David Beckmann President, Bread for the World @davidbeckmann, @bread4theworld, @breadinstitute @bread4thworld

Randolph Center, VT. The farm also grows a small quantity of grain that is milled as flour on farm for sale in local markets. As first generation farmers, the Beidlers bought their farm in 1998 and transitioned to organic production joining Organic Valley/CROPP cooperative in March, 2000. The Beidler’s cows have been grain free for the past nine years. This decision was made with an eye towards long term sustainability and the desire for a self contained production system.

World Food Prize laureate David Beckmann is the president of Bread for the World, leading large-scale and successful campaigns to strengthen U.S. political commitment to overcome hunger and poverty in the United States and around

Regina has worked with Organic Valley’s Farmers in Marketing program for the past 12 years connecting farmer owners with consumers, retailers and others for a better understanding of organic farming. She also is a co-chair for the

the world. Beckmann currently serves on the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, USAID’s Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, the U.S. Trade Representative’s Advisory Committee on Africa, the U.S. Department of State’s Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group, the Executive Committee of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Beckmann is a Lutheran pastor as well as an economist. Prior to joining Bread, he worked at the World Bank for 15 years, overseeing large development projects and driving innovations to make the bank more effective in reducing poverty.

Production and Processing Working Group for Farm to Plate which is a Vermont legislative initiative that strives to strengthen the local state food system from production to consumption.

Regina Beidler Organic Valley Farmer-Owner, Beidler Family Farm @OrganicValley, @ovfuel @organicvalley, @ovfuel

Charles Benbrook Research Consultant, Benbrook Consulting Services @chuckbenbrook charlesbenbrook@gmail.com Dr. Charles (“Chuck”) Benbrook has compiled databases and built models to quantify the impacts of agricultural systems, technology, and policy on the quality and performance of the food and fiber system. He is a recognized expert on food quality, pest management systems, pesticide use and regulation, biotechnology, food nutritional quality, and the environmental and public health consequences of farming system choices.

Regina and her husband, Brent, own and operate a 40 cow organic dairy in

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Benbrook worked in Washington, D.C. on agricultural policy, science and regulatory issues from 1979 through 1997, serving in the Executive branch, Congress (staff director of a subcommittee), and as the Executive Director, Board on Agriculture, National Academy of Sciences (1984-1990). Since 1991, he has run Benbrook Consulting Services. From 2006-2012, Chuck served as the Chief Scientist of The Organic Center, a non-profit organization focused on the environmental and consumer health benefits of organic food and farming. From June 2012 through May 15, 2015, he was a Research Professor at Washington State University, where he led the “Measure to Manage” (M2M) program.

A native Vermonter, she also served on the staff of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.). She is a graduate of the University of Vermont in Burlington.

Michael Berger Founding Partner, Elevation Franchise Ventures bergermichael13@gmail.com

Claire Benjamin DiMattina Executive Director, Food Policy Action @FPAction claire@foodpolicyaction.org Claire Benjamin DiMattina is the Executive Director of Food Policy Action, a role in which she has served since 2013. She leads the Food Policy Action team as they promote common-sense legislative reforms to improve the food system through education and production of the National Food Policy Scorecard. Prior to joining the organization, she spent nine years working on federal food and agriculture policy on Capitol Hill. Most recently, she served as legislative director and senior advisor for Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and was instrumental in drafting the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act, which outlined a number of policy measures to increase access to healthy food and promote local agriculture.

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Michael is a Founding Partner and the VP of Supply Chain of Elevation Franchise Ventures, franchisor of Elevation Burger. As one of the founding partners of the Elevation Burger franchise company, Michael has lead the company’s growth from a single restaurant to a chain of 60 restaurants in seven countries. Under Michael’s supply chain leadership, Elevation Burger’s purchases of certified organic, grass-fed beef have grown into one of the largest certified organic beef purchasing programs in the United States and the largest such program of any restaurant group in the US. Michael has been featured in various forms of media and is a recognized leader in international franchise development and sustainable food supply chains. Michael currently serves on The Organic Center’s Board of Trustees and Food Tank’s Board of Directors and was honored as the Organic Trade Association’s “Rising Star” of 2015.

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Ali Berlow Author, The Food Activist Handbook @AliBerlow @AliBerlow Ali Berlow is the author The Food Activist Handbook - Big & Small Things You. Can Do to Help Provide Fresh, Healthy Food for Your Community and The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse - Building a Human Chicken Processing Unit to Strengthen Your Local Food System. Her NPR essays entitled ‘A Cook’s Notebook’ is available on PRX (www.prx.org). She is currently the co-host of The Local Food Report airing on the NPR stations, WCAI/WNAN (www.capeandislands.org), produced by Atlantic Public Media (www.atlantic.org). Ali is the founding editor and now co-publisher along with her husband, Sam Berlow, of Edible Vineyard magazine (www.ediblevineyard.com) and she is the founding executive director of Island Grown Initiative (www.islandgrown.org).

Jane Black Food Writer, The Washington Post @jane_black, @washingtonpost @jane_black, @washingtonpost Jane Black is a food writer based in Washington DC. She covers food politics, sustainable agriculture and culinary trends. Her work appears in publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. She is currently at work on a book about food and convenience.

William Burke Research Scholar, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University @FoodSecurity_SU burkewi2@stanford.edu Dr. William J. (Bill) Burke is an Agricultural Economist with a focus on Africa that began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa, where he served from 2001 to 2003. From 2010 to 2013 Bill worked with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock while on assignment with the Food Security Research Project in Lusaka, Zambia, focusing on the maize and fertilizer sectors. He has been an Assistant Professor of International Development at Michigan State University and is currently a Research Scholar at Stanford’s Center on Food Security and the. Bill received the Best Thesis Award from MSU’s Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics for his work on smallholder participation in the Kenyan dairy sector, the Outstanding Article Award in Agricultural Economics for work related to Zambia’s fertilizer subsidy program, and the Horizon Ribbon Award from Washington College in Maryland. Current research is on the leading front of studying the nexus between agronomic principles and economic outcomes by linking detailed soil analysis to farmer behavior and agricultural productivity.

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Tim Carman Food Writer, Washington Post @timcarman, @washingtonpost tim.carman@washpost.com Washington Post food writer Tim Carman has been nominated for two James Beard Foundation Awards; he won one in 2011 for Food-Related Columns and Commentary. His work has appeared in four editions of the “Best Food Writing” collections as well as the sixth edition of “Cornbread Nation.” He’s written for various publications, including Food Network magazine, Men’s Journal and Food Republic. In 2013, he launched a weekly cheap eats column for The Post called The $20 Diner, which won second place for best restaurant criticism in the 2015 Association of Food Journalists Awards contest. He is committed to building the best home coffee bar in the Northeast and has been known to make his own yogurt, charcuterie and Texas-style brisket in his spare time.

Cheyenne Christianson Organic Dairy Farmer, Grazing Acres Farm ckfarm@thefreesite.com Cheyenne Christianson and his family run a 70 cow organic dairy in northern WI that they started in 1993. He used managed grazing and organic practices to bring a run down farm back to life. Promoting soil health and providing optimal habitat for soil biology is a main focus on the Christianson farm. Some methods used include grazing taller annuals to extend the grazing season, mob grazing to build organic matter and drought resistance, and using fertility amendments to add nutrient density to the forage. Cheyenne writes articles for Graze and shares what works on his farm to all that are interested.

Jason Clay Senior Vice President, Markets; Executive Director, Markets Institute, WWF @World_Wildlife @wwf Jason Clay is SVP, Markets and Executive Director, the Markets Institute at WWF-US. His focus is on spotting global issues and trends that affect WWF’s conservation mission and strategies with a particular focus on soft commodities, e.g. agriculture (plant based and livestock), seafood (aquaculture and wild caught), and forests. Over the course of his career he has worked on a family farm, the USDA, and taught at Harvard and Yale. In 1989, Dr. Clay invented Rainforest Marketing, one of the first fair-trade ecolabels in the United States, and was responsible for co-creating Rainforest Crunch and more than 200 other products with combined retail sales of $100 million. Clay created WWF’s aquaculture, agriculture and livestock strategies and built that work out globally. He created WWF’s Market Transformation program to work with private sector companies to improve their supply chain management. Dr. Clay is the author of more than 20 books and one of the first

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS ever National Geographic Food and Agriculture Fellow. In 2012, Clay won the James Beard Award for his work on global food sustainability. Clay studied at Harvard University and the London School of Economics before receiving a Ph.D. in anthropology and international agriculture from Cornell University.

Mike Conaway U.S. Congress (R-TX), Chairman of House Committee on Agriculture @HouseAgNews @houseagcommittee

Academy of the London-based World’s 50 Best Restaurants. He has written several cookbooks, including the ground-breaking e-book My Provence (Alta Editions) with Michelin three-star chef Laurent Gras, which won the IACP’s “Judges Choice” award in 2013, and the comprehensive guide to good cooking, Kitchen Sense (Clarkson Potter, 2006). Davis is a regular contributor to food and lifestyle publications, including the Art of Eating. Davis’s T.V. appearances include History Channel’s 101 Fast Foods that Changed the World, Food Network’s Food(ography), Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Best in Smoke. Davis is host of Taste Matters, a weekly radio show (Wednesdays at 11 a.m.) on The Heritage Radio Network. In 2013 The Forward selected Davis as one of the 50 most influential Jews under 50 in America.

Serving his sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Mike Conaway represents 29 counties in Texas’ 11th congressional district, including the cities of Midland, Odessa and San Angelo. A conservative Republican, Rep. Conaway believes in the principles of lower taxes, smaller government and a secure nation. His background as a CPA gives him a unique perspective on fiscal responsibility and ensuring every taxpayer dollar is being spent wisely. In the House, Congressman Conaway is the chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture and also serves on the House Armed Services Committee and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is a deputy Republican whip, a position he has held since the 112th Congress. A native Texan, he grew up in Odessa and graduated from Odessa Permian High School in 1966 after playing on Permian’s first state championship football team. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from Texas A & M University-Commerce in 1970. After serving in the Army at Fort Hood, he returned to the Permian Basin with Price Waterhouse and settled in Midland, later working with George W. Bush as the chief financial officer for Bush Exploration. He developed a lasting friendship with President Bush as they learned together what it takes to run a business. Congressman Conaway and his wife, Suzanne, live in Midland and have four children and seven grandchildren.

Mitchell Davis Executive Vice President, James Beard Foundation @kitchensense mdavis@jamesbeard.org Mitchell Davis is the Exeuctive Vice President of the James Beard Foundation, a cookbook author, a journalist, and a scholar with a Ph.D. in Food Studies from NYU. With the Beard Foundation for more than 22 years, Davis has created and overseen many of the organization’s initiatives, including the JBF Annual Food Conference, a national dialogue of thought leaders on sustainability and public health, and the JBF Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change, an advocacy training program for culinary professionals. In 2013, Davis led the team that was selected by the U.S. Department of State to create the USA Pavilion at the World Expo Milano 2015, for which he served as Chief Creative Officer, receiving commendations from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and First Lady Michelle Obama. Davis frequently writes about and reviews restaurants. He holds a chair on the

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Niaz Dorry Coordinating Director, Nothwest Atlantic Marine Alliance @whofishsmatters @whofishesmatters Niaz Dorry is the coordinating director of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA). She and her dog Hailey live in Gloucester, Massachusetts - the oldest settled fishing port in the U.S. She has been working to advance the rights, economic sustainability and ecological benefits of indigenous and community based fishermen for 22 years. Time Magazine named Niaz as a Hero For The Planet for her work fighting against the industrialization, privatization, and corporate takeover of fisheries. Her work and approach have been noted in a number of books including Against the Tide, Deeper Shade of Green, The Spirit’s Terrain, Vanishing Species, The Great Gulf, Swimming in Circles, A Troublemaker’s Teaparty and The Doryman’s Reflection.

Jeff Dunn President, Campbell Fresh Division @ChiefCarrot A consumer strategist at heart and an evangelist for values-based leadership, Jeff Dunn has led companies to growth through brand and marketing innovation. Jeff is currently President of Campbell Fresh – a division that includes Bolthouse Farms, Campbell’s retail fresh soup as well as Garden Fresh Gourmet salsa and hummus business.

Deb Eschmeyer Executive Director, Let’s Move; Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy at The White House @LetsMove Debra Eschmeyer has dedicated her career to making safe, healthy, delicious food available to all while restoring the connection between food, community, land, and place. Eschmeyer is the Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition. Prior to serving the Obama Administration, she co-founded FoodCorps and WWW.FOODTANKSUMMIT.COM

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Rodney Ferguson President and CEO, Winrock International @rodneyferguson Rodney Ferguson is the President and CEO at Winrock International and helps the organization in its mission to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources. Ferguson worked for 20 years as one of the country’s leading consultants on communications and strategy for the nonprofit sector. Ferguson has worked with other major foundations, service providers, and philanthropic organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Children’s Medical Center. He has worked with dozens of colleges and universities, including the State University of New York (SUNY), Seton Hall University and the American Council on Education (ACE), as well as assisting with international aid and development projects, including projects in Iraq, lovenia, and Qatar.

Pamela Fessenden Director, Office of Market and Partnership Innovations, Bureau for Food Security at USAID pfessenden@usaid.gov Pamela Fessenden is the Director of the Office of Market and Partnership Innovations in USAID’s Bureau for Food Security. Ms. Fessenden is a career Foreign Service Officer who has served overseas in Kenya, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo. Her areas of expertise include agriculture development, food security, and humanitarian aid. Ms. Fessenden was born and raised in New Hampshire and is currently a resident of Washington, DC.

Kimberly Flowers Director, Global Food Security Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) @kimberlytalkag, @csisfood kflowers@csis.org Kimberly Flowers is director of the CSIS Global Food Security Project, which examines and highlights the impact of food security on U.S. strategic global interests. The project evaluates current efforts and provides long-term, strategic guidance to policymakers to ensure that U.S. foreign assistance programs are efficient, effective, and sustainable. Prior to joining CSIS in 2015, Ms. Flowers was the communications director for Fintrac, an international development company focusing on hunger eradication and poverty alleviation through agricultural solutions. From 2005 to 2011, she worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, serving overseas as a development, outreach, and communications officer in Ethiopia and Jamaica, WWW.FOODTANK.COM

supporting public affairs in Haiti directly after the 2010 earthquake, and leading strategic communications for the U.S. government’s global hunger and nutrition initiative, Feed the Future. Ms. Flowers began her international development career in 1999 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria, where she founded a young women’s leadership camp that continues today. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica where she worked in youth development. She is a magna cum laude graduate of William Jewell College, studied at Oxford University, and is an alumna of the Pryor Center for Leadership Development.

Sam Fromartz Editor-in-Chief, Food & Environment Reporting Network @Fromartz @Fromartz Sam Fromartz is a co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Food & Environment Reporting Network. A longtime journalist, his work focuses on the intersection of food, farming, and the environment. He is the author of Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew (Harcourt, 2006), about the evolution of the organic foods industry, and In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker’s Odyssey (Viking, 2014), a memoir about bakers, grains ans bread, which won the IACP award for Literary Food Writing. In the five years as editor of FERN, the investigative news non-profit has won two James Beard journalism awards and one award from IACP. FERN has now published in-depth stories on food and agriculture in partnership with more than 30 print, online and broadcast outlets and works with an expanding roster of freelance journalists. Its policy briefing, FERN’s Ag Insider, reaches thousands of readers daily. We are a proud media sponsor of the Food Tank conference.

April Fulton Contributor, National Geographic @fultonhere, @NatGeoFood @thefoodscribe April Fulton runs National Geographic’s food blog, The Plate. Before that, she helped launch the award-winning food blog at NPR. She’s been a reporter and editor, covering food and health in Washington D.C.for 15 years. When she’s not cooking or eating, she’s writing about cooking or eating. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two kids.

Dan Glickman Vice President, Aspen Institute; Exec. Director, Aspen Institute Congressional Program; Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture @DanRGlickman Dan.Glickman@aspeninst.org Dan Glickman is Vice President of the Aspen Institute and Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Congressional Program which is a non-partisan public policy education and civility building program for members of the United States Congress. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington,

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS D.C. Mr. Glickman served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from March 1995 until January 2001. Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 4th Congressional District of Kansas. During that time, he was a member of the House Agriculture Committee, the House Judiciary Committee; chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and was a leading congressional expert on general aviation policy. Mr. Glickman served as Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) from 2004 until 2010. Prior to joining the MPAA, he was the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2002-2004). Before his election to Congress in 1976, Mr. Glickman served as president of the Wichita, Kansas School Board; was a partner in the law firm of Sargent, Klenda and Glickman; and worked as a trial attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He received his Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from The George Washington University. He is a member of the Kansas and District of Columbia bar associations. Mr. Glickman is also on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Communities in Schools; chairman of the Food Research and Action Center, a domestic anti-hunger organization; member of the National 4-H Council; and Chair of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. He co-chairs “AGree”, an initiative of eight foundations, administered by the Meridian Institute, to look at long-term implications of food and agricultural policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Council on American Politics at The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University; World Food Program-USA. He is the cochair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ global agricultural development initiative. He is also on the International Advisory Board of APCO Associates. He was recently appointed by Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack as Chair of the newly created Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.

Eileen Gordon Founder, Barnraiser @EileenGordon11, @barnraiser @barnraiser.us Eileen Gordon Chiarello is the founder of Barnraiser, a fast-growing community that makes it easy for anyone to discover, share, fund and buy from the people and brands who are shaping how we farm, eat and live. She and her husband, Chef & TV host Michael Chiarello, are proprietors of Chiarello Vineyards sustainably farmed vineyards in Napa Valley - Bottega & Coqueta restaurants, Emmy-winning TV shows and food products that inspire the celebration of everyday rituals around the table. Her passion for story, legacy and sustainability led her to create Dirt-to-Dine Adventure Camps for kids at Connolly Ranch before launching Barnraiser in 2014. Barnraiser was named to the Rodale 100 for innovation in healthy & wellness, and has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Conscious Company, Food & Wine, Sunset, National Geographic, Civil Eats and more. Follow us fb/barnraiserus.

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Roger Gordon Founder, Food Cowboy roger@foodcowboy.com Roger Gordon, JD, MBA, is an experienced entrepreneur who has been involved in numerous ventures that overlap the public and private sectors. In 2014, Fast Company named him to its list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. He has worked as a management consultant in London and Sydney and is the founder of the company that broke the bank monopoly on operating ATMs in the United Kingdom. Roger has served on Human Rights Watch’s California Committee North and on the boards of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of San Francisco and the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners. He holds an MBA from Kellogg and a law degree from Georgetown. While in law school, he clerked for future White House Domestic Policy Advisor Melody Barnes at the Center for American Progress, the House Judiciary Committee and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Danielle Gould Founder and CEO, Food + Tech Connect @dhgisme, @foodtechconnect @dhgisme, @foodtechconnect Danielle Gould is the Founder & CEO of Food+Tech Connect, the site of record and world’s largest community for food tech and innovation. Since 2010, Danielle has been the leading voice for harnessing technology, innovation and new business models to create a better food future. From her in-depth interviews with startups to her events, online business courses and consulting, she helps companies understand and capitalize on emerging business, tech and investment trends. Named one of The Most Innovative Women in Food & Wine by Fortune and Food & Wine Magazines, Danielle is a founding member of theCulinary Institute of America’s Business Leadership Council, a member of the Google Innovation Lab for Food Experiences and a mentor for Accel Foods & Food-X. She is also a contributor to Forbes and The Huffington Post on trends in the food and ag-tech industries.

Dana Gunders Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council @dgunders, @NRDC, @NRDCFood @dana.gunders Dana Gunders is a Senior Scientist focused on Food and Agriculture at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she leads the organization’s work on reducing food waste, with a focus on advancing market and policy initiatives to promote sustainability. She recently published her first book, the Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook (September 2015; Chronicle Books), which offers a consumer guide to reducing wasted food from the grocery store to the kitchen. She is also behind two widely cited NRDC reports on food waste, as the author of Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill (August 2012) and co-author of The Dating Game: How Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Food Waste in America (September 2013). Dana has been featured by WWW.FOODTANKSUMMIT.COM

SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS countless media outlets, including a guest appearance on The Dr. Oz Show, as well as Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, CNN, NBC, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, Consumer Reports, Cooking Light, and many others. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Dream Hampton Senior Fellow, MomsRising.org. Filmmaker and writer @dreamhampton, @momsrising A 2014 Film/Theatre Kresge Fellow, Dream Hampton’s film credits include:

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Director: “Treasure: From Tragedy to Transjustice, Mapping a Detroit Story”/ Director: “Black August (2010)”/ Director: “I AM ALI” (2003)/ Co-Executive Producer: “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty”/ Writer and Co-Producer: “BET Black Girls Rock (2010-2016)”/ Writer: “BET Honors Awards” (2010-2016)/ Associate Producer: “The Russian Winter” (2012)/ and Co-Producer: “Behind the Music: Notorious B.I.G.” (1999, Emmy). She directed the music video “QueenS” for TheeSatisfaction which NPR named one of the most stylish music videos of 2012. Hampton has written about music, culture and politics since 1990. She was a contributor to Vibe magazine for its first 15 years. Her articles have been published in The Village Voice, Spin, The Detroit News, Harper’s Bazaar, NPR, The Source, Essence, and Ebony. Hampton’s essays have also been included in more than a dozen anthologies, including “Born To Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic”

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS and “Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness” Hampton collaborated with Jay-Z on the New York Times bestselling book, “Decoded”. Hampton was the 2015 Visiting Artist at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts where she taught “From Moments to Movements” a course on 21st century activism, new media and new narratives. She is a consultant at MomsRising, and a board member for the National Civil Rights Organization Color of Change. hampton serves on the boards of Young Nation, Detroit Summer and Write A House, all in her hometown, Detroit, MI. Hampton and Mike de la Rocha are partnered in a social impact agency, Revolve Impact, where they co-direct John Legend’s #FREEAMERICA campaign to end mass incarceration.

Diane Hatz Founder and Executive Director, Change Food @dianehatz, @changeourfood @dianehatz, @changeourfood Diane Hatz is a marketing innovator who raises public awareness about food and farming while activating individuals to create change. As Founder/Executive Director of Change Food, she develops creative projects and motivates people to take actions to change the food system. She is currently organizing the Change Food Fest, a three-day event in NYC November 2016 and has just launched the Change Food Video Library. Diane also founded and organized TEDxManhattan “Changing the Way We Eat” from 2010 - 2015. Diane also worked at the GRACE Communications Foundation for 12 years, where she founded Sustainable Table; produced The Meatrix movies, and founded the Eat Well Guide.

Wenonah Hauter Founder and Executive Director, Food & Water Watch @wenonahhauter @wenonahhauter Wenonah Hauter is the founder and Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on food, water, energy and environmental issues at the national, state and local level. Her book Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America examines the corporate consolidation and control over our food system and what it means for farmers and consumers. Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is also a skilled and accomplished organizer, having lobbied and developed grassroots field strategy and action plans. Her book Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment is coming out June 2016. From 1997 to 2005 she served as Director of Public Citizen’s Energy and Environment Program, which focused on water, food and energy policy. From 1996 to 1997, she was environmental policy director for Citizen Action, where she worked with the organization’s 30 state-based groups. From 1989 to 1995 she was at the Union of Concerned Scientists where, as a senior organizer, she coordinated broad-based, grassroots sustainable energy campaigns in several states. She has an M.S. in applied anthropology from the University of Maryland.

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Dr. Cullen Hendrix Assistant Professor, University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies @cullenhendrix Cullen.Hendrix@du.edu Dr. Cullen Hendrix is Associate Professor at the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy at the Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Senior Research Advisor at the Center for Climate & Security. At the Korbel School, he directs the Environment, Food and Conflict (ENFOCO) Lab, which leverages collaborations between physical and social scientists and policymakers to produce scholarship and analysis on issues at the intersection of the environment, food security, and conflict. His research on the links between food insecurity, conflict and peacebuilding has been supported by the National Science Foundation’s Coupled Natural and Human Systems program and the US Department of Defense Minerva Initiative, and he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He holds a PhD and MA from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a fellow of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and a BA from Kalamazoo College.

Devin Henry Energy and Environment Reporter, The Hill @dhenry dhenry@thehill.com Devin Henry has covered energy and environment policy and politics for The Hill since April of 2015. He came to The Hill from MinnPost, where he covered the Minnesota congressional delegation in Washington starting in 2011. He previously reported for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal. Devin is a native Minnesotan, and attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where he received degrees in journalism and political science. He also edited the Minnesota Daily newspaper.

Lauren Herzer Risi Senior Program Manager, Environmental Change and Security Program, Wilson Center @LaurenHerzer, @NewSecurityBeat Lauren.Herzer@wilsoncenter.org Lauren Herzer Risi is a senior program manager in the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center. She leads the program’s activities on climate change, natural resources, conflict, and peacebuilding. She has co-edited multiple reports on these topics, including Harvesting Peace: Food Security, Conflict, and Cooperation and Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation. Prior to the Wilson Center, Lauren completed a Master’s degree in Environmental Security and Peace at the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica and worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria. Lauren also served as a Crisis Corps volunteer with the Peace Corps and FEMA in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. She has a BA in History from UCLA.

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Jason Huffman Agriculture and Trade Editor, POLITICO Pro @JsonHuffman jhuffman@politico.com

Dan Kish Senior Vice President - Food, Panera Bread @panerabread Jonathan.Yohannan@panerabread.com

Jason Huffman has served as the editor of POLITICO’s Pro Agriculture and Pro Trade since they launched in October 2013, working with Deputy Editor Matthew Korade to manage a staff of seven brilliant journalists. Previously he served five years as the editor of Food Chemical News, where he learned to love reporting, writing and editing articles about food policy. Huffman’s nearly 30year journalism career has also included stints covering home health care, bank regulation, telecom, criminal courts, local governments and sports.

Dan Kish brings over 25 years of culinary experience to Panera Bread. Kish came to Panera in 2005 as the Director of Product Development. In 2007, Kish was promoted to Vice President, Food, and now serves as Senior Vice President, Food. In this role, he is responsible for development and innovation of the Panera Bread cafe menu including sandwiches, salads, soups, and beverages.

He grew up in a rural part of Pennsylvania, not far from the Maryland line, working summers for his grandfather and uncles in their respective hay, straw and fertilizer businesses. He credits his dread for that work as encouraging him to graduate from his alma mater, Lycoming College. Huffman is married and has two wonderful children, a well-intentioned dog and a table food-stealing cat.

Allan Jury VP of Public Policy and Senior Advisor, World Food Program (WFP) USA @WFPUSA ajury@wfpusa.org Allan Jury joined the World Food Program USA in April, 2013, initially as a Senior Advisor. He assumed the post of Vice President of Public Policy in September 2015. World Food Program USA is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that supports the mission of the UN World Food Programme through policy advocacy, communications, and private sector fundraising in the U.S. Prior to joining WFP USA, Mr. Jury served twelve years as a Senior Manager with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). His positions at WFP included Director of the Washington DC Office; Director of External Relations; and Chief of the Policy Service. His tenure at WFP followed a twenty-five year Foreign Service career with the U.S. Department of State that included several leadership positions in humanitarian and refugee affairs in Washington D.C. and internationally.

Eric Kessler Founder, Principal, and Senior Managing Director, Arabella Advisors @Eric_Kessler Eric@arabellaadvisors.com As founder and a senior managing director of Arabella Advisors, Eric Kessler built a social venture firm dedicated to making philanthropy more effective. Now Eric is leading Arabella’s Good Food practice - dedicated to supporting philanthropists and impact investors who are working to achieve solutions to one of the great challenges of our time: transforming our food system to make delicious, nutritious, sustainably produced food accessible for all. Eric also serves on the Executive Committee of the James Beard Foundation, founded the Chef Action Network, and served as judge for the 2016 Good Food Awards.

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Previous to his time with Panera, Kish served as an Associate Dean for Culinary Fundamentals at the Culinary Institute of America. Kish also served as a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Kish’s lifelong curiosity and love of food led him to study at the Culinary Institute of America, where he graduated with honors. He has edited thousands of recipes and has appeared on Good Morning America and Food Network as well as in publications, including The New York Times, Cooking Light and Martha Stewart Living.

Ashley Koff RD Dietitian and Creator of The Better Nutrition Simplified Program @ashleykoff @ashleykoffapproved Ashley Koff RD knows the key to resolving our national health crisis is to empower individuals to achieve better health from better nutrition. Koff created The Better Nutrition, Simplified Program, which provides resources including her one page Nutrition Plan, Recipes, Nutrition lessons and tips and her award winning blogs to get Better Nutrition for Better Health. As one of the leading go to nutrition experts, Koff shares her message with millions, regularly, as a go-to expert for the country’s leading media outlets has authored two books and speaks frequently on the topic of better quality choices for better health.

Dr. Carlo Leifert Head of Unit, Nafferton Ecological Farming Group; Professor of Ecological Agriculture, University of Newcastle carlo.leifert@newcastle.ac.uk Carlo has been Research Development Professor of Ecological Agriculture at Newcastle since 2000 and Director of the Stockbridge Technology Centre Ltd (STC) since 2001. He leads the Nafferton Ecological Farming Group (NEFG) and currently manages R&D projects focused on: applied agronomic R&D to improve quality and safety and reduce costs in sustainable and organic food production systems; interactions between food production methods and food quality (especially nutritional and sensory quality) and safety characteristics and; the selection/breeding of crop and livestock varieties suitable for “low input” and organic production systems. He is a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural science and a member of the academic advisory board of the Thünen Institute (the German Federal Research Institute for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries). WWW.FOODTANKSUMMIT.COM

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Between 1999 and 2009 Carlo was a member of TESCO’s Food quality and Safety expert panel and advisory board of Nature’s choice. Prior to his appointment at Newcastle University he worked as a research manager in a plant biotechnology/ breeding company (Neo Plants Ltd. 1986-1990), as technical director of a vegetable production and processing firm (Howegarden Ltd.; 1996-1999) and as a research fellow/lecturer at Manchester (1990-1993) and lecturer/SL at Aberdeen University (1993-2000).

Jeremiah Lowery Political Appointee, D.C. Food Policy Council @jeremiahlowery1 jeremiahalowery@gmail.com Jeremiah Lowery is a Washington, D.C. native and a 2008 graduate of the University of Maryland. He is a labor activist and has worked on issues ranging from workers’ rights to food justice. Jeremiah has worked with and organized low-income residents in the Washington, D.C. area on the issues of political empowerment, sustainability, and organizing. He hosted the “Heal DC” radio show on WPFW 89.3 FM Pacifica Radio, a radio show that focused on labor and environmental issues. Also, Jeremiah was the Research and Policy Coordinator at Restaurant Opportunities Center -DC (ROC-DC). The mission of ROC-DC is to improve wages and working conditions for Washington, D.C.’s restaurant workforce. Currently, he is a political appointee to the first DC Governmental food policy Council, board member of the Sierra Club-DC Chapter, and organizer for the Universal ChildCare for All Coalition.

Evan Lutz Co-Founder and CEO, Hungry Harvest @evanlutz92, @HungryHarvest @HungryHarvest Evan is an enthusiastic entrepreneur with a passion towards business, food justice, and the Baltimore Ravens. He graduated from the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business in 2014 and is an active member of the Smith School’s Baltimore Alumni Club. Evan loves to listen to TED talks, discuss astrophysics, and is not afraid to roll up his sleeves and get down and dirty for the toughest tasks. His passion for photography, traveling, and adventure has taken him to 37 states and 19 countries on 4 continents - most recently Thailand, Vietnam, and Iceland.

Riana Lynn Founder and CEO, FoodTrace @rianalynn riana@thefoodtrace.com Riana Lynn is a young leader in food+health entrepreneurship with a passion for technology, access, and “good food.” From her grandmother’s garden to the White House South Lawn, to founding high-growth food businesses and consulting firms, and travel throughout the local and international agricultural pipelines she was inspired to develop innovative supply chain management tools WWW.FOODTANK.COM

and create FoodTrace. A food technology platform, FoodTrace is paving the way with software solutions to help our food businesses thrive and grow. Her work has been featured on CNBC’s top show, “The Profit,” while growing several business acquisitions. Her story and accomplishments have been featured in USA Today, Wired Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Crain’s”20 in their 20s”, and other local and national publications. She graduated with a B.S. in Biology with a focus in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught herself how to code and was a top-ranked performer in Discus and Javelin before pursuing a Masters at Northwestern University. While getting her hands dirty in the White House Kitchen Garden, her work included major policy initiatives such as Small Business and Jobs, STEM, and Public Health. Riana currently serves as the Google – Code 2040 Entrepreneur in Residence. A native of the Chicago area, Riana is a techie, a restaurant enthusiast, a world traveler, and an innovative fruit connoisseur!

Spike Mendelsohn Chef & DC Food Policy Council Chair @chefspike, @DCFoodPolicy @spikethechef Spike Mendelsohn is a chef, philanthropist and television personality based in Washington, D.C. Spike graduated with honors from the Culinary Institute of America and is an alumnus of the Chef Action Network. As a celebrity chef, Spike has appeared on international media outlets, including Bravo TV’s Top Chef, the Food Network’s Iron Chef America and The Rachael Ray Show. Spike is known for his restaurants Good Stuff Eatery, Bearnaise and We, The Pizza in D.C. and Sunny’s in Miami. Currently, Spike serves as the Chairman of the D.C. Food Policy Council, Chef Ambassador to CARE International and Chef Contributor to DC Central Kitchen.

Johanna Mendelsohn Forman Scholar in Residence, School of International Service, American University @johannawonk, @conflictcuisine johanna@jmendelsonforman.com Johanna Mendelson Forman is an Adjunct Professor at American University’s School of International Service where she teaches Conflict Cuisine®. An expert on post-conflict transition and democratization issues, she has regional expertise in the Americas, with a special focus on the Caribbean, Central America, and Brazil. She also has had extensive field experience in the U.S. government, the United Nations, and the World Bank on transition initiatives in Haiti, Iraq, and Sub-Saharan Africa. She has appeared frequently in the media on National Public Radio, CNN, and Univision. Her writing about food and conflict, and topics related to Latin America appear in many journals including the Americas Quarterly and World Politics Review, and has been cited in NPR’s The Salt, LeFigaro, Salon, and Italia Oggi, and This Week. Mendelson Forman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Dr. Kathleen Merrigan Executive Director of Sustainability, George Washington University @katmerrigan kmerrigan@email.gwu.edu Kathleen Merrigan isExecutive Director of Sustainability at the George Washington University, where she leads the GW Sustainability Collaborative and serves as Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Food Institute. Concurrently, Merrigan serves as Co-Chair for AGree, a multi-year consensus-building project of the Meridian Institute to transform food and agricultural policy. Other activities include: Board Director for the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and Food Corps, member of the Harvard Pilgrim Healthy Food Fund Advisory Committee, Senior Advisor at the Kendall Foundation, Executive Board member of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors of the National Council for Science and steering committee member of the Environment and the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture, a global initiative of the United Nations Environment Program. From 2009-2013, Merrigan was U.S. Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a $150 billion, 110,000 employee institution. As Deputy Secretary, Merrigan created and led the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative to support local food systems; was a key architect of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign; and made history as the first woman to chair the Ministerial Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Before joining the USDA, Merrigan held a variety of agriculture policy positions, including faculty member at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Administrator

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of the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, and senior staff on the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, where she wrote the law establishing national standards for organic food. Recognizing the history and scope of her work, Time Magazine named Merrigan among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.Other food-related awards include: James Beard Foundation Leadership Award, 2012; Rodale Organic Pioneer Award, 2012; Steward of Sustainable Agriculture Sustie͟Award, 2010; and Organic Trade Association Leadership Award, 2000. Merrigan holds a Ph.D. in environmental planning and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas, and a B.A. from Williams College.

Alexander Müller Study Leader and Steering Committee Chair, TEEBAgFood @ajm55 alexander.mueller@outlook.com Alexander Müller was born on 05.05.1955 in Germany and he received a diploma in sociology at the Philipps-University in Marburg in 1985. He was elected as city councilor in Marburg (1985 -1992) with the responsibility for social and environmental affairs and was chair of the board of the municipal utilities (electricity, natural gas, water and public transport). In this function he was member of the board of a regional water supply utility and an association of regional electricity suppliers.

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS From 1992 to 1995 he was appointed as state secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Family Affairs and Health in the State of Hessen. From 1995 to 2000 he was member of the Parliament of Hessen and served inter alia as chair of the caucus and member of the budget committee. From 2001 to 2005 he was State Secretary in the Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 2006 until June 2013 he served as Assistant-Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and was responsible for the Department for Natural Resources and Environment incl. FAO’s work on Land and Water, Climate Change, Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the relations to CGIAR. During this time his department was chairing UN Water for three years and UN Energy for two years. The Secretary-General of the UN nominated him as a member of the Advisory Group onEnergy and Climate Change (AGECC) in June 2009 to advise him on the energy-related dimensions of the climate change negotiations. From 2008 to 2011 he was chair of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) Mai 2013 until Oct. 2015 he was Senior Fellow in the cluster Global Contract for Sustainability of the IASS working on governance of sustainability, with a focus on soils and its role in the Nexus of Water, Food and Energy, and on the German Energiewende. He also served for an interim period as Secretary General of the IASS. Since 2014 he is appointed as study leader of the UNEP project The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Agriculture and Food͟ (TEEBAgFood).

George Naylor Family Farmer; Former President, National Family Farm Coalition jennifer@farmaid.org George Naylor has raised corn and soybeans on his family farm near Churdan, Iowa, since 1976, choosing to never raise GMO crops. He graduated from California’s first land grant university, the University of California at Berkeley and has always been involved in various organizations supporting a family farm system of agriculture. He is a member of the boards of the Center for Food Safety and the Non-GMO Project, past president of the National Family Farm Coalition, a former member of the board of the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club, and is active in Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. In 1999 he was a lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Monsanto representing conventional and organic farmers who had never raised GMO’s. He is still opposing the introduction of genetically modified crops, while encouraging farmers and food processors to go non-GMO. Agroecological farming and Food Sovereignty, concepts promoted by the international farmer and peasant movement, La Via Campesina, are two of George’s passions. George, together with his partner, Patti Edwardson, is transitioning 90 acres to organic and planting an organic cider apple orchard as new projects on the Naylor Farm.

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Regina Northouse Executive Director, Food Recovery Network @ReginaDM, @FoodRecovery @ReginaDM, @FoodRecovery For over a decade, Regina has worked in the nonprofit sector, committed to social justice issues. At the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in Pittsburgh, she worked with employers in all sectors to establish internship programs and to match talented individuals with those opportunities. Regina believes that people are the engines of positive change, and worked at Independent Sector and LIFT in Washington, DC to raise awareness of the nonprofitsector’s abilities to solve our society’s most complex issues, as well as to support individuals in their abilities to manage toward success. Regina recently joined the FRN team and is committed to supporting colleges and businesses in working collaboratively with their communities to feed families. Regina graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Master’s in Literary and Cultural Studies and hails from the great state of Maine.

Ari Novy Executive Director, U.S. Botanic Garden @arinovy anovy@aoc.gov Dr. Ari Novy joined the U.S. Botanic Garden in 2012 and was appointed Executive Director in 2014. In this role, he leads the Garden’s efforts to demonstrate the aesthetic, cultural, economic, therapeutic and ecological importance of plants to the well-being of humankind. This includes overseeing a staff of approximately 65 employees who work to maintain the Garden’s facilities, steward its plant collections and facilitate visitor services and education. In addition, Dr. Novy oversees various innovative partnerships that seek to make plant science and horticulture relevant and accessible including the Garden’s highly regarded Landscape for Life and Sustainable SITES programs. Dr. Novy is a plant biologist with a wide range of expertise in plant science and education. He has worked on multiple task forces and advisory panels for diverse groups including the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the Pollinator Partnership, and the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization.

Amanda Oborne Director of Food and Farms, Ecotrust @aoborne, @Ecotrust @aoborne, @Ecotrust As Vice President of Food & Farms at Ecotrust, Amanda leads a team seeking to revolutionize and re-regionalize our food system. By harnessing the purchasing power of schools and institutions, empowering local farmers and ranchers, and developing infrastructure to connect the two, Ecotrust is helping build a resilient regional food economy that nourishes communities and renews the resources on which we depend. Key projects include the Redd on Salmon Street (@reddonsalmon), the NW Food Buyers’Alliance (@nwfoodbuyers), and FoodHub (@food_hub). WWW.FOODTANK.COM

Amanda has a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications from Northwestern University, and spent 15 years in private enterprise before joining Ecotrust in 2010.

Raymond Offenheiser President, Oxfam America @roffenheiser, @OxfamAmerica MPolicelli@oxfamamerica.org Raymond C. Offenheiser is President of Oxfam America, a non-profit international development and relief agency and the U.S. affiliate of the Oxfam International confederation. Oxfam works to end global poverty through saving lives, strengthening communities and campaigning for change. Since Ray joined Boston-based Oxfam America in 1995, the organization has grown more than sevenfold and become a leader in the US on a broad array of public policy issues from international development, to human rights and environment. Ray has worked his entire career in the nonprofit sector: before joining Oxfam America, he served for five years as the Ford Foundation Representative in Bangladesh and, prior to that, in the Andean and Southern Cone regions of South America. He has also directed programs for the Inter-American Foundation in both Brazil and Colombia and worked for Save the Children Federation in Mexico. He serves and has served on numerous boards and advisory bodies for a diverse array of both national and international institutions. Ray holds a master’s degree in development sociology from Cornell University and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame. He speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese.

Shephard Ogden Farmer; Founder and President, The Cook’s Garden shepogden@gmail.com Shepherd Ogden is perhaps best known as founder and president of The Cook’s Garden, a mail order seed and supply house in Londonderry, Vermont that he started in 1983 From 2011 to 2014 he served as Agricultural Development Officer for Jefferson County, West Virginia, at the head of the Shenandoah Valley and was on the board of the Charles Town Farmers Market there. He is an author, farmer, and editor, the author of more than 50 magazine articles on all aspects of horticulture, agriculture and the environment. And he was a recipient of the American Horticultural Society’s GB Gunlogson Award for “extraordinary and dedicated efforts in the field of horticulture” and has received numerous book and magazine writing awards.

Patrick O’Neill CEO, Amp Your Good LLC @PONeill1982, @ampyourgood @ampyourgood Patrick O’Neill is the CEO and Founder of Amp Your Good. Amp’s pioneering Crowd-feeding platform uses a data driven approach that enables people and organizations to Amplify their impact in the fight against hunger by raising

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healthy food - via online food drives. Amp’s vision is to turn the billions of canned goods donated to food drives each year into billions of apples, carrots, bananas, sweet potatoes, fresh greens, whole meals and other healthy food items. Patrick graduated from West Point. After his active duty service in the US Army, he began a private sector career focusing upon real estate, energy, technology and social enterprise. He has founded, co-founded and led several companies and has served on the Boards of for profit, not for profit, public and private companies. Amp Your Good combines Patrick’s passion for disruptive technology, health and for making a difference in the lives of others. He is married and has four children. He enjoys skiing, science fiction, youth sports and cooking.

Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos Journalist @FabiolaOrtizRio, @FabiolaOrtizRio Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos is a Brazilian IPS - Inter Press Service contributor since 2011. As an independent journalist reporting in Portuguese, Spanish and English about Global South, sustainable development and human rights, she also contributes to IDN InDepthNews.info, SciDev.Net, Portuguese news agency LUSA, and Brazilian media websites including O ECO, UOL-Universo Online and Folha de São Paulo.

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She is also currently completing an Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship, a collaborative journalism project promoted by Discourse Media with the Waterloo Global Science Initiative that investigates the drivers of energy poverty around the world and potential solutions. Was twice finalist of journalism awards for reports on sustainable development in Brazil. She was a contributor to the 2014 book “Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements” edited by Marcy Rein and Clifton Ross.

Raj Patel Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs; Author; Activist @_RajPatel rajeevcpatel@gmail.com

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Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and a Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at the university currently known as Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa. He has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, has worked for the World Bank and WTO, and protested against them around the world. He has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and continues to be a fellow at The Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First. Raj co-taught the 2014 Edible Education class at UC Berkeley with Michael Pollan. He was also an IATP Food and Community Fellow from 2011-2013. He has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US House Financial Services Committee and was an Advisor to Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS In addition to numerous scholarly publications in economics, philosophy, politics and public health journals, he regularly writes for The Guardian, and has contributed to the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Times of India, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Mail on Sunday, and The Observer. His first book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and his latest, The Value of Nothing, is a New York Times best-seller. He can be heard co-hosting the fortnightly food politics podcast The Secret Ingredient with Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott, and KUT’s Rebecca McInroy. He is currently working on a ground-breaking documentary project about the global food system with award-winning director Steve James. He’s also completing a book on world ecology with Jason W Moore for the University of California Press entitled Seven Cheap Things.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree U.S. House of Representatives, (D) Maine PingreeSchedule@mail.house.gov In the 1970s, with a degree in human ecology from the College of the Atlantic, Chellie Pingree started an organic farm on the island of North Haven, Maine. Selling produce to summer residents and raising sheep for wool turned into a thriving mail order knitting business that eventually employed ten people in her small community.

She also sits on the Board of Ecojustice - Canada’s only national environmental law charity with a 25-year track record of winning legal victories for people and the planet. She brings nearly twenty years of experience in the philanthropic sector to her role at the Global Alliance, and of particular relevance to this undertaking, has extensive experience starting new and complex things. These include being the first Director of the Unilever Canada Foundation, Founding Chair of the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network, and the first Environment Director at the Metcalf Foundation providing a cornerstone to the Ontario sustainable food systems community. Her tenure at the Metcalf Foundation also included acting on the Advisory Committee of the City of Toronto, Board of Health, Toronto Food Strategy to develop an action plan to improve the food system of the Toronto city region. Ruth also served as the lead consultant to establish The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and has worked with private-public partnerships on sustainability issues and cross-border collaborations, such as coastal fisheries management. She sat on the founding advisory committee of the Laidlaw Foundation’s Children and Environmental Health program helping to initiate a key program on toxics reduction in Canada and she was the Founder and past-Chair of Small Change Fund, a web-based vehicle for micro-philanthropy in Canada. Ruth has lived in Europe, worked on an agricultural kibbutz, and has traveled widely in Africa and the Middle East. She and her husband own a small farm just east of Toronto, ON, where they have been known to run a small organic garlic operation and she writes her own food blog.

Chellie is still a small business owner today. In her home town on the island of North Haven, Maine, she owns Nebo Lodge and Restaurant and Turner Farm--a diversified organic farm that provides produce, meat and cheese to Nebo Lodge and is sold at a farm stand and the local farmers market. In Congress, Chellie introduced the the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act—a comprehensive package of reforms to agriculture policy that will expand opportunities for local and regional farmers and make it easier for consumers to have access to healthy foods. Many of the provisions of Chellie’s bill were included in the Farm Bill, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. In December, 2015, Chellie introduced the Food Recovery Act, a comprehensive package of proposals aimed at reducing food waste, including a provision to standardize and improve date labeling.

Ruth Richardson Executive Director, Global Alliance for the Future of Food; Open Blue Consulting ruth@openblue.ca Ruth Richardson is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, a unique coalition of foundations committed to leveraging their resources to help shift food and agriculture systems towards greater sustainability, security, and equity. In this capacity Ruth serves on the Steering Committee of TEEB for Food and Agriculture led by UNEP, and on the Advisory Committee of the Global Urban Food Policy Pact.

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Stephen Ritz Founder, Green Bronx Machine @greenBXmachine @greenbronxmachine Stephen Ritz is South Bronx educator / administrator who believes that students shouldn’t have to leave their community to live, learn, and earn in a better one. Moving generations of students into spheres of personal and academic successes which they had never imagined — while reclaiming and rebuilding the Bronx —Stephen’s extended student and community family have grown more than 35,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance. In 2015, Stephen was named a Top 10 Finalist for the prestigious $1m Global Teacher Prize. Stephen helped earn his school the first ever Citywide Award of Excellence from the NYC Strategic Alliance for Health and directly attributes these results to growing vegetables in school. The National Association of Secondary School Principals cited Stephen’s work and Green Bronx Machine as one of five national exemplars of service learning. In 2014, Stephen’s fourth and fifth grade students accepted a personal invitation from White House by Chef William Yosses to visit the White House and exchange ideas about food literacy. Stephen’s Bronx classroom featured the first indoor edible wall in NYC DOE, which routinely generated enough produce to provide healthy meals to 450 students while training the youngest nationally certified workforce in America. His studentshave embarked on growing projects from Boston to Rockefeller Center to the Hamptons and beyond—all while earningliving wages en route to graduation.

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Affectionately known as “America’s Favorite Teacher,”Stephen has moved attendance from 40% to 93% daily, helped provide 2,200 youth jobs in the Bronx and captured the United States EPA Award for transforming mindsets and landscapes in NYC. A strong advocate for Project Based Learning, Stephen is an annual presenter for the Buck Institute and works with school districts and universities across the country. American Teacher: Heroes in the Classroom identified and featured Stephen as one of the top fifty teachers in America. Stephen’s 2008 speech at Columbia University, entitled “From Crack to Cucumbers,” along with the release of aYouTube Video, “Urban Farming NYC,” resulted in a national following, including an invitation to the White House Garden. Dubbed the Pied Piper of Peas by Lorna Sass, Stephen launched Green Bronx Machine to a national audience and was selected as a national Green Apple Education Ambassador for the US Green Building Council and Center for Green Schools. Currently, Stephen is working on embedding the concepts of sustainability, food, energy and environmental justice aligned to content area instruction into K-12 programming and beyond; having recently completed the first ever independently financed National Health, Wellness and Learning Center in a 100+ year old reclaimed school library in the South Bronx at Community School 55. Green Bronx Machine celebrated a 2014 Best of Green Schools Award — one of only ten recipients across the United States.

Nancy E. Roman President and CEO, Capital Area Food Bank @nancyroman1, @foodbankmetrodc, @cafb_es @capitalareafoodbank Roman leads the Capital Area Food Bank, a $58 million non-profit organization that provides food to people in the Washington DC region. Prior to CAFB, Roman was a diplomat with the UN World Food Programme, which provides food to 100 million people in 75 countries. Roman has also served as VP of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC and President of the G7 Group, a consulting firm that advised Wall Street. Roman also spent 10 years as a journalist. She came to Washington in 1988 as press secretary and foreign affairs adviser for the late U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw, Jr. (R-FL). She holds a Master degree in International Economics and American Foreign Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and French from Baylor University. Roman is married to Steven Cohen and has two children, Daniel and Taylor.

Sara Roversi Co-Founder, You Can Group, Future Food Institute; Executive Director, Food Innovation Program @saroversi, @FfoodInstitute, @YouCanGroup, @FoodInPro @saroversi

opportunities for prototyping innovative farming solutions and the Future Food Accelerator that provides support to entrepreneurial potentials in launching new food ventures. Sara is the Executive Director of the Food Innovation Program, the international Master’s program that aims to inspire and shape a new generation of entrepreneurs and innovators in the global food chain. She is a member of the Italian delegation of the Young Entrepreneurs of Confindustria G20 YEA and B20 Task Force.

Rodney Scruggs Executive Chef, Occidental Grill @Chef_RJScruggs, @OccidentalGrill @occidentalgrilldc Rodney Scruggs began his culinary career in Washington almost 30 years ago. As the Executive Chef of Occidental Grill & Seafood, Scruggs creates innovative menus while balancing the demand for traditional favorites in a DC institution that is almost 110 years old. Chef Scruggs values fresh and local ingredients, and spends countless hours sourcing produce and proteins, producing delicious dishes -twists on the classics. His menus list the farms he favors, as he considersthis important information to share with hisdiners. His quest for excellence earned Scruggs recognition by the American Lamb Board for his award-winning Lamb Dagwood Sandwichin 2014. Scruggs won “crowd-favorite” at that year’s national competition for his take on thesub sandwich made of finely shaved lamb, Caromont Farms goat cheese, local strawberry preserves and Heartland Farms arugula. Scruggs can be seen at charity fundraisers and events throughout the year, leveraging his talent and long-standing relationships with the culinary community in DC, to fundraise for organizations like the Capital Area Food Bank and Washington Humane Society.

Simran Sethi Author, Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love @simransethi @simransethi Simran Sethi is a journalist and educator focused on food, sustainability and social change. Named the environmental “messenger” by Vanity Fair, a top 10 eco-hero of the planet by the U.K.’s Independent, and designated one of the top eight women saving the planet by Marie Claire, Simran is the author of Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love, about the story of changes in food and agriculture told through bread, wine, chocolate, coffee and beer. She is an associate at the University of Melbourne’s Sustainable Society Institute in Australia, a contributor for Orion Magazine and a recent visiting scholar at the Cocoa Research Centre in St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Founder of You Can Group, an entrepreneurial ecosystem that, since 2003, has been fueling the creation of new startups mainly in the food and tech sectors as well as supporting business partners in innovation processes. She is the ‎founder of the Future Food Ecosystem born from the Future Food Institute, a non-profit trust with the mission to impact the global and local community through knowledge and education, the cornerstone of innovation. Latest initiatives include the Future Farm project that aims to empower a new generation of farmers by providing

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Greg Sewitz Co-Founder, Exo @GregSewitz, @exo_protein @exoprotein Greg is the co-founder of Exo. He has previously worked at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, assisting in the design of exhibits on climate change and resource depletion. Prior to Exo, he had plans to travel to India to teach neuroscience to Tibetan monks. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Lauren Shweder Biel Executive Director, DC Greens @dc_greens @dc_greens Lauren Shweder Biel is the Executive Director of DC Greens, a local nonprofit that uses the power of partnerships to support food education, food access and food policy in the nation’s capital. Lauren has been working on food access and education in the District since 2009, when she co-founded DC Greens. She currently serves on the D.C. Mayor’s Commission on Healthy Youth and Schools and chairs the Food Action Task Force for the D.C. Department of Health’s Diabesity sub-committee. Lauren received the Exemplary Civic Activism Award from the D.C. Federation of Citizens’ Associations in 2011, and was named a Toyota Mother of Invention at Tina Brown’s 2014 Women in the World Summit.

Rhea Suh President, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) @RheaSuh, @NRDC @nrdc_org Rhea Suh became president of the Natural Resources Defense Council in January 2015, leading the nearly 500 scientists, attorneys, and policy experts that make NRDC one of the country’s most effective environmental action organizations. Before joining NRDC, Suh served as the assistant secretary for policy, management, and budget at the U.S. Department of the Interior. She was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009. Suh led several crosscutting initiatives at the department on federal land conservation, climate adaptation, international affairs, and youth programs. She was instrumental in launching a complex reorganization of the agency responsible for offshore oil and gas oversight in the midst of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. She also led a diversity initiative that included the hiring of the Interior Department’s first chief diversity officer, training sessions, and a network of diversity champions. Prior to her appointment to the Interior Department, Suh worked at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she created and managed a $200 million program dedicated to environmental conservation and clean energy in the West. She developed the foundation’s strategy for reducing climate change emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. She also established the first-ever collaboration among nonprofit groups to coordinate conservation efforts in the entire Colorado River Basin, from the headwaters in Colorado to the delta in Mexico.

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Suh developed similarly far-reaching programs at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she worked from 1998 until 2007. There, she designed the foundation’s highly effective clean energy and climate change initiative and led the effort to create the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the most successful land-protection campaigns in North America. She also launched the New Constituencies portfolio, designed to focus on environmental issues for underserved populations in the United States. Suh earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Barnard College and received a Fulbright Fellowship to research environmental movements in Seoul. She returned to the States and worked as a senior legislative assistant to Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, then earned a master’s degree in education, administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University.

Bill Telepan Chef, Telepan Restaurant; Executive Chef, Wellness in the Schools @billtelepan @billtelepan One of New York’s first and most acclaimed devotees of “greenmarket cooking”, Chef Bill Telepan has schooled at some of the world’s top kitchens. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, he apprenticed with the legendary Alain Chapel at his Three-Star Michelin restaurant outside Lyons. Under Chapel, he honed his culinary skills, and acquired an appreciation for cooking locally and seasonally. On his return to New York in the early 90′s, Bill trained with Daniel Boulud at Le Cirque and Gilbert Le Coze at Le Bernardin. Subsequently, he was hired by Alfred Portale at Gotham Bar & Grill, where he was the executive chef for four years. He moved on to become the executive chef at Ansonia. In 1998, Bill joined JUdson Grill as the restaurant’s Executive Chef. His cuisine helped earn the restaurant a Three-Star review from The New York Times. He remained at JUdson until 2004. That same year, his cookbook Inspired by Ingredients was published by Simon & Schuster. The following year, Bill opened his eponymous Telepan restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The restaurant allows Bill to showcase his simple and balanced approach to cooking and has earned him a loyal following and accolades including a Michelin Star, a glowing twostar review from The New York Times and the title of “Best Newcomer” in the 2007 Zagat survey. Since 2008, Bill has been the Executive Chef of Wellness in the Schools (WITS), a non-profit organization dedicated to making school food healthy. In 2009, Bill was honored with a selection to First Lady Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move to School task force and preliminary conferences. Bill currently lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and daughter.

Roger Thurow Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs @rogerthurow rthurow@thechicagocouncil.org Roger Thurow joined The Chicago Council on Global Affairs as senior fellow for global agricultural development in January 2010 after three decades at The Wall Street Journal. For 20 years, he served as a Journal foreign correspondent, based in Europe and Africa. His coverage of global affairs spanned the Cold War, the reunification of Germany, the release of Nelson Mandela, the end of apartheid, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the humanitarian crises of the first decade of this century – along with 10 Olympic Games. In 2003, he and Journal colleague Scott Kilman wrote a series of stories on famine in Africa that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. Thurow and Kilman are authors of the book, ENOUGH: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. In 2009, they were awarded Action Against Hunger’s Humanitarian Award. In May 2012, Thurow published his second book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change. His new book, The First 1,000 Days, is due to be published in May this year.

Shen Tong Managing Partner, Food Future, Inc.; Founder, FOOD-X @shentong Shen Tong bio Shen Tong is a serial entrepreneur, impact investor with 30+ food innovation investments and other media, and high tech investments. He is founder & managing partner of Food Future, Inc. One of Newsweek’s People of the Year in 1989, Shen Tong was an organizer of the democracy movement in 1989 that occupied Tiananmen Square while he was at Beijing University. After his exile to the US, he finished his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University, and went on to study in PhD programs at Boston University and Harvard University. Mr. Shen became an entrepreneur in the 1990s, founding or co-founding, B&B Media, and VFinity among other ventures in the past two decades, serving on boards and advisory boards including Food Tank, Change Food, Poets & Writers. He founded FOOD-X in 2014, a start-up accelerator and launched 26 food related companies by the end of 2015. Food-X was recognized by Fast Company as one of “The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Food”. Shen is a long time social activist, film buff, avid traveler, foodie, and a published writer and poet.

Baldemar Velásquez President and Founder, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO @baldemarfloc, @SupportFLOCs bvelasq@floc.com The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO, is a union of migrant farmworkers in theeastern United States founded by Baldemar Velásquez. Baldemar is a highly respected national andinternational leader not only in the farm labor movement, but also in the Latino and immigrant rightsmovements.

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS Baldemar was born in 1947, and grew up in a migrant farmworker family based in the Rio Grande valley ofTexas. Every year, the family would migrate to the Midwest and other regions to work in the fieldsplanting, weeding, and harvesting crops like pickles, tomatoes, sugar beets, and berries. They traveled intrucks and old cars, and often lived in barns and converted chicken coops. The family eventually settled inOhio, and Baldemar worked in the fields seasonally through his high school years to help support thefamily. He continued his education and received a BA in Sociology from Bluffton College in 1969, the firstmember of his family to graduate from college. Incensed by the injustices suffered by his family and other farmworkers, Baldemar founded the FarmLabor Organizing Committee (FLOC) in 1967. The basic issue was the right of farmworkers to have theirown voice in the conditions that affect their lives. He began organizing migrant and seasonal farmworkersin Northwest Ohio, living on bare necessities and on occasion being arrested for leafleting in migrant laborcamps. As he struggled for justice for farmworkers, Baldemar realized that it was the agricultural corporations,rather than the growers, who control the conditions which affect farm laborers. The focus of FLOCbecame changing the structure of the agricultural industry through three-way negotiations among themajor parties involved in agricultural production (farmworkers, growers, corporations). In 1978, Baldemar led over 2,000 FLOC workers on strike, the largest in agricultural history of Midwest,who demanded union recognition and a multiparty bargaining agreement. The following year, FLOC heldits first constitutional convention as a labor union, and the workers voted to boycott Campbell Soup in their call for negotiations.

Tom Vilsack US Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) christina.iskandar@osec.usda.gov Tom Vilsack serves as the Nation’s 30th Secretary of Agriculture. As leader of the Department of Agriculture, Vilsack is working to strengthen the agricultural economy, build vibrant rural communities and create new markets for the innovation of rural America. Vilsack has worked to implement the President’s agenda, putting Americans back to work and creating a lasting economy. As chair of White House Rural Council, Vilsack is strengthening services for rural businesses and entrepreneurs. Prior to his appointment, Vilsack served two terms as the Governor of Iowa, in the Iowa State Senate, and as the mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

As an advocate, and former president of the New York City Community Garden Coalition, she stood up and spoke out for garden protection and preservation. As a member of the La Familia Verde Garden Coalition, she helped launched a City Farms Market, bringing fresh vegetables to the community. Karen is a Just Food board member and Just Food Trainer, leading workshops on growing food and food justice across the country. In 2010, she co- founded Black Urban Growers (BUGS) an organization supporting both urban and rural growers. In 2012, Ebony magazine voted her one of their 100 most influential African Americans in the country and in 2014 was the recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award. Since retiring from Physical Therapy in 2014, Karen is Co-owner/Farmer at Rise & Root Farm.

Arlin Wasserman Founder and Partner, Changing Tastes; Chair, Sustainable Business Leadership Council - Culinary Institute of America @arlinwasserman arlin@changingtastes.net Arlin Wasserman is the founder of Changing Tastes, a consultancy that helps it clients find opportunity and realize value at the intersection of the five major drivers of change in our food system: sustainability, public health, information technology, demographics and the changing role of the culinary professional. The firm’s insights are the basis for the strategy, innovation, sustainability and performance management services it provides to Fortune 500 and growth stage food companies, public and private investors, and non-governmental organizations. His firm has helped identify and catalyze some of the most significant shifts in the way business and consumers think about food including working with General Mills to develop one of the first sustainability management programs in the food industry, developing an industry-wide initiative to link organic farming and public health for the Organic Trade Association, developing the strategic plan that underpins the National Farm to School Network, bringing together the foodservice industry around common standards for sustainable seafood, and working with the Culinary Institute of America and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to create and realize Menus of Change. Arlin now chairs of the Sustainable Business Leadership Council for Menus of Change. Arlin also previously served as Vice President of Sustainability at Sodexo, the world’s largest institutional foodservice company, and as the executive champion for culinary and health and wellness efforts in the North American market. He also has been awarded a Food and Society Fellowship by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and a “First Movers” Fellowship for business leadership and innovation by the Aspen Institute. Arlin holds a Masters Degrees in Natural Resources and Public Health, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, all from the University of Michigan.

Karen Washington Urban Farmer and Activist; Co-Founder of Black Urban Growers and Rise & Root Farm @karwasher @karwasher Since 1985 Karen Washington has been a community activist, striving to make the New York City a better place to live. As a community gardener and board member of the New York Botanical Gardens, she worked with Bronx neighborhoods to turn empty lots into community gardens.

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Ben Wenk Seventh Generation Farmer and Partner, Three Springs Farm @3springsfruit @3springsfruit Ben Wenk is a seventh generation farmer at Three Springs Fruit Farm and Agroecology graduate of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. Since returning to the farm in 2007, he’s helped his family operation achieve sustainable certification through the Food Alliance and steered the supply of Three Springs’ fruit toward more local and regional streams. He has a passion for sharing the bounties of agricultural community with the Chesapeake Bay Foodshed.

Paul Willis Founder, Niman Ranch Pork Company @Niman_Ranch @Niman_Ranch Paul Willis is a 5th generation hog farmer who owned and operated the Willis Free Range Pig Farm for over 41 years. Today he works hard to increase opportunities for family farmers across the country while representing the Niman Ranch network. Paul’s involvement in sustainable agriculture began after returning from the Peace Corps in 1975 to start his own farm. When he met Bill Niman 20 years later, the two discovered a shared dedication for raising the highest quality product possible both sustainably and humanely. Their partnership led

to the establishment of the Niman Ranch Pork Company in 1998, which has since grown into a network of over 500 independent family farmers. Besides pioneering the sustainable pork industry, Paul also co-founded Food Democracy Now and currently serves on the board for Global Animal Partnership.

Ulises Zatarain Program Director, Washington Youth Garden @wasyouthgarden uzatarain@fona.org Ulises Zatarain has over 10 years of experience in community development programming and fundraising. He currently works for the Friends of the National Arboretum as Program Director of the Washington Youth Garden. Previously he has held the position of Vice President of Community Programs for The Resurrection Project (2010 - 2014), and Deputy Director of Workforce and Economic Development for the Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County in Chicago, Illinois (2009 - 2010). He has overseen urban farming programs in suburban cook county, as well as variety of education, economic, and comprehensive development programs in Chicago. Ulises has a Masters of Arts from Northeastern Illinois University, and graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Jen Chapin Singer-songwriter, educator, and food justice activist

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Can growing almonds fight climate change? When you eat almonds, you’re choosing more than just a highly nutritious food. A recent study in the Journal of Industrial Ecology found that almond trees in California absorb and store significant amounts of greenhouse gas throughout their lifespans. And as the almond community continues and does even more to use its coproducts from producing and harvesting almonds—like hulls, shells and other tree biomass— they’ll further contribute to becoming carbon neutral, or even carbon negative, if policy changes and production advancements work hand in hand. To learn more, visit almondsustainability.org.

Elias Marvinney, Alissa Kendall, Sonja Brodt, Weiyuan Zhu. Life Cycle-based Assessment of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Almond Production, Part II: Uncertainty Analysis Through Sensitivity Analysis and Scenario Testing. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2015, 10.1111/jiec.12333. Good news about almonds and heart health. Scientific evidence suggests, but does not prove, that eating 1.5 ounces per day of most nuts, such as almonds, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease. One serving of almonds (28 grams) has 13 grams of unsaturated fat and only 1 gram of saturated fat. © 2016 Almond Board of California. All rights reserved.

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