AGENDA AND PROGRAM

Food Security Summit 2008 - Cultivating an Agenda for Change

February 16, 2008
Location: Westminster Church, Nashville, TN

           
9:00 - 10:00   Registration & View Exhibits
        Continental Breakfast courtesy of Whole Foods Market.
 
    10:00   Welcome and Introduction to Summit
        Cassi Johnson, Director, Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee
The Honorable Karl Dean, Mayor of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County
 
        Why explore issues and answers? Views from our partners
        May Leinhart and Emily Burnett Parish, Land Trust for Tennessee
Brenda Morrow, Edgehill Family Resource Center
Dianne Killebrew, Dietetic Internship Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
 
        An Introduction to Cultivating an Agenda for Change
        Keel Hunt
 
10:45 - 11:45   Exploring our Food System, concurrent sessions
        Health Impacts of Our Food System
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Moderated by Mary Kate Mouser, Director, Children's Health Improvement and Prevention,
Monroe Carell, Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
             Tracy F. Buck, MS, RD, Director for the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Division for the Metro Public Health Department
           Sarah White, State Director, School Nutrition Program, vision of Resources & Support Services, TN Department of Education
           Barbara Clinton, Director, Vanderbilt Center for Health Services
 
        Barriers to Food Access in Middle Tennessee
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Moderated by Leslie Speller Henderson, Tennessee State University Cooperative Extension
           Darcy Freedman, MPH
           Sandria Godwin, PhD, RD, Professor, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences and Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research, Tennessee State University
           Flora Wilson, Edgehill Family Resource Center Youth Advisory Council and Edgehill Community Garden
 
        Alternative Markets for Accessing Healthy Foods
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Moderated by Jeff Themm, Director, Nashville Farmers' Market
           Will Uhlhorn, Executive Chef, F. Scott's
           Tallahassee May, Turnbull Creek Farm
           Paul Bela, Hill and Hollow Farm
 
        Environmental Impacts of our Food System
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Moderated by Sarah Bellos, Nashville Urban Harvest
           Kimberlie Cole, Environmental Regulatory Specialist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Organic Farmer, West Wind Farms LLC
           Dave Keiser, Program Director, Cumberland Region Tomorrow
           Marcus Kerske, Gardens of Babylon
 
        Food and Policy
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Moderated by Jennifer Hagan-Dier, Assistant Commissioner, Liaison to Department of Economic and Community Development, Tennessee Department of Revenue
           Dianne Killebrew, M.Ed., R.D., L.D.N., Educational Coordinator, Dietetic Internship Packaging Innovation Specialist Vanderbilt Medical Center
           Avi Poster, Community Leader Chairman, Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Nashville
           Megan Macaraeg, MANNA
 
12:00 - 1:45   Lunch & Keynote Address
    12:00 - 1:45

  Lunch, courtesy of Whole Foods Market

    12:00 - 1:45   Food Systems Change: Lessons from the Field, moderated by Joyce Searcy
  Anthony Flaccavento, Founder and Director, Appalachian Sustainable Development
  Preston Maring, Associate Physician in Chief, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA
  La Donna Redmond, President and CEO, Institute for Community Resource Development
 
2:00 - 3:00   Lessons from the Field, concurrent sessions
           Produce to the People: Farm to Hospital Projects with Preston Maring, moderated by Darcy Freedman
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           Food as a Tool for Organizing Communities with LaDonna Redmond, moderated by Del Ketcham
           Big Markets for Small Farmers: Developing the Community Infrastructure that can Make it Happen with Anthony Flaccavento, moderated by Dan Strasser
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3:15 - 4:30   Cultivating an Agenda for Change
        Facilitated by Keel Hunt
 
    4:30   View Exhibits

The Food Security Partners is a project of the Vanderbilt Institute for
Public Policy Studies and is funded by the
generous support of the community.

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