Museum Advisory Council

– In Formation – 

Honorary Co-chairs: Ann Veneman & Dan Glickman
Former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture

AMELIA CHO
Student, Wakefield (VA) High School

SHERYLL DURRANT
Just Food, Board President

RON ESTRADA
CEO, Farmworker Justice

JESSICA FANZO
Professor of Climate; Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School

DAISY FREUND
Vice President, Farm Animal Welfare – ASPCA

JOHNELLA HOLMES
Executive Director, Kansas Black Farmers Association

JENNIFER JACQUET
Professor of Environmental Science & Policy University of Miami

A.G. KAWAMURA
Produce farmer, former California Secretary of Agriculture

ELLIE KRIEGER
Cookbook author, Washington Post cooking columnist

ART MOLELLA
Curator Emeritus and Founding Director, Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center

BONNIE MOORE
Executive Director, Real Food for Kids

MICHAEL MOSS
Author of Hooked and Salt, Sugar, Fat and former New York Times writer

MARION NESTLE
Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University

DANIELLE NIERENBERG
President, Food Tank

DEAN ORNISH
Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute

DAVID ORTEGA
Professor of Food Economics & Policy, Michigan State University

FABIO PARASECOLI
Professor of Food Studies, New York University

NORA POUILLON
Chef, owner of the America’s first certified-organic restaurant

PAMELA RONALD
Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis

RICARDO SALVADOR
Advisor, Food & Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

ERIC SCHLOSSER
Author, Fast Food Nation

SEAN SHERMAN
Founder, Sioux Chef; co-founder, NAIFS (North American Indigenous Food Systems) and the restaurant Owamni

NAOMI STARKMAN
Founder and editor-in-chief, Civil Eats

ALICE WATERS
Founder, Chez Panisse Restaurant and The Edible Schoolyard Project

STEPHEN WHISNANT
Philanthropic advisor

WALTER WILLETT
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

PAUL WILLIS
Co-Founder, Niman Ranch

BILL YOSSES
Former White House pastry chef