FOOD DAY ADVISORY BOARD

Hon. Rosa DeLauro is the Congresswoman from Connecticut's Third District that stretches from the Long Island Sound and New Haven to the Naugatuck Valley and Waterbury. Rosa serves in the Democratic leadership as co-chair of the Steering and Policy Committee, and she is the ranking member on the Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, where she oversees our country's investments in education, health, and employment. She also serves on the subcommittee responsible for FDA and agriculture, where she oversees drug and food safety.

Hon. Tom Harkin is a U.S. Senator from Iowa. In 1974, Tom was elected to Congress from Iowa's Fifth Congressional District. In 1984, he was elected to the US Senate and Iowans returned him to the Senate in 1990, 1996, 2002 and in 2008. His dedication to agriculture dates back to 1975 when he first came to Congress and became a member of the Agriculture Committee. In that time, he has had the great privilege of serving as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, where he led efforts to enact the 2002 and 2007 farm bills. These bills greatly expanded federal support for renewable energy, strengthened the farm income safety net, preserved million and millions of acres of land through agriculture conservation efforts, invested hundreds of millions of dollars in small towns through rural development efforts and ensured tens of millions of Americans have access to sufficient and healthful food.

Hon. Earl Blumenauer is a U.S. Representative from Oregon's third district. He was elected in 1996. From 1996 to 2007, he served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He's currently a member of the Ways and Means Committee and the Budget Committee. He has created a unique role as Congress’ chief spokesperson for Livable Communities: places where people are safe, healthy and economically secure.

Hon. Dave Loebsack is a U.S. Representative from Iowa's second district, serving his second term in Congress. He's a member of The House Education and Labor Committee and The House Armed Services Committee. Loebsack was a sponsor of the Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act of 2010, improving the nutrition of foods in America's schools.

Hon. James McGovern is a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts' 3rd district, elected in 1996. Serving his eighth term in Congress, McGovern is a Senior Minority Whip, the second ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee, and a member of the House Agriculture Committee. He is a strong proponent of health-care reform, food, and nutrition issues. McGovern also leads the fight against hunger in the United States and abroad, successfully expanding the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, which helps alleviate child hunger and poverty by providing nutritious meals to children in schools in the world's poorest countries.

Hon. Chellie Pingree is a Congresswoman from Maine's 1st Congressional District, and the first woman to ever represent that district. She served on the school board and as the local tax assessor before running for Maine's State Senate in 1991, where she served until her term limit in 2000. As a State Senator, she fought for economic and social justice, and was chosen to be the Maine Senate Majority Leader in 1996. Pingree's leadership in Maine politics led to numerous international appointments. She traveled to Hungary as an Eisenhower Exchange Fellow, served as a member of the White House delegation to observe elections in Bosnia, and was a member of a U.S. delegation to Northern Ireland to work with female political leaders. From 2003 to 2007, she served as the National President and CEO of Common Cause, a non-partisan citizen activist group.

Hon. Linda Sanchez is a U.S. Representative from California's 39h district, serving since 2003. As a member of the Ways and Means committee, she plays a key role in federal legislation for taxes and health care. She is a strong advocate for safer schools, providing quality education, ensuring high quality affordable health care, improving our economy by creating new opportunities and protecting our environment.

Hon. Jan Schakowsky is a U.S. Representative from Illinois' 9th district since 1998. As a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, she was a leader in the passage of the legislation to provide affordable healthcare for all Americans. She is also committed to consumer safety and other public health issues.

Hon. Louise Slaughter is a U.S. Representative from New York's 28th district, serving her 13th term in Congress. With a public health degree, Slaughter strongly supported President Obama's health care bill and worked to ensure its passage. She also authored a bill that would preserve seven types of antibiotics from overuse by farm livestock. The PAMTA bill would prohibit farmers from excessively using these medications in the daily diet of cows, pigs and chickens. She has gained wide support on this bill with endorsements from newspapers and advocacy groups nationwide.

Hon. Jon Tester is a U.S. Senator from Montana and an outspoken leader for rural America, working families, small businesses and family agriculture. He strongly supports clean energy and has crafted and passed measures to develop clean and sustainable new energy resources to promote conservation. At his farm in Montana, his family grows organic wheat, barley, lentils, peas, millet, buckwheat and alfalfa.

Will Allen is the son of a sharecropper, a former professional basketball player and founder and CEO of Growing Power, Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wis. He is widely considered the leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture. At Growing Power and in food projects across the nation and globe, he promotes the belief that all people should have access to fresh, safe, affordable and nutritious foods at all times regardless of their economic circumstances. In 2008, he was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow and was awarded a prestigious foundation "genius grant" for his work - only the second farmer ever to be so honored. He is also a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.

Kenneth D. Ayars is chief of the Division of Agriculture of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Before becoming chief, he acted as liaison with farmers, helping with regulatory, zoning, and land use issues. Ayers also conducted the permitting program for agricultural activities in wetlands, assisted farmers with federal, state and local environmental and regulatory matters and coordinated the state farmland preservation program.

Patricia Babjak, RD, is chief executive officer of the American Dietetic Association (ADA), first joining ADA in 1975. In 1978, she became director of the Commission on Dietetic Registration and later the executive vice president for Strategic Management and Governance. As vice president, she was responsible for overseeing development and implementation of ADA's strategic plan and for developing methods to measure the Association's progress toward furthering public health and nutrition initiatives. Babjak become CEO in 2009.

Dan Barber is the executive chef and co-owner of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, NY. As a two-time James Beard award winner and a published writer on food and agricultural policy, Barber works to bring the principles of good farming directly to the table. He was also appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the President's Council on Physical Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.

Suzan W. Bateson is the executive director of the Alameda County Community Food Bank. She was the first Food Bank leader in California to ban the distribution of carbonated beverages (2005), promising her board of directors that she would augment the million-pound loss in distribution with farm-fresh produce. Bateson is the chairperson of the fund and finance committee for the Oakland Food Policy Council. She serves on the board of directors of the California Association of Food Bank and is that board's former president. Bateson is the former president of the board of directors of The CBO Center, a nonprofit management support organization serving the East Bay. From 1995 to 2001, she was executive director of the Volunteer Center of Contra Costa, an organization that assists local nonprofit organizations with volunteer recruitment, retention and recognition.

Georges Benjamin, M.D., has been the executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals, since 2002. In addition to other duties, he publishes the nonprofit's monthly publication, The Nation's Health, the association's official newspaper, and The American Journal of Public Health. He is also the author of over 90 scientific articles and book chapters. Prior to APHA, he worked as secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he played a key role developing Maryland's bioterrorism plan.

Kelly Brownell, Ph.D., is the director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy at Yale University. The center works to improve the world's diet, prevent obesity and reduce weight stigma by combining science with public policy. Experts from nutrition, psychology, law, economics, business and more work together produce real change. Brownell has published 14 books and more than 300 scientific articles and chapters.

Colin Campbell, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. His research focuses primarily on the effects of nutritional status on long term health, particularly on the causation of cancer. Campbell co-authored the China Study, the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted, and has authored more than 300 research papers.

Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., is the president of Canyon Ranch Institute. He was the 17th Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. Prior to being named Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona was the chairman of the State of Arizona Southern Regional Emergency Medical System, a professor of surgery, public health and family and community medicine at the University of Arizona, and the Pima County Sheriff's Department surgeon and deputy sheriff. He has also held progressive positions of responsibility as chief medical officer, hospital chief executive officer, public health officer, and finally chief executive officer of the Pima county health care system. A strong supporter of community service, he has served on community and national boards and provided leadership to many diverse organizations.

Isobel Contento is a professor at Columbia Teachers College. Her research interests include: behavioral aspects of nutrition, use of psychosocial theory to study factors influencing food choice-particularly among children and adolescents-the impact of an intervention to reduce risk of overweight in youth and many others. Contento is the author of "Nutrition Education: Linking Research, Theory and Practice," and other publications.

Jim Crawford is the president of the Tuscarora Organic Growers Cooperative (TOG), one of the oldest and largest organic produce cooperatives in the East Coast. TOG has provided local organically certified produce to the Baltimore-Washington area for over twenty years. Crawford has been farming since 1972, and since then, has contributed greatly to the advancement of sustainable agriculture and the local food system.

Rev. Patricia deJong has been Senior Minister of First Congregational, Berkeley since 1994. She is ordained in the United Church of Christ and has served on several national church and local community boards. She is a graduate of Western Michigan University and Pacific School of Religion. She has served as a Campus Minister at the University of Oregon, the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Before coming to Berkeley she served as Minister of Education for Christian Discipleship at The Riverside Church in New York City (1984-88) and as Senior Minister of the Urbandale United Church of Christ in Des Moines, Iowa (1988-94).

Jeff Dunn has been president and CEO of Bolthouse Farms, a premium fresh produce grower and processor located in Bakersfield, California, since May 2008. He is passionate about issues of sustainability and social consciousness, leading the transformation of some of Coca Cola's most important social programs, such as healthy beverage guidelines in schools, global water strategy and others. He also co-developed a new global sustainability report card, which increased transparency into business practices at Coca-Cola.

Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D., is the director of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Reversal Program at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. Believing in the importance of prevention, Esselstyn grew tired of the way he and his colleagues were reactively treating heart disease and cancer with pills and procedures despite their side effects. He blames the fatty American diet for heart disease and western cancers, which are infrequently seen in parts of the world where much less fat is consumed. As part of his experiment to prevent these diseases, he adopted a plant-based diet 26 years ago and puts his patients on similar regimens.

Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., is executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission with more than 25 years of experience working in healthcare. Prior to joining the Boston Public Health Commission, she spent five years at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, first as director of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention and later as director of the Division of Maternal and Child Health. She promotes a wide-range of health initiatives to target preventable diseases and injuries.

Jonathan Fielding is a Professor of Health Services and Pediatrics and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities. He serves as Director of Public Health and Health Officer for Los Angeles County where he is responsible for the full range of public health activities for ten million county residents. As the founding Co-Director of the Center for Health Enhancement, Education and Research, he provided the first comprehensive university-based center to focus on clinical and worksite prevention opportunities. He formerly served as the Founding Board Member, Chairman of the Board and member of the Executive Committee of The California Wellness Foundation, the largest U.S. foundation devoted to disease prevention and health promotion, and is among the 50 largest U.S. Foundations.

David Fleming, M.D., is the director and health officer for Public Health in Seattle & King County. Department activities include core prevention programs, environmental health, community oriented primary care, emergency medical services, correctional health services, Public Health preparedness, and community-based public health assessment and practices. Dr. Fleming has also served as the Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), providing oversight of CDC's global health portfolio. He has published scientific articles on a wide range of public-health issues and has served on a number of Institute of Medicine and federal advisory committees.

Anthony Geraci was the director of Food and Nutrition for Baltimore City Public Schools and an enthusiastic supporter, practitioner and architect of the National Farm-to-School movement. He also served as developer and Executive Director of First Course, a culinary training and job placement program in New Hampshire. Geraci, who is also a chef, now works as a food service consultant to bring healthier, more locally produced foods to schools nationally.

Angela Glover is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute. Under her leadership, PolicyLink has become a leading voice in the movement to improve opportunity for low-income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education, and infrastructure. Ms. Blackwell and PolicyLink have been working for years to ensure all people can live in healthy communities, with access to healthy food, clean air and water, and opportunities for physical activity. Prior to founding PolicyLink, Ms. Blackwell served as Senior Vice President at the Rockefeller Foundation and founded the Urban Strategies Council.

Rev. Douglas Greenaway has served as President & CEO of the NATIONAL WIC ASSOCIATION, NWA since 1990, the nonprofit education arm and advocacy voice of the over 9 million mothers and young children participating in WIC – the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children – and the nation’s over 12,200 WIC service provider agencies and clinics. Fr. Douglas is responsible for directing the Association as well as representing the WIC community’s interests to the White House, Congress, the US Department of Agriculture, and other federal agencies and departments.

Karl J. Guggenmos is the university dean of culinary education at Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts. Assuming his current position in 2004, Guggenmos was previously dean of the College of Culinary Arts in Providence and a faculty member and director of culinary education at JWU's former Charleston Campus. Guggenmos is a member of several boards including the Tastemasters Advisory board of Starbucks, the Board of Education of At-Sunrice Global Chef Academy in Singapore, the Institute of Culinary Arts in Germany and the Global Board of Advisors for The Growing Connection, an initiative of the United Nations. He is also the chair of the American Culinary Federation Certification Commission, and a member of the Honorable Order of the Golden Toque and the Chaíne des Rôtisseurs.

Diane Hatz is co-founder and director of The Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming. Her past work includes founding and directing the consumer education program, Sustainable Table,where she developed and managed creative projects to raise awareness and educate consumers about issues surrounding the sustainable food and agriculture movement, while promoting solutions to the problems caused by factory farms Diane was Executive Producer of the award-winning, critically acclaimed, animated films The Meatrix, The Meatrix II: Revolting, and The Meatrix II ½ as well as Project and Marketing Director for the Meatrix campaign, both online and off. She was also a founder of the Eat Well Guide, an online consumer directory of sustainably-raised meat and dairy products in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Chad Hellwinckel is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee. His work with the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center focuses on agricultural land use policies, climate change mitigation, biofuels analysis, and defining appropriate long-term agricultural policy in a post peak-oil world. He has worked at The Land Institute, in Salina, Kansas, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama and with the US Forest Service in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. He is also the founder of the Knoxville Permaculture Guild.

Oran B. Hesterman is the president and chief executive officer of Fair Food Network. Dr. Hesterman is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems. His experience in the philanthropic sector includes more than 15 years as program director for Food Systems at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Prior to starting the Fair Food Network, he was the inaugural president of Fair Food Foundation, leading their sustainable food systems programs. A former fellow in the Kellogg National Fellowship Program (KNFP) and the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy in Washington, D.C., he has published more than 400 reports and articles on subjects ranging from cover crops and crop rotation to the impact of philanthropic investments on food systems practice and policy.

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow. He was twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner. He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations, on the web, and on Radio for Peace International. Each month, he publishes a populist political newsletter, "The Hightower Lowdown," which now has more than 135,000 subscribers and is the fastest-growing political publication in America. He is a New York Times best-selling author, and has written seven books, including Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times.

Rachel Johnson, Ph.D., is a professor of nutrition and of medicine and former Dean of Agriculture at the University of Vermont, first joining the university in1991. She has published more than 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, specializing in childhood nutrition with an emphasis on the nutritional role of dairy foods. Johnson has been a national voice warning of the dangers of childhood obesity and has served on numerous State and Federal commissions and panels, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dietary Guidelines for Americans Scientific Advisory Committee.

David Katz, M.D., is director and founder of the Yale Prevention Research Center and is an internationally renowned authority on nutrition, prevention of chronic disease and weight management. Katz has published over 100 scientific papers, several textbook chapters, nearly a thousand newspaper columns, and 12 books. He is the principal inventor of the Overall Nutritional Quality Index used in the NuVal™ nutrition guidance program, currently implemented in over 500 supermarkets nationwide.

David Kessler, M.D., J.D., is a pediatrician, lawyer, professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a former FDA Commissioner. Prior to his appointment at UCSF in 1998, Dr. Kessler served as the Dean of the medical schools at Yale and UCSF and commissioner of the FDA from November 1990 to March 1997. Under his leadership at FDA, the agency implemented several new programs, including the regulation of the marketing and sale of tobacco products to children, nutrition labeling for food, preventive controls to improve food safety and many others. He is the author of An End to Overeating, A Question of Intent and The Doctor's Complete Guide to Healing Foods.

Ellie Krieger, RD, is host of Food Network's and Cooking Channel's popular "Healthy Appetite" and a registered dietician. Her third book, So Easy: Luscious Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week, was an immediate New York Times best-seller and has been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times' Fall Cookbook roundup that features the 10 best cookbooks of the fall. Her second book, The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life, was her first New York Times best-seller. In addition to being named to Amazon's Customer Bestseller List for 2008, it won the 2009 IACP Cookbook award and the James Beard Foundation Award. She held the position of director of nutritional services at the prestigious La Palestra Center for Preventative Medicine for several years, and was also an adjunct professor in the New York University Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health. Furthermore, she is a contributing editor and columnist for Women's Health, Fine Cooking and Food Network magazines. Ellie has been at the forefront of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign from the beginning when Mrs. Obama's team personally invited her to head up a nutrition education activity during the "Healthy Kids Fair" at the White House in 2010.

Shiriki Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor of Epidemiology and the associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention at the University of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine. Her research involves the prevention or treatment of obesity and the promotion healthy eating and physical activity in African American children and adults and Latino adults. In 2002, Dr. Kumanyika founded the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN), which seeks to improve the quantity, quality, and effective translation of research on weight issues in African American communities. Dr. Kumanyika has served on numerous advisory or expert panels related to nutrition and chronic disease research and policy, both nationally and internationally.

Robert Lawrence, M.D., is director of the Center for a Livable Future; a professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He also served as an epidemic intelligence service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for three years. Lawrence has published numerous publications about food systems, meat and dairy consumption, food security, agricultural practices and many other public health issues.

Sid Lerner is the founder of Meatless Monday, a movement to help Americans reduce their risk of preventable disease by cutting back saturated fat. He started Meatless Monday in 2003 as part of a public health awareness program in association with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Since then, the movement has gained popularity with mentions on NBC Nightly News, NPR, Self Magazine and others.

Michael Leviton is a board chair of Chefs Collaborative and chef/owner of Lumiere restaurant. Leviton is committed to providing local, sustainable food in his restaurant, which he opened in February 1999 in Newton, Massachusetts. As a member of Chefs Collaborative, he advocates for sustainable food, provide chefs with the information and tools necessary to make sustainable purchasing decisions, and connect chefs with sustainable food producers. Michael Leviton has worked with some of the world's top chefs in the finest restaurants and has won several awards from Gourmet Magazine, Food & Wine and Bon Appétit.

Susan Linn, Ed.D., is co-founder and director of the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood and a psychologist at Harvard Medical School. She is an award-winning producer, writer, and puppeteer, using puppets to help her young patients cope with hospital experiences. Linn is the author of The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World, and Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood and lectures internationally on reclaiming childhood from corporate marketers.

Kelle Louaillier is the executive director of Corporate Accountability International. She joined more than two decades ago, serving as director of international outreach, campaign director, development director, and associate director prior to becoming executive director in 2007. Under her leadership Corporate Accountability International has helped move General Electric out of the nuclear weapons business and pass the World Health Organization's global tobacco treaty, the world's first corporate accountability treaty. In addition Louaillier has overseen the launch of the campaigns Challenging Corporate Control of Water and Challenging Corporate Control of our Food. Louaillier began her social change career by teaching math in the Central African Republic with the Peace Corps and working to empower homeless youth in Seattle. She holds a bachelor's degree in French, Philosophy, and Mathematics from Seattle University.

Matt Maloney is a co-founder and CEO of GrubHub.com. Before conjuring up plans with his buddy Mike Evans, to take over the online delivery world, he majored in physiology at Michigan State University. But as the Internet was being born, he dreamt of becoming a "World Wide Web-master" and decided to turn on, boot up and jack in. Switching gears, he picked up a masters in computer science and jumped headfirst into building major Internet Web sites. Matt is the entrepreneur in residence at the Illinois Institute of Technology and currently working on his MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (yes, slowly but surely).

Robert Martin is Senior Officer of Reforming Industrial Animal Agriculture at Pew Environment Group. He joined the Pew Environment Group in 2009 as a senior officer working to reduce health issues related to the poor conditions on industrial farms. Before joining Pew, he was executive director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, leading its two-year study, Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America, which was funded by Pew through a grant to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, he worked for South Dakota Sens. George McGovern, Jim Abourezk, Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson.

Mike McGinn, J.D., is the Mayor of Seattle, elected in 2009. Before becoming Mayor, he worked for Great City, a Seattle nonprofit bringing together neighbors, environmentalists and business leaders advocating for smart and responsible urbanism as the solution to many local, economic and environmental challenges. He also chaired the local chapter of the Sierra Club, where he oversaw work on state and local issues and served on the organization's national political committee. Prior to that, McGinn was a partner at the law firm Stokes Lawrence in Seattle, maintaining his interests in politics, law and environmental advocacy.

Stacy Miller is the executive director of the Farmers Market Coalition, believing farmers markets sustain healthy farms, healthy communities and healthy economies. She has worked with farmers markets as a manager, researcher, consumer and vendor, growing and selling everything from Asian mustards to zinnias. Miller has co-authored several articles on the impact of farmers markets and other material for academic publications.

Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She was also the Associate Dean of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, a senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health. Nestle has been a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the USDA/DHHS Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and American Cancer Society committees that issue dietary guidelines for cancer prevention. Her research focuses on how science and society influence dietary advice and practice. She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety, and What to Eat.

Jerry Newberry is the executive director of the Health Information Network at the National Education Association, which provides health and safety information to educators and students. Through trainings, seminars, and symposiums, members can make and effect decisions leading to healthier and safer choices in public education.

Demalda Newsome is the executive at large of the Community Food Security Coalition Board of Directors. She began Newsome Community Farms, Inc. and the North Tulsa Farmer's Market in order to empower low-income communities by increasing their access to ownership of their food systems through means of education, workshops, and community collaborations. One of the farmer's market's main objectives is to provide community members and area farmers a place to sell and purchase fresh and nutritious produce.

Michel Nischan is the CEO and president of the Wholesome Wave Foundation, a pioneer of the sustainable food movement and a James Beard award-winning chef and author. Wholesome Wave Foundation is dedicated to providing neighborhoods access to healthy, fresh, and affordable locally grown food. Nischan is a strong promoter of sustainable farming and has been a leader in the movement to honor local, pure, simple, and delicious cooking. Nischan is also owner and founder of Dressing Room, his restaurant in Westport, CT.

Dean Ornish, M.D. is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of six best-selling books, including four New York Times' bestsellers: Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease; Eat More, Weigh Less; Love & Survival; and his most recent book, The Spectrum. Dr. Ornish is a member of the boards of directors of the San Francisco Food Bank and the J. Craig Venter Institute, and the advisory board of the Quincy Jones Foundation at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was appointed to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and elected to the California Academy of Medicine. He consults with food companies to make more healthful foods and to provide health education to their customers in this country and worldwide. He chaired the Google Health Advisory Council 2007-9.

Robert Pearl, M.D., is the executive director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, the largest medical group in the nation. He provides leadership to 7,000 physicians and 30,000 nurses and staff who care for more than 3 million Kaiser Permanente members and operate 19 medical centers in Northern California. Pearl is also president and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, serving 500,000 members in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. He advocates for the use of advanced information technology systems in medical practice, including the use of electronic medical records, to adequately address the national health care challenges our nation faces today.

Robert Pestronk, M.P.H., is executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, representing America's local health departments who protect and promote health, prevent disease, and wellness nationwide. Prior to joining NACCHO, he served as health officer in Genesee County, Michigan for 22 years, where he established the 26,000 member Genesee Health Plan, some of Michigan's earliest public and work place tobacco control regulations. Pestronk has published articles in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, the Journal of the American Public Health Association, and others, along with several book chapters.

David Pimentel, Ph.D., is a professor of Ecology & Agriculture at Cornell University. His research interests include sustainable agriculture, soil and water conservation, natural resource management and environmental policy, genetics and others. Pimentel is an outspoken critic of ethanol, saying it takes more energy to produce than it delivers. Pimental believes conservation is the best approach to sustainability. He has published over 590 scientific papers and 23 books, including Soil erosion: A food and environmental threat.

Michael Pollan is an author and professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. For the past 25 years, Pollan has written articles and books about the connection between food, nature and cultures. Some of his works include four New York Times bestsellers: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, and The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. In addition to teaching, he lectures widely on food, agriculture, health and the environment.

Barry Popkin, Ph.D., is a professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina. His research interests include cancer, cardiovascular disease, global health, health economics, nutrition and obesity. Popkin directs UNC's Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity, and is involved with research into national nutrition programs and policies in United States, China, and Mexico. He wrote The World is Fat in 2008.

Nora Pouillon is the chef/owner of Restaurant Nora, Washington, DC and is pioneer and champion of organic, environmentally conscious food. Nora opened Restaurant Nora in 1979, creating healthy, organic dishes from the very beginning. In 1999, Restaurant Nora became the nation's first certified organic restaurant, and since then, only three other restaurants have since achieved this goal. Pouillon was instrumental in creating the organic certification standards for restaurants that guarantee at least 95% of all food served originates from certified organic sources.

Susan Prolman is the executive Director of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), which is an alliance of grassroots organizations that advocates for federal policy reform to advance the sustainability of agriculture, food systems, natural resources, and rural communities. Prolman has advocated for a more sustainable approach to agriculture for nearly a decade.

Dr. Daryll E. Ray is Professor and Blasingame Chair of Excellence and Director of Agricultural Policy Analysis Center at The University of Tennessee. He is the director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center and writes a weekly agricultural policy column, Policy Pennings, that appears in numerous farm weeklies.

Maria Rodale is CEO and Chairman of Rodale Inc., the world's leading multimedia company focused on health, wellness, and the environment and the largest independent book publisher in the USA. Rodale reaches 70 million people worldwide through brands such as Prevention, Men's Health, and Organic Gardening; through books including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth; and through numerous digital properties. She is founding editor of Rodale.com, which features her blog, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen. Rodale is the author of Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe, which cuts through the confusion to provide a look at why chemical-free farming holds the key to better health for our families and the planet. She is a co-chair of the Rodale Institute, a nonprofit that has been dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach to farmers, scientists, and consumers.

Kathleen Rogers, J.D., is president of Earth Day Network. Under her leadership, the organization has developed a significant role in advancing the new green economy and has transformed into a dynamic team of year-round policy professionals and activists. Earth Day Network now reaches new constituencies and integrates civic participation into programs and activities. She has worked for more than 20 years an environmental attorney and advocate, focusing on public policy, international law, litigation, and community development.

Michael Roizen, M.D., is an author and chief wellness officer at Cleveland Clinic. He has published more than 165 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 100 textbook chapters, 30 editorials, and four medical. He is a cofounder of the website RealAge.com and still chairs its Scientific Advisory Board. Roizen still practices anesthesiology and internal medicine, using the RealAge metric to motivate his patients. He routinely takes patients at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute who struggle with tobacco, heart, diabetic or arthritic problems and coaches them with simple lifestyle changes to help, teaching the role of food and other simple steps in reversing disease processes. He has appeared on Oprah, CNN, Good Morning America, Today and many other news programs.

David Satcher, M.D, Ph.D., is director of Satcher Health Leadership Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine. He was the 16th Surgeon General of the United States, a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and the 10th Assistant Secretary for Health. In his first year as Surgeon General, Satcher released the 1998 Surgeon General's report, "Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups," where he reported that tobacco use was on the rise among youth in each of the country's major racial and ethnic groups threatening their long-term health prospects. He is the recipient of many honorary degrees and numerous distinguished honors, including the New York Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award.

Deirdre Schlunegger, Chief Executive Officer for STOP Foodborne Illness has over twenty years of nonprofit experience. Before she joined STOP, she held the position of President & CEO with the Make A Wish Foundation in Oklahoma and prior to that she was Vice-President of Affiliate Relations at Breast Cancer Network of Strength (formerly known as Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organization). She had oversight of all the organization’s chapters around the country, developed business plans and launched chapters in identified markets She has served as the Executive Director of a Chicago nonprofit organization and a national foundation, has been the Director of Child Life Programs in a number of Children’s Hospitals, served as an adjunct faculty member at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics, developed a program at Cabrini Green and was the Director of a Chicago Head Start Program.

David Schwartz is the campaign director for Real Food Challenge, a movement towards a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly food system. Schwartz believes "Real Food" encompasses a concern for producers, consumers, communities, and the earth, while representing a common ground where all relevant issues from human rights to environmental sustainability can converge. While attending Brown University, Schwartz helped start a student garden, a local distribution scheme for local produce, and a campaign to redirect over $1 million of school food dollars to "real food." He is passionate about food justice and sustainable agriculture and continues the cause with the Real Food Challenge.

Barton Seaver is a National Geographic Fellow and acclaimed chef, author, and speaker. He graduated with honors from the Culinary Institute of America. He has been a chef at Jose Andres at Jaleo, executive chef of Cafe Saint-Ex and Bar Pilar. In 2007, Seaver became executive chef of the sustainable seafood restaurant Hook in Georgetown, which made Bon Appétit's Top 10 Eco-Friendly Restaurants, the Washington Post's Top 50, and Washingtonian Magazine's Top 100. In 2008 he received the Seafood Choices Alliance's Seafood Champion Award and the title "Rising Culinary Star of the Year" from the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. He currently sits on the board of D.C. Central Kitchen, an organization fighting hunger through personal empowerment, job training, and life skills. He also collaborates with the School Nutrition Association, the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and Future of Fish.

Nina Simonds is one of the country's leading authorities on Asian cooking. In 2001, Newsweek Magazine named her one of America's Top Twenty-Five Asia Hands. She is the author of eleven books on Chinese cuisine and culture, including the best-selling Asian Noodles and A Spoonful of Ginger, which won both the IACP and the James Beard Foundation Book Award for health. Her last book Spices of Life: Simple and Delicious Recipes for Great Health also won both the IACP and the James Beard Foundation Book Awards for health in May of 2006. She also holds a Grande Diplome in Classic French cooking from LaVarenne, Ecole de Cuisine in Paris. Her website with innovative food, health and lifestyle video blogs (www.spicesoflife.com) was launched in February of 2006 and is featured in The Hungry Beast, the food section of The Daily Beast. She is an award-winning journalist, author and has been an active member of the Nutrition Roundtable at the Harvard School of Public Health for the past 8 years.

Morgan Spurlock is a New York-based writer, director and producer. His first film, Super Size Me, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 and won him Best Directing honors. The film went on to win the inaugural Writers Guild of America best documentary screenplay award as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature doc. Since then he has directed, produced, and distributed multiple film and TV projects, including the critically acclaimed FX television series, "30 Days," and the films Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden, Confessions of a Superhero, Czech Dream, Chalk, The Future of Food, What Would Jesus Buy?, and Freakonomics. In 2010 Morgan was nominated for a primetime Emmy Award as well as a Writer's Guild Award for The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special: In 3-D! On Ice!.

Carol Tucker-Foreman is a distinguished fellow in food policy at Consumer Federation of America and has had a major influence on food policy in the U.S. over the past 30 years. As assistant secretary of agriculture for food and consumer services in the Carter Administration she led the successful campaigns to pass food stamp reform legislation and publish the first Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In 1986 she founded the Safe Food Coalition, a group of consumer, public health and trade union organizations that work to strengthen U.S. food safety policies. The group played a major role in persuading the USDA to adopt modern inspection methods to reduce foodborne illness.

Josh Viertel is the President of Slow Food USA and has made significant contributions to the sustainable food movement as a teacher, farmer, and activist. Prior to joining Slow Food USDA, he co-founded and co-directed the Yale Sustainable Food Project where he oversaw the University's transition to a local sustainable food program, created and managed an organic farm on campus, and built educational and academic programming around food and agriculture. Under his leadership, the Yale Sustainable Food Project has earned a reputation as a leader in the national and international sustainable food movement.

Alice Waters is the chef/proprietor of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, CA and an American pioneer of using the freshest seasonal ingredients produced sustainably and locally. She is a passionate advocate for a food economy that is "good, clean, and fair." For nearly forty years, Chez Panisse has helped create a community of local farmers and ranchers dedicated to sustainable agriculture, which gives the restaurant a steady supply of fresh and pure ingredients. She is also vice president of Slow Food International and the author of eight books, including The Art of Simple Food: Notes and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution.

Tanya Wenman Steel is the Editor-in-Chief of Epicurious.com, Condé Nast Digital's award-winning destination food Web site that incorporates articles and recipes from renowned food, drink, and style authorities around the world. In recognition for making Epicurious the most award-winning site on the web, she was inducted into MIN's Digital Hall of Fame in 2010. She won the James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Magazine Restaurant Review or Critique in 2003, is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and serves as a James Beard Restaurant Judge. She is the coauthor of the award-winning Real Food for Healthy Kids, published with much acclaim by HarperCollins in the fall of 2008. Prior to joining Epicurious.com, Ms. Steel was the New York Editor of Bon Appétit magazine for ten years. Ms. Steel has also been an editor at Diversion, Food & Wine, and Mademoiselle magazines.

Walter Willett, M.D., chairs the Nutrition Department at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research involves the investigation of dietary factors to determine the cause and prevention of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other conditions. With his research, he has created standardized dietary questionnaires to study large populations over a number of years, which have been proven to provide accurate assessments of a wide spectrum of dietary factors. He has published several articles about heart disease, cancer, diet and other public health topics.

Rabbi Eric Yoffie is president of the Union for Reform Judaism and a strong supporter of a more sustainable and healthy food supply. He urges his members to abandon the "gobble, gulp, and go" culture and eat more mindfully and ethically. He promotes healthy ingredients, sustainable agriculture, economic fairness for farm workers and a decrease in consumption of red meat. In a sermon from 2009, Rabbi Yoffie said, eating is "a gateway to holiness," and "surely it follows that we do not bless or consume food produced by acts of injustice, by mistreating animals, or by despoiling the environment." Rabbi Yoffie is a regular blogger for the Huffington Post and Jerusalem Post

Patricia Young is the founder & national coordinator for World Food Day, established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1983. Some activities include agricultural fairs, visits to farms, workshops and tree-planting ceremonies. It is observed every year in more than 150 countries to heighten public awareness of world hunger, encourage attention to agricultural food production and encourage economic and technological growth in developing countries, and other issues. Young is committed to improving the quality of the food supply worldwide, not just in the United States.