Larry Bain, a leading San Francisco restaurateur, is an outspoken advocate for social responsibility in the restaurant industry. He served on Mayor Newsome’s transition team and on the San Francisco’s interagency task force on healthy food procur...

Debi Barker, co-director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), co-authored Invisible Government—The World Trade Organization: Global Government For The New Millennium and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possib...

Jo Ann Baumgartner is the director of the Wild Farm Alliance (WFA), whose mission is to promote a healthy, viable agriculture that protects and restores wild nature, i.e. ecologically managed farms that gracefully meld into landscapes and help suppor...

Lucas Benitez is a farmworker and co-director of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. He is originally from Guerrero, Mexico, and he came to the U.S. when he was 16 to help support his five brothers and sisters. By organizing fellow migrant farmworker...

Jesse Ziff Cool has been dedicated to sustainable agriculture and cuisine since 1975 as a writer, restaurateur, and spokesperson/consultant for eco-conscious food service and social responsibility in the food industry. She has authored 7 cookbooks, i...

Ann Cooper, CEC, one of the nation’s leading activist chefs, has long been an advocate for sustainable agriculture and for upgrading children’s school lunches across America. Director of nutrition services for the Berkeley Unified School District...

Claire Hope Cummings is an environmental journalist, lawyer, and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Claire’s work focuses on how food and farming reconnects us to each other and the places where we live. She has...

Lawrence De Freitas became South Central Los Angeles' Community Services Unlimited's (CSU) first youth apprentice in 2004 and subsequently helped create the first CSU urban mini-farms. He then became a program assistant and is now a program a...

Michael Dimock, the president of Roots of Change, works on sustainability and high value marketing strategies to help small and medium size agricultural producers survive amidst global corporate consolidation. The founder, in 1992, of the Ag Innovati...

Sarika Duren has been a regular volunteer for South Central Los Angeles' Community Services Unlimited (CSU), a grassroots community organizing and service organization, for many years. Her current responsibilities include design and maintenance o...