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Abby Barrows

Research Scientist

Long Cove Sea Farm

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travel brought her to the University of Tasmania, where she earned a BSc in Zoology.  After mapping the canopy of old-growth temperate rainforests and trapping Tasmanian devils, Abby studied and published two papers on seahorse and pipefish behavior and diversity in Papua New Guinea. She has traveled the Southern Oceans and South Pacific by boat, trekked the Himalaya, explored the Middle East, researched sea turtles and big cats in South and Central America, dived Mediterranean wrecks, and worked aboard schooners and lobster boats in the Gulf of Maine. On her travels, she saw one thing in common everywhere: plastic pollution.

Abby directed global microplastic pollution research since 2013, developing the most diverse and largest known dataset available to-date. She has published multiple papers on the subject and obtained her Master’s degree from College of the Atlantic in 2018.  When not studying plastics, you can find her out on her oyster farm, Long Cove Sea Farm in Deer Isle, Maine.

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Long Cove Sea Farm

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Adam Kesselman

Executive Director

Center for Ecoliteracy

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Adam Kesselman is the Executive Director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, a non-profit dedicated to cultivating education for sustainable living in K-12 schools. He brings 15 years of sustainable food business entrepreneurship and a track record of fostering partnerships with community and environmental leaders. Throughout his career promoting local food systems, he has been inspired to cultivate the rich narrative between food, culture, health, and the environment. Since 2012, Adam has helped guide the Center for Ecoliteracy’s programming and advocacy work. Prior to that, Adam founded a consultancy focused on elevating K-12 food service and natural food product development. Through his leadership, he pursues opportunities for the Center for Ecoliteracy to further ecological education and promote systems change. A chef and an avid outdoor enthusiast, he can often be found experimenting in the kitchen and exploring nature’s wild places with his wife and daughter.

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Center for Ecoliteracy

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Alberto Miti

Co-Producer and Researcher

Reawakened

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Alberto is co-producer and researcher at the Reawakened Food Initiative by The Lexicon, a global storytelling campaign aimed to raise awareness around biodiversity in our food system.
Based in Italy, Alberto consults for startups, companies and Universities and his main focus is innovation in food and business models for sustainability.

Alberto holds a bachelor degree in Philosophy and a master in Social Entrepreneurship. The philosopher in him lives by the Maieutic method, pushing him to be a catalyst for change.
This focus strongly also drives his work with the Design Factory of the University of Bologna. Here Alberto coaches multidisciplinary teams of designers and researchers in open innovation projects, towards prototyping working solutions to social challenges.

Alberto Miti

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Alberto Miti

Co-Producer and Researcher for Reawakened

The Lexicon

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Alberto is co-producer and researcher at the Reawakened Food Initiative by The Lexicon, a global storytelling campaign aimed to raise awareness around biodiversity in our food system.
Based in Italy, Alberto consults for startups, companies and Universities and his main focus is innovation in food and business models for sustainability.

Alberto holds a bachelor degree in Philosophy and a master in Social Entrepreneurship. The philosopher in him lives by the Maieutic method, pushing him to be a catalyst for change.
This focus strongly also drives his work with the Design Factory of the University of Bologna. Here Alberto coaches multidisciplinary teams of designers and researchers in open innovation projects, towards prototyping working solutions to social challenges.

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The Lexicon

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Aldyen Donnelly

Director of Carbon Economics

Nori

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Aldyen Donnelly has been a small business developer and consultant for over 40 years. In the mid-1990s, Aldyen started to work on market-driven strategies to reduce atmospheric carbon concentrations. Having gathered together an “emission reduction credit” or “ERC” buyers group, Aldyen developed and executed the world’s first major forward ERC purchase agreement to finance carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, as well as the first ERC sales-financed carbon capture and storage project.

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Alessandro Demaio

CEO

VicHealth

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Dr Sandro Demaio is a medical doctor and globally-renowned public health expert and advocate.

Sandro previously worked for the World Health Organization and was CEO of the EAT Foundation. He also co-founded the NCDFREE global social movement and established a not-for-profit foundation to improve the health and nutrition of Australian kids.

Sandro has published many scientific journal articles and is author of the Doctor’s Diet cookbook. He also co-hosts the ABC television and Netflix show Ask the Doctor.

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VicHealth

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Alexander Muller

Managing Director

TMG Think Tank

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Alexander Müller served as a city councillor in Marburg, as State Secretary and member of Parliament in Hessen/Germany, and as State Secretary for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture for Germany’s Federal Government. From 2006 until 2013, Müller served as the Assistant Director-General of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and was responsible for the FAO’s work on Land and Water, Climate Change, and Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. He was a member of the UN Secretary-Generals Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC) in 2009 and has served the Chair of the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN). Müller is also involved in Germany’s green energy transition, known as the “Energiewende“. Since 2014 Müller has served as the study leader for TEEBAgriFood and as the Managing Director of TMG – Think Tank for Sustainability.

Alexander Muller

TMG Think Tank

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Alice Muchugi

Gene Bank Manager

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

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Alice holds a PhD in Population Genetics, MSc in Plant Biotechnology, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a BSc in Agriculture. She coordinates the activities of the ICRAF seedbank in Nairobi and regional field genebanks to ensure that superior tree germplasm is available for ICRAF collaborative projects and other interested users.

Her main areas of interest include conservation and use of important indigenous African tree germplasm, communicating generated scientific knowledge so that informed choices can be made in implementing science-based technologies, and mentoring young scientists, especially African women.

Alice Muchugi

World Agroforestry (ICRAF)

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Alice Waters

Chef, Author, Food Activist, Founder

Edible Schoolyard Project

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Alice Waters is a chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. She has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In 1995 she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which advocates for a free school lunch for all children and a sustainable food curriculum in every public school. She has been Vice President of Slow Food International since 2002. She conceived and helped create the Yale Sustainable Food Project in 2003, and the Rome Sustainable Food Project at the American Academy in Rome in 2007. Her honors include election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007; the Harvard Medical School’s Global Environmental Citizen Award, which she shared with Kofi Annan in 2008; induction into the French Legion of Honor in 2010; and induction into the National Woman’s hall of Fame in 2017. In 2015 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, proving that eating is a political act, and that the table is a powerful means to social justice and positive change. Alice was most recently awarded the honor of “Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” in 2019. Alice is the author of fifteen books, including New York Times bestsellers The Art of Simple Food I & II, The Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea, and, a memoir, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook.

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Edible Schoolyard Project

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Alina Miller

Illustrator

The Lexicon

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Alina Miller is a freelance graphic designer who has a passion for illustrating, with a specialization in flat and isometric design using vector art. She began her freelance career in 2017, shortly after immigrating from Romania and making Chicago her second home. So far in her career, she has worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from album covers and custom tattoos to company logos and t-shirt designs. Alina is always looking forward to exciting new challenges that exercise her creativity and broaden her technical skills.

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The Lexicon

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Alison Blay-Palmer

Chair in Food Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies

UNESCO

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Alison Blay-Palmer, the UNESCO Chair in Food Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies, is the founding Director for the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and a Professor in Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research and teaching combine her passions for sustainable food systems and community viability through civil society engagement and innovative governance. Alison collaborates with academics and practitioners across Canada and internationally including partners in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. This work gained recognition in both 2012 and 2019 when her partnership was one of three nominees for a national SSHRC Partnership Impact Award. Other on-going research projects with partners and students include: City Region Food System, Climate Resilience with the Resources Centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); and food security, health and climate change in the Northwest Territories. Alison has been a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists since 2016.

Alison Blay-Palmer

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Allison Hess

Vice President of Health Innovations

Geisinger Health Plan

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Allison Hess is the Vice President of Health Innovations for Geisinger. She has been part of the Geisinger family for 12 years and is responsible for the oversight and implementation of health and wellness programs for Geisinger patients and insured members, employees and community members.  She started her career in community health education/corporate wellness and has continued to expand to include community-based population health initiatives driven by data analysis and clinical outcome measurements.

Ms. Hess earned her bachelor of science in Health Education with a concentration in Psychology from Bloomsburg University. She is currently pursuing her MBA and has been recognized for her leadership within the organization. She has been the recipient of several awards focused in various areas of health including health equity, worksite wellness and supply chain.  She has also been recognized nationally for her work with the Fresh Food Farmacy program.

Ms. Hess has 20 years of experience in the health and wellness field. Her most recent work involves community based strategies impacting food insecurity and other social determinants of health.  She is deeply committed to the health and wellbeing our patients, members and communities.

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Amine Rehioui

Game Developer

The Lexicon

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Amine is a game programmer making games for over 13 years, on a wide range of platforms including consoles and mobile. With particular interest in the intersection between Art and Technology, Amine likes making content creation tools used by both creative and technical disciplines. His main hobby is long distance running.

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Amy Brinker

Sustainability Manager

Kamehameha Schools

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Amy Brinker is the Sustainability Manager for Kamehameha Schools (KS).  In her role, she supports sustainability strategy and programming across the enterprise.

Amy graduated from the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law with Environmental and Native Hawaiian Law certificates.  While completing her legal education, Amy founded the Legalize Pa’i ‘Ai movement to indigenize state law to allow for the traditional culinary practice of pounding poi.  She is a member of the 2014 class of Forty Under Forty Business Leaders by Pacific Business News.

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Kamehameha Schools

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Amy Keister

Senior Vice President of Sustainability & Culinary

Compass Group N. America

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Amy Keister is the Senior Vice President of Sustainability & Culinary for Compass Group North America as part of the Envision Group. Envision Group is a visionary team created to shape the future of foodservice. Amy plays an integral part in shaping Compass Group’s groundbreaking global sustainability strategy. This strategy includes actionable targets that will positively impact people and planet, drive growth, and futureproof our business. She is also a founding member of Stop Food Waste Day, a global day of action created to raise awareness of the issue surrounding food waste and provide everyday solutions for individuals and organizations.

Amy is on the board of The Center for Environmental Farming Systems, a partnership of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Amy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing Information Systems from James Madison University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

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Compass Group N. America

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Amy Swan

Project Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

Colorado State University

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Amy Swan is a Project Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. She has worked on a variety of research projects that evaluate the impacts of agricultural management and land use change on greenhouse gas cycling in ecosystems. She leads development of COMET-Planner, a web-based tool that evaluates carbon and greenhouse gas impacts of agricultural conservation adoption. Amy also supports development of web-based tools to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from farms and ranches in the U.S. (COMET-Farm), and sustainable land management projects in the developing world (Carbon Benefits Project). Amy’s experience in soil carbon and greenhouse gas research ranges from extensive on-farm/ranch soil sampling and analysis, simulating agricultural ecosystems in the DayCent ecosystem model, and applying US and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) greenhouse gas inventory methods from local to global scales. She was raised on a sheep ranch in western South Dakota and received a BSc in Environmental Management from South Dakota State University and MSc in Ecology at Colorado State University.

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Colorado State University

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Andrew Greenwell

Value Chain Analyst

Ripe

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Andrew is an agriculturalist at heart with a passion for food and nutrition. Working across the food system, Andrew has worn many hats from field hand to biotechnologist, commercial seed producer to food export strategist, and now, a value chain analyst at ripe.io- a leader in the agrifood blockchain space. A big picture thinker who is not afraid to roll up his sleeves to scout a field or run a statistical analysis; Andrew is excited to use his 10+ years of experience in the food system to drive ripe’s mission- enabling participants to improve trust and transparency in their supply chain.

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Andrew Montesano

Events Inventor & Snack Program Expert

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Andrew Montesano is a San Francisco State alum, baker, writer, and artist in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Andrew is part of the LinkedIn Program Operations team helping to drive operation, strategy, and design for the North America food program.  For the past 6 years, Andrew has managed events and catering service operations in LinkedIn’s San Francisco and South Bay offices, as well as breakroom operations for 50+ breakroom spaces in those locations before moving into the Program Operations role. In his time at LinkedIn, he has influenced event design and catering menus for events upwards of 5,000 attendees, team building classes, food operations, design of food service spaces, sustainability initiatives, and breakroom operations for over 8,000+ employees.

Andrew is passionate about employee experience, sustainability, and being creative.  Prior to LinkedIn, he worked for Bon Appetit at Google, where he opened and managed a variety of cafes and 200+ employees in his tenure there, as well as supporting such memorable food events as the Spring Fling Chicken Wing and Pig-a-palooza.  He also worked for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, supporting their local and sustainable concessions on San Francisco’s Crissy Field.  He also has worked in retail food and coffee for companies like Nordstrom, Peets, Starbucks, and Borders. Outside of food, Andrew has also worked for Puppet School, helping teach people how to build and manipulate their own Muppet style puppets.  He is also currently writing a young adult fantasy novel.

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Andrew Thorne-Lyman

Associate Scientist, Center for Human Nutrition

Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

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Andrew Thorne-Lyman, ScD, MHS, joined the center as Affiliated Faculty in 2019. He is an associate scientist at the Center for Human Nutrition in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In his role at The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, Andrew provides expertise on human nutrition, including in the context of seafood consumption, and he brings an international health background to the Center, as well. Before coming to Johns Hopkins in 2016, he was a senior nutrition specialist and team leader at The WorldFish Center (Malaysia), a lecturer at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a director of nutrition research at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. He has also served in various capacities at the UN World Food Programme (Rome) and Helen Keller International (Bangladesh). Current research interests include exploring the role of fish in meeting the nutritional needs of vulnerable populations in low and middle income countries, particularly of young children, studying links between food systems, diet and nutrition and health outcomes, and the development and validation of indicators to measure the effectiveness of nutrition programs. Andrew earned his BA at Pomona College, his MHS at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and his ScD at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Angela M. Tagtow

Founder and Chief Strategist

Äkta Strategies

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Angie Tagtow is the Founder and Chief Strategist of Äkta Strategies, a consulting firm that designs authentic solutions for systems change. She has more than 25 years of experience working at local, state, federal, and international levels in agriculture, food, and nutrition policy; public health; and food and water systems. In 2014, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the Executive Director for the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion in which she co-led the development and launch of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Angie is a registered dietitian and served as a Senior Fellow and Endowed Chair at the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, and as a Food and Society Policy Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She was the founder and CEO of a successful consulting firm that provided program and policy development, strategic planning, capacity building, communication, and education services to diverse clients that worked toward advancing sustainable, resilient, and healthy food and water systems. She co-founded a non-profit focused on health and food systems in addition to forming a statewide community of practice that promoted evidence-based strategies to increase access to healthful food. Angie has served in professional leadership positions within the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Iowa Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, and the American Public Health Association. In addition to launching the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition in 2005 in which she served as the managing editor for 11 years, she has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports. Angie has been honored by many organizations for her leadership and professional contributions to nutrition, public health, and food systems. Angie is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. She is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University and resides on a reconstructed tallgrass prairie in central Iowa.

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Äkta Strategies

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Angela McKee-Brown

Executive Director

The Edible Schoolyard Project

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Angela McKee-Brown is the Executive Director of The Edible Schoolyard Project, a non-profit dedicated to designing hands-on educational experiences in the garden, kitchen, and cafeteria that connect children to food, nature, and each other. Before joining the Edible Schoolyard Project, Angela served as the Director of Innovation and Strategy with San Francisco Unified School District’s Future Dining Experience where she oversaw the redesign of the school food system of San Francisco. She has also worked to expand access to market opportunities for chefs and food entrepreneurs who are women, immigrants and people of color while at the non-profit La Cocina. Angela was a 2016-2017 Stanford University d.school Civic Innovation Fellow, and she brings an equity-centered design framework to her work. Angela holds a Master’s in Food Studies from NYU, and serves on the board of Educate2Envision International, a non-profit that invests in youth from underserved areas to be their own innovators in tackling poverty.

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Ann Cooper

Chef, Founder

Chef Ann Foundation

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Chef Ann Cooper is an internationally recognized author, chef, educator, public speaker, and advocate of healthy food for all children. In a nation where kids are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents due to diet-related disease, Chef Ann has been a constant champion of school food reform as an important avenue through which to improve childhood nutrition.

In 2009, Chef Ann founded the Chef Ann Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping schools take action so that every child has daily access to fresh, healthy food.

I envision a time, soon, when being a chef working to feed children fresh, delicious, and nourishing food will no longer be considered renegade.

– Chef Ann Cooper

Also known as the “Renegade Lunch Lady,“ Chef Ann serves as Director of Food Services for Boulder Valley School District in Boulder, Colorado, and is Partner of Lunch Lessons, LLC, a consultancy for school districts going through large-scale food change. Ann attends many national conferences and performs regular Speaking Engagements. Visit our Multimedia Center to view some of Ann’s notable lectures, including her four TED Talks.

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Ann has 40 years of experience as a chef, including 17 years in school food programs. Her books Bitter Harvest and Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children have made her a leading advocate for safe, sustainable food. To raise further awareness about the value of healthy food systems, Chef Ann has held several advisory positions:

  • Executive committee member, Chefs Collaborative
  • Fellow, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food & Society Policy
  • Board member, USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (by congressional appointment)
  • Member, Google Innovation Lab for Food Experiences
  • President and board member, Women’s Chefs and Restaurateurs
  • President, American Culinary Federation of Central Vermont
  • Advisory Board Member, Real Food for Kids

Chef Ann has also been honored by the National Resources Defense Council, awarded an honorary doctorate from SUNY Cobleskill for her work on sustainable agriculture, and received IACP’s 2012 Humanitarian of the Year award.  Named one of the “Influential 20” by Food Service Director Magazine and one of the top 15 Crusaders for Health in the Food Industry by Greatist.com, Ann has also received the Women Chefs and Restaurateurs’ Community Service Award and a Special Inspirational Award from the Susan B. Komen Foundation. In 2016, she was named “One of the Top 50 Food Activists” by the Academy of Culinary Nutrition.

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Ann Thrupp

Founder and Principal

Down to Earth Innovations

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Ann Thrupp is the founder and principal of Down to Earth Innovations, providing consulting services and  advising in sustainable and equitable agriculture and food systems. Ann has extensive experience as a pioneer and leader in sustainable and regenerative food systems and food justice for over 25 years, and has worked in the non-profit, business, and government sectors. She served as the founding Executive Director of the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI) at the University of California Berkeley since 2013. BFI develops and fosters food systems transformation through interdisciplinary research, education, policy initiatives, community engagement, and empowerment of emerging leaders. From 2003-2013, Ann was the Manager of Sustainability and Organic Management at Fetzer and Bonterra Vineyards, where she coordinated and led a diversity of initiatives to implement sustainable practices in the winery and vineyards, and developed partnerships and outreach to stakeholders about sustainable business practices. At Fetzer she also worked in grower relations, for grape sourcing and procurement, and provided education and technical assistance to growers, and assisted hundreds of growers and wineries in the transition to organic and sustainable practices. Ann also served as the Managing Director and consultant for the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance (CSWA) in 2005-2007.  During 1999-2002, Ann worked with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Agriculture Initiative in the Western Regional office, managing partnerships and grants to support sustainable farming initiatives.

Ann also has many years of experience in international agriculture and natural resource management. From 1990-1998, she was Director of Sustainable Agriculture at World Resources Institute, working on projects in Latin American and other regions of the world. She has spoken at dozens of conferences in the U.S. and abroad for a wide diversity of audiences, and has experience in leadership, management, teaching, research, event organizing, as well as grant/budget management.  She has worked as a consultant for diverse organizations and businesses, including Robert Mondavi Winery, Roots of Change Fund (formerly called Funders Agriculture Working Group), Clif Bar, Annie’s and others.

She has a PhD and MA from Sussex University and a BA from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), and speaks Spanish fluently. Ann has over 75 publications, and has served twice on committees of the National Academy of Science (National Research Council), to co-author books related to sustainable agriculture, and on advisory councils and boards for both non-government and government entities. She’s an avid runner (and former All-American champion 3 times  in cross country running) and also enjoys roller-blading, hiking, gardening, and creative writing.

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Anna Bohbot

Food and Beverage Program Manager

Bay Area LinkedIn

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Anna V. Bohbot (Zulaica) is a Cal alum, Chef and cookbook author in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Anna is part of the LinkedIn Programs team helping to drive strategy and design for the global food program.  For the past four years, Anna has managed food service operations for cafes and coffee bars in the San Francisco and South Bay LinkedIn office, feeding over 5,000 people daily. She influences nutrition, team building, marketing, communication, food operations and design, as well as the onsite food education and engagement program for LinkedIn employees.

She is passionate about sustainable and just food systems and accessibility to fresh, local and seasonal food. She partners with local nonprofits and farms in order to educate and inspire the community and employees.  Prior to LinkedIn, Anna cooked for Bon Appetit at Google, where she created menus focused on whole foods, lead a small team of six, and cooked for upwards of 1000 employees every day.  Anna founded and ran a healthy catering business, Presto! Catering and Food Services for over five years and has taught healthy cooking classes and workshops for the American Heart Association in Spanish and English throughout the Bay Area.  Anna’s recipes have been featured in The Antioxidant Counter: A Pocket Guide to the Revolutionary ORAC Scale for Choosing Healthy Foods and The Essential Oils Hormone Solution and she has co-authored three books, The DASH Diet Cookbook: Quick and Delicious Recipes for Losing Weight, Preventing Diabetes, and Lowering Blood Pressure, which was also published in Spanish, The Low GI Slow Cooker: Delicious and Easy Dishes Made Healthy With the Glycemic Index, and The Matcha Miracle: Boost Energy, Focus and Health with Matcha Powder.

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Bay Area LinkedIn

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Anna Lappé

Author

realfoodmedia.org

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Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, an advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain, and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation. A James Beard Leadership Award recipient, Anna is the co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to more than a dozen others. Her most recent book is about the connection between food and the climate: Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (Bloomsbury). Named one of TIME’s “eco” Who’s-Who, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations, including the Small Planet Institute, which she launched with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, and Real Food Media, which partners with food movement allies to develop communications strategy and critical analysis for systems change. As a funder, she has led the grantmaking of the Small Planet Fund for more than a decade and created and runs the Food & Democracy program of the Panta Rhea Foundation. Anna is a founding Steering Committee member of the Castanea Fellowship and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Food Chain Workers Alliance and the Food and Farm Communications Fund along with board service at the Mesa Refuge and Rainforest Action Network. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their two daughters

 

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Anna Soehl

Science & Policy Consultant

Green Science Policy Institute

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Anna Soehl supports the Green Science Policy Institute in sharing scientific findings and building partnerships with scientists, regulators, businesses, and public interest groups to develop innovative solutions for reducing harmful chemicals in products. She is mainly focused on flame retardants, PFAS, and antimicrobials. Prior to joining the Institute Anna worked at the Great Lakes Commission managing federally funded scientific research grants and at the Maryland Department of the Environment on the total maximum daily load, fish consumption advisories, and community right-to-know projects.

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Anne Digges

Principal and Owner

Digges Design

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With backgrounds in architecture and publishing design Anne brings clear communication and bold impact to visual messaging. As principal and owner of Digges Design, her clients span diverse industries and stages from hi-tech to non-profit, start-up to Fortune 500. When not visually distilling the ideas of her clients she can be found parenting, gardening, cooking/tasting, creating/making and enjoying the great outdoors of northern California with her family.

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Anne Palmer

Program Director, Food Communities & Public Health

Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

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Anne Palmer, MAIA is a program director at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and an associate scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society. She directs the Food Policy Networks project, which seeks to improve the capacity food policy councils and similar organizations to advance food system policies. Ms. Palmer’s research interests include food retail, food policy and food policy councils, food environments, obesity, urban agriculture, local and regional food systems, and community food security. Prior to joining CLF, Palmer worked for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs for 13 years developing and managing strategic communication plans and large-scale health communication campaigns and programs in Asia.

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Anthony Myint

Co-Founder and Chair

Zero Foodprint

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Anthony Myint is a chef/food activist who co-founded and operates the non-profit Zero Foodprint and Mission Chinese Food (SF). His culinary career includes trailblazing the pop-up genre in 2008 and co-founding The Perennial an award-winning fine-dining restaurant championing regenerative agriculture (2016-2019). Myint is the winner of the 2019 Basque Culinary World Prize for his work through Zero Foodprint, mobilizing the restaurant industry toward climate solutions rooted in healthy soil and the development of funding mechanisms to scale regenerative practices in collaboration with the State of California.

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April Word

Head of Culinary

Thumbtack

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April Word is a chef, corporate food program manager, educator, and advocate for sustainable food systems. April currently runs the in-house culinary program at Thumbtack, a local-service platform based in San Francisco, where she works to reimagine the role that food plays in creating a vibrant corporate culture and a more sustainable food future. She picked up her culinary skills on extended stints living in Paris and Rome and then at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, where she worked as a cook for five years. April has a master’s degree in teaching history and has taught history, cooking, and gardening to grades 6-12.  She’s interested in opportunities that intersect her passions for education, food and sustainability.

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Arnab Gupta

Seed Systems Advisor

Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation

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Gisela Herrerías Guerra is President, Education Director and Co-Founder of Alternativas y Procesos de Participación Social A.C (Alternatives and Social Participation Processes), a community-based development organization focusing on ecological regeneration of watersheds, ecological agriculture, development finance, and development of social enterprises. Since 1980, Gisela and her husband Raúl Hernández Garciadiego have promoted sustainable regional development processes that benefit the poorest families and towns in the semi-arid region of the Mixteca, Mexico, with the support of an interdisciplinary team of around 200 people. As part of their work on ecological agriculture and amaranth production, Gisela and Raúl founded the Quali Cooperative Group, a vertically integrated agribusiness sourcing organic amaranth from 88 regional producer cooperative organizations, processing and producing nutritive amaranth food products. Quali supports 1,100 smallholder producers by providing a consistently above market average price for their harvest.

The work of Gisela and her team has been recognized internationally, receiving the Latin American and Caribbean Award for Water, the Slow Food Award for Defense of Biodiversity, and distinctions from the FAO and UNDP. Gisela has a degree in Pedagogy from the National Autonomous Mexico University (UNAM) and a Masters in Sciences of Enterprise Planning and Regional Development at the Oaxaca Institute of Technology.

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Becca Pryor

Partner

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Becca is a Partner at (en)visible, a sustainable food company founded on the belief that some of the world’s largest social and environmental challenges are rooted in the opaque, often corrupt systems that bring us our food. She is passionate about the intersection of sustainability, social justice and supply chain technology, and splits her time between communications and developing (en)visible’s Wholechain traceability system. Becca has a BA from Pomona College in Environmental Analysis, and after college taught middle school math in Oakland, CA for two years with Teach for America. Since then she has held various supply chain leadership roles, including at Yellow Leaf Hammocks, a social enterprise committed to women’s empowerment in rural Thailand, and organic textile company Coyuchi, where she managed supply chain operations and responsible sourcing.

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Becky Ramsing

Senior Program Officer, Food Communities & Public Health

Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

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Becky is a senior program officer at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, where she oversees research, communication, evaluation and programming that facilitate a shift toward sustainable, healthy diets that are plant-forward and lower in meat. She is primarily responsible for managing the Center’s science advisory role with the Meatless Monday Campaign.

Prior to joining the CLF, Becky worked as a Technical Advisor for Nutrition and Food Security to projects in Afghanistan and Ethiopia, helping women produce and utilize food for family consumption and income generation. She also worked as a nutrition consultant for community, worksite, and school-based programs developing and implementing health and nutrition curricula.

Becky studied nutrition at the University of California, Davis and became a registered dietitian in 1990. She received her Master in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1999. She worked clinically and then internationally developing a clinic-based diabetes nutrition education program in Tanzania. Throughout her career, Becky has worked in the nutrition/public health field focusing on helping individuals and organizations make healthful, lifestyle choices that are evidence based, relevant, and sustainable.

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Bela Gil

Television Chef

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Bela Gil is a chef, nutritionist, activist and author of 5 bestselling books in Brazil. Her career has spanned many fields: food, television and media, healthcare, women’s rights, public policy, and education. Underlying her work is the belief that a life of quality should be a right for everyone. More than that, she works towards a future where we are not only surviving, but thriving. She graduated with a BS in Nutrition from Hunter College and a diploma in Culinary Art’s from the Natural Gourmet Institute, both in New York. In 2019 she got a Master degree of Gastronomy at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy.

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Ben Thomas

Program Director

CAFF

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