Third Aspen Dialogue on U.S. Food Insecurity & Healthcare Costs

Third Aspen Dialogue on U.S. Food Insecurity & Healthcare Costs Aspen, CO – October 11-13, 2015

PARTICIPANT BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Raymond Baxter, Senior Vice President, Community Benefit, Research and Health Policy, Kaiser Permanente

As a member of Kaiser Permanente’s National Executive Team, Dr. Baxter leads the organization’s activities to fulfill its social mission, including care and coverage for low- income people, community health initiatives, health equity, environmental stewardship and support for community-based organizations. He also leads Kaiser Permanente’s work in research, health policy and diversity, and serves as President of Kaiser Permanente International. He serves on the advisory boards of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and the Duke University Institute for Health Innovation; the boards of the CDC Foundation and the Global Agenda Council on Health of the World Economic Forum; and is a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and Roundtable on Value and Science- Driven Healthcare. In 2001, the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health honored him as a Public Health Hero for his service in the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. In September 2006, he received the CDC Foundation Hero Award for addressing the health consequences of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast, and for his longstanding commitment to improving the health of communities. Dr. Baxter has more than 35 years of experience managing public health, hospital, long-term care and mental health programs, including heading the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Dr. Baxter also led The Lewin Group, a noted health policy firm. Dr. Baxter holds a doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Heidi Blanck, Chief, Obesity Prevention and Control Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Captain Heidi Blanck, MS, PhD, oversees the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Obesity Prevention and Control unit. Staff monitor and assess obesity prevalence and key nutrition and physical activity behaviors and systems supports. The unit focuses on surveillance and applied research and evaluation. The division supports population-level initiatives in multiple settings (i.e., child care, schools, worksites and community venues including restaurants and grocery stores) and work to improve health equity. Specific initiatives include work with the National Prevention Strategy, Healthy Hospitals and Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools and Let’s Move Child Care! Dr. Blanck received her PhD from Emory University in Atlanta, GA in Nutrition and Health Sciences. She has more than 15 years of CDC experience as a public health epidemiologist and has authored over 50 papers and reports. She is a senior member of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (www.nccor.org) and is the creator and Senior Advisor to CDC's Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network (www.NOPREN.net). NOPREN projects include rural food access, drinking water access, improving healthier food in retail including the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, and food insecurity.

Karrie Denniston, Director, Hunger Relief and Nutrition, Walmart Foundation

Karrie Denniston is Director of Hunger Relief and Nutrition at the Walmart Foundation. Previously, Denniston was VP of National Programs at Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, where she oversaw development of national strategies designed to address gaps in hunger relief services, including SNAP, targeted children’s programs and mobile delivery. Prior, Denniston worked at the Food Bank of the Southern Tier in Elmira, NY, and in public service, serving as a Policy Analyst in the Policy and Program Development Branch of the Child Nutrition Division at the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. Denniston received a BA in International Relations from the State University of New York at Geneseo, and a master’s degree in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management from George Mason University.

DeShele Dorsey-Taylor, National Program Director, Hunger Volunteer Connection, ConAgra Foods Foundation

DeShele is a trusted advisor in the philanthropy and fundraising fields. With more than a decade of experience and successes, DeShele leverages her practical and theoretical expertise to support corporations, philanthropies, and nonprofits in the planning, development, and execution of outcome-centered initiatives that address social change. She has provided counsel to Fortune 500™ companies as a consultant and division leader for the corporate practices at TCC Group and Changing Our World. In 2013, she established Dorsey Impact Solutions to help organizations achieve greater impact through solution-focused community engagement efforts. DeShele currently serves as the National Program Director for Hunger Volunteer Connection, a new initiative sponsored by the ConAgra Foods Foundation, which leverages the expertise of six national nonprofits to transform the hunger volunteering landscape. This initiative seeks to ignite and catapult volunteering in the hunger space by creating a national call to action to drive 500,000 hours of service into the space, building the capacity of organizations to engage more volunteers, and inspiring individuals to explore the diversity of opportunities available as a hunger volunteer. DeShele oversees the operations of the initiative including managing nonprofit and corporate relationships, implementing the initiative’s strategic plan and monitoring results.

Jeremy Everett, Director, The Texas Hunger Initiative

Jeremy Everett is the founding Director of the Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) which is a capacity building project within Baylor University and a partner of the United States Department of Agriculture, Texas state agencies, and a number of other national and state based anti-hunger and poverty organizations that seeks to develop and implement strategies to alleviate hunger through research, policy analysis, education, and community organizing. THI organizes coalitions across the state to ensure access to healthy food for all Texans. Presently, THI has coalitions representing 63% of the population of Texas with 12 regional offices and approximately 100 staff resourcing Texas communities which have resulted in millions of additional meals being served to Texas children since its beginning in 2009. Prior to THI, Jeremy worked for international and community development organizations as a teacher, religious leader, community organizer, and organic farmer. Jeremy earned a Bachelor’s degree from Samford University, and a Master of Divinity from Baylor University. Jeremy is a Next Generation Fellow of the University of Texas LBJ School’s Strauss Center for International Security and Law and was recently appointed by U.S. Congress to serve on the National Commission on Hunger.

Deborah Frank, Director, Grow Clinic for Children Boston Medical Center; Founder and Principal Investigator, Children's HealthWatch; Professor, Child Health and Well-Being, Boston University School of Medicine

Dr. Deborah Frank is the first Professor of Child Health and Well-Being at the Boston University School of Medicine; Director, Grow Clinic for Children at Boston Medical Center (BMC); and Founder and Principal investigator of Children’s HealthWatch, a network of pediatric and public health researchers working to improve child health. A highly respected national authority, she has testified before both the United States and Massachusetts legislatures on the growing national problem of hunger and its effects on children's health and learning. Frank also leads research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse on the effects of intrauterine exposure to cocaine and other substances on children’s long term development. In 2010, Dr. Frank received the Massachusetts Health Council Outstanding Leadership Award and the Physician Advocacy Merit Award from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University. In 2014, she received several awards including the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps’ Embracing the Legacy Award, the American Medical Association’s Dr. Debasish Mridha Spirit of Medicine Award , and the Congressional Hunger Center’s Bill Emerson and Mickey Leland Award. She also was appointed by Leader Nancy Pelosi to the National Hunger Commission. Frank is the author of more than 50 papers and articles.

Craig Gundersen, Soybean Industry Endowed Professor of Agricultural Strategy, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

Craig Gundersen is the Soybean Industry Endowed Professor in Agricultural Strategy in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois and Executive Director of the National Soybean Research Laboratory. He is also a member of the Technical Advisory Group of Feeding America and is the lead researcher on the Map the Meal Gap project. Previously, he was at the Economic Research Service of the USDA and at Iowa State University. Gundersen's research is primarily focused on the causes and consequences of food insecurity and on evaluations of food assistance programs. Among other journals, he has published in Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Econometrics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Nutrition, Pediatrics, Demography, Obesity Reviews, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and American Journal of Public Health. His work has been supported by over $10 million in external funding from various government and non-government sources including, among other sources, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institutes of Food and Agriculture (NIFA); National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH); ConAgra Foods Foundation; Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR); AARP Foundation; American Beverage Association; U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS); Merck Foundation; Urban Institute; and USDA, Food and Nutrition Service (FNS).

Robert Lawrence, Center for a Livable Future Professor, Environmental Health Sciences and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Robert Lawrence, MD, is the Center for a Livable Future Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he also serves as Professor of Health Policy and Management and International Health. He holds a joint appointment as Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine. He is the founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, which supports research and develops policies related to the public health impacts of industrial food animal production, improving food security, and adopting healthier diets. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Following his three years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, CDC, he joined the faculty of UNC Chapel Hill as clinical director of a community health services project funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity. From 1974 – 1991, he directed the Division of Primary Care at Harvard Medical School where he led the development of primary care and community health training programs throughout the Harvard system. From 1991– 1995, he served as Director of Health Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing grants to improve health in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. From 1995-2006, he served as Associate Dean for Professional Education at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Jeanne Mayland, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Target Corporation

Jeanne has been involved in community work for over 20 years and has held various roles in the field of corporate philanthropy. She started her Target career in 2005 and has managed various philanthropic programs and community initiatives for Target. In her current role, she is responsible for hunger initiatives including partnering with food banks, social service agencies and schools across the country. She has managed other philanthropic programs for Pentair, Inc. and Travelers Insurance during her career. Jeanne holds a BA in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Randy Oostra, President and Chief Executive Officer, ProMedica Health System

Randy Oostra, DM, FACHE, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of ProMedica, a non-profit, mission based health system based in Toledo. ProMedica has more than 17,000 employees and more than 2,300 physicians with 780 healthcare providers employed by ProMedica Physicians. Its 13 hospitals and more than 300 facilities offer comprehensive diagnostic, medical and surgical specialties in heart and vascular, oncology, orthopedics, neurology, and women and pediatric services. Randy holds a Doctorate in Management from Case Western Reserve University; a Master’s degree in Health Care Administration from the University of Minnesota; a Master’s degree in Management from the University of Wisconsin; and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa. Randy’s commitment to the healthcare industry, and community, is evidenced in his extensive involvement in numerous professional and civic organizations at the local, regional and national levels. He is a member of the American Hospital Association; Ohio and Michigan Hospital Associations; is a fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives; and has served on the AHA Regional Policy Board, Region V. He is a Board Member of the Regional Growth Partnership; Toledo Art Museum; and Northwestern College (Iowa), and is currently the Board Chair for the Toledo Symphony. Additionally he is a member of the Development Committee for Bread for the World.

Sandra Schubert, Of Counsel, Somach Simmons & Dunn

Sandra Schubert joined Somach Simmons & Dunn as Of Counsel in December 2014. She was admitted to the Calfironia bar in 1999. Ms. Schubert has spent the past two decades as a strategist, legal counsel, and government affairs and public relations advisor working at the state and local government, federal legislative and special interest levels on a variety of agricultural, public health, environmental, consumer protection and energy issues. Ms. Schubert is a former Undersecretary with the California Department of Food and Agriculture. She has lectured nationally on numerous public interest and government issues to activist, student, attorney and governmental audiences. She has expertise in complex waters rights, agricultural and land use issues, as well as several emerging areas of law that continue to evolve such as climate and food safety issues. Ms. Schubert taught at the Georgetown University School of Law and has lectured at the New York University School of Law.

Marlene Schwartz, Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity and Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut

Dr. Marlene Schwartz is Director for the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity and Professor of Human Development and Family Studies. Dr. Schwartz's research and community service address how home environments, school landscapes, neighborhoods, and the media shape the eating attitudes and behaviors of children. Dr. Schwartz earned her PhD in Psychology from Yale University in 1996. Prior to joining the Rudd Center, she served as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders from 1996 to 2006. She has collaborated with the Connecticut State Department of Education to evaluate nutrition and physical activity policies in schools and preschools throughout the state. She co-chaired the Connecticut Obesity Task Force and has provided expert testimony on obesity-related state policies. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Food Bank. Dr. Schwartz has received research grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health to study school wellness policies, the preschool nutrition environment, the effect of food marketing on children, the relationship between food insecurity and nutrition, and how federal food programs can improve the accessibility and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods. In 2014, Dr. Schwartz received the Sarah Samuels Award from the Food and Nutrition Section of the American Public Health Association. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has profiled Dr. Schwartz's life and career.

Hilary Seligman, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Department of Biostatistics, University of California -San Francisco Center for Vulnerable Populations, San Francisco General Hospital

Dr. Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS, is Associate Professor in Residence in the Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. In addition to practicing Internal Medicine at the city’s public hospital, Dr. Seligman’s work focuses on the impact of food insecurity on the prevention and management of chronic disease, including obesity and diabetes. She is the Director of the CDC’s Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network and of EatSF, a fruit and vegetable voucher program for low-income residents of San Francisco. She collaborates closely with Feeding America on developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions and policies to support chronic disease self- management among food pantry clients. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Kenneth Smith, Director, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, University of Texas Medical Branch

Kenneth Smith, PhD is a health economist and public health practitioner. After years of research in health finance, Dr. Smith was appointed the Director of Chronic Disease Prevention, Philadelphia Department of Public Health. There, he oversaw the City’s Tobacco Control Program; helped implement the City’s trans fats ban; and drafted a plan to improve access to fresh, affordable produce. As a result of Dr. Smith’s efforts, and with the assistance of community stakeholders, Philadelphia passed the nation’s most comprehensive menu labeling ordinance. Prior to his appointments at UTMB, Dr. Smith was the Lead Analyst for Chronic Disease and Environmental Health for the National Association of City and County Health Officials, where he built a national-level portfolio of projects around Health Impact Assessment, Health in All Policies, and community planning; provided technical assistance to build community food systems; and offered recommendations about menu labeling and trans fats to the Food and Drug Administration. As Director for the Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, he is focusing Center activities on global health policy and equity, including new work around the impact of the global food system on health equity.

William Tatum, Director, Health and Nutrition Policy, Federal Affairs, Grocery Manufacturers Association

William Tatum is Director, Federal Affairs, Health and Nutrition Policy at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). Based in Washington, D.C., GMA is the voice of more than 300 leading food, beverage and consumer product companies. As the health and wellbeing portfolio manager for GMA, Tatum serves as liaison to GMA member companies, Congress, federal agencies and health policy stakeholders. His primary areas of focus include efforts to reduce childhood obesity, dietary guidelines, food marketing to kids, and school nutrition. Prior to GMA, he served as Director, Constituent Relations for Partnership for Prevention, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing policies and practices to promote health. Tatum also worked at the Alliance for Aging Research. During his tenure at the Alliance, Tatum worked on geriatric policy and also served as editor of the 2005 White House Conference on Aging resolution. Tatum received his Masters of Arts in Government from the Johns Hopkins University and Bachelors of Arts in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland.

Kirsten Saenz Tobey, Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer. Revolution Foods

Kirsten Saenz Tobey founded Revolution Foods in 2006 with Kristin Groos Richmond, a former classmate at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. As Revolution Foods, Kirsten's work centers around developing innovative, attainable solutions aimed at providing access to healthy food and education to all current and future generations. Kirsten continues to steward the mission and drive the vision for the company, overseeing nutrition strategy, thought leadership, strategic initiatives and new business innovation, among other key aspects of the business. Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kirsten's career spanned from teaching to leading experiential education programs in the US and Latin America and evaluating the scalability of school feeding programs with the United Nations Hunger Task Force in Ghana. Under Kirsten and Kristin’s leadership, Revolution Foods was named as one of Fast Company’s Most 50 Most Innovative Companies for 2015. Kirsten is an Ashoka Fellow, Aspen Institute Catto Environmental Fellow, and a member of the Culinary Institute of America's Sustainable Business Council. Alongside co-founder Kristin Groos Richmond, Kirsten was listed as one of Fortune's 40 under 40 for 2013, identified as one of Time Magazine's Education Activists of 2011, and named Entrepreneur of the Year by NewSchools Venture Fund in 2010. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Net Impact, Mercaris, and the People’s Community Market. Kirsten holds an AB from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and three daughters. Kirsten’s past associations include being a member of the USF Presidential Commission for Health Professions, and mentor for Women's Initiative Fellowship Program through the George W. Bush Institute.

Elaine Waxman, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute

Elaine Waxman is a senior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Her expertise includes food insecurity, nutrition and the food assistance safety net, the social determinants of health disparities, as well as broader issues affecting low- income families and communities. Prior to joining Urban, Waxman served as Vice President of Research and Nutrition at Feeding America, where she oversaw research on food insecurity, the intersection of hunger and health, and the circumstances of individuals seeking charitable food assistance. In that role, Waxman supervised Hunger in America 2014, the largest study ever conducted of charitable feeding in the United States, and collaborated on the Map the Meal Gap project, the first county-level estimates of food insecurity in the U.S. She has co-authored numerous research and policy reports and articles in scholarly journals, including Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy, Social Service Review, Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and Journal of Food Law and Policy. She received her PhD from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, where she is currently a Lecturer. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.

James Weill, President, Food Research and Action Center

Since February 1998, Jim Weill has been President of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) – the leading national nonprofit organization working to improve public policy and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. FRAC plays an essential role in strengthening key federal programs – including SNAP, school meals, afterschool and summer food, child care food, WIC, and income supports like refundable tax credits – and getting eligible people into the programs. FRAC leads a large and effective national network of nutrition and anti-hunger groups. Jim has devoted his entire professional career to reducing hunger and poverty, protecting the legal rights of children and poor people, and expanding economic security, income and nutrition support programs and health insurance coverage. Prior to joining FRAC, he was at the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) as Program Director and General Counsel. He led CDF’s efforts that produced the first major expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit, oversaw CDF’s Medicaid expansion, child care, and income security efforts, and was a key leader of the campaign to pass the Children’s Health Insurance Program in 1997. Before CDF, Jim was Deputy Director and Director of Federal Litigation at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. He litigated major law reform and class action cases in the federal court of appeals and Supreme Court on Social Security, Medicaid, AFDC, SNAP/Food Stamps and other public benefits issues, and the rights of children born out of wedlock.

Amy Yaroch, Executive Director, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition

Dr. Amy Yaroch is the Executive Director at the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. She also holds a Special Dean’s appointment as Professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health at the University of Nebraska of Medical Center. Dr. Yaroch received her PhD in nutrition, with an emphasis in behavioral science from Emory University in 1999. Since joining the Center in 2009, Dr. Yaroch has been leading efforts in obesity prevention, food insecurity, local food systems, and survey development and evaluation. Her research incorporates a social ecological approach, working at individual, environmental and policy levels for positive behavior change. Before joining the Center, Dr. Yaroch was a Program Director and Behavioral Scientist at the National Cancer Institute in the Health Promotion Research Branch for 6.5 years. At the NCI, Dr. Yaroch oversaw research efforts in the areas of nutrition, obesity prevention and behavioral sun safety/skin cancer prevention. Dr. Yaroch has authored more than 90 papers, two book chapters and has been awarded grants and contracts from federal and non-federal sources across a broad range of areas. Dr. Yaroch serves as a standing study section member for the NIH Psychosocial Risk Disease Prevention (PRDP) study section and serves as an ad-hoc chair/member on other federal and non-federal study sections. She also serves on numerous national advisory committees.

James Ziliak, Carol Martin Gatton Chair in Microeconomics, Department of Economics and Director, Center for Poverty Research, University of Kentucky

James Ziliak holds the Carol Martin Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics in the Department of Economics and is Founding Director of the Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky. He served as assistant and associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon, and has held visiting positions at the Brookings Institution, University College London, University of Michigan, and University of Wisconsin. His research expertise is in the areas of labor economics, poverty, food insecurity, and tax and transfer policy. Recent projects include trends in earnings and income volatility in the U.S.; the origins of persistently poor regions in America; the causes and consequences of hunger among Americans; and the effect of survey nonresponse on the level and trends in poverty and inequality. He currently is the PI on the Research Program in Childhood Hunger, funded by the Food and Nutrition Service in the USDA, and the FoodAPS Research Initiative, funded by the Economic Research Service in the USDA. He served as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Examination of the Adequacy of Food Resources and SNAP Allotments, and as Chair of the National Academies of Science, Committee on National Statistics Workshop on Research Gaps and Opportunities on the Causes and Consequences of Child Hunger. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book SNAP Matters: How Food Stamps Affect Health and Well Being at Stanford University Press, and editor of Welfare Reform and its Long Term Consequences for America’s Poor published by Cambridge University Press (2009) and Appalachian Legacy: Economic Opportunity after the War on Poverty published by Brookings Institution Press (2012).

Lewis Ziska, Plant Physiologist, Crop Systems and Global Change, USDA - ARS

Dr. Lewis Ziska is a Plant Physiologist with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland. After graduating from the University of California, Davis, he began his career as a Smithsonian fellow, and then took up residence as the Project Leader for global climate change at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines before joining USDA. Since joining USDA, Dr. Ziska has published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles related to climate change and rising carbon dioxide that address: (1) Adaptation of agriculture to maintain food security; (2) Weeds and weed management; (3) Environmental threats posed by invasive species; (4) Plant biology and public health. He is the author, with Jeff Dukes at Purdue, of Global Climate Change and Weed Biology (Wiley Press) and the editor of Invasive Species and Global Climate Change (CABi Press).

Dialogue Moderators

Ruth Katz, Executive Director, Health, Medicine and Society Program, The Aspen Institute

Ruth Katz is Executive Director of the Health, Medicine and Society (HMS) Program at the Washington, D.C.-based Aspen Institute, an educational and policy studies organization. HMS informs the national conversation on health, medicine, and biomedical research. Katz joined the Aspen Institute after serving from 2009 to 2013 as Chief Public Health Counsel (Democratic Staff) with the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. She was Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University from 2003 to 2008 and Associate Dean for Administration at the Yale University School of Medicine from 1997 to 2003. She previously held positions on the U.S. House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health, chaired by C. Everett Koop and David Kessler. Katz, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, holds a law degree from Emory University and a Masters of Public Health from Harvard. A current member of the CDC Foundation, she has served on public and non-profit sector boards and committees at Emory University, NARAL Pro-Choice America, NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, CDC, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.

David Monsma, Executive Director, Energy & Environment Program, The Aspen Institute

David Monsma is Executive Director of the Aspen Institute's Energy and Environment Program. The Institute's energy and environment program work includes three annual energy policy forums: The Aspen Institute Energy Policy Forum, the Global Forum on Energy, Economy and Security, and the Clean Energy Forum. The program also convenes, and David moderates, policy-testing dialogues including Aspen’s Food Security Strategy Group; the India-US Track II Dialogue on Energy and Climate Change; the Aspen Ocean Community Dialogue; and the Texas Natural Gas Regulatory Modernization Dialogue, as well as various other dialogues, seminars and the Catto Fellowship. An attorney by training, David has over 20 years of experience in environmental law and policy. He taught law and ethics at Loyola University in Maryland and served as director of business and environment at Business for Social Responsibility in San Francisco. During the Clinton Administration, David was the environmental management task force coordinator for the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) and, prior to this, led a toxics use reduction and citizen’s suit enforcement campaign in Maryland for the Environmental Action Foundation. David began his legal career as a program attorney in the Office of Toxics Substances at the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC.

Rapporteur

Nicole Buckley, Assistant Director, Environment & Development, Energy & Environment Program The Aspen Institute

Nicole Buckley is Assistant Director of Environment & Development with the Energy & Environment Program at the Aspen Institute. She serves as lead on the program’s environmental portfolio, including food security, wildlife conservation, oceans, and sustainable agriculture. She formerly managed the Institute's global ranking of business schools focused on social and environmental impact, and previously was a strategy associate at L.E.K. Consulting, serving the retail, pharmaceutical, biotech and aviation industries. She has a BA from Harvard University and is on the Harvard Alumni Association Board of Directors.