Museum Advisory Council
– In Formation –
Honorary Co-chairs: Ann Veneman & Dan Glickman
Former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture
AMELIA CHO
Student, McLean (VA) High School
BRENDA COWAN
Prof. of Exhibition & Exper. Design, Fashion Institute of Technology
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
ANNA SLAFER
Former VP for Exhibitions & Programs, International Spy Museum
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
