VEGETARIAN SUMMERFEST 2018 PROGRAM July 4 – 8 ★ Johnstown, PA Conference Center at Pitt-Johnstown 44th Annual Conference of the North American Vegetarian Society GENERAL INFORMATION ANNOUNCEMENTS EXHIBITS Such as class changes, will be posted on bulletin 1st & 2nd floor corridors, Student Union Lobby. boards in the Student Union Building and Living Learning Center. Please consult them daily. MEALS Meals will be served Wednesday lunch through NAVS’ INFORMATION DESK Sunday lunch in the following two locations in the 1st floor lobby of the Student Union Building. Student Union: the Cafeteria on the 2nd floor and the Cambria Room on the 1st floor. The gluten SUMMERFEST BADGES free, raw and oil free stations will be located Must be worn for admission to all sessions. only in the cafeteria. Salad bars, entrees, side dishes, desserts and drinks are available in both SUMMERFEST SESSIONS WILL BE HELD locations. Meals will be served at the following IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: times: Classes, Lectures, Workshops Breakfast: 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Living Learning Center: Heritage Hall A and B, Lunch: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM University Room, Campus Room, Scholar’s Room, Dinner: 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM College Room, President’s Room, Terrace Room; Farewell Dinner: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Engineering and Science Building: Auditorium and Room 241 We’re sorry, food and beverages may NOT be taken out of the dining hall. Plenary Presentations Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center Meals are prepared by the Food Service of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, under the Food Demonstrations direction of Executive Chef Mark Reinfeld of Vegan Heritage Hall B & C, Living Learning Center Fusion and assisted by Chef Chris Jolly of Live Jolly Foods and Chef Gail Patak with guidance from Morning Yoga NAVS. All food and meal related questions should Heritage Hall A, Living Learning Center be directed to the NAVS staff members at the (signed) NAVS table, and not to the University’s Exercise Classes food service personnel. Studio Theatre, Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, Outside as designated MEAL TICKETS Are required to enter the cafeteria. Treat them Children’s Center as you would cash. You will be charged full price Laurel Hall Lower Lounge for replacement tickets. Youth Activities SWIMMING & FITNESS Locations as indicated in the Youth/Child Program Zamias Aquatic Center Check for pool times at the Living Learning Evening Social Activities Center front desk or by calling (814) 269-1900 Heritage Hall, Living Learning Center Adults: Living Learning Fitness Center offers NAVS BOOKSTORE 24–hour–a–day use of weight training machines Located in the Cambria Room, Student Union. and cardiovascular equipment. SPEAKERS MARIBETH ABRAMS (CT) Certified Nutrition JOHN BOLUS (FL) America’s sole instructor, Consultant, Holistic Health Practitioner, Lifestyle Chinese Wand Exercise; ranked 1st in his state’s Educator; author, The 4-Ingredient Vegan and Tofu 5K races for 65–69 age group, earning 3 senior 1-2-3; NAVS board member; Associate Editor Olympics 5 K gold medals; 5th in Nat’l Sr. Vegetarian Voice magazine Olympics; professional keyboard musician CHRIS ABREU-SUZUKI, PhD (NY) Co-author, The PATTI BREITMAN (CA) Co-author of Never Too Vegan Guide to NYC (with scholar Rynn Berry), Late to Go Vegan, How to Eat Like a Vegetarian, she and Rynn Berry performed his first vegan play, Even If You Never Want To Be One, How to Say based on the life of Leonardo Da Vinci No Without Feeling Guilty and Even Vegans Die; Founder and Director of the Marin Vegetarian ED ADAMS (WI) Has been line dancing for about Education Group; co-founder of Dharma Voices ten years and teaching it for about two years; for Animals; on the advisory council of the lives on a tree farm in Wisconsin, with his wife; Animals and Society Institute engaged in conservation projects benefiting native and migratory birds, animals, and the HAROLD BROWN (NY) President, Farm Kind, Ltd.; environment raised on a cattle farm in Michigan and spent half of his life in agriculture; appears in the film, MARK AGRUSTI, E-RYT 200/RYT 500 (PA) Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, where he Mindfulness, Meditation, and Yoga Teacher; tells the powerful story of his transformation from co-founder of Yoga Lab; Collaborator on “beef” farmer to vegan farm animal advocate mindfulness-based interventions with the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at JENNY BROWN (NY) Longtime animal rights Penn State University; long-term practitioner of activist and Founder of Woodstock Farm mindfulness & self-inquiry; completed 1000+ Sanctuary in New York; Previously she had hours of yoga training across a variety of styles worked in film and television, but an experience in Texas going undercover to document stockyard CHEF AJ (CA) Host of the television series Healthy conditions led her to change course and dedicate Living with CHEF AJ; author of Unprocessed and her life to helping these animals. author of The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss; creator of The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight For Farm the Ultimate Weight Loss Program; Healthy Taste Animals. of LA and the YouTube cooking show The Chef and the Dietitian; holds a certificate in Plant-Based LINDA CARNEY, MD (TX) Practices family Nutrition from eCornell University medicine; board-certified by ABLM in Lifestyle Medicine; her patients learn to reverse or control JONATHAN BALCOMBE, PhD (MD) Animal diseases like lupus, Crohn’s, asthma, diabetes, behavior expert; author, Pleasurable Kingdom: high blood pressure, obesity, and high cholesterol Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good and levels; hired by Rip Esselstyn as the first Medical What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Director for his Engine 2 Immersions Underwater Cousin CHEF GW CHEW (CA) Food inventor / CHIP BALLEW (MO) Co-founder Veg. Club Ozarks; restaurateur; developed his own line of plant entertains/teaches juggling stix, top & bubble protein, entitled Better Chew; founded The Veg tricks & other toys/games; longtime vegan animal Hub Restaurant, a social enterprise that provides advocate affordable and delicious vegan food, and free cooking classes; has his own Cooking Show, CAROL H. BARNETT, PhD, JD (NY) called Chew’s Challenge Co-Coordinator, Rochester Area Vegan Society; provides recipes, cooking and food sampling for a ALAN CLUNE, PhD (TX) Philosophy professor six-week course in Plant-Based Eating at Sam Houston State University; serves on the Board of the Vegan Non-Profit Vegan Society of TED D. BARNETT, MD (NY) Founder, CEO and P.E.A.C.E; runs the Woodlands Vegan Meetup Medical Director of Rochester Lifestyle Medicine, Group; helps rescue orphaned baby squirrels PLLC; teaches a six week course in Plant-Based when time permits Eating which is accredited for physicians by the University of Rochester; Co-Coordinator RAVS JEFFREY COHAN (PA) Executive Director of Jewish Veg; writer of The Beet-Eating Heeb, a blog on theology-based veganism VEGETARIAN SUMMERFEST 2018 | 1 SPEAKERS (con’t) EILEEN WIEDER CRONE, MS (PA) Registered JOANN FARB (KS) Author, Compassionate Dietitian; ACSM-Certified Exercise Physiologist; Souls – Raising the Next Generation to Change Registered Yoga Teacher; adjunct professor at the World and Get Off Gluten; mother of two Harrisburg Area Community College; passionate daughters, who have been vegan since birth about sharing wellness, fitness and the benefits of spending time in nature with others SARINA FARB (NY) Life-long vegan; previous International Liaison for Tribe of Heart, where she MARTY DAVEY RD, MS (SC) Registered Dietician; focused on making the award-winning animal spent 10 years in private practice specializing films The Witness and Peaceable Kingdom: The in weight loss, diabetes reversal and childhood Journey Home understandable and accessible to nutrition; working on her second vegan research people in as many cultures as possible; founded study, The NEW Soul Study, at the University of AACT, a vegan group at Grinnell College South Carolina as the Nutrition Interventionist CARRIE P. FREEMAN, PhD (GA) Associate JUAN DEGUARA, MS (MD) Long-time vegetarian; Professor of Communication at Georgia State geographer; world traveler; presenter/author University in Atlanta; publishes on media of academic papers on world hunger and food ethics, strategic communication for activists, security issues; founded the Maryland Vegetarian environmental communication, and critical Union; as student traveled to five continents, animal studies; Author of Framing Farming: dined in over 600 vegetarian and vegan Communication Strategies for Animal Rights restaurants JENNIFER GREENE (NY) Presenter for Beyond ANNE DINSHAH (NY) Co-author of Powerful Carnism, the organization founded to expose and Vegan Messages and Apples, Bean Dip, and transform carnism, the invisible belief system that Carrot Cake, author of Dating Vegans; Vice conditions people to eat certain animals; author President of American Vegan Society; lifelong of Demonstrating Our Values through Eating vegan, third generation vegetarian LEE HALL, JD, LLM (PA) Lawyer and grass-roots FREYA DINSHAH (NJ) Co-author of Apples, Bean advocate connecting vegetarianism with ecology Dip, and Carrot Cake: Kids! Teach Yourself to and animal rights; board member of Compassion Cook and author of The Vegan Kitchen; lifetime for Animals, Respect for the Environment (CARE) vegetarian (58 years vegan); President of and co-facilitates Pennsylvania’s annual Chester American Vegan Society County Vegan Festival BILL DRELLES (OH) Cleveland Animal Rights HAL HAMER (MI) Board Member