Advisory Board
Food Tank partners with the following leaders in the food movement:
Abdou Tenkouano
Executive Director for CORAF, the West and Central Africa Council for Agricultural Research
Baldemar Velásquez
Highly respected national and international leader in the farm labor, Latino and immigrant rights movements
David Katz
Medical doctor, Founding Director, Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, and Founder of the GLiMMER Initiative
Federica Marra
Winner of the 2012 Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Young Earth Solutions competition
Geeta Maker-Clark
Board certified integrative family physician, coordinator of Integrative Medical Education and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago and faculty at the University of Chicago NorthShore Family Medicine Residency program
Hans Herren
Internationally recognized scientist, President and CEO of the Millennium Institute, and Co-founder and President of the Swiss foundation, Biovision
Jen Chapin
Singer-songwriter, educator, mother, and food justice activist
Jessica Fanzo
Nutritionist, professor, and expert in the fields of immunology and biodiversity
Julie Stein
Executive Director & Co-Founder, Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network
Lauren Sorkin
Specialist in environment, climate change and knowledge management
Lisa Pino
Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Michael Berger
Founding Partner and the VP of Supply Chain of Elevation Franchise Ventures, franchisor of Elevation Burger
Michael Croft
Leader in the Slow Food movement, president of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, and a Fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation
Nancy Karanja
Professor of soil ecology and Director of the Microbial Resource Centre at the University of Nairobi
Olivier De Schutter
Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and Professor of Law at the Catholic University of Louvain and the College of Europe (Natolin)
Richard Munang
U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Climate Change Programme Coordinator for Africa
Roger Thurow
Senior fellow for global agricultural development for The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Shenggen Fan
Director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute
Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba
Programme Manager with the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)