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In this role, she participates in the development of programming priorities, reviews and recommends proposals for funding, manages and monitors a portfolio of active grants, and designs and implements national grants initiatives and multi-year projects. Specifically, Ms. Doctor helps guide Foundation programming in Food, Health and Well Being and in its home state of Michigan. Previously, Ms. Doctor was deputy director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Allies Against Asthma Program housed at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She also directed the Division of Prevention at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where she provided leadership for statewide health promotion and prevention programs and interagency initiatives. She has worked in substance abuse prevention including managing a national training and technical assistance system supported by the federal Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Ms. Doctor has had leadership roles in several professional associations including the Prevention Network and the Association of State and Territorial Health Promotion Directors, and is a member of the American Public Health Association and the Society of Public Health Education. Ms. Doctor received her Masters degree in public health from Boston University School of Public Health. She received her Bachelor of Science in social work from the University of Cincinnati, College of Community Services.

Lecturer after co-founding a strategic and policy consulting group, serving as a senior White House and U.S. Department of Labor official. From 1998 to 2001, she served as assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton.  Among her responsibilities in this role was overseeing issues relating to Mexico and Latin America.  She has worked as a community leader and corporate attorney.  She is also a Senior Fellow with the Law School’s Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity. Ms Echaveste is also a non-resident fellow of the Center for American Progress working on issues such as immigration, civil rights, education and Latin America.. She continues to provide strategic and policy advice to a variety of corporate, non-profit and union clients through her consulting firm, NVG, LLC.

State University and head of the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU. Mike is affiliated with the Departments of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies; Crop and Soil Sciences; and Food Science and Human Nutrition. His appointment encompasses teaching, the Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension. The work of the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU is focused on small and medium scale family farm viability, equal access by all members of a community to a healthy diet, and dispersing animals in the countryside. Prior to moving to MSU he was Dean of Academic and Student Programs for Cook College, Rutgers University. As a faculty member at Rutgers University he was co-founder and director of the New Jersey Urban Ecology Program, an effort that brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds to address sustainable food systems in New Jersey. He was also faciitator for the New Jersey Cooperative Gleaning Network since 1998 and the founding director of the Cook Student Organic Farm from 1993 to 1998. He was board member and board president of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey. He does research in the areas of community food security, community and sustainable food systems.

Institute since 2006. Mr. Roberts is of the Tlingit Nation: Gooch/Ch'aak' naa (Wolf/Eagle Tribe), Kóon Hít (Flicker House), Kooyu Kwáan (Kuiu Island People). His Tlingit name is T'eix Sháach Tsín. As President, Mr. Roberts is responsible for First Nations' overall vision, coordination and communication of programmatic, administrative, and grantmaking strategies. He is a member of First Nations' board of directors, is a founding board member and chairman of First Nations Oweesta Corporation, and serves on the grants review committee of First Nations' Eagle Staff Fund. Prior to First Nations, Mr. Roberts spent five years in private equity; most recently he operated his own consulting firm, Camus Consulting in Denver, Colorado. He provided private equity investment advice to high-worth, angel investors. Mr. Roberts' private equity experience includes providing due diligence, financial analysis, strategic planning and monitoring, and investment recommendations to the principals and investment directors of Meritage Private Equity Fund, a private equity firm with more than $340 million under management. Mr. Roberts also spent two years with Kansas City Equity Partners (KCEP), a highly respected mid-west venture capital firm. His tenure with KCEP was in conjunction with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's Fellows Program.Mr. Roberts also serves as a board member for Native Americans in Philanthropy, the National Center for Family Philanthropy, as well the advisory committee for the Lakota Fund, Indian Country's first community development financial institution. He received his master of business administration from the University of Washington with an emphasis in finance and operations management, and a bachelor's of environmental design degree in architecture from the University of Colorado.

Sustainable Agriculture Systems at College of the Atlantic. Molly has focused her career on food systems issues, from the perspectives of farmers, consumers, businesses and NGOs. She is especially interested in effective multi-stakeholder collaborations for sustainability. Her professional writing and speaking is on food security, food politics, food rights, food sovereignty and sustainability metrics. She was a Coordinating Lead Author on the North America/Europe section of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development.Before coming to COA, Molly consulted for several years on science and policy for social justice, ecological integrity and democratic food systems. Prior to that, she held two interim positions at Oxfam America 2002-2005 and a faculty position at Tufts University, where she taught, administered programs, built partnerships and conducted research for 14 years. She co-founded the Agriculture, Food and Environment Graduate Degree Program in the School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts and directed its first five years, during which she established the curriculum and joint programs. She also directed Tufts Institute of the Environment for two years. She was a national Food & Society Policy Fellow 2002-2004, and currently is a Senior Wallace Fellow at Winrock International. Molly serves on several advisory boards related to sustainable agriculture and food systems. She is a Standards Committee member of the ANSI Sustainable Agriculture Standards initiative, administered by the Leonardo Academy. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition.

social entrepreneur with seventeen years experience in media production and distribution. Parent Earth, a company in development, will answer parents’ questions about food and help them to create a food system that supports healthy thriving children. Betancourt co-founded, produced, and did video design for LightBox’s Food Theater Project, which includes the play “Milk-n-Honey”, the After Show Cafe and a youth workshop program. She was the Producer, Director and Videographer for "Before You Go" (HBO documentary that won an Emmy and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival), Partes de Agua (a multi-media performance piece in Oaxaca, Mexico), and "Changing Course" (advocacy video about Latin American farmers for World Neighbors). Her other producing and videographer credits include "90 Miles" (POV/PBS), which won Best Documentary at both the New York Latino International Film Festival and the Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Cuba. Betancourt was the Creative Director and then Executive Director of MediaRights, a nonprofit organization dedicated to media for social change, where she launched its online community and built up the award-winning Media That Matters Film Festival. She was a Donnella Meadows Fellow and she serves on various councils and boards. Her work has been praised in the New York Times, USA Today, and Variety, by the Oprah Winfrey Show and at film festivals from Minsk to Taipei. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and two young daughters. She was a member of the 2009-2010 class of Food and Society Fellows.

Campaign at AFOP. She has long been an active advocate for migrant farmworker children’s rights and continues to raise awareness of migrant farmworker issues across the country in her current role. Lopez has also had the opportunity testify to Congress and has appeared on national news outlets on issues related to child labor in agriculture. In addition to her years of experience as an advocate, she has invaluable firsthand experience with farmworker issues.

food systems and the author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All. His experience in the philanthropic sector includes more than 15 years as program director for Food Systems at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He also played an essential role in the establishment of the Michigan Food Policy Council and has made significant contributions to the funding of healthy food and farming via his leadership of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders group. Prior to starting the Fair Food Network, Dr. Hesterman was the inaugural president of Fair Food Foundation, leading their sustainable food systems programs. Prior to his work in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, he researched and taught forage and cropping systems management, sustainable agriculture, and leadership development in the crop and soil sciences department at Michigan State University in East Lansing.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. Dr. Hesterman earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California, Davis, in plant science/vegetable crops and agronomy, respectively. He received his doctorate in agronomy and business administration from the University of Minnesota, St. Paul.

Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Book Review, and Opinion Page.  He has also written for National Geographic Magazine, GQ, The Times (of London), Vogue, and many other publications. In the last five years he has been both a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow. A guest and commentator on public radio programs including Fresh Air and All Things Considered, Mr. Greenberg is also a fiction writer. His 2002 novel, Leaving Katya, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Greenberg also lectures widely on issues of ocean sustainability at venues that range from Google to the United States Supreme Court to The Culinary Institute of America. He has lectured and reported extensively overseas with assignments in Russia, Ukraine, France, the Caucasus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, the West Bank/Gaza, and many other locations around the world.