Expert Resource Directory - W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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Photo	Name	Organization	Title	Region	Expertise
	Alissa Hamilton		author, advocate	National	Communications
Biography: Alissa Hamilton is the author of Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange ( ... ) Juice, which explores the hidden history of orange juice. Hamilton holds a Ph.D. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a J.D. from the University of Toronto Law School. She has been a Graham Research Fellow in International Human Rights at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She was a member of the 2008-2009 class of IATP Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Amanda Manning	Amanda Dew Manning & Associates	founder	Southeast	Communications, Agriculture
Biography: Amanda Dew Manning & Associates Inc. is a communications and marketing firm ( ... ) specializing in food, nutrition, and health. Manning, former associate administrator of the Food and Consumer Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, managed the largest school food service training and technical assistance effort ever undertaken by the USDA. The $24 million program was designed to support USDA School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children. She was also a member of the 2003-2005 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Andrea King Collier	N/A	journalist, author, and contentpreneur	Midwest	Communications, Food Justice, Health, Policy
Biography: Andrea King Collier is the lead author of The Black Woman’s Guide to Black Men’s ( ... ) Health, from Warner Wellness. Collier has been writing and speaking about health and health policy issues for the past 20 years. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Lansing State Journal and the Post-Tribune. Her work appears regularly in Essence, More, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Day, O, the Oprah Magazine, Real Health, Healthy Living, the National Medical Association Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, AARP Magazine,Heart Healthy Living, More, and others. She was also a member of the 2008-2009 class of IATP Food and Society Policy Fellows. Andrea has been married to Darnay Collier since 1985 (she was a child bride). She is the mother of two children, Nicole and Christopher, who are now older than she is. They live in Lansing, Michigan. Andrea is a native of Gary, Indiana. expand+
	Anna Lappe	The Small Planet Institute	founder	National	Communications, Food Justice
Biography: Anna Lappé is a widely respected author and educator, renowned for her work as a ( ... ) sustainable food advocate. The co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to nine others, Anna’s work has been widely translated internationally and featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, Oprah Magazine, among many other outlets. Named one of Time’s “eco” Who’s-Who, Anna is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund and has for more than a decade been a key force in the growing international movement for sustainability and justice in the food chain. She was also a member of the 2004-2006 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Anne Mosness	Go Wild Campaign	advocate	West	Community Food Systems, Communications
Biography: For many years, Anne Mosness was a captain of salmon fishing boats in Alaska and ( ... ) the Pacific Northwest. Through political action and public outreach, she brings attention to threats to wild fish habitat, the value of coastal communities, and similarities between family fishing businesses and small family farms on land. Mosness developed the "Go Wild Campaign" to educate consumers, media and policy makers about impacts of marine feedlots and how to make health-enhancing and environmentally sound seafood decisions. She was also a member of the 2001-2003 Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Bryant Terry	b-Healthy	eco chef, author	National	Communications
Biography: Bryant Terry is a chef, food justice activist, and author of two critically ( ... ) acclaimed books–Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine and Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (called “ingenious” by New York Times). For the past decade he has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system. Bryant has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections of poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity. He has made appearances on The Martha Stewart Show and Emeril Green, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Food & Wine, Oprah, Vegetarian Times, and Yoga Journal. His next book,The Inspired Vegan, will be published in January 2012, and he is currently working on a new website that will launch that month as well. He was also a member of the 2008-2009 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Claire Cummings	Food and Farming Forum	journalist, author	West	Communications
Biography: Claire Hope Cummings is an award winning author, environmental lawyer and ( ... ) journalist. She writes about the environmental, political, and cultural implications of food and farming. She produces, hosts, and reports for public radio, had a popular weekly show on KPFA-FM in Berkeley called "Eater's Digest." She lived and farmed in Vietnam and California, served in the USDA's office of General Counsel for four years and worked with traditional native communities for over 20 years. She was a member of the 2001-2003 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows. Claire's book "Uncertain Peril: genetic engineering and the future of seeds" won the 2009 American Book Award, and the Mary Klinger award for outstanding book from the Society for Economic Botany. expand+
	Curt Arens	Bow View Farm	farmer, journalist, farm progress publications	Midwest	Agriculture, Communications
Biography: Curt Arens has been a freelance farm writer for over 25 years. From 2005 until ( ... ) 2010, he has written about his own observations of rural landscapes and communities, humorous farm stories, and resilient farm folks for a weekly column called Farm to Family, originally published in the Cedar County News in Nebraska. Arens recently discontinued his colums after accepting a position as a regional editor for Farm Progress Publications, visiting farms and ranches and interviewing agriculture professionals, writing mostly for Nebraska Farmer and Dakota Farmer magazines. He was also a member of the 2003-2005 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Curt Ellis	FoodCorps	foodcorps co-founder, filmmaker of king corn	National	Communications, School Food, Youth Engagement
Biography: Curt Ellis grew up in Oregon and found his passion for food and ( ... ) sustainability at The Mountain School and Yale, then moved to Iowa to investigate the role of subsidized commodities in the American obesity epidemic. The film he co-created there, King Corn, produced with Ian Cheney and Aaron Woolf, received a national theatrical release and PBS broadcast, helped drive policy discussion around the Farm Bill, and earned a George Foster Peabody Award. Under a Food and Community Fellowship with the Institue for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Ellis helped launch the mobile garden project Truck Farm and directed Big River, a sequel to King Corn, for Discovery's Plant Green. Ellis is a Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur, a recipient of the Heinz Award, and has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC and NPR. He now serves as co-founder and Executive Director of the national nonprofit organization FoodCorps, wich recruits emerging leaders for a year of service building school gardens and connecting vulnerable children to healthy food. expand+
	David "Mas" Masumoto	Masumoto Family Farm	author, farmer	West	Agriculture, Communications
Biography: David "Mas" Masumoto is an organic peach and grape farmer and the author of four ( ... ) books including: Heirlooms, Letters to the Valley, Four Seasons in Five Senses, Harvest Son, Epitaph for a Peach and Wisdom of the Last Farmer. A third generation farmer, Masumoto grows peaches, nectarines, grapes and raisins on an organic 80 acre farm south of Fresno, California. Masumoto is currently a columnist for and The Fresno Bee. He was also a member of the 2006-2008 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+

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