Norman Borlaug
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the World Food Priz
We regret that Dr. Borlaug will be unable to attend due to illness.

For over a half century, Borlaugs’ scientific and humanitarian achievements (Nobel Peace Prize winner, Congressional Gold Medal winner and recipient of over 50 honorary doctorate degrees) have kept starvation at bay for millions of people in third world countries. Borlaug, "Father of the Green Revolution," continues his battle against starvation in Africa.

For more information: www.normanborlaug.org

Kenneth M. Quinn
President of the World Food Prize Foundation

Quinn, former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, assumed the leadership of the World Food Prize Foundation on Jan. 1, 2000, following his retirement from the State Department. His diplomatic career spanned almost 32 years. During this time he rose to become one of the most decorated Foreign Service officers of his generation, recognized both for the important role he played in humanitarian and refugee endeavors, as well as for his actions in dangerous and violent situations.

For more information: www.worldfoodprize.org/about/Quinn.htm

George S. McGovern
2008 World Food Prize recipient and first United Nations global ambassador on hunger

For more information: www.mcgoverncenter.com/george.htm

Matthew Barr
A ward-winning documentary filmmaker and producer of the film “Wild Caught: Sustainable Fishing Practices,” and associate professor, Department of Broadcasting and Cinema at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Matthew Barr has been involved with filmmaking for many years, as a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro’s Department of Broadcasting & Cinema. He produced and directed the documentaries “Crimes of Hate”, “Carnival Train” and “Wild Caught: The Life and Struggles of an American Fishing Town.”

For more information: www.unheardvoicesproject.org

Thomas L. Dobbs
Professor Emeritus of Economics, South Dakota State University
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food & Society Policy Fellow

Thomas Dobbs taught public policy courses and conducted research on sustainable agriculture at South Dakota State University before retiring in 2007. He is now a Kellogg Foundation Food & Society Policy Fellow. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in England, a visiting professor in France, and a Foreign Service Officer in Pakistan.

For more information: www.foodandsocietyfellows.org/fellows.cfm?id=97410

Kathleen Frith
Assistant Director of the Center for Health and Global Environment at Harvard Medical School

Kathleen is dedicated to improving communication and public understanding of human health and global environmental change connections. She co-directs a Healthy and Sustainable Food Program that promotes a food system that is both healthy for humans and the environment, and directs a Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans program that inspires people to realize how our lives depend upon marine ecosystems.

For more information: http://chge.med.harvard.edu/about/staff/frith.html

Jerome Kills Small
Pine Ridge, S. D.

Kills Small, an Oglala Sioux, is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from South Dakota Humanities Council; the Reconciliation Award from the late Gov. George Mickleson; and was the University of South Dakota Poet of the Year in 1994. As a traditional storyteller and oral historian, he presents workshops for both adults and children. Kills Small and his wife grow and harvest foods and medicines in the Lakota tradition.

Frederick L. Kirschenmann
Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University

Fred Kirschenmann currently serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University and as the President of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture outside of New York City. He also still manages his family's 3,500 acre organic grain and livestock farm in North Dakota.

For more information: www.leopold.iastate.edu

Lanniko Lee
Enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

Lanniko Lee earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Arcadia University and a Master of Arts degree in English from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College. A charter member of the Oak Lake Writers Society, Lee owns the Birdsong Inn in Java, S.D., and is an advocate for place-based knowledge.

Ivette Perfecto
Professor of natural resources and environment, University of Michigan

Perfecto’s research interest involves biological diversity in tropical agroecosystems focusing on the effects of agricultural intensification and its impact on biodiversity in Mesoamerica (Nicaragua and Mexico). She is also interested in sustainable agriculture, the role of agroecology in solving the current food crisis and the intersection between conservation and agroecology. She co-authored a book and has published more than 70 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals.

For more information: www.snre.umich.edu/profile/perfecto