Nov. 12-13, 2018

2018 Inaugural Duke University

Food & Faith Convening

Duke University’s World Food Policy Center develops coordinated and inclusive food policies. Our approach bridges key areas of food policies and systems to improve human wellbeing, planetary health, and equity.

At the heart of this work, we learn from and connect unique voices—including people most affected by food system challenges.

Food systems play a critical role in the wellbeing of the world’s population and planetary health, and public policy is the backbone of creating major change across these systems.

Bridge opportunities in knowledge, practice, policy and stakeholder engagement.

Strategically harness research to create impact by rapidly piloting policy solutions, and engaging change agents. Create best bet recommendations for policy and practice through rigorous assessment, evaluation and metrics.

Drive equity in food systems by bringing people back into policy, and disrupting structural drivers of inequality.

WFPC MissionBRIDGING TO BETTER POLICY

Contents

Facilitator’s Welcome 2Hosts’ Welcome 3Agenda 4Bios 7Event Logistics 22Reimbursement Guidelines 24 Maps 25Note Page 26

Our Purpose

We are thrilled to have so many thought leaders, scholars, and practitioners gathered together to collectively discern how people of faith and their communities can be empowered to view food and agricultural systems change as a key part of their spiritual and theological commitment. Every invitee is here because we believe they have something essential to contribute to conversations on food and faith. With this in mind, I invite you to be curious, to get to know one another, and to learn from one another. Allow the cross-pollination of stories, ideas, and practices to inform the questions you ask and the solutions you present regarding one of the world’s most pressings problems: food injustice. There is little doubt that your insights and expertise will help us fashion together a vision for a just food system and discern what roles faith communities must play in the design and execution of this vision. Blessings,Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter

Overview

Need help during the convening? Contact event coordinator Anna White at cell phone 919-575-4625 or email anna.white@duke.edu; or convening organizer Alex Treyz at cell phone 914-960-0007 or alexandra.treyz@duke.edu.

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Convening GoalsThe World Food Policy Center celebrates the significant and strategic contributions of communities and organizations of faith to the health and well-being of people, places, and communities through food-focused work. In gathering this group in Durham for this convening, the WFPC seeks to:

Explore the state of the food and faith field;

Draw upon the unique gifts of faith communities to envision a more just and equitable food system;

Foster relationships between and among scholars and practitioners across religious, racial, geographic, and socio-economic lines;

Identify model practices and gaps in research;

Identify and make visible structural inequalities that make our food system work for some and against others;

Empower faith communities to engage in food systems work as a key part of their spiritual and theological commitment;

Chart the next most faithful action steps that we can collectively take to improve local, regional, national, and international food systems.

Welcome from our Facilitator

Welcome Agenda

To Our Guests,

We are delighted to welcome you to this Inaugural Food and Faith Convening, co-sponsored by the Duke University World Food Policy Center, Duke Divinity School, and The Duke Endowment.

Thank you for taking the time to join us for what we hope will be a very interesting time of conversation, creative thinking, relationship building, and problem solving within the realm of Food and Faith.

We are eager to dive into discussion with such a unique group of interfaith leaders representing communities of faith, academic institutions, foundations, and non-profits. We hope that you leave this convening with a new network of colleagues, new ideas to initiate in your home communities, and thoughts for academic outputs that could be helpful to the field.

Additionally, we seek to draw upon your knowledge and expertise to inform the World Food Policy Center’s model food systems work in Durham and Edgecombe Counties here in our home state of North Carolina.

We ask that you share with an open heart, engage in dialogue, and connect with one another to be a part of creating something new.

Welcome to the Durham and once again we are grateful for your presence at the convening!

Best regards,

Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D.Director, World Food Policy Center,

Robert L. Flowers Professor of Public Policy, Professor of

Psychology and Neuroscience

Robert R. Webb IIIDirector, Rural Church Program

Area, The Duke Endowment

Norman Wirzba, Ph.D.Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished

Professor of Christian Theology, Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics

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Monday, November 12

Reception & Dinner

Location: The Durham Hotel, 315 E. Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC

5:30-6:30 pm Reception

6:30-7:00 pm Welcome

7:00-8:30 pm Dinner 8:30 pm onward Dessert, tea and coffee

Agenda

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Tuesday, November 13

ConveningLocation: Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship,

215 Morris Street, Durham

8:00-8:30 am Breakfast

8:30-9:00 am Framing the Convening and the State of the Food & Faith Field Plenary in Classroom 360

9:00-9:45 am Theological, Spiritual, and Ethical Grounding Talks Plenary in Classroom 360

A First Nations Perspective A-Dae Romero-Briones, First Nations Development Institute A Jewish Perspective Dr. Adrienne Krone, Allegheny College A Christian Perspective Rev. Darriel Harris, The Black Church Food Security Network and Strength to Love Farm A Muslim Perspective Dr. Hisham Moharram, The Good Tree, Inc. and Good Tree Farm of New Egypt

9:45-10:00 am Break

10:00-12:30 pm Flash Talks Plenary in Classroom 360

Food, Faith, Land and Sustainable Agriculture Nati Passow, Jewish Farm School Rev. Nurya Love Parish, Plainsong Farm, Faithlands, and the Christian Food Movement Jillian Hishaw, esq, F.A.R.M.S.

10:00-12:30 pm Flash Talks Continued Classroom 360

Food, Faith, and Race Rev. Richard Joyner, Conetoe Family Life Center Amirah AbuLughod, Stony Point Center Rev. Dr. Jennifer Ayres, Candler School of Theology at Emory University

Food, Faith, Food Sovereignty, and Economic Empowerment Rev. Robert Canon Two Bulls, First Nations Kitchen and All Saints Indian Mission lauren Ornelas, Food Empowerment Project Dr. Shamu Sadeh, Adamah

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm Rotating Small Group Conversations Classroom 360 and Conference Room 340

2:30-2:45 pm Break

2:45-4:00 pm Next Steps and Closing Plenary in Classroom 360

Amirah AbuLughod is a farmer at Stony Point Center Conference and Retreat Center, home to a small-scale farm in the Hudson River Valley of New York. She is also a resident of Stony Point Center’s (SPC) multi-faith intentional community, the Community of Living Traditions. Amirah’s formal educational background is in environmental geography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her hands-on education began as a child in her backyard garden and continued with two years as a farm apprentice. She now serves as a food grower and educator at SPG Farm. Both sides of Amirah’s family have a rich history of farming tradition; a long line of dairy, beef, and crop farmers near the Mississippi in Wisconsin and orange growers beside the Mediterranean in Palestine. Even with the family background, the real seed of her love for working with the earth sprouted when she was a little kid working in the backyard garden with her mom. That seed has continued to grow and flourish as Amirah’s Muslim faith informs her farming experience and as her farming experience deepens her faith.

Kharmika Alston is Self-Help Credit Union’s Food System Finance Fellow, a dual appointment with Duke University’s World Food Policy Center. She joined Duke in December 2017 where her role is to provide technical assistance to food entrepreneurs of color who are expanding access to healthy foods in low-income communities. Previously she worked at the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer serving in Mexico and the Netherlands. Kharmika holds a Master’s of Public Policy from Duke University (2012) and a Bachelor’s from UNC at Chapel Hill (2009).

Amirah AbuLughod, Stony Point Center

Kharmika Alston, Duke World Food Policy Center

Jennifer Ayres is Associate Professor of Religious Education at Candler School of Theology and Emory University. She also directs the Doctor of Ministry Program there. Her research seeks to answer this orienting question: “How are people of faith formed through and for the work of tending human relationships, communities, and the earth?” She is the author of Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology (Baylor University Press, 2013). Last year, she was the President’s Humanities Fellow at Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, where she developed her current manuscript proposing an ecological approach to religious education for inhabitance (forthcoming, 2019.) She is also a Presbyterian minister, a marginally-successful gardener, and a child of North Carolina.

Reverend Dr. Jennifer Ayres, Candler School of Theology

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Dr. Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards is an Assistant Professor at Duke University’s School of Medicine and the Associate Director of Research for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity. A developmental psychologist, and an interdisciplinary researcher, she examines the racial, cultural and societal contexts that influence health, coping and well-being in schools, communities and within families. Her current research investigates the influence of religion and spirituality on the cardiovascular disease outcomes of African Americans. She earned her doctorate in Applied Psychology and Human Development from the University of Pennsylvania. If we want to improve life outcomes and overall well-being, Dr. Bentley-Edwards believes that research should actively inform intervention efforts, practice and policies.

Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Duke Cook Center for Social Equity

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Jonathan L. Blitstein, Ph.D., is the 2019 Duke-RTI Scholar and a Public Health Psychologist in RTI International’s Food, Nutrition, and Obesity Policy and Research Program. Blitstein’s research is aimed at reducing the impact of chronic disease among vulnerable populations and focuses on the role of social and ecological determinants of health. He has conducted evaluations across a wide array of public health and social welfare programs, including nutrition education, food security, obesity prevention, food safety, tobacco control, violence prevention, and safe and healthy child development. His approach to evaluation is theoretically-driven and incorporates complexity and systems thinking. Blitstein has authored book chapters on group-randomized designs in cancer prevention and the use of branding in social marketing campaigns.

Dr. Jonathan Blitstein, Duke World Food Policy Center

Dr. Stephanie Boddie, Baylor UniversityDr. Stephanie Clintonia Boddie is an assistant professor of Church and Community Ministries at Baylor University with appointments at the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, the School of Education and the George W. Truett Seminary. She is also a Texas Hunger Initiative Fellow as well as an alumni fellow at the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Program for Research on Religion & Urban Civil Society and Faculty Associate at Washington University’s Center for Social Development. She has served on the Pittsburgh Food Policy Council’s steering committee and as a Go Live! food entrepreneur and educator. She is currently teaching Education from a Gardener’s Perspective and working with local school gardens. Her research explores faith-based approaches and social innovation to address disparities in health, wealth, education and food access as well as trends in faith-based initiatives.

Chris Bolden-Newsome, Bartram’s GardenChris Bolden-Newsome, originally from the Mississippi Delta, is the oldest son of farmers and community workers Demalda Bolden Newsome and Rufus Newsome Sr. He is the fourth generation in his family to farm free since Mississippi’s emancipation in 1865. Chris is married to Owen Taylor, a seed farmer and owner of Trulove Seed Company. In 2010 Chris joined Ty Holmberg in creating the Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden, where he co-directs a 3-acre crop farm, orchard and community garden and a nationally known youth development program focusing on growing the life-giving crops of the African Diaspora while learning and teaching about culture, farming and African Diaspora foodways with elders and youth.

Rev. Dr. Heber M. Brown, III, is a community organizer, social entrepreneur and Senior Pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2015, he founded The Black Church Food Security Network, which helps congregations grow food on church-owned land and connects them with African American farmers in order to further Black food and land sovereignty.

Reverend Dr. Heber Brown, III, Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, The Black Church Food Security Network

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Kelly Brownell serves as Director of the World Food Policy Center. He is also a Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, Kelly was a Professor of Psychology, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, and Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Kelly has published 15 books and more than 350 scientific articles and chapters. He has advised the White House, members of congress, governors, world health and nutrition organizations, and media leaders on issues of nutrition, obesity and public policy. Kelly was cited as a “moral entrepreneur” with special influence on public discourse in a history of the obesity field and was cited by Time magazine as a leading “warrior” in the area of nutrition and public policy.

Dr. Kelly Brownell, Duke World Food Policy Center

Dr. Lukas Brun, Duke World Food Policy CenterLukas Brun is a Faculty Fellow at the Duke World Food Policy Center, where he advises on curriculum development for the center. His broader research agenda examines how governance systems affect economic, social, and environmental outcomes. His food-related research projects include analyzing the adoption of innovation by smallholder farmers in Sub-Sahara Africa, water use mitigation in the Mexicali Valley, Mexico food system, and co-leading a three-year project examining wheat, food manufacturing, and the transportation and logistics sector in Kazakhstan. Brun has presented food-related research as an invited speaker in numerous public forums, including at Ca’Foscari University, Italy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, and IFAD, Rome. He earned a Ph.D. from the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University, an M.P.A. from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government, and an M.A. in political science-international political economy from UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Reverend Dr. Christopher Carter, University of San DiegoDr. Christopher Carter's teaching and research interests are in Black & Womanist Theological Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Religion & Food, and Religion & Animals. His publications include The Spirit of Soul Food (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming), "Blood in the Soil: The Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism" in The Bloomsbury Handbook on Religion and Nature (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Future of Meat Without Animals (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). In them, he explores the intersectional oppressions experienced by people of color, the environment, and animals. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of San Diego and a Faith in Food Fellow at Farm Forward.

Rev. Dele, Soil & SoulsRev. Dele is a grandmother, author and pastor who uses her skills as a permaculturist and contemplative to train the next generation of mission leaders in faith, ecology and economic empowerment. She serves on the UN Decade of African Diaspora-Earthcare Coalition, the UCC Council for Climate Justice, and as council member for the National Congress of Black American Indians. Dele has convened Soil & Souls to train 300 mission leaders from 30 U.S. communities that need the most assistance in climate resilience. She is planting the Heaven to Earth Fellowship in Virginia to provide spiritual nurture to individuals involved in the mission enterprises. Pastor Dele also co-hosts the Spirit of Resilience radio show that shares inspiration and information for our changing social and weather climates. She teaches Eco-theology at Virginia Union University. Dele’s B.A. is from University of California-Riverside and M.Div. from Howard University School of Divinity. She serves in the Southern Conference of the UCC and maintains Baptist affiliations.

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Aaron S. Gross is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology and Religious Studies Department at the University of San Diego. Dr. Gross is an historian of religions who focuses on modern and contemporary Jewish thought and ethics, especially Jewish food and animal ethics. Gross is the President of the Society for Jewish Ethics, the founding Co-chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Animals and Religion Group, and the Founder and CEO of the nonprofit advocacy organization, Farm Forward. He is the author of The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications (2014) and the co-editor of Animals and the Human Imagination: A Companion to Animal Studies (2012), both published by Columbia University Press.

Dr. Aaron Gross, University of San Diego

Rev. Grace G. Hackney is an elder in the United Methodist Church and the founding director of Life Around the Table. Grace has pastored Methodist churches and was co-founder of Anathoth Community Garden and Farm. She tends twelve acres in Efland, NC with her husband, Tony, and a smattering of animals, bolstered by visits from her two grown children. Grace is passionate about Life Around the Table’s mission to nourish community around the table and the intersection of food, creation, and spirituality.

Reverend Grace Hackney, Life Around the Table

Darriel Harris is a PhD Student at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH) within the department of Health Behavior and Society. His research interests are in faith-based health communications, neighborhood related health factors, social determinants of health, and community based participatory research. Prior to studying at Johns Hopkins, Harris worked for the Center for a Livable Future within JHSPH’s department of Environmental Health Sciences and Engineering as the project coordinator for the Baltimore Food and Faith Project. Prior to moving to Baltimore, Darriel worked as a health missionary in South Sudan. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Morgan State University, an M.A. degree in organizational management from George Washington University, a graduate certificate in financial management from the University of Maryland, and a Masters of Divinity degree from Duke University. Harris is also an ordained Minister in the American Baptist Church and he currently serves as Pastor-elect of Newborn Community of Faith Church in Baltimore, MD.

Reverend Darriel Harris, Johns Hopkins, The Black Church Food Security Network

Deborah Hill has more than 26 years of experience in communications, science writing, and strategic planning. She was appointed Associate Dean of Communications at Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences in 2012. Prior to this position, she was the Director of Communications and Marketing at the Pratt School of Engineering, where she was instrumental in raising the national visibility of engineering at Duke through publications and digital media. Her work has been recognized by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Before joining Duke in 2003, she worked in research administration, communications and science writing positions at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory and was also a contributing correspondent for Science Magazine’s ScienceNOW online news section, and currently writes for InHerSight.com.

Deborah Hill, Duke World Food Policy Center

Jillian Hishaw, Esq., is an Agricultural Attorney, Founder of F.A.R.M.S., and author of Don’t Bet the Farm on Medicaid. Hishaw is well-versed in the area of civil rights agricultural policy and has been featured in The Atlantic, Vice News, Seniors.com, and more. Hishaw is also a Contributor to the New Food Economy. Hishaw is an innovative strategist in the areas of agriculture, civil rights and asset protection; she was recognized by Civil Eats and the Clif Bar Co. as a “Food Industry Changemaker.” Hishaw has published several law articles on agricultural topics and has worked with companies and groups such as Hallmark, the US Department of Agriculture, Allstate, Farm Aid, and Wholefoods. Through F.A.R.M.S., a national nonprofit Hishaw founded five years ago, Hishaw has donated nearly 300,000 pounds of produce to hunger relief agencies in numerous states and has provided eldercare law services to aging landowners. Hishaw has a B.S.Degree in biology from Tuskegee University and a Law Degree and Legal Masters in agricultural law from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville.

Jillian Hishaw, F.A.R.M.S.

Zahra Nasiruddin Jamal is Associate Director at Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance, where she oversees strategy, operations, and outreach. She has served on the faculty at Harvard, MIT, University of Chicago, Michigan State University (MSU), and Palmer Trinity. Jamal founded and directed the Civil Islam Initiative at University of Chicago and the Central Asia and International Development Initiative at MSU. She is a fellow at the Center for the Study of American Muslims at The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. Jamal has consulted for the United Nations, State Department, Aga Khan Development Network, Swiss Development Cooperation, and Aspen Institute on issues of philanthropy and civic engagement, education, positive youth development, migrant labor, gender-equity, food security, and refugee settlement in North America, Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia.

Dr. Zahra Jamal, Rice University, Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance

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Greg Jones serves as Dean of Duke Divinity School, a position he also held from 1997-2010. He also is the A. Morris and Ruth W. Williams Distinguished Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry at Duke Divinity School. Formerly, he served as Duke’s Chief International Strategist and was responsible for developing the Undergraduate Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is the author or editor of seventeen books, including the acclaimed Embodying Forgiveness, the co-authored book Forgiving as We’ve Been Forgiven (with Celestin Musekura), and most recently, Christian Social Innovation. He is an ordained United Methodist pastor, and he is widely known for his work on forgiveness and reconciliation, leadership and innovation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Dr. Greg Jones, Duke Divinity School

Reverend Richard Joyner is the pastor at Conetoe Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, the founder of the Conetoe Family Life Center, and the Director of Pastoral Care at Nash-UNC Health Care in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. He was raised in Pitt County, North Carolina and spent his childhood on farmland tended by his family of sharecroppers. He enlisted in the Army as soon as eligible. He later returned and has been serving the small, rural community of Conetoe since 2001. Through his pastoral role, Joyner witnessed firsthand chronic health problems related to obesity. He turned to farming to improve the health of his community and founded the Conetoe Family Life Center in 2007. The central focus of the center is a twenty-five-acre garden that provides approximately sixty youth the opportunity to develop leadership abilities, social skills, and stress management techniques through gardening. The garden also increases access to healthy, locally grown foods to the broader county.

Reverend Richard Joyner, Conetoe Family Life Center

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Andrew Kang Bartlett has worked with the Presbyterian Church (USA) Hunger Program in Louisville, KY since 2001. The Hunger Program works to create healthy, sustainable and just local food economies globally; Andrew coordinates the U.S. grant-making program. In Louisville, he is active on the leadership teams for the Food in Neighborhoods Community Coalition and the future Louisville Food Co-op. Formerly, he worked with nonprofit organizations in Japan and San Francisco focusing on social and economic justice issues, including rural development and agricultural policy. He has studied in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico and Central America, and lived for five years in East Asia working with Koreans in Japan on their civil rights struggles. He serves on the boards of the National Farm Worker Ministry, Interfaith Worker Justice, and on the coordination of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance.

Andrew Kang Bartlett, Presbyterian Hunger Mission

Adrienne Krone is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Jewish Life at Allegheny College. She holds a Ph.D. in American religion from Duke University. Her research focuses on religious food justice movements in North America. In her manuscript, “American Manna: Religious Responses to the American Industrial Food System,” she investigates the religious complexity present in contemporary food justice movements. Her current research project is an ethnographic and historical study of the Jewish community farming movement.

Dr. Adrienne Krone, Allegheny College

Nurya Love Parish is an Episcopal priest and co-founder and Executive Director of Plainsong Farm, a new farm and ministry outside Grand Rapids, Michigan. She created a small guide to the Christian food movement in 2015, which became a website in 2017 and now serves as the primary resource for Christians seeking the intersection between discipleship and sustainable and regenerative agriculture (according to Christianity Today). The guide includes an ecumenical directory of projects and resources, shares news items, and provides a space for cross-pollination for blog writers and thinkers. She co-created the first “FaithLands” gathering in 2018, bringing together land access and transition professionals serving small and beginning farmers and faith-based leaders with stewardship responsibilities for religiously-held land. In addition, she is the part-time priest-in-charge with Holy Spirit Episcopal Church in Belmont Michigan. Her first book, Resurrection Matters: Church Renewal for Creation’s Sake, was published in May 2018.

Emma Lietz-Bilecky, Duke UniversityEmma Lietz Bilecky is a master’s student at Duke University pursuing concurrent degrees in theological studies and environmental management. She also serves as a graduate assistant supporting food & faith research at the World Food Policy Center. She is interested in questions concerning food production, land use ethics, and environmental justice and learning what it means to live in communion, with soil and in place.

Reverend Nurya Love Parish, Plainsong Farm, The Christian Food Movement

Rachel Meyer is on a mission to develop and implement sustainable and holistic wellness programs for clergy and their congregations. She works as a Program Director for both the Clergy Health Initiative (CHI) and the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School. Through her work with TMC’s program, the Reimagining Health Collaborative (RHC), Rachel has worked with over twenty-five congregational teams, helping them develop faithful responses to individuals living with mental health challenges in their congregations and communities. Beginning in 2019, Rachel and RHC will lead a new cohort of churches to focus on “Food, Health, and Faith” as it relates to their congregations and communities. Outside of work, Rachel has a passion for baking, cooking, and hosting any occasion that brings friends, both old and new, together to break bread with one another. She has recently begun channeling this passion into a food blog, The Whisk Project (www.whiskproject.com), where she shares recipes, championing the use of local and in-season ingredients whenever possible.

Rachel Meyer, Duke Divinity School

Dr. Hisham Moharram is an American Muslim born in Egypt. He is a plant biologist by formal training, with sixteen years in academic research, who chose to become an agripreneur and an environmental and social justice activist. To serve that dual mission, Moharram started The Good Tree Farm project in 2007. Moharram seeks to engage Muslims and other faith communities in working together to care for people and planet.

Dr. Hisham Moharram, The Good Tree Project

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Monica Brown Moss is a wife, mother, faith partner and community advocate. A graduate of Spelman College and Columbia University, Teachers College, Monica has worked in the fields of primary and higher education. She is certified in health education coaching and has served as Village Wellness Consultant and Program Coordinator for Trinity United Church of Chris in Chicago. She serves on the boards of Illinois Action for Children, The First Ladies Health Initiative, and The Chicago Food Depository. She believes that access to quality food is the right of every person, regardless of location or socioeconomic status, and that food is the centerpiece for the healing of individuals as well as communities. She is the founder of Why We Gather, a movement designed for people who desire deeper connections and more meaningful moments through the beauty of life spent together. She lives in Chicago with her husband, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III, and their children.

Monica Moss, Trinity United Church of Christ

lauren Ornelas is the founder/director of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit seeking to create a more just world by helping consumers recognize the power of their food choices. F.E.P. works in solidarity with farm workers, advocates for chocolate not sourced from the worst forms of child labor, and focuses on access to healthy foods in communities of color and low-income communities. lauren has been active in the animal rights movement for more than 30 years. She is the former executive director of Viva!USA, a national nonprofit vegan advocacy organization that Viva!UK asked her to start in 1999 and for which she investigated factory farms and ran consumer campaigns. In cooperation with activists across the country, she persuaded Trader Joe’s to stop selling all duck meat and achieved corporate changes within Whole Foods Market, Pier 1 Imports, and others. Watch her TEDx talk on “The Power of Our Food Choices.”

lauren Ornelas, Food Empowerment Project

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Nati Passow is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Jewish Farm School. He has been a leader in the Jewish environmental movement for over 15 years. Nati is passionate about connecting Jews to the agricultural roots of our traditions and using that as a foundation for engagement in contemporary food and social justice issues. Nati was raised in a traditional Jewish home, attended Jewish schools throughout his youth, and believes that justice work is more impactful, meaningful, and sustainable when it is grounded in ancestral wisdom and practices. He lives in West Philadelphia with his partner Rachel, their two boys, Zamir and Niso, and an ever-changing array of housemates.

Nati Passow, Jewish Farm School

Edna is RAFI-USA’s Executive Director. She previously served as Operations Director, Development Director and Director of the Come to the Table Program. Originally from the Dominican Republic, Edna was raised in a global environment, growing up between The Hague, Netherlands and Santo Domingo. Prior to joining RAFI-USA, Edna served as Business Development Director at NemediaSoft, Senior Program Officer at the Atlanta Women’s Foundation, and Director of Educational & Career Services at the Latin American Association in Atlanta, GA. Edna holds a BA in economics with a concentration in Latin American studies from Haverford College.

Edna Rodriguez, Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA

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Mrs. Romero-Briones (Cochiti/Kiowa) works as Director of Programs-Native food and agricultural Initiative for First Nations Development Institute. She is formerly the Director of Community Development for Pulama Lana’i. She is also the co-founder and former Executive Director of a non-profit in Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. Romero-Briones worked for the University of Arkansas’ Indigenous Food and Agricultural Initiative while a student there. She wrote extensively about Food Safety, the Produce Safety rule and tribes, and the protection of tribal traditional foods. A U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Romero-Briones received her Bachelor of Arts in public policy from Princeton University, a Law Doctorate from Arizona State University, and LLM in food and agricultural law from the University of Arkansas. Her thesis was on the Food Safety Modernization Act as it applied to the Federal Tribal relationship. She was recognized as a White House Champion of Change in Agriculture and sits on the National Organic Standards Board and the Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Funders Policy Committee.

Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh is the co-founder and director of Adamah. He has been a professor of environmental studies, farmer, Jewish educator, writer, and wilderness guide. He has taught at Portland State University, Berkshire Community College, Southern Vermont College and the Wild Rockies Field Institute. His essays and articles on Jewish ethics, environmentalism, and family history have been published in Orion, Tikkun, The Washington Jewish Week, Response, Kerem, and the anthology Ecology and the Jewish Spirit (1998, Jewish Lights Publishing). Shamu holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College, a Master’s degree in environmental studies from University of Montana, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Portland State University. These days Shamu teaches Judaism and ecology, turns the compost piles, maintains the orchards, and supervises and mentors staff and Adamah Fellows.

A-Dae Romero-Briones, First Nations Development Institute

Dr. Shamu Sadeh, Adamah Farm and Hazon

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Mikki launched Resourceful Communities in 1991 to help communities implement natural resource-based economic development projects, including food sovereignty, community forestry and ecotourism efforts. She helps community partners access much needed funding and other support, including special initiatives that address critical issues, such as access to healthy food in low-income communities. Mikki has been recognized by the USDA Forest Service and was selected as a 2012 Purpose Prize Fellow. She served on the North Carolina Rural Prosperity and Rural Health Task Forces. Mikki is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor’s degree in health and physical education.

Mikki Sager, Resourceful Communities

Gizem Templeton serves as the WFPC’s Early Childhood Associate in Research. Gizem’s research centers on understanding how the food system affects early childhood nutrition and its interconnections with early childhood development. Before joining WFPC, she was a Senior Fellow focusing on connecting local food systems with child care centers through various Farm to Early Care and Education programs across the state of North Carolina. She holds a Doctorate in food science and human nutrition from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During her graduate studies she developed a biodegradable sensor to detect peanut allergen protein. She is a native of Turkey and has been living in the States since 2011.

Dr. Gizem Templeton, Duke World Food Policy Center

Alex Treyz serves as the Food and Faith Associate in Research at the WFPC. In this role, Alex partners with food and faith leaders and researches themes, best practices, and innovations in the food and faith realm, with the goal of informing policy, practice, and programming at the World Food Policy Center and its partner, Duke Divinity School. In addition to her work at the WFPC Alex serves as Minister for Congregational Care at local PCUSA congregation Durham Presbyterian Church. Prior to her time at Duke, Alex managed and evaluated public health and education grants in Africa and the Caribbean for international development NGO Save the Children. She graduated from Davidson College in 2009 with a BA in English and from Duke University in 2017 with a dual Master of Divinity degree and Master of Public Policy degree. When she is not working, Alex enjoys playing music.

Reverend Canon Robert W. Two Bulls is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Oyate (aka, Oglala Sioux), who reside on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, in what is left of our original homeland. In 1986, Robert moved to Washington, DC, to live in intentional community and to renovate town houses in the Shaw Street Neighborhood of Inner-City DC with Manna, Inc. He attended the University of Maryland and earned a degree in American history. He also developed his creative side, still very much part of his vocation as a priest, and worked as a sign writer, calligrapher, and logo designer. He explores the connection that exists between art and spirituality. His vocation and ministry is working with the Native Peoples of this land as an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. He attended seminary in NYC and was ordained to the priesthood in 2001 in Los Angeles, CA. He currently works in the inner city, urban and reservation settings.

Alexandra Treyz, Duke World Food Policy Center

Reverend Canon Robert Two Bulls, All Saints Indian Mission and First Nations Kitchen

Dr. Tim Van Meter is an Associate Professor at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio (MTSO) where he leads ecology and justice specializations in the M.Div., MAPT, and D.Min degrees. He also serves as the Coordinator for Ecological Initiatives, leading work on food-security, community responses to climate change, agroecological theology, and social justice. Since 2013, MTSO has established a ten-acre organic farm; refocused the dining hall to serve 85% of all food from local, organic, and humane sources; installed a solar array and closed loop geothermal for our primary academic building; and hosted multiple events exploring interfaith dialogue for ecological justice. His research interests include: how ecology is taught in theological schools, ecological practices of faith communities, and farmers’ understandings of the sacred in relationship to land and vocation.

Jordan Vernoy began his work in the area of food security as an Agency Relations and Programs Director at the Feeding America member food bank in Waterloo, Iowa. Jordan was then asked to be the founding Executive Director of the Iowa Food Bank Association where he worked on State and Federal legislative efforts as well as statewide fundraising, food sourcing and disaster relief. He joined Feeding America on the Compliance and Capability team, visiting nearly 40 food bank members in order to test their compliance with the Feeding America Member Contract and to build capabilities in areas ranging from food safety to board governance. Jordan then returned to his Agency Relations roots to better understand the network of local agencies that are the direct line of support for hungry Americans. His work is leading to strategies for how Feeding America can empower local networks to have a bigger impact towards Feeding America’s vision of a hunger free America.

Dr. Tim Van Meter, Seminary Hill Farm, Methodist Theological School in Ohio

Jordan Vernoy, Feeding America

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Katie is a sophomore at Duke University, studying cultural anthropology and global health and pursuing the pre-med curriculum. She is deeply interested in the ways in which food access affects an individual’s and a community’s health. At Duke, Katie serves as a research assistant at the World Food Policy Center and is a member of a Bass Connections research team investigating the history of health disparities in Durham. In 2015, Katie co-founded a summer meals program in her hometown in Yarmouth, Maine. The following summer, she oversaw the program, widely expanding its offerings and serving as an onsite coordinator. Katie also founded a food voucher program at her local farmers’ market in 2016, providing financial assistance for fresh produce to those in need; she later served as assistant manager at the market. She also wrote and obtained a grant to fund weekend food bags for elementary school students in her community. Katie is eager to continue learning how to be an agent for positive, social change in her local and global communities.

Robb Webb serves as director of the Rural Church program area of The Duke Endowment. In his work, Robb has engaged in North Carolina food initiatives such as hunger relief through rural Methodist churches, community partnership development through Come to the Table and, most recently, the USDA’s Food LINC program. He is interested in food and the ways in which it contributes to human, economic, and community development. Robb holds degrees from Davidson College and Duke University and is an ordained deacon in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Katie Waeldner, Duke World Food Policy Center

Robb Webb, The Duke Endowment

Bios

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Anna recently joined the WFPC team after working for over three years with the Development & Alumni Relations team here at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. She brings over 20 years of experience in non-profit administrative management, fundraising, and event coordination at a variety of ministries, churches and church-affiliated organizations. She, her husband Leroy, and their four-legged son, Fifty, moved to North Carolina from New York City in 2014 and are now home owners in the Lakewood community of Durham. As a NYC certified pet therapy team, they are in the process of getting Fifty registered in NC. Spending time with family, exploring Durham, and being involved in their local church also brings them much joy.

Since 1996, Melinda Wiggins has served as the Executive Director of Student Action with Farmworkers, which brings students and farmworkers together to learn about each other’s lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change. Melinda helped create two key statewide coalitions focused on immigrant and farmworker rights, the Adelante Education Coalition and the Farmworker Advocacy Network. She co-edited The Human Cost of Food, Farmworkers’ Lives, Labor, and Advocacy, which was published by the University of Texas Press in 2002. In March 2012, Melinda was honored by the White House as a recipient of the “Cesar Chavez Champion of Change” award. A granddaughter and daughter of sharecroppers, Melinda moved from the Mississippi Delta to North Carolina in 1992 to complete a Masters of Theological Studies at Duke University.

Anna White, Duke World Food Policy Center

Melinda Wiggins, Student Action with Farmworkers

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Norman Wirzba is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Theology and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Duke Divinity School. He is also a Senior Fellow at Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. He is the author of several books including Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (which is coming out in a 2nd Edition later this year). When he is not teaching, writing, or speaking, he likes to be home playing guitar and baking cakes.

Sarah Zoubek oversees the execution of the WFPC’s strategic plan and daily operations, including managing the global portfolio of projects. Sarah is a research analyst, project manager, and strategy consultant whose work has concentrated on food production value chains and producer incentives for sustainable business practices. Her previous work includes identifying potential levers to aid adoption of sustainable practices within the Iowa corn and Brazilian beef value chains, designing economic case studies featuring Midwestern producers who successfully employ soil health practices, and aiding the launch of a nationwide soil health campaign. Sarah earned a Master of Environmental Management degree at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Prior to her graduate studies, Sarah worked at New York Sun Works (NYSW), a non-profit organization that teaches environmental science through the lens of sustainable food production. She also holds a BA in English from Yale University.

Dr. Norman Wirzba, Duke Divinity School

Sarah Zoubek, Duke World Food Policy Center

Jen Zuckerman is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and manages all WFPC work rooted in North Carolina. Prior to the WFPC, Jen spent 11 years at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation leading the Foundation’s Healthy Living work. Prior to the Foundation, Jen administered federal and state grants at NCSU’s Recreation Resources Service. She currently serves as the chair of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems Advisory Board, vice chair of the National Academies of Medicine Early Childhood Innovation Collaborative, co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders Network and on the Board of Directors of the Triangle Land Conservancy and Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation. She earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees from NC State University in Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management.

Jennifer Zuckerman, Duke World Food Policy Center

Logistics

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Event Contact information Alex Treyz: 1+ 914-960-0007, alexandra.treyz@duke.edu

Anna White: +1 917-575-4625, anna.white@duke.edu

Event Locations & TransportationNovember 9 -12, 2018 For Guests arriving at Raleigh Durham International Airport (RDU) Transport from airport to hotel Taxi dispatchers are located outside the terminals at RDU. The Terminal 1 Taxi Dispatch Booth is located outside Bag Claim 3. At Terminal 2, the booth is located on the lower level outside Bag Claim. Please save your receipt for reimbursement after the conclusion of the convening. Optional car service arrangements may be made through your Uber or Lyft App. Please arrange on your own and keep your receipt for reimbursement after the conclusion of the convening.

Hotel Information The Durham Hotel 315 East Chapel Hill Street Durham, NC 27701 919-768-8830

Out of town guests may check in under their own name with the World Food Policy Center room block.

November 12, 2018 Welcome Reception and Dinner5:30 to 8:30 PM Private Reception and Dinner at The Durham Hotel For guests arriving by personal car, valet parking has been arranged for with The Durham Hotel Guest Services. Please let the valet know you are with the World Food Policy Center event.

Logistics

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November 13, 2018 Inaugural Food & Faith Convening8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Location Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative Suite The Imperial Building The Bullpen 215 Morris Street, 3rd floor Durham, NC 27701 919-681-9165 * Please bring photo ID for security clearance.

* The Bullpen is three blocks from the Durham Hotel.

Parking Parking for guests is available at the paid public parking lot at the Durham Centre Garage, located at Morgan Street, between Foster Street and Morris Street. See map at right. You will enter the parking lot from Morris Street. Please save your ticket for reimbursement.

Internet during convening Internet Access is available at The Bullpen. The network name is “DukeVisitor,” which provides Internet connectivity but not internal Duke network access.

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Maps

Map of Convening Venue and Parking

Reimbursement

Reimbursement GuidelinesWe are pleased to cover the travel and accommodation expenses incurred by your participation in the Inaugural Food & Faith Convening.

We will process reimbursements as quickly as we can after we have the following information from you:

1. Scanned (or photographed) receipts;

2. Completed reimbursement form (emailed to you, or provided at the event);

3. Please email both the form and receipts to anna.white@duke.edu.

Please review the list below of what we can cover:

Travel Expenses

Round trip economy airfare to and from RDU.

Transport to and from your home airport (cab, mileage reimbursement, Uber, Lyft [under $100]).

Transport to and from Raleigh/Durham airport (cab, Uber, Lyft).

Mileage reimbursement for those driving to the event. Please submit the addresses to and from the event venues with printed mileage maps from an application such as Google Maps or MapQuest.

Parking at The Durham Hotel and at The Duke I&E Bullpen.

Food/Beverage

Meals, non-alcoholic beverages during transit (unfortunately we cannot cover alcohol).

Group dinner is provided November 12, group breakfast and lunch on November 13.

If you opt out of any group meals, please plan to cover your meal expense on your own.

Accommodation

Room at The Durham Hotel (you are responsible for all expenses other than room and tax for the night of November 12 unless approval is received in advance).

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Notes

The Leading Voices in Food podcast series was conceived as a way to extend the reach of the voices of people affected by food challenges, the people growing food, the people distributing food, and the people working hard to improve food policy and food systems. Our series will draw needed attention to hidden issues, help us to better understanding our past and present, and to cultivate a passion for change and ingenuity.

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