Kate Adamick
Kate Adamick is a consultant and frequent lecturer on matters relating to food systems and school meals reform. She is the lead food systems consultant for the Orfalea Fund’s s'Cool Food Initiative in Santa Barbara, CA, for the Children’s Health Foundation’s Lunch for Life project in Aspen, CO, and for the Colorado Health Foundation in Denver, CO, and is the former director of the SchoolFood Plus Initiative in New York City. Kate's experience includes her previous careers as a corporate attorney and professional chef.
Kate Adamick is a consultant and frequent lecturer on matters relating to food systems and school meals reform. She is the lead food systems consultant for the Orfalea Fund’s s'Cool Food Initiative in Santa Barbara, CA, for the Children’s Health Foundation’s Lunch for Life project in Aspen, CO, and for the Colorado Health Foundation in Denver, CO, and is the former director of the SchoolFood Plus Initiative in New York City. Kate's experience includes her previous careers as a corporate attorney and professional chef.
Dan Barber
Dan Barber is the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill restaurant in New York City, a 2001 James Beard Award nominee for best new restaurant and a noted neighborhood eatery that continues to celebrate the farms of the Hudson Valley with its menus. In the summer of 2002, Food & Wine Magazine featured Dan as one of the country's "Best New Chefs." He has since been featured in The New Yorker and Gourmet Magazine, and included in "The Next Generation" of great chefs in Bon Appétit's 10th annual restaurant issue. To expand on his philosophy of cooking with sustainably grown, local ingredients, Dan has been working with such organizations as the Kellogg Foundation, Slow Food USA and Earth Pledge to minimize the political and intellectual rhetoric around agricultural policies and to instead maximize the appreciation of eating good food. Focusing on the issues of pleasure, taste and regional bounty-and how these imperatives are threatened-Dan helped create the philosophical and practical framework for Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and serves on its board to help guide it in its mission to create a consciousness about the effects of everyday food choices.
Dan Barber is the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill restaurant in New York City, a 2001 James Beard Award nominee for best new restaurant and a noted neighborhood eatery that continues to celebrate the farms of the Hudson Valley with its menus. In the summer of 2002, Food & Wine Magazine featured Dan as one of the country's "Best New Chefs." He has since been featured in The New Yorker and Gourmet Magazine, and included in "The Next Generation" of great chefs in Bon Appétit's 10th annual restaurant issue. To expand on his philosophy of cooking with sustainably grown, local ingredients, Dan has been working with such organizations as the Kellogg Foundation, Slow Food USA and Earth Pledge to minimize the political and intellectual rhetoric around agricultural policies and to instead maximize the appreciation of eating good food. Focusing on the issues of pleasure, taste and regional bounty-and how these imperatives are threatened-Dan helped create the philosophical and practical framework for Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and serves on its board to help guide it in its mission to create a consciousness about the effects of everyday food choices.
Chef Ann Cooper
Chef Ann Cooper is a renegade lunch lady. She works to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms for students — one school lunch at a time. Currently, she is the director of nutrition services for the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD). Her newest book, "Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children" (Harper Collins, Sept. 2006), is overflowing with strategies for parents and school administrators to become engaged with issues around school food — from public policy to corporate interest. Chef Ann, the past president of The American Culinary Federation of Central Vermont, is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, and the former president and current board member for Women's Chefs and Restaurateurs. She also sat on the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Organic Standards Board and Chefs Collaborative. Through collaborative work with organizations including the Center for Ecoliteracy, Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Food and Society Policy Fellowship, Chef Ann has made tremendous strides in a variety of school wellness programs.
Chef Ann Cooper is a renegade lunch lady. She works to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms for students — one school lunch at a time. Currently, she is the director of nutrition services for the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD). Her newest book, "Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children" (Harper Collins, Sept. 2006), is overflowing with strategies for parents and school administrators to become engaged with issues around school food — from public policy to corporate interest. Chef Ann, the past president of The American Culinary Federation of Central Vermont, is a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, and the former president and current board member for Women's Chefs and Restaurateurs. She also sat on the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Organic Standards Board and Chefs Collaborative. Through collaborative work with organizations including the Center for Ecoliteracy, Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Food and Society Policy Fellowship, Chef Ann has made tremendous strides in a variety of school wellness programs.
John S. Johnson
Founder and Chairman of Eyebeam's Board of Directors, filmmaker John S. Johnson studied Mathematics and Philosophy at St. John's College and Film at New York University. Mr. Johnson is the founder of three other organizations also providing access to creative processes for writers and artists: the Filmmakers Collaborative, Screenwriters Colony and May68. He serves and has served in various capacities at arts and science organizations including: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution - Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Technology Committee, Nantucket Film Festival - Board of Directors, Film Selection Committee, Taos Film Festival - Board of Advisors, Rockport Film School - Lecturer. Mr. Johnson is the Writer, Director, Co-Producer of two films, Without a Trace, June 10, 1979, 16mm film, 1991 and RATCHET, 35mm feature film, 1996.
Founder and Chairman of Eyebeam's Board of Directors, filmmaker John S. Johnson studied Mathematics and Philosophy at St. John's College and Film at New York University. Mr. Johnson is the founder of three other organizations also providing access to creative processes for writers and artists: the Filmmakers Collaborative, Screenwriters Colony and May68. He serves and has served in various capacities at arts and science organizations including: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution - Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Technology Committee, Nantucket Film Festival - Board of Directors, Film Selection Committee, Taos Film Festival - Board of Advisors, Rockport Film School - Lecturer. Mr. Johnson is the Writer, Director, Co-Producer of two films, Without a Trace, June 10, 1979, 16mm film, 1991 and RATCHET, 35mm feature film, 1996.
Van Jones
Van Jones is an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights attorney, author and powerhouse speaker. In 1996, he co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which is now headquartered in Oakland, California. In 2003, the Center's "Books Not Bars" campaign helped block the construction of a costly and controversial "Super-Jail For Youth" near Oakland. Since that victory, Books Not Bars has helped reduce California's overall youth prison population by more than 30 percent. In the aftermath of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Van helped to found ColorOfChange.org, an online advocacy organization. With more than 100,000 members, Color Of Change is now the nation's biggest e-advocacy organization tackling Black issues.
Over the past five years, Van has also emerged as a national environmental leader. Under the slogan "green jobs, not jails," Van Jones today is calling for green economic development in urban America. In the summer of 2007, Van helped launch two new initiatives. He is a founding board member of One Sky, a national coalition working to avert catastrophic climate change. And he is also the founding president of Green For All, a national campaign for green-collar jobs and opportunities. In recent years, he has served on the boards of the National Apollo Alliance, Social Venture Network, and Rainforest Action Network. His book, The Green Collar Economy (Harper One), due out October 7, 2008, tackles issues of poverty, the energy crisis, and global warming. A 1993 Yale Law graduate, Van is also a husband and father.
Van Jones is an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights attorney, author and powerhouse speaker. In 1996, he co-founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which is now headquartered in Oakland, California. In 2003, the Center's "Books Not Bars" campaign helped block the construction of a costly and controversial "Super-Jail For Youth" near Oakland. Since that victory, Books Not Bars has helped reduce California's overall youth prison population by more than 30 percent. In the aftermath of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Van helped to found ColorOfChange.org, an online advocacy organization. With more than 100,000 members, Color Of Change is now the nation's biggest e-advocacy organization tackling Black issues.
Over the past five years, Van has also emerged as a national environmental leader. Under the slogan "green jobs, not jails," Van Jones today is calling for green economic development in urban America. In the summer of 2007, Van helped launch two new initiatives. He is a founding board member of One Sky, a national coalition working to avert catastrophic climate change. And he is also the founding president of Green For All, a national campaign for green-collar jobs and opportunities. In recent years, he has served on the boards of the National Apollo Alliance, Social Venture Network, and Rainforest Action Network. His book, The Green Collar Economy (Harper One), due out October 7, 2008, tackles issues of poverty, the energy crisis, and global warming. A 1993 Yale Law graduate, Van is also a husband and father.
Jonathan Kevles
Jonathan Kevles was born and raised in Southern California. He attended Princeton University where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in 1990, majoring in Comparative Literature. Upon returning to California, Jonathan worked for elected officials and on many political campaigns in the Los Angeles area. Jonathan returned to school in 1995 where he earned his Master’s degree in Urban Planning (MA) and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1998. In 2001, Jonathan joined the administration of Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, and in 2002 was named Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, overseeing public-private partnerships related to real estate development, business district improvements, and industrial policy formation, among other responsibilities. In 2006, Jonathan moved to Aspen, Colorado for a 14 month fellowship at Rocky Mountain Institute where he developed a framework to help cities move from sustainability commitments to making sustainability values a part of daily decision-making. In late 2007, Jonathan joined the Clinton Foundation, working on the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Energy Efficient Building Retrofit Program. Jonathan is now a Senior Representative for the Sierra Club's Clean Energy Solutions Campaign which focuses on energy efficiency, utility-scale and small, locally-sited renewable energy, and an improved, cleaner electric grid. Jonathan lives in San Francisco.
Jonathan Kevles was born and raised in Southern California. He attended Princeton University where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (BA) in 1990, majoring in Comparative Literature. Upon returning to California, Jonathan worked for elected officials and on many political campaigns in the Los Angeles area. Jonathan returned to school in 1995 where he earned his Master’s degree in Urban Planning (MA) and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1998. In 2001, Jonathan joined the administration of Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, and in 2002 was named Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, overseeing public-private partnerships related to real estate development, business district improvements, and industrial policy formation, among other responsibilities. In 2006, Jonathan moved to Aspen, Colorado for a 14 month fellowship at Rocky Mountain Institute where he developed a framework to help cities move from sustainability commitments to making sustainability values a part of daily decision-making. In late 2007, Jonathan joined the Clinton Foundation, working on the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Energy Efficient Building Retrofit Program. Jonathan is now a Senior Representative for the Sierra Club's Clean Energy Solutions Campaign which focuses on energy efficiency, utility-scale and small, locally-sited renewable energy, and an improved, cleaner electric grid. Jonathan lives in San Francisco.
Anna Lappé
Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author and sought after public speaker, respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, social change. Named one of Time magazine's "Eco Who's Who," Anna has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, O: The Oprah Magazine, Domino, Food & Wine, Body + Soul, Natural Health, Utne Reader, and Vibe. Since 2002, Anna has been collaborating with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, through their Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, an international network for research and popular education about sustainability and democracy. They are also co-founders of the Small Planet Fund which has raised more that $500,000 for deomocratic social movements worldwide, two of which have won the Nobel Prize since the Fund's founding in 2002. Anna can be seen as the host for MSN's Practical Guide for Healthier Living and the public television series, The Endless Feast. She is also a featured expert in the Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet, and the PBS special, Nourish: Food + Community, and on Howdini.com. Anna's first book, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Tarcher/Penguin 2002), co-written with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, chronicles courageous social movements around the world that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. Called "ingenious" by The New York Times, Anna's second book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin 2006), combines and exposé of industial agriculture with chef Bryant Terry's seasonal menus. Anna has worked and lived in South Africa, England, and France. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is working on her third book about food, farming and climate change.
Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author and sought after public speaker, respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, social change. Named one of Time magazine's "Eco Who's Who," Anna has been featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, O: The Oprah Magazine, Domino, Food & Wine, Body + Soul, Natural Health, Utne Reader, and Vibe. Since 2002, Anna has been collaborating with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, through their Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, an international network for research and popular education about sustainability and democracy. They are also co-founders of the Small Planet Fund which has raised more that $500,000 for deomocratic social movements worldwide, two of which have won the Nobel Prize since the Fund's founding in 2002. Anna can be seen as the host for MSN's Practical Guide for Healthier Living and the public television series, The Endless Feast. She is also a featured expert in the Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet, and the PBS special, Nourish: Food + Community, and on Howdini.com. Anna's first book, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (Tarcher/Penguin 2002), co-written with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, chronicles courageous social movements around the world that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. Called "ingenious" by The New York Times, Anna's second book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin 2006), combines and exposé of industial agriculture with chef Bryant Terry's seasonal menus. Anna has worked and lived in South Africa, England, and France. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she is working on her third book about food, farming and climate change.
Katrina T. Monzón
Katrina T. Monzón is a native New Yorker who spent the spring of her Junior Year in high school at The Mountain School, a semester-long program focused on sustainable, organic farming, community living, and wilderness training in Vershire, VT. Her time there, coupled with her experiences growing up in a low-income community with limited food options, started her on the path of being a “foodie,” when she asked: “Why, if there’s so much food in the world, are so many children hungry?” and no one could answer her question.
For several years, she worked as a Child Nutrition Advocate and Food Policy Analyst at Community Food Resource Center (now FoodChange, Inc., a subsidiary of the Food Bank for New York City), focusing her efforts on both increasing access to and improving the quality of the School Meals Program in New York City Public Schools. She successfully advocated for Universal School Breakfast, which provides breakfast to all New York City Public School children at no charge. In addition, as the Chair of the Public Policy Committee of the New York City Nutrition Education Network (NYCNEN), she coordinated efforts to create an Office of Food and Nutrition Policy for the City of New York. Katrina continued her advocacy efforts when she joined the New York office of the Children’s Defense Fund and helped develop the Child Nutrition Initiative, one component of CDF-NY’s Access to Benefits campaign.
Katrina T. Monzón is a native New Yorker who spent the spring of her Junior Year in high school at The Mountain School, a semester-long program focused on sustainable, organic farming, community living, and wilderness training in Vershire, VT. Her time there, coupled with her experiences growing up in a low-income community with limited food options, started her on the path of being a “foodie,” when she asked: “Why, if there’s so much food in the world, are so many children hungry?” and no one could answer her question.
For several years, she worked as a Child Nutrition Advocate and Food Policy Analyst at Community Food Resource Center (now FoodChange, Inc., a subsidiary of the Food Bank for New York City), focusing her efforts on both increasing access to and improving the quality of the School Meals Program in New York City Public Schools. She successfully advocated for Universal School Breakfast, which provides breakfast to all New York City Public School children at no charge. In addition, as the Chair of the Public Policy Committee of the New York City Nutrition Education Network (NYCNEN), she coordinated efforts to create an Office of Food and Nutrition Policy for the City of New York. Katrina continued her advocacy efforts when she joined the New York office of the Children’s Defense Fund and helped develop the Child Nutrition Initiative, one component of CDF-NY’s Access to Benefits campaign.
Raj Patel, PhD
Raj Patel is a writer, activist and academic, currently a visiting scholar
at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, a researcher at the School of
Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a fellow at The
Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First. He has
degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and
Cornell University, has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been
tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. He was recently
invited to share his views on the global food crisis in testimony to the US
House Financial Services Committee. He regularly writes for The Guardian,
and has contributed to the LA Times, NYTimes.com, The San Francisco
Chronicle and The Observer. He works in support of the international farmer,
farmworkers and landless worker movement, La Via Campesina. His first book
is Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
Raj Patel is a writer, activist and academic, currently a visiting scholar
at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, a researcher at the School of
Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a fellow at The
Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First. He has
degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and
Cornell University, has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been
tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. He was recently
invited to share his views on the global food crisis in testimony to the US
House Financial Services Committee. He regularly writes for The Guardian,
and has contributed to the LA Times, NYTimes.com, The San Francisco
Chronicle and The Observer. He works in support of the international farmer,
farmworkers and landless worker movement, La Via Campesina. His first book
is Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
Kimberly Perry
Kimberly Perry has worked more than fifteen years successfully mobilizing communities to create a collaborative environment in which educators, legislators and policy makers can be educated and held accountable for improving the quality of life for low-income children and their families. Perry currently works with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint venture of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, and has led successful efforts to improve the policies and practices schools adopt to serve healthier meals to students; negotiations with food manufacturers, distributors and management companies to sell more healthful food to schools for students; and implementation of two highly effective public education campaigns, "Go Healthy" and "empowerME," an innovative by kids, for kids movement inspiring millions of young people across the country to take charge of their health, make healthy behavior changes and become leaders and advocates for healthy eating and physical activity in their communities.
Before coming to the Alliance, Perry co-founded D.C. Hunger Solutions, a non-profit anti-hunger advocacy organization, based at the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). She also helped organize over 150 citizens representing 14 sectors of the city (including faith-based leaders, parents, kids, media, philanthropists, corporations, small business, federal and local government) to implement a Ten Year Plan to End Childhood Hunger in the Nation's Capital. The plan is nationally recognized and is currently being replicated in a number of states across the country.
Kimberly Perry has worked more than fifteen years successfully mobilizing communities to create a collaborative environment in which educators, legislators and policy makers can be educated and held accountable for improving the quality of life for low-income children and their families. Perry currently works with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint venture of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, and has led successful efforts to improve the policies and practices schools adopt to serve healthier meals to students; negotiations with food manufacturers, distributors and management companies to sell more healthful food to schools for students; and implementation of two highly effective public education campaigns, "Go Healthy" and "empowerME," an innovative by kids, for kids movement inspiring millions of young people across the country to take charge of their health, make healthy behavior changes and become leaders and advocates for healthy eating and physical activity in their communities.
Before coming to the Alliance, Perry co-founded D.C. Hunger Solutions, a non-profit anti-hunger advocacy organization, based at the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). She also helped organize over 150 citizens representing 14 sectors of the city (including faith-based leaders, parents, kids, media, philanthropists, corporations, small business, federal and local government) to implement a Ten Year Plan to End Childhood Hunger in the Nation's Capital. The plan is nationally recognized and is currently being replicated in a number of states across the country.
Michael Pollan
For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs and architecture. Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the Nationals Book Critics Circle Award. Pollan's previous book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, was also a New York Times bestseller, received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best non-fiction work of 2001, and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon.com. He is also author of A Place of My Own (1997) and Second Nature (1991).
For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs and architecture. Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the Nationals Book Critics Circle Award. Pollan's previous book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, was also a New York Times bestseller, received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best non-fiction work of 2001, and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon.com. He is also author of A Place of My Own (1997) and Second Nature (1991).
Robert Saken, M.D.
Dr. Rob Saken graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School and completed his Pediatric Internship and Residency at the University of Minnesota. He was in private practice for 10 years in the Minneapolis area before joining Soho Pediatric Group in 1995. Dr. Saken is Board Certified in Pediatrics and also has a special interest in Travel Medicine, providing counseling and pre-travel immunizations to children and adults.
Dr. Rob Saken graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School and completed his Pediatric Internship and Residency at the University of Minnesota. He was in private practice for 10 years in the Minneapolis area before joining Soho Pediatric Group in 1995. Dr. Saken is Board Certified in Pediatrics and also has a special interest in Travel Medicine, providing counseling and pre-travel immunizations to children and adults.
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith's work in the theater explores American character and our multifaceted national identity. She has won numerous awards, among them two Obies, two Tony nominations and a MacArthur fellowship. She is currently University Professor at New York University, where she is also the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.
She is the author of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Fires in the Mirror; and House Arrest. Her newest play is Let Me Down Easy. Her books include Talk To Me, about presidential politics; and Letters to A Young Artist. Television shows include Presidio Med, The West Wing, The Practice, and the upcoming Nurse Jackie; films include The American President, Dave, and The Human Stain. She is the recipient of the Americans for the Arts National Arts Award and the Mayor's Award in New York City. She has served as the initial artist-in-residence of the Aspen Institute, the Ford Foundation, and MTV Networks. She has received many honorary degrees, including those from the Juilliard School and Northwestern University, and she is the recipient of the Radcliffe and Barnard College medals. Ms. Smith is on the board of the Museum of Modern Art.
Anna Deavere Smith's work in the theater explores American character and our multifaceted national identity. She has won numerous awards, among them two Obies, two Tony nominations and a MacArthur fellowship. She is currently University Professor at New York University, where she is also the founding director of the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue.She is the author of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Fires in the Mirror; and House Arrest. Her newest play is Let Me Down Easy. Her books include Talk To Me, about presidential politics; and Letters to A Young Artist. Television shows include Presidio Med, The West Wing, The Practice, and the upcoming Nurse Jackie; films include The American President, Dave, and The Human Stain. She is the recipient of the Americans for the Arts National Arts Award and the Mayor's Award in New York City. She has served as the initial artist-in-residence of the Aspen Institute, the Ford Foundation, and MTV Networks. She has received many honorary degrees, including those from the Juilliard School and Northwestern University, and she is the recipient of the Radcliffe and Barnard College medals. Ms. Smith is on the board of the Museum of Modern Art.
Bryant Terry
Oakland-based Bryant Terry is an award-winning eco chef, author, and food justice activist. He is currently a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national program of the WK Kellogg and Fair Food Foundations. His work and recipes have been featured in Gourmet, Food and Wine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, Domino, Mothering, and many other publications. He also has a weekly column on TheRoot.com - "Eco-Soul Kitchen." Called "ingenious" by The New York Times Magazine, Bryant's critically acclaimed first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) with co-author Anna Lappé, is a winner of the 2007 Nautilus Book Award. Bryant graduated from the Chef's Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City and he holds an M.A. in History from New York University. He is working on his next book, which will be published by Da Capo/Perseus in 2009. Bryant-terry.com [See the Grub Soldiers on Bryant's blog 9-26-08]
Oakland-based Bryant Terry is an award-winning eco chef, author, and food justice activist. He is currently a Food and Society Policy Fellow, a national program of the WK Kellogg and Fair Food Foundations. His work and recipes have been featured in Gourmet, Food and Wine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vibe, Domino, Mothering, and many other publications. He also has a weekly column on TheRoot.com - "Eco-Soul Kitchen." Called "ingenious" by The New York Times Magazine, Bryant's critically acclaimed first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) with co-author Anna Lappé, is a winner of the 2007 Nautilus Book Award. Bryant graduated from the Chef's Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts in New York City and he holds an M.A. in History from New York University. He is working on his next book, which will be published by Da Capo/Perseus in 2009. Bryant-terry.com [See the Grub Soldiers on Bryant's blog 9-26-08]
Alice Waters
One of America’s most influential chefs, Alice Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California restaurant, Chez Panisse. Credited for helping change the food landscape in America, Chez Panisse was named best restaurant in the United States by Gourmet Magazine in 2001. Waters has championed sustainable farms and ranches for more than three decades, and brought her vision to public schools through the Chez Panisse Foundation (www.chezpanissefoundation.org). The Foundation operates The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, where students plant, harvest, and prepare fresh food as part of the academic curriculum. Waters is the Founder of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Vice President of Slow Food International. She is the recipient of the Natural Resources Defense Council Force for Nature Award, 2004 and the Harvard Global Environmental Citizen Award alongside Kofi Annan, in 2008.
One of America’s most influential chefs, Alice Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California restaurant, Chez Panisse. Credited for helping change the food landscape in America, Chez Panisse was named best restaurant in the United States by Gourmet Magazine in 2001. Waters has championed sustainable farms and ranches for more than three decades, and brought her vision to public schools through the Chez Panisse Foundation (www.chezpanissefoundation.org). The Foundation operates The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, where students plant, harvest, and prepare fresh food as part of the academic curriculum. Waters is the Founder of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Vice President of Slow Food International. She is the recipient of the Natural Resources Defense Council Force for Nature Award, 2004 and the Harvard Global Environmental Citizen Award alongside Kofi Annan, in 2008.
Aaron Woolf
Aaron Woolf is the director and producer of the critically acclaimed film, King Corn. He received a master's in film at the University of Iowa, but got the bulk of his education working in the field in Lima, Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York. In 2000, Woolf directed Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball, and the United States, a WNET-ITVS co-production that received a Rockie Award and aired nationally on PBS. In 2003, he directed Dying to Leave: The Global Face of Human Trafficking and Smuggling, which won an Australian Logie Award and a Rockie nomination, aired on the PBS series Wide Angle, and was presented at the State Department and the United Nations. Woolf's films have also been broadcast on the Sundance Channel, ARTE, RAI and SBS, and he has presented work at numerous institutions including Stanford University, UCLA and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is the founder of Mosaic Films Incorporated and an avid mountaineer.
Aaron Woolf is the director and producer of the critically acclaimed film, King Corn. He received a master's in film at the University of Iowa, but got the bulk of his education working in the field in Lima, Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York. In 2000, Woolf directed Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball, and the United States, a WNET-ITVS co-production that received a Rockie Award and aired nationally on PBS. In 2003, he directed Dying to Leave: The Global Face of Human Trafficking and Smuggling, which won an Australian Logie Award and a Rockie nomination, aired on the PBS series Wide Angle, and was presented at the State Department and the United Nations. Woolf's films have also been broadcast on the Sundance Channel, ARTE, RAI and SBS, and he has presented work at numerous institutions including Stanford University, UCLA and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is the founder of Mosaic Films Incorporated and an avid mountaineer.
Full Film Credit List
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CATHERINE GUND
Producers
CATHERINE GUND
TANYA SELVARATNAM
Co-Producers
SADIE RAIN HOPE-GUND
SAFIYAH KAI RIDDLE
Associate Producers
NELL MARANTZ
HEATHER GREENE
Editor
NANCY C. KENNEDY
Animation
HUBBUB INC.
EMILY HUBLEY
JEREMIAH DICKEY
Music
ADAM CRYSTAL
Official Movie Website: www.whatsonyourplateproject.org
FEATURING
(in order of appearance)
Sadie Hope-Gund
Safiyah Kai Riddle
Catherine Gund
Alan Halko
Robert Saken, M.D.
Tony Riddle
Rachel Russell
Sankofa Riddle
Matt Carpenter
Anna Lappé
Idris Goodwin
Chef Jorge Collazo
Eric Goldstein
Judith Foster
Rowena Jeffrey
Jackie Vargas
Amy Miceli
Kevin Miceli
Richard Ball
Kofi Hope-Gund
Tenzin Gund-Morrow
Rio Hope-Gund
Crisostomo Angel
Ana Angel
Henry Angel
Lizbeth Angel
Jennifer Angel
Maria Angel
Roger Schulte
Maureen Cooke
Nhumi Threadgill
Lower East Side Girls Club
Andrew Rundle, Ph.D
DAVID SPIERER, Ed.D
Marshall Hagins, Ph.D
John Wright
Caleb Wright
Elijah Wright
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer
Maritza Wellington Owens
David Hardy
Martin Rodriguez
Lisa Hudgins, M.D.
Kevin Walter
Sasha Schulman
Antonio Rodriguez
Bryant Terry
Latham Thomas
Elizabeth J. E. Johnson
Ludie R. Minaya
Clio Stearns
Advisory Council
Kate Adamick
Dan Barber
Ann Cooper
John s. Johnson
Van Jones
Jonathan Kevles
Anna Lappé
Katrina T. Monzón
Raj Patel, Ph.D.
Michael Pollan
Rob Saken, M.D.
Anna Deavere Smith
Bryant Terry
Alice Waters
Aaron Woolf
CREW
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Miklos Buk Jill Cowburn John Foster George Motz |
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Additional Camera |
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Chiara Clemente Catherine Gund Robert Matzen Andy Montoya Robert O’Reilly Greg Sax Jonathan Shick Basia Winograd |
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Sound Mixer Additional Sound |
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Jarett Livingston Rick Aylesworth Kevin Corrigan Anna Hovhanessian Matt Israel Dave Pruger John Semper Dane Thompson |
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Assistant Editor Additional Editing |
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Russ Greene Martin Levenstein |
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Creative Consultant for Chicken and Egg Pictures |
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Judith Helfand |
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Still Photography |
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Catherine Gund |
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Pre-Production Coordinator |
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Angelina Sapienza |
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Additional Line Producer |
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Nick Goldfarb |
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Graphic Effects |
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Peter Haas |
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Translation |
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Vanessa Balvin Lissette Delgado-Cruzata Marta Florez Vincent Grady |
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Subtitles |
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Carolina Correa |
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Transcription |
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Angelina Sapienza Vanessa Balvin Giovanni Oliveros |
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Special Office Assistant |
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Celeste Good |
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Office Interns |
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Melissa Arnold Shiuan Butler Elisabetta DiPasquale Katherine Espinal Macy Jones Katie Lazarowicz Alicia Maldonado Leslie M. VanSchaik Hilary Wartinger |
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What's On Your Plate? Web Design |
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FUTUREFARMERS |
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Aubin Pictures Web Design |
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David Silverman |
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Additional Graphic Design |
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Nathan Kilcer |
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Offline Editing Facility |
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Aubin Pictures, Inc |
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Post-Production Sound Services |
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C5 |
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Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer Sound Editor |
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Nicholas Renbeck Chad Birmingham Dustin DuPilka |
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Online Facility |
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Frame:Runner NYC |
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Senior Online Editor/Colorist |
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Evan Anthony |
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Online Supervisor |
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Keith Shapiro |
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Online Coordinator |
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Sheila Lynch |
CELEBRATE WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE
Written and Performed by NONA HENDRYX
Produced by Nona Hendryx
Courtesy of Eat Your Heart out Music (BMI)
FUNDED IN PART BY:
Rise Up Foundation
Distribution Advisory Services
CINETIC MEDIA
AUBIN PICTURES, LLC is the author of this film/motion picture for the purpose of copyright and other laws.
© Copyright 2009 AUBIN PICTURES All rights reserved
This motion picture is protected under laws of the United States and other countries. Any unauthorized exhibition, distribution or reproduction of this motion picture or videotape or any part thereof (including the soundtrack) may result in severe civil and criminal penalties.
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