Chris is the Director of Sales for Vesta Foodservice, and was formally LA and SF Specialty. He is based in Hayward and he has been with Vesta since 1993. Chris started the northern California branch of the company in 1999 in San Francisco. Prior to working for Vesta, Chris was a chef and graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park.
Professor Christel Cederberg from Department Space, Earth and Environment at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden does research in the area of sustainable biomass production with a focus on agriculture and food. She has a long experience of environmental system analysis, e.g. life cycle assessment (LCA), especially livestock production systems. In on-going projects, she is investigating grass-based biorefineries, food systems with improved nutrient cycles and potentials for carbon sequestrations in soils and forests.
Dr. Christian Bunn is scientist for climate smart coffee and cocoa value chains at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia. His work combines quantitative climate data analysis with participatory and qualitative research with the objective to mainstream climate adaptation into sustainability projects.
Dr Christian Reynolds is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London; and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Food, University of Sheffield, and at the Barbara Hardy Institute for Sustainable Environments and Technologies, University of South Australia. Christian researches the economic and environmental impacts of food loss and waste, and the how to shift towards sustainable diets and cookery.
Christie Keithis GAIA’s International Coordinator and U.S. Executive Director. She joined the network in 2005 and brings more than 25 years of experience with social movements and international nonprofit organizations, including seven years in Guatemala as a popular educator, program coordinator, and strategic planning consultant. Christie has held multiple Executive and Development Director positions, primarily with international human rights and environmental health and justice organizations that have experienced growth or were undergoing transitions. Her leadership has played a critical part in developing GAIA’s collaboration with organized waste workers to raise the profile of zero waste and the rights of informal sector recyclers, and in generally expanding GAIA’s work in the economic and climate justice arena. In 2018 she received a prestigious 3-month sabbatical awarded by O2 Initiatives to successful nonprofit leaders that are aiming to grow their organizations. In the last four years Christie has helped to spearhead GAIA’s engagement in the Break Free From Plastic movement, and in addressing the issue of ocean plastic pollution through investment in grassroots organizing, upstream policies, and community-led solutions.
Christina A. Roberto, Ph.D. is the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a psychologist and epidemiologist who studies policies and interventions to promote healthy eating habits and prevent nutrition-related chronic diseases. Dr. Roberto is Director of the Psychology of Eating And Consumer Health lab, or PEACH lab. Her research strives to provide policymakers and institutions with science-based guidance on creating and implementing food and nutrition policy.
Christine is a marine conservation biologist and ocean advocate. She has worked in marine research and conservation in Central America for over a decade, where she is applying her research findings to the conservation of different endangered species, in particular, marine turtles.
She is a founding member of the grassroots organization Costa Rican Alliance for Sea Turtle Conservation & Science (COASTS) in Costa Rica, which is meant to empower local conservationists and scientists, in particular local women. Her claim to fame and shining public moment is a viral video she uploaded in 2015 that documented the removal of a plastic straw from an olive ridley turtle’s nose. That video provided fuel and a valuable tool for the global anti-straw movement, leading to several straw bans by businesses such as Starbucks, Disney, and Alaska Airlines. It has also given her a voice in the conversation around the use of single-use plastics and other environmental issues affecting marine life. She has made such an impact that she was recently name a Next Generation Leader by Time Magazine, and was a finalist of the feature “Texan of the Year” by the Dallas Morning News.
So while the video might be a few years old at this point, her research, campaign against single-use plastics for the benefit and conservation of marine life, and her empowerment of women in STEM is still young, important, and necessary.
Christophe Jospe is the chief development officer and co-founder of Nori. Nori is a start-up building a private-sector ecosystem service marketplace to help US farmers get paid for the carbon removal outcome of regenerative practices through issuing Nori Carbon Removal Tonnes (NRTs). At Nori, Christophe leads the effort to build the supply of NRTs and develop the underlying croplands methodology to create them. He loves learning, strategizing, and getting things done. He was dubbed once a “used carbon salesman” for his obsession for pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and aligning climate solutions where they provide value. When he’s not wearing his used carbon salesman hat, he’s cooking, taking care of plants, in nature, or playing music.
Christopher Gardner is a nutrition scientist and the Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine. For 26 years at Stanford he has studied what to consume and to avoid for optimal health, and how best to motivate individuals to achieve healthy dietary behaviors. He has served on many committees for organizations such as the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, and has conducted and published dozens of human nutrition intervention trials. Current research interests including collaborating with chefs and dining operators as research partners in an effort to identify strategies to optimize the intersection of taste, health and environmental sustainability. Christopher teaches several food and nutrition classes, including an on-line course recently launched through the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Claire Sand focuses on science and value chain initiatives to achieve more sustainable product systems. This involves more sustainable packaging that prevents waste. Sand is a Global Packaging Leader with 30+ years of broad experience in the science and packaging spectrum and leads cross-functional efforts, infuses innovative solutions, provides compelling business technology strategies and business cases, and generates implementation roadmaps for the packaging and food industry. Sand has held a variety of roles across the science and packaging spectrum from basic research and development to marketing and everything in between. Her portfolio includes working with Gerber-Nestle, Pillsbury-General Mills, Kraft Foods-Kraft Heinz, Dominick’s-Safeway, and research institutes in Germany, Colombia, and Thailand. Dr. Sand holds a Ph.D. in Food Science from the UofMn and MS and BS in Packaging from MSU.
Clement is founder and ceo of Green Gold Social Enterprise. Green Gold introduces a solution to alleviate poverty and combat malnutrition in the North of Ghana by introduction smallholder farmers to Moringa as an additional cash crop. Moringa seeds are bought and processed into Moringa Oil by Green Gold. The moringa oil which will be sold to the global cosmetic industry while the nutritious leaves will be used locally to combat malnutrition. Besides involving smallholder farmers, it is also establishing its own plantation and processing factory and create fair wage jobs. At least 50% of the profit made by Green Gold S.E. is reinvested in the farmers’ communities in the areas of health, education and economic development.
Corey has worked on sustainable seafood issues for more than 17 years and is the co-founder of Postelsia, a company that supports innovative solutions for sustainability challenges in the seafood industry. Postelsia works toward inclusive solutions that seek to solve problems for the whole supply chain. Their recent work includes supporting the development of the James Beard Smart Catch program, a chef education program that seeks to educate chefs about sustainable seafood and supports their involvement in efforts to improve seafood. Postelsia has also been supporting the development of the Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative, a group of stakeholders working to build their own fisheries and shrimp aquaculture improvement tools in Southeast Asia.
Using systems thinking, strategic innovation & design Dagny’s work pushes the boundaries of how we think about everyday decisions and builds the capacity in others to have real impact on today’s pressing issues. She is the founder of Vessel, a library style system of reusables designed to disrupt the status quo of disposability with elegant and convenient closed-loop alternatives. Vessel is Tucker’s targeted effort to close the persistent gap between actions and rhetoric pertaining to sustainability practises from an individual level up to the city official level.
She has held executive level business and not-for-profit appointments that have traversed five continents and represent two decades of experience in strategy, service design, project implementation, management,
and government and community engagement. After decades of sustainability meetings and conferences where it was normal to show up with your coffee in a paper cup, Dagny Tucker, felt it was time to address the little things.
Often “sustainability” conversations in board rooms, at conference podiums and in classrooms addressed large scale, monolithic actions- leaving out entirely the impact of those little everyday choices. Making meaningful change within an often opaque and on-the-go culture was no easy task. Dagny saw Vessel as one way to bring to light our potential to have a positive impact through our everyday choices.
Dagny Tucker is the founder of Vessel, taught at Parsons The New School for Design, was formerly the Managing Director of Strategic Global Affairs for New Hope Natural Media and Executive Director of the Peace Initiatives Institute. A Tishman Scholarship recipient for “outstanding achievement in sustainability,” she holds a Ph.D. in International Peace, Conflict and Development from Universitat Jaume I in Spain and a M.S. in Design in Urban Ecologies from Parsons the New School for Design.
Dagny has spoken at major conferences globally including United Nations Habitat II, Shared Value Leadership Summit, Structures for Inclusion, Green Festivals and Natural Products Expo West.
Dana Gunders is Executive Director of ReFED, a nonprofit focused on activating solutions to U.S. food waste. Deemed “the woman who helped start the waste-free movement” by Consumer Reports, Dana is a national expert and one of the first to bring to light just how much food is wasted across the country through her 2012 report Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill. For almost a decade, she was a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and then launched her own business Next Course to strategically advise on the topic. Some of her career highlights include authoring Waste Free Kitchen Handbook, launching the Save the Food campaign, testifying in Congress, and appearing on John Oliver. When not worrying about it professionally, she spends far too much time convincing her two young kids to eat broccoli stalks and not throw food on the floor.
Danielle Nierenberg is a world-renowned researcher, speaker, and advocate, on all issues relating to our food system and agriculture.
She is president of Food Tank, nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Food Tank is a global convener, research organization, and non-biased creator of original research impacting the food system.
Danielle has written extensively on gender and population, the spread of factory farming in the developing world, and innovations in sustainable agriculture.
Prior to starting Food Tank, Danielle spent two years traveling to more than 35 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America, meeting with farmers and farmers’s groups, scientists and researchers, policymakers and government leaders, students and academics, along with journalists, documenting what’s working to help alleviate hunger and poverty, while protecting the environment.
She has an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and spent two years volunteering for the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic.
Daphene joined the Center for a Livable Future in 2019 as a Program Officer with the Food Communities & Public Health Program, following a year-long dietetic internship that led to her becoming a registered dietitian/nutritionist (RDN). Before that, she was an epidemiologist and lead evaluator at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Oral Health Department. While there, she performed all data collection, analysis and reporting activities, and served as the chief evaluator for the HRSA workforce grant and CDC’s Cooperative Agreements oral health grant. She developed and implemented a five-year evaluation plan for Maryland’s oral health program and evaluated legislation to determine effectiveness and impact.
At the Center, Daphene uses her expertise and experience as a nutritionist to support the Meatless Monday campaign. She’s especially interested in reaching young people with wellness messages through school programs and community outreach to effect generational change. “Get them started early,” is one of her guiding principles.
As the granddaughter of long-lived Haitians who “ate what they grew and what they raised on the land,” Daphene learned first-hand about the benefits of eating fresh, organic, whole, locally-grown foods. “They taught me the importance of family, wholesome eating and how to live simply,” she says about her grandparents, who lived into their late 80s and 90s. She feels that her work at the Center and with the Monday Campaign is an opportunity to apply her experience in public health epidemiology to issues she feels passionately about—public health and sustainability.
Dava is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Noise 13, a branding and design agency connecting business to their core purpose. She is the connector of teams and clients and keeps her eye on the bigger business vision when planning for a brand strategy.
Dava is also the Co-Founder of In/Visible Project which produces In/Visible Talks, a conference bringing people together through conversation about the art of design. She also sits on the advisory boards for Good People, Slow Food California, and Good Food Foundation. She is a judge for the Good Food Awards and was on the board of Slow Food San Francisco from 2008-2017. Collaborate, work with teams you love, and always eat well.
David Azoulay is the Managing Attorney of the Geneva office of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and Director of CIEL’s Environmental Health Program.
David is a French attorney who studied public international law in France and Spain before specializing in environmental law. Before taking on that role at CIEL, he worked as an associate in environmental law in the Paris office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and coordinated Friends of the Earth Europe’s campaign for REACH implementation of REACH from Brussels.
David co-leads CIEL’s plastic work, examining the environmental health aspects of it (David was the main author of the joint report plastic and health: The hidden cost of a plastic planet) and coordinates civil society’s engagement in global policies forum such as the United Nation Environment Assembly (UNEA) and the Basel Convention. He also supervises CIEL’s work at EU level to ensure that the various impacts of plastics throughout its life cycle are adequately considered in EU policy, and in particular in the design of the EU circular economy strategy, and EU Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals strategy.
David is also a member of the steering committee of IPEN, a network of over 600 NGOs around the world actively working for a toxic free future.
David is ESMC’s Senior Director for Strategic Business Development & Membership. ESMC is a member-based organization launching a national scale ecosystem services market for agriculture to recognize and reward farmers and ranchers for their environmental services to society. ESMC members represent the spectrum of the agricultural sector supply chain with whom we are scaling sustainable agricultural sector outcomes such as increased soil carbon, reduced net greenhouse gases, and improved water quality and water use conservation. Before joining ESMC, David was Vice President of Partners in Food Solutions, a non-profit consortium of international food and agribusiness companies helping accelerate growth of food processing in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also served as a Director of Hunger-Free Minnesota, a statewide non-profit campaign affiliated with Minnesota’s Feeding America food banks and other local organizations and companies. Dayhoff held various agribusiness marketing, strategy and analytical roles over 14+ years with Cargill, Incorporated in the USA and Brazil. He began his career working for the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee and U.S. Senator Richard Lugar. David resides in Minnetonka with his wife and two children. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
David M. Eisenberg, MD, is the director of culinary nutrition and adjunct associate professor of nutrition at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He is the founding Co-Director of the Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives conference, and founding Co-Director of The Culinary Institute of America -Harvard Chan Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, a group of 30+ organizations with teaching kitchens, intended to establish and evaluate best practices relating to nutrition, culinary and lifestyle education.
From 2000-2010, Dr. Eisenberg served as the Bernard Osher Distinguished Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and founding chief of the Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies at Harvard Medical School. He simultaneously served as the director of the Program in Integrative Medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital.
David is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
In 1979, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, David served as the first U.S. medical exchange student to the People’s Republic of China.
He has served as an advisor to the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Academy of Sciences and the Federation of State Medical Boards with regard to complementary, integrative and lifestyle medicine research, education and policy.
Dean Ornish, M.D., is founder/president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and UCSD. He received his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, was a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School, and his residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He earned a B.A. in Humanities summa cum laudefrom the University of Texas in Austin, where he gave the baccalaureate address.
He directed clinical research demonstrating, for the first time, that lifestyle medicine may reverse even severe heart disease and slow, stop or reverse early-stage prostate cancer, change gene expression and reverse aging by lengthening telomeres. Medicare created a new benefit category to cover his program. He is currently directing the first study to determine if lifestyle changes can reverse early Alzheimer’s disease.
He is the author of 7 books, all national bestsellers, including UnDo It! His three main-stage TED.com talks have been viewed by almost 6 million people.
His research was published in the leading medical journals and featured in all major media, including cover stories in Newsweek, TIME, and USNWR. He has written a column for TIME, Newsweek and Reader’s Digest, is a LinkedIn Influencer, and was Medical Editor of The Huffington Post 2010-2016. He established a lifestyle medicine clinic at the St. Vincent de Paul Homeless Shelter in San Francisco where over 30,000 homeless people were treated.
He was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and by President Obama to the White House Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health.
Debbie is the Executive Director of the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC). ESMC is a member-based organization launching a national scale ecosystem services market for agriculture to recognize and reward farmers and ranchers for their environmental services to society. ESMC members represent the spectrum of the agricultural sector supply chain with whom we are scaling sustainable agricultural sector outcomes, including increased soil carbon, reduced net greenhouse gases (GHG), and improved water quality and water use conservation. Debbie’s role in leading ESMC builds on decades of experience in agriculture climate change mitigation and sustainability efforts at the national and international level. Debbie previously led the Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (C-AGG), a national multi-stakeholder coalition, supporting the development of tools, support systems, knowledge and programs to improve quantification of GHG from agriculture.
Dr. Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Zipongo, the San Francisco-based based digital health and wellness company that focuses on enabling healthy eating – Healthy Eating, Made Simple”.Dr. Shurney is the former Chief Medical Director / Executive Director for Global Health Benefits and Corporate Wellness for Cummins, Inc. He has an extensive background in health care management and policy. He has distinguished himself as a recognized leader in his profession in numerous ways. Prior to Cummins, Dr. Shurney was the Chief Medical Director of the
Employee Health Plan for Vanderbilt University and Medical Center. During his tenure at Vanderbilt he also held joint faculty appointments as Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Internal Medicine and Public Health, and Adjunct Faculty, Owens Graduate School of Management. Other positions that Dr. Shurney has held include Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Healthways, Senior Health Policy Strategist in the Division of Government Affairs for the biotechnology company Amgen Inc., Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of medical affairs for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and Editor of the Journal of Managed Care Physicians.
Dr. Shurney serves on numerous boards including: the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) where he is the current President, the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM), and the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP). From 2007-2009, he served as the Chair of the Tennessee Diabetes Prevention and Health Improvement Board, appointed by Governor Phil Bredesen. He was also the most recent Chair of the Business Strategies Committee for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP). For 12 years he served as the American College of Medical Quality’s (ACMQ) elected delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA).
Dr. Shurney is co-author of the book “Integrating Wellness into Your Disease Management Programs” which is a “how- to” strategic guide for employers that wish to innovate their approach to chronic condition management.
Dr. Shurney is board-certified in lifestyle medicine and general preventive medicine / public health. He is a fellow in the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.
Dianna Cohen is co-founder and CEO of Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC) and a passionate advocate against plastic pollution. PPC is a growing global alliance of nearly 700 organizations, businesses, and notable thought leaders working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, and the environment. A Los Angeles based visual artist, Dianna has shown her work internationally at galleries, foundations, and museums. She uses plastic in her artwork to make a visual and social impact. With plastic bags as her primary material for the past 27 years, Cohen is interested in exploring its materiality through modifications and the material’s relationship to culture, media, toxicity, and the world at large and shared this in her 2010 TED talk “Tough Truths About Plastic Pollution.” Dianna is a frequent speaker and guest and has spoken at the UN and international conferences and symposia, and has been interviewed by Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Martha Stewart Living, and many others. Dianna studied Biology, Art, and Film at the University of California, Los Angeles and holds a BA in Fine Arts.
Dr. Dorn Cox serves as project lead for OpenTEAM (Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management) and research director for Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment, a nonprofit research and education center, and a working organic farm on 600 acres of conserved land on the coast of Maine.
Dorn also lives and works on his family’s 300-acre certified organic farm in New Hampshire. As a co-founder of the FarmOS software platform, the GOAT (Gathering for Open Ag Tech) and Farm Hack community, he is passionate about sharing open source agricultural tools, ideas information and inspiration to accelerate innovation and quantify environmental services from regenerative agriculture. In 2018 his work as a NACD Soil Health Champion was recognized with the inaugural Hugh Hammond Bennett award for excellence in conservation given by the National Association of Conservation Districts, and in 2019, Dorn was awarded the Food Shot Global Ground Breaker prize. He has a PhD from the University of New Hampshire in Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science.
Dörte Bachmann is the Sustainability Manager of the SV Group, a leading gastronomy and hotel management group based in Switzerland. She is responsible for the implementation and advancement of the proprietary sustainability program ONE TWO WE. She holds a PhD in plant ecology from ETH Zurich. Before joining the SV Group, she gained experiences in Life Cycle Assessment by supporting the development for a method to assess the impact of agricultural production on soil quality. She also worked for the Swiss organization foodwaste.ch, where she was involved in several awareness raising campaigns. Last, she was employed in the Sustainability Office of ETH Zurich.
Douglas Gayeton, Chief Lexicographer and Co-founder of The Lexicon, is an award-winning information architect, filmmaker, photographer, and writer who has created work at the boundaries of traditional and converging media since the early 90’s. He directed the KNOW YOUR FOOD series for PBS and GROWING ORGANIC for USDA, and has authored two books, SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town, and LOCAL: The New Face of Food & Farming in America.
I am a global food system expert and advisor, with specialist knowledge in sustainable diets, food and nutrition security and agricultural diversity. I am an expert public speaker and have spoken at universities, festivals and to the EU parliment and the FAO, I have appeared on radio and TV and on podcasts and have contributed to various books and blogs. I am a founder and a Director at Eating Better. Currently I am participating in the Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GAFF) Salzburg process on food systems. I am on the advisory body for the DiverIMPACTS project, which focuses on crop diversification through crop rotation with multiple actors across Europe. This built on my work at WWF UK on agricultural diversity, which partially led to their partnership with Knorr and the Future 50 report. I am on the steering group for foodSIVI – the impact valuation of Food System program looking at the true cost of food, run by Oxford University. I am on the advisory group for the Food and Climate Research Network and the Food Bites project. I have participated in various Food Systems Dialogues, led by David Nabarro. I have been on steering groups and advisory bodies for Forum for the Future’s Protein 2040, and the Food Foundation’s Peas Please and Veg Power programs. I was one of only 2 Civil society experts invited to join the steering group that negotiated the format of the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Food Systems Program, previously under the UN’s 10YR Sustainable Consumption and Production banner. Until April 2020 I was the Global Head of Policy and Research at Compassion with the goal of helping to create a global agreement for sustainable food systems. Whilst WWF UK I led the work food systems, diets, nutrition security, agricultural diversity and behaviour change. I developed and delivered the on-going Livewell project, which demonstrates that a healthy diet can be sustainable. I ran WWF International’s area of collective action on sustainable diets for the food practice and on the steering group for the SDG post 2015 agenda.
Elise Suronen is an Environmental Consultant with ten years of experience in natural resources restoration. She is contracted to help organizations promote and scale the implementation of carbon farming practices. For eight years, Elise has been the Conservation Program Manager of the Marin Resource Conservation District. She managed the District’s multi-million dollar restoration project, Pine Gulch Creek Enhancement Project, and secured a couple million dollars to sustain the District’s oldest landowner assistance program. Elise has helped over 40 farmers, dairy owners and ranchers with the planning, permitting and implementation of over 100 conservation practices to improve water quality, enhance soil health, protect wildlife habitat and increase carbon-sequestration on farms. She is a member of the Marin Carbon Project’s Implementation Task Force and is the Coordinator for the Marin Carbon Project’s Steering Committee. Elise’s work with ranchers, state and federal agencies began in Idaho, when she was evaluating fire as a restoration tool. She holds a MSc in Natural Resources with a focus on restoration ecology from the University of Idaho.
Emily DiFrisco is the Director of Communications at Plastic Pollution Coalition. She has 13 years of experience in communications and digital strategy, for nonprofit organizations. She helped create viral social media campaigns “Orangegate” and “Open Your Eyes” with Jeff Bridges for Plastic Pollution Coalition, and on toxic chemicals and children’s health for Healthy Child Healthy World and Environmental Working Group. She lives in Chicago, IL with her spouse and 3 children.
Emily M. Broad Leib is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Deputy Director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. Broad Leib founded Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic, the first law school clinic in the nation devoted to providing legal and policy guidance on food law and policy issues. Broad Leib focuses her scholarship, teaching, and practice on finding solutions to the biggest health, economic, and environmental issues facing our food system. She has published scholarly articles in the California Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, the Harvard Law & Policy Review, the Food & Drug Law Journal, and the Journal of Food Law & Policy, among others.
Broad Leib is recognized as a national leader in Food Law and Policy. She was named by Fortune and Food & Wine to their list of 2016’s Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink. The list highlights women who had the most transformative impact on what the public eats and drinks. Her work also has been covered in such media outlets as The New York Times, CNN, CBS This Morning, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, TIME, Politico, and the Washington Post. Broad Leib received her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude.
Eric Ahnmark is the Sustainability Program Manager for Recology, the San Francisco-based resource recovery and waste disposal company that serves more than 140 communities throughout the west coast. Eric leads the company’s sustainability platform, including energy and resource management and sustainability reporting. Eric’s nearly 10 years in the industry also includes experience with waste stream analyses, strategic partnership development, and process improvement. Eric is a zero waste champion who loves to talk trash.
Dr Eric Huttner is the Research Program Manager for Crops since 2012. He started his career in plant molecular genetics working in public research institute, INRA, in France, and has worked for more than 20 years in a range of private companies, including founding a start-up plant genetic analysis service company. He has also been involved in managing public-private research initiatives in both Australia and France. Eric was a founding partner and director of Australia’s Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Science and a member of the Australian Biotechnology Advisory Council. He is a graduate of France’s leading agricultural science school, Institut National Agronomique (AgroParisTech) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Chinese Academy of Science in 1987.
Eric pursues an approach to brand communications that combines storytelling techniques from the world’s great narrative traditions with an ongoing study of marketplace dynamics. Viewing brand development as equal parts business discipline and art form, he and his teams have successfully addressed complex communications challenges for everything from cities and retail destinations to luxury fashion and emerging technologies. In addition to helping clients achieve their business objectives through strengthening their connection with their audiences, Eric is dedicated to advancing brand practice through the ongoing development and refinement of tools and methods—and transforming the marketplace through the power of storytelling.
Applied Storytelling is a strategy firm that solves the biggest brand challenges companies face using an inspired, story-based approach. We begin with the simple premise that a brand is a story told in the marketplace. This turns out to be a remarkably versatile and powerful springboard for building brands that capture the imagination, foster strong cultures, create new value, and drive businesses where their leaders want to take them.
Eric is an agricultural economist, diplomat, and executive driven by the desire to end malnutrition, global poverty, and food insecurity in his lifetime. His achievements in the public and private sectors include international agriculture development, nutrition policy, regulatory and government affairs, strategic planning, agriculture, trade policy, export promotion, management, and evaluation.
Eric has more than 25 years’ experience working globally on food and agricultural issues, including service as a Foreign Service Officer at United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) both in Washington and abroad. Subsequent work included the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, consulting at McLarty Associates, and with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). He has lived and worked in China, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Russia, with additional later field experience in Africa, South America, and South Asia.
He received a Master’s of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Southern California with a concentration in program evaluation and an Master’s of Science (MS) in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University with a focus on international economic development and public policy.
