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the McKnight Foundation with a breadth of experience in the environment field, with particular expertise in federal environmental policy, advocacy, coalition-building, and efforts to build the capacity of community- and state-based organizations. From January 2009 until May 2010, Witteman served as executive director of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition in Washington D.C., where she also served as director of organizing and outreach for two years. Previously, she held positions at Oxfam America and the Northwest Service Academy and was a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow from January 2007 until December 2008.

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.

MA, founded twenty years ago to create personal and social change through sustainable agriculture. It currently employs over 100 Boston-area teenagers from diverse backgrounds who annually grow, sell, and donate over 250,000 pounds of organic produce. Nationally, the Food Project is helping to build a strong youth movement for just and sustainable food systems. Since 2003, Anim has provided leadership training for over 700 young people and forged a network of 5,000+ young activists and farmers. In 2008, he co-founded the Real Food Challenge, a campaign to re-direct $1 billion of college food purchases away from industrial agriculture towards local, fair, sustainable, and humane sources. Born in Ghana and growing up in West Africa and Washington, DC, Anim holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School and a B.A. in Astrophysics and History from Williams College.

for better food for all children. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, NY, Ann has been a chef for more than 30 years including positions with Holland America Cruises, Radisson Hotels, Telluride Ski Resort as well as serving as Executive Chef at the renowned Putney Inn in Vermont. She has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Chicago Tribune, Newsweek , and Time Magazine and has appeared on NPR’s ‘Living on Earth,’ ABC’s Nightline, CNN, PBS’ To The Contrary and the CBS Morning Show and many other media outlets. Ann has shared her knowledge and experience by speaking at the Smithsonian Institute, the National Restaurant Association, the Heifer Foundation, Chefs Collaborative, the International Association of Culinary Professionals and numerous conferences. In 2009, Ann founded Food Family Farming Foundation (F3) as a nonprofit focusing on solutions to the school food crisis. F3's pivotal project is The Lunch Box - a web portal that provides free and accessible tools, recipes and community connections to support school food reform. She is currently serving as the Director of Nutrition Services at Boulder Valley School. She was also a member of the 2003-2005 class of Food and Society Policy Fellows.

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.

the Center for Food and Justice, a division of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif. In this capacity, Joshi provides training and assistance for farm to school program development and evaluation. Joshi is also leading a national collaborative with over 30 organizations across the country to explore partnerships for promoting the farm to school movement. Joshi has over ten years of experience working on nutrition, agriculture and food systems issues in various countries around the world.

Responsibility at Sodexo. He leads the company’s sustainability efforts in North America, including sustainable food and agriculture practices, eco-efficiency and facilities management, community development, and health and wellbeing. Before joining Sodexo in November 2007, Arlin Wasserman founded Changing Tastes, a consultancy that provides strategic planning, economic development and marketing strategy insights to Fortune 100 and start-up food companies, foundations, faith-based, and nonprofit organizations working to issues of public health, food, environment and community development. Wasserman is also a co-founder of The Robin Hood Center, a not-for-profit organized to create and manage branded food enterprises for the benefit of charities focusing on the alleviation of hunger and poverty. He was also a member of the 2002-2004 class of Food and Society Fellows.

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.