Expert Resource Directory - W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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Photo	Name	Organization	Title	Region	Expertise
	Holly Freishtat	Baltimore City Food Policy	food policy director	Northeast	Community Food Systems, Policy, Health
Biography: Holly Freishtat is Baltimore City’s first Food Policy Director. In this role, ( ... ) she created the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, an inter-governmental collaboration that aims to increase access to healthy affordable food in food deserts in Baltimore City. Using a multi-sector perspective, Freishtat addresses policy barriers, facilitates new partnerships, and leverages funding to implement innovative solutions to address food access issues in Baltimore. She is a key advocate at the city, state, and federal level for policies to enhance availability of healthy affordable food in Baltimore’s food deserts. Freishtat has spent over a decade working on food issues in a variety of contexts, experiences that have provided her with an understanding of the food system from the perspective of a nutritionist, an educator, and a farmer. Previously, through Washington State University King County Extension, Freishtat founded CHANGE – a farm-to-school program – and developed the program’s gardening and cooking nutrition curriculum. Freishtat’s perspective on the food system is also influenced by her experience working in the agricultural sector. As the Agricultural Marketing Director for Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland, she developed a farm-to-healthcare pilot project that provided healthy, seasonal foods to hospitals and retirement communities while creating new markets for farmers. She also worked as the Community Food System Coordinator for the Lopez Community Land Trust, where she coordinated the development of the first USDA-inspected mobile slaughter facility in the country, providing consumers with direct access to local beef, pork and lamb. Freishtat has a Masters of Science from Tufts University in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition. She was a member of the 2007-2008 Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Jamie Harvie	Institute for a Sustainable Future	executive director	National	Health, Community Food Systems, Food Value Chains, Policy
Biography: Jamie Harvie, P. E. is the Executive Director of the Institute for a ( ... ) Sustainable Future (ISF), Duluth, MN and is a nationally recognized prevention leader through his extensive experience at the intersection of healthcare and ecological health. For this work he has been interviewed and cited in media including Time Magazine, USA Today, Minnesota and National Public Radio. His toxics pollution prevention expertise includes the coordination of a national mercury elimination campaign where he led negotiations with the top US retailers to voluntarily eliminate the sale of mercury thermometers, and the successful coordination and passage of mercury legislation across the United States. Jamie founded the Healthy Food in Healthcare Initiative in which he directed a nationwide collaboration of NGO, clinicians and healthcare partners, to create healthcare food policy and practice change prevention models. This work included the development of the Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge a nationally adopted hospital commitment to nutritious food from sustainable food systems. He serves on the steering committee for the Green Guide for Healthcare, the healthcare sector’s only quantifiable sustainable design and operations toolkit and where he coordinated the development of the nation’s first healthcare food service metrics. For his work, his organization, with Duluth based St. Luke’s, won a MN Governor’s Award for their work on Healthy Food in Healthcare. In 2009, along with awardees Growing Power’s Will Allen and food management company Bon Appetit; Jamie was awarded the “National Thought Leader” category for his work on healthcare and sustainable food systems. In 2012, Mr. Harvie was recognized by Food Service Director magazine as one of the top 20 most influential food system leaders. Mr. Harvie was one of the national experts invited to present a white paper on food and healthcare at the Food Systems and Public Health Conference: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities, later published as part of a series in the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. He was also one of an invited expert panel on policy and environmental approaches to improve food, physical activity, breast feeding and tobacco environments in hospitals by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity. Within Minnesota, he provided expertise to the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians to support their successful adoption of a resolution supporting Healthy Food in Healthcare. More recently, Jamie co-founded the Lake Superior Good Food Network, a regional campaign to transform the food system within northern Minnesota and helped establish the Commons Health Care Network, a global network of community-based healthcare and prevention advocates. He has consulted on pollution prevention for clients including the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, City of San Francisco, World Health Organization and the Chinese Environmental Protection Agency. He is the author on numerous health and prevention journal articles and is a contributor to the textbook Integrative Medicine. expand+
	Jane Black	N/A	food writer	National, Northeast	Communications
Biography: Jane is a food writer who covers food politics, trends and sustainability ( ... ) issues. She is currently at work on a book about one town in West Virginia’s struggle to change the way it eats and whether the food revolution can cross geographical, cultural and class boundaries. Jane started her career as a reporter, covering technology and international news at organizations including the BBC and Businessweek Online. But she soon discovered that food was her passion. From 2007 through 2010, she was a staff writer at The Washington Post. Her reporting took her from Immokalee, Florida, where she wrote about tomato pickers’ struggle for better working conditions to Monterey Bay, where she attended a “secret meeting” of the Sardinistas, a group of environmentalists who want to teach Americans about the culinary joys of small fish. Jane's stories try to make people think smart about what and where they eat. She is a member of the 2011-2013 class of IATP Food and Community Fellows. expand+
	Janet Davas	Liberty's Kitchen	executive director	Southeast	School Food
Biography: Janet Davas brings almost thirty years experience in the energy sector where she ( ... ) gained exceptional organizational and communication skills and business acumen. After returning to New Orleans post Katrina with her husband David and daughter Elizabeth, she served as Interim CEO of Cafe Reconcile before founding Liberty's Kitchen. Ms. Davas serves on the Tulane University Changemakers Institute Advisory Board as well as the National Advisory Board for Catalyst Kitchens. expand+
	Jenga Mwendo	Backyard Gardeners Network	organizer	Southeast	Community Food Systems, Food Justice, Community/Grassroots Organizing
Biography: Jenga Mwendo is an urban agriculture community organizer in New Orleans' Lower ( ... ) Ninth Ward and founder of the Backyard Gardeners Network – a burgeoning not-for-profit organization whose mission is community building, neighborhood revitalization and cultural preservation through urban agriculture. A Lower Ninth Ward native, Mwendo left New Orleans after high school in 1995 to pursue a career in computer animation. She is the graduate of the School of Visual Arts/New York and has years of experience in the animation industry, where she worked on multiple films, including the Oscar-nominated film “Ice Age.” Mwendo decided to permanently return to her hometown of New Orleans with her young daughter to help rebuild the city after Hurricane Katrina. Since 2007, Mwendo has worked to strengthen the Lower Ninth Ward community – organizing neighbors to revitalize and create gardens, planting trees, and developing support systems to encourage and support the culture of growing in the neighborhood. She is the winner of the 2010 Cox Conserves Heroes award for her work developing community outdoor spaces. She was also awarded a 2010 TogetherGreen Fellowship (www.togethergreen.org) to focus on community-building around the two gardens. She currently works with the Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development on food security research and planning for the Lower Ninth Ward community. Mwendo also serves on the board of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association. She works very closely with New Orleans Food and Farm Network, Parkway Partners, the Lower Ninth Ward Village Community Center and HandsOn New Orleans. Mwendo lives in the Lower Ninth Ward with her 7-year-old daughter and their dog. She also runs a personal catering business, providing delicious raw vegan cuisine to clients throughout New Orleans. She is a member of the 2011-2013 class of IATP Food and Community Fellows. expand+
	Jennifer Curtis	Farmhand Foods	co-founder and coo	Southeast	Agriculture
Biography: Jennifer is Co-Founder and COO of Farmhand Foods ( ( ... ) href="http://www.farmhandfoods.com/" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; background-color: #ffffff;">www.farmhandfoods.com), a meat company based in Durham, North Carolina that connects the state’s pasture-based livestock producers with local markets. In addition, as President of Curtis Consulting, Jennifer provides project design and management services to help improve agricultural and food system sustainability. Her client list includes the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS), where she was Project Director of their NC Choices’ initiative for six years, Gerber Products Company, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the Natural Resources Defense Council, North Carolina State University, Self-Help Credit Union, and the World Wildlife Fund. Jennifer is the author of numerous publications, including CEFS’From Farm to Fork: A Guide to Building North Carolina’s Sustainable Local Food Economy. Jennifer holds an M.S. in Environmental Management & Policy from the Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. expand+
	Jennifer Wilkins	Cornell University	project director	Northeast	Agriculture, Health
Biography: Jennifer Wilkins joined the Division of Nutritional Sciences in 1993. Her work ( ... ) focuses on how the food and agriculture system impacts public health, environmental sustainability, and community well-being. Shortly after joining the Cornell faculty, Wilkins conceptualized and developed the first regional food guide in the United States, the Northeast Regional Food Guide. This food guide promotes health, sustainability, and local food systems. She was a member of the 2004-2006 class of Food and Society Fellows. expand+
	Jeremy Brown	Slow Food Four Corners	nooksack salmon enhancement association, fisher	West	Community Food Systems
Biography: Presently the owner of the offshore albacore troller "One And All," Jeremy Brown ( ... ) has worked the waters of the Pacific Ocean from Alaska to the "Roaring Forties" of the Southern Ocean. Starting out as deckhands in Alaska, Jeremy and his wife, Jill, followed the salmon migration along the Pacific Coast, catching the fish one at a time with hook and line. When his wife stayed ashore in 1994 to qualify as an acupuncturist, Jeremy headed offshore seeking albacore tuna. After seven years and half a million miles of ocean, he now fishes his yearly halibut and blackcod quota in Alaska each spring and works on fishery policy issues. As a founding member and current board member of the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (a community-based group that works to restore salmon runs in Whatcom County) Jeremy focuses his work on the connections between fish, water quality, community and how food is valued. He currently works in Washington State for Slow Food Four Corners. He was a member of the 2002-2004 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows. expand+
	Jim Goodman	Northwood Farm	journalist, farmer	Midwest	Agriculture
Biography: Jim Goodman, his wife Rebecca and brother Francis run a 45-cow organic dairy and ( ... ) direct market beef farm in southwest Wisconsin. His farming roots trace back to his great-grandfather's immigration from Ireland during the famine and the farm's original purchase in 1848. A farm activist, Jim credits more than 150 years of failed farm and social policy as his motivation to advocate for a farmer-controlled consumer-oriented food system. A successful conventional farmer in a past life, Jim saw firsthand some of the failures of intensive agriculture and realized that farming sustainably and working with nature made more sense than fighting it. Jim has spoken to farmers, environmentalists and government officials internationally, hosted visiting farmers from around the world, and marched with peasant farmers against the WTO in Mexico. A long-time opponent of globalization and unfettered free trade, his essay "Global Trade is Impoverishing both U.S. and Developing World Workers" is featured in the book Free Trade (Opposing Viewpoints), published by Greenhaven Press and released in September 2008. He frequently speaks and presents workshops on organic farming, direct marketing, local food, international trade and social justice issues. Jim currently serves on the policy advisory boards for the Center for Food Safety and the Organic Consumers Association, and is a board member of Midwest Environmental Advocates.He was a member of the 2008-2009 class of Food and Society Fellows. expand+
	Johanna Divine		musician	Southwest	Communications
Biography: Johanna Divine is a songwriter, singer, filmmaker, and writer whose roots in the ( ... ) most culturally rich pockets of the South - from Tennessee to Texas, Florida to Louisiana – have inspired a soulful and wide-ranging body of work. In 2010, she released her acclaimed solo CD "Mile High Rodeo," brought her original burlesque-inspired musical, "Le Rêve des Marionettes," to the famous La MaMa Theatre in New York, and toured with Michelle Shocked. Johanna produced and directed Young Agrarians, a film documenting the next generation of farmers and ranchers that chosen as part of the fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival. The film received the Nourishing Change Award from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. In 2006, the film was featured as part of Slow Food's Terra Madre World Meeting in Turin, Italy, and in 2007 was shown in Melbourne, Australia, as part of the Sustainable Living Festival. She was a member of the 2004-2006 class of Food and Society Fellows. expand+

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