Museum Advisory Council
– In Formation –
Honorary Co-chairs: Ann Veneman & Dan Glickman
Former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture
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
Will Harris
Owner, White Oak Pastures regenerative farm
JohnElla Holmes
Executive Director, Kansas Black Farmers Association
Angela Huffman
Co-founder and Vice President, Farm Action
Jennifer Jacquet
Professor of Environmental Science and 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
Mark Muller
Executive Director, Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
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
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
Director and Senior Scientist, Food & Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Sean Sherman
Founder, Sioux Chef; co-founder, NATIFS (North American Indigenous Food Systems) and co-owner of the restaurant Owamni
Peter Singer
Prof. of Bioethics, Princeton University, author of Animal Liberation Now
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