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PRESIDENTS UNITED TO SOLVE HUNGER (PUSH) LEADERS FORUM 2018 MARCH 15-16, ILLINOIS HOSTED BY WITH PARTICIPATION BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SYSTEM PRESIDENTS UNITED TO SOLVE HUNGER (PUSH) LEADERS FORUM THURSDAY, MARCH 15 I Hotel and Conference Center | 1900 South First Street | Champaign, IL | 61820 11:00am | Illinois Ballroom Foyer 1:45 - 2:45pm | Alma Mater Room Registration Opens PUSH & GODAN: Studies on Open Data and Next Steps for Universities and Funders 11:30am | Illinois Ballroom Jaime Adams, USDA Senior Advisor for International Welcome Affairs, Office of the Chief Scientist Mike DeLorenzo, Senior Associate Chancellor for Anne Adrian, Hunger Solutions Institute, Moderator Administration and Operations Medha Devare, Data and Knowledge Manager, Lynn Hassan Jones, Diagnostic Radiologist CGIAR Cathie Woteki, Former Under-Secretary, USDA’s Roberta Johnson Killeen, Physicist Research, Education, and Economics and Chief Prasanta Kalita, Associate Dean for Academic Scientist Programs in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) 2:45 - 3:00pm | Break Lunch 3:00 - 4:00pm | Alma Mater Room History of the Land Grant Mission Developing Global Leaders Kim Kidwell, Dean of ACES Brady Deaton, Chancellor Emeritus, University of Missouri and Chair, Board of International Food and 1:00 - 1:45pm | Alma Mater Room Agricultural Development Nourishing the Planet | Saving the Planet: The June Henton, Dean, College of Human Sciences, Challenge of the Rising Generation Auburn University, Moderator Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow, Global Food and Douglas Palmer, Vice President for Academic Affairs Agriculture, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Provost; Dean, University of Walsh Kenneth Quinn, President, World Food Prize Foundation and Former Ambassador 1 THURSDAY, MARCH 15 FRIDAY, MARCH 16 I Hotel and Conference Center I Hotel and Conference Center 4:00 - 6:00pm | Chancellor Ballroom 8:00 - 9:00am | Illinois Ballroom Justice for Basic Needs: Systemic Crisis, Breakfast and Networking Intersectionality, and Innovative Solutions Ruben Canedo, Center for Educational Equity and 9:00 - 9:45am | Lincoln Room Excellence, University of California, Berkeley Partnering to Sustainably Reduce Global Hunger, Malnutrition & Poverty 6:00 - 6:30pm | Break Vern Long, USAID/Feed the Future Initiative 6:30 - 9:00pm | Illinois Ballroom 9:45 - 10:45am | Lincoln Room Evening Banquet PUSH Business Meeting: The Future of PUSH Welcome Robert Jones, Chancellor, University of Illinois at 11:00am - 1:30pm | Illinois Ballroom Urbana-Champaign A Design Thinking Approach to Food Insecurity (Workshop & Lunch – PUSH & UFWH Attendees) Keynote Ertharin Cousin, Distinguished Fellow, Global 1:30pm | Illinois Ballroom Food and Agriculture PUSH Meeting Adjourns Musical Interlude Nicholas Holt and Christopher Flores “One World, One Love, One Family” 2 THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE ACTION Universities nurture innovation and inspire critical thinking, and over the years many of the world’s best university researchers and faculty have made tremendous contributions to the science of growing, processing, transporting and accessing food. But until recently it was difficult for the academy to make a collective contribution to the global effort to end hunger and malnutrition. In February 2014 the Hunger Solutions Institute, in partnership with the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), held a high level interactive forum, “Shaping the Collective Role of Universities as a Partner in Ending Hunger” to determine how to better coordinate efforts to address these critical issues. A consensus outcome from that gathering, which drew 70 leaders from 30 universities in Canada, the United States and Latin America, was the Presidents’ Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security, a statement outlining a number of initiatives spanning teaching, research, outreach, and student engagement that university leaders can implement as part of an action agenda to make food and nutrition security an institutional priority. Signatories of the Presidents’ Commitment to Food and Nutrition Security make up a consortium known as Presidents United to Solve Hunger or PUSH. Powered by its student counterpart, Universities Fighting World Hunger, PUSH signatories pledge to work collectively toward zero hunger campuses, communities, and nations. 4 SPEAKER DIRECTORY Jaime Adams joined the U.S. share and curate knowledge from different research and Department of Agriculture’s Office of eXtension organizations. the Chief Scientist in 2011 as the Senior In 2010, she was appointed to help build a highly effective Advisor for International Affairs. In this and recognized online learning network. The network capacity, Ms. Adams engages in cross- continues to receive federal funding and is seen as a functional international agricultural model in developing collaborative and cross-disciplinary science and technology collaboration learning networks. with all levels of staff and leadership from government and non-governmental organizations. Ms. Adams is Ruben Canedo, research and responsible for managing and facilitating the international mobilization coordinator at University priorities of the USDA Chief Scientist. In her current of California Berkeley’s Centers for capacity Ms. Adams has served as the lead negotiator Educational Equity and Excellence, for numerous international bilateral and multilateral co-leads both the UC Berkeley Food agricultural science and technology agreements. She Security Committee and the UC was one of the lead architects of, and now leads the U.S. Global Food Initiative Food Access Government (USG) participation in, the Global Open Data and Security Subcommittee. Canedo has established for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative. himself as a national expert on student food security and college campus programs and policies to address Anne Mims Adrian is currently the the issue. He established and currently coordinates the project manager assessing open access efforts of campus food security working groups at all 10 to research and data for Presidents United UC campuses, and is engaged in actively researching and to Solver Hunger (PUSH), an initiative of addressing college student food access and security. the Hunger Solutions Institute with the College of Human Sciences at Auburn University. She has also recently served as eXtension’s Director of Programs, providing leadership and coordinating eXtension programs, seeking open data and knowledge opportunities, and finding ways to 5 Ertharin Cousin is a distinguished the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He completed a fellow of global agriculture at the two-year term as chair of the Missouri Council on Public Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Higher Education and was chair of the Big 12 Conference Cousin previously served as executive Board of Directors. He is a recipient of the Malone Award director of the World Food Programme from APLU for furthering international education in from 2012 until 2017. In this role, she public higher education, a member of the board of the led the world’s largest humanitarian Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and served on the organization with 14,000 staff serving 80 million International Committee of the Association of American vulnerable people across 75 countries. Universities (AAU). Cousin possesses more than 30 years of national and Medha Devare is Senior Research international nonprofit, government, and corporate Fellow with the International Food leadership experience. She maintains relationships Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and with global government, business, and community Module Lead of CGIAR’s Big Data leaders. She has published numerous articles regarding Platform, based at the CGIAR System agriculture, food security, and nutrition. Office in Montpellier, France. She is a Cropping Systems Agronomist and Brady J. Deaton was Chancellor of the Microbial Ecologist with significant experience working University of Missouri 2004-2013 and on and leading projects addressing food and nutritional now serves in emeritus status and as security and sustainable resource management in South Director of the Deaton Institute for Asia. Medha also has substantial experience in data University Leadership in International and knowledge management, including ontologies, Development at Missouri. He was vocabularies, and other semantic web-related tools. appointed Chair of BIFAD by President Before she moved to France, Medha was Scientist and Obama in 2011 and reappointed in 2012 for a four-year Knowledge Management Specialist at the International term. Deaton served as chair of the Academic Affairs Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based Council of the Association of Public and Land-grant in Kathmandu, Nepal. Universities (APLU) and functions in advisory roles with 6 SPEAKER DIRECTORY Lynn B. Hassan Jones is a Physician, Jones’ tenure at one of the SUNY system’s leading board certified in diagnostic radiology research universities followed a 34-year career at the with musculoskeletal fellowship University of Minnesota, a Big Ten land-grant institution, training, and is Co-Director of MRI where he began as a plant physiologist in the Department at Mankato Clinic in Mankato, of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and rose through a Minnesota. In more than 20 years series of academic administrative appointments, serving of medical