High-Level Expert Seminar on North American Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems, Towards the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit

High-Level Expert Seminar on North American Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems, Towards the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit Tuesday, 15 December 2020 from 9 am – 5 pm EST (15-23:00 CET) SPEAKER BIOS Professor Airini Dean, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Thompson Rivers University, BC. Concurrently, Airini is Adjunct Professor at Victoria University, Melbourne, and AUT University, Aotearoa New Zealand. A Fulbright Scholar, Airini is an award-winning researcher and educator for Indigenous peoples’ success at university, in both Canada and New Zealand. Airini's research interests focus on equity in education, particularly Indigenous achievement. Her goal is for education success for all to mean all. Airini currently leads the pan-TRU Coyote Project to lift Indigenous student university outcomes (nine Faculties and Library, and International and Open Learning divisions), and established the award-winning inter-disciplinary Knowledge Makers program that develops future Indigenous researchers, beginning at undergraduate level. A consultant to UNESCO and Pacific nations, Airini played a key role in the BC Ministry of Education's Equity Action project for parity in outcomes for Indigenous students across the Province's K-12 public schools (58,000 Indigenous students). In Feb 2021 Airini will join the University of Saskatchewan as the Provost and Vice President, Academic, the first Indigenous academic in the history of the university to hold this role. Bandura, Sandra Associate Director of All My Relations Research Centre at Thompson Rivers University. Sandra Bandura is the Associate Director of All My Relations, an Indigenous Research Center at Thompson Rivers University (Canada). She is a member of Qayqayt First Nation, mother of two lovely daughters and a Master of Education student. 1 @FAONorthAmerica | @UN4Indigenous | @FAOIndigenous | @FoodSystems #IndigenousFoodSystems Beamer, Kamana (Kamanamaikalani) Professor at the Center for Hawaiian Studies in the Hui ‘Āina Momona Program at the University of Hawai‘i. Professor Beamer has a joint appointment in the Richardson School of Law and the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. Previous to this role Dr. Beamer was the president and chief executive officer of The Kohala Center. Beamer’s research on governance, land tenure, and Hawaiian resource management, as well as his prior work as the director of ‘Āina-Based Education at Kamehameha Schools, prepared him for his continuing service as a director of Stanford University’s First Nations Futures Institute, a resource management development program for Indigenous leaders developed by Stanford, Kamehameha Schools, and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu in New Zealand. In 2013 he was nominated and confirmed to a four-year appointment on Hawai‘i’s State Commission on Water Resource Management and was reconfirmed in 2017 for an additional four-year term. Bugailiskis, Alexandra Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to FAO. Chair of Friends of Indigenous Peoples in Rome. Ambassador Bugailiskis has served abroad as ambassador to Syria and high commissioner to Cyprus, ambassador to Cuba and Poland. In Ottawa, Ms. Bugailiskis has held a number of senior positions. In August 2017, Alexandra Bugailiskis was appointed as Canada’s Ambassador to the Italian Republic, as well as Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador to the Republic of San Marino and Albania and High Commissioner to Malta. Campari, Joao Global Leader Food Practice, WWF International UNFSS Action Track 3 Leadership Team Joao Campari has over 25 years of experience in international development. Currently, Joao is Global Leader of WWF's Food Practice, leading the Network´s efforts to enhance the sustainability of the global food system, including nature- positive production, sustainable diets and reduction of food loss and waste. Prior to WWF, Joao held the position of Special Environmental and Sustainability Advisor to Brazil´s Minister of Agriculture. Joao has held technical and executive positions in multilateral and bilateral agencies (World Bank, UNDP and DFID), in the federal government of Brazil (Ministry of the Environment) and has advised national and sub-national governments (in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay) on the design and implementation of regional development policies, combining socio- economic rural development with conservation. For thirteen years, Joao worked for The Nature Conservancy as Program Director in Latin America, Executive Director in Brazil and Lead Economist for the Global Lands program. Joao holds a bachelor´s degree in international relations and economics, a master’s degree in economics, a Ph.D. in environmental economics. He has published two books on the economics of tropical deforestation and, in 2014, he was nominated among the top 100 Brazilian leaders in the agricultural sector for the disruptive work 2 @FAONorthAmerica | @UN4Indigenous | @FAOIndigenous | @FoodSystems #IndigenousFoodSystems conducted on agriculture and conservation. Joao has served on the sustainability advisory boards of NGOs, global agri-food platforms and companies. In 2018, he served in the Global Futures Council on Food System Innovation. Currently, he serves as Chair of Action Track 3 of the UN Food Systems Summit (Boost Nature- Positive Production). Case, Pua Lead Coordinator of Mauna Kea Education and Awareness Pua Case is born and raised on the Island of Hawai’i surrounded by the high mountains of Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Hualālai and Kohala, the fresh waters of Kohākōhau and Waikoloa and the plains of Waimea. Pua’s life path and purpose has led her to become a Kumu Hula, a teacher of traditional dance and chant, and a teacher of the life ways, culture and traditions of the kanaka maoli or native peoples of Hawai’i. With a degree in Hawaiian Language and culture, and a teaching degree in Social Studies, interwoven with the traditional teachings, philosophies and expectations from her kupuna or elders, Pua has integrated ‘Ike Hawai’i or Hawaiian knowledge and lessons into the public school system for over 30 years. Pua serves on various educational and cultural boards and is the Lead Coordinator of Mauna Kea Education and Awareness (MKEA), an organization formed five years ago ‘to educate and raise the awareness of communities in Hawaiʻi and beyond on the spiritual, historical, cultural, environmental, and political significance of Mauna Kea. MKEA provides cultural learning opportunities to everyone from keiki to kupuna, residents, visitors and others concerned about indigenous rights and responsibilities in order to create a platform for protection of sacred places. Pua has been a part of the Mauna Kea Movement over the past ten years and has been involved in both community and frontline actions to safeguard the mountain and unify peoples of all nations in a collective mission to network, plan, and support one another. Cullo, Diane Advisor to the Secretary & Director, Office of Tribal Relations, USDA Diane Cullo is the current Director for the United State Department of Agriculture Office of Tribal Relations. Davis, Benjamin Director, Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equity Division, FAO Benjamin has extensive experience in social protection, social policies and agricultural economics. He previously served as Strategic Progrmme Leader, Rural Poverty Reduction and Deputy Director of the Agricultural Development Economics Division at FAO and he was team leader of the From Production to Protection (PtoP) project. He has also worked as Social Policy Advisor for the UNICEF Regional Office in Eastern and Southern Africa and as a Research and Post-Doctoral Fellow at IFPRI. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics and a Master’s in Public Policy from UC Berkeley. 3 @FAONorthAmerica | @UN4Indigenous | @FAOIndigenous | @FoodSystems #IndigenousFoodSystems Delormier, Treena Wasonti:Io Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Food Sovereignty & Associate Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition & Environment (CINE). In addition to serving as Associate Professor at the School of Human Nutrition at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as an Associate Professor, Ms Delormier (Mohawk) is also serving as the Associate Director of McGill's Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE). Her research focuses on the food, nutrition and the of Indigenous peoples. She is involved in health promotion interventions that address the social determinants of health underlying the health inequities Indigenous Populations experience, particularly in a historical context of colonialism. She is dedicated to building capacity in Indigenous health research through mentoring and training students and community researchers. Dounias, Edmond Research Director, IRD (The Research Institute for Development/Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) In addition to his work as Research Director at IRD, Edmond Dounias is also IRD’s representative for Indonesia and Timor Leste. Further, he is a Senior Research Associate to the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). His research activities focus on the biocultural interactions between forest dwellers and tropical forests in a context of drastic change, with a long fieldwork experience among forest farmers and formerly nomadic hunter-gatherer societies, in Congo Basin,

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