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. 1 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. 2 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