Barbara Storper, MS, RD, is a national award-winning nutritionist and a leader in the field of children’s nutrition. She is Founder and Executive Director of FoodPlay Productions, a nutrition education organization that brings the power of live theater to turn kids on to healthy habits.  Her shows have reached more than five million children across the country with evaluations showing …

Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D., is president emeritus of Jewish Veg, formerly Jewish Vegetarians of North America, and author of Judaism and Vegetarianism, Judaism and Global Survival, Mathematics and Global Survival, and Who Stole My Religion? Revitalizing Judaism and Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal our Imperiled Planet and 250 articles at JewishVeg.org/Schwartz.   Multigrain Blueberry Pancakes, Vegan Ingredients Makes: 12-14 pancakes   ½ cup unbleached …

Iain Tolhurst, is the Founder of Tolhurst Organic Farm, an organic farm in the UK, located in south Oxfordshire, between the Chilterns and the river Thames. The farm is made up of 17 acres over two fields and 2 acres within a 500 year old walled garden. Iain, better known as Tolly to his friends, has been farming there for …

Amie Hamlin is the Executive Director of Coalition for Healthy School Food, a non-profit that she co-founded 17 years ago after writing and getting passed unanimously, a New York State legislative resolution for healthy plant-based school food and nutrition education. She is the mom of an 18 year old college student and over the last few years has started a …

Caryn Hartglass combines science with practical knowledge from real life experiences to educate about the healing benefits of a plant-based diet.  Caryn is co-founder along with her life partner Gary De Mattei of the nonprofit Responsible Eating And Living (REAL). She obtained the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell’s Plant Based Nutrition Certificate. She’s co-directed nutrition programs at the Food Revolution Network and was …

Grace Gershuny is widely known as an author, educator and organic consultant. In the 1990’s she served on the staff of USDA’s National Organic Program, where she helped write the regulations. She learned much of what she knows through her longtime involvement with the grassroots organic movement, where she organized conferences and educational events and developed an early organic certification …

Brian Tokar is an activist and author, a lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, and an active board member of 350Vermont as well as the Institute for Social Ecology, where he served as Director from 2008-2015. He is the author of The Green Alternative (1987, Revised 1992), Earth for Sale (1997), and Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and Social Change (2010, Revised 2014), and he has also edited …

Roberto Múkaro Borrero has a distinguished and diverse background in policy & program development and human rights advocacy, including in specialization on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. He retains over 20 years of experience actively engaging the United Nations system in thematic areas such as Sustainable Development; Climate Change; the Information Society; and the Organization of American States; among others. He has served …

Beverly Naidus’s art life has straddled the socially engaged margins of the art world, as well as collaborative, activist and community-based art projects located outside the art world. Much of her work deals with ecological and social issues that have adversely affected her and those around her. Remediation of traumas, both collective and personal, and reconstructive visions, are key concepts …

Jennifer Gaddis is an assistant professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools (University of California Press 2019). She received a PhD in environmental studies from Yale University in 2014. Her research on school lunch programs …