Laura Chepner is a teacher, environmentalist, and vegan-inclusion educational consultant from the United Kingdom. She is the author of the new book, Veducated! An Educator’s Guide for Vegan-Inclusive Teaching. Laura graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009 with a BA in Primary Education and specialization in Global Citizenship and the Humanities. Upon recognizing a gap in vegan inclusion and education, …

Dr. Heidi Hutner, Director and Producer, is a professor of Sustainability and English at Stony Brook University, and a scholar of nuclear and environmental history and ecofeminism. She is the winner of Sierra Club Long Island’s 2015 Environmentalist of the Year Award. At Stony Brook University, she teaches courses on the environmental literature, history, and film. She chaired the Sustainability Studies …

Mitch Gruber is a member of the Rochester City Council and the Chief Strategy Officer for Foodlink. Foodlink is the regional food bank of the Finger Lakes Region, who’s mission is to end hunger and build healthier communities through the power of food. Mitch is also a historian of urban food systems, and all of his work aims to build …

Patty Gentry is a professional cook and farmer. As a cook, she had a rich and rewarding experience working under the tutelage of Anne Rosenzweig of Acadia and The Lobster Club in NYC, and Lidia Shire of Biba in Boston. She partnered with Gary and Isabel MacGurn to open The Hampton Chutney Company in Soho, NY and has had the …

Dr. Will Tuttle’s writings, presentations, and  music focus on compassion, creativity, intuition, and the intersection of social justice, animal liberation, and environmental, health, spiritual, and peace issues. A visionary speaker, educator, author, and musician, he’s a former Zen monk with a Ph.D. from U.C., Berkeley, and a vegan since 1980. He is the editor of Circles of Compassion  and Buddhism and …

Philip is a farmer, author, and educator with decades of experience and expertise in founding and in leading sustainable agriculture and food systems programs for undergraduate and graduate students. As an educator, Philip is intrigued by innovative approaches in helping students and communities develop more complex understandings of sustainable agriculture, food systems, and social change. Having founded a 23 acre …

Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, six-time New York Times best-selling author and internationally recognized expert on nutrition and natural healing, who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional methods. He is the President of the Nutritional Research Foundation and on the faculty of Northern Arizona University, Health Sciences division. Dr. Fuhrman coined the term “Nutritarian” to …

Jerusha Klemperer is the Director of FoodPrint.  “FoodPrint” is a non-profit organization dedicated to research and education on food production practices. Their aim is to pull back the curtain on the impacts of industrial food production practices and explain the benefits of more sustainable approaches to food production and consumption. They work to mobilize people to raise their collective voices and …

Nellie Thompson Kapur is the Executive Director of Green Beetz. Green Beetz is a non-profit organization that empowers elementary and middle school students to navigate the modern food system, and to make healthy and sustainable food choices. Nellie is deeply passionate about improving our food systems and increasing knowledge about healthy eating and sustainability, all through a health equity lens. …

Mitchel Cohen coordinates the No Spray Coalition in New York City, which successfully sued the City government over its indiscriminate spraying of toxic pesticides. In 1997, he organized the campaign to rid NYC public schools of milk from cows injected with genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone, and in 2001, he ran for Mayor of NYC as one of five Green …