Anne Baker is Vice President of the National Peace Corps Association. She has a B.A. in Physics from Amherst College and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she concentrated in international education.  She has ten years of teaching experience at the high school level:  two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer teacher of physics, mathematics and physical science in the Fiji Islands and eight years as a mathematics teacher at St. George's School in Newport, RI, where she was also the Director of Cultural Affairs and an International Student Advisor. At St. George's, she founded, developed and facilitated a student-led organization for global education and community outreach.  She first came to NPCA to develop its global education program, Global TeachNet., which today continues to support K-12 educators in bringing global issues to their classrooms, schools and communities.  She is currently a co-facilitator of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Global Education Network

Jen Chapin is a songwriter, singer and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University, and has also studied at Berklee College of Music, and in Mexico and Zimbabwe. As a music teacher at Brooklyn Friends School, she developed middle school music curricula based on creative listening and improvisation, as well as a high school course on the "History of Black Music." She serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of World Hunger Year (WHY) and is a member of WHY's "Artists Against Hunger and Poverty" program.

Carol Gose DeVine is currently the Head of The Caedmon School, where she has worked since 1970.  She began her career there as a classroom teacher, gradually working her way into administrative work in the late ‘70’s.   She became the head of the school in 1979 and has run the school continuously since then with the exception of a year and a half leave she took when her two children were born (boy/girl twins) in 1983.  As the Head of School, Carol has overseen the development of Caedmon as one of the most diverse independent schools in New York City.  Currently, 25% of the children are not American; they come from approximately 25 different countries and speak 13 different languages.  Fully one-third of the children are children of color.  This essential aspect of Caedmon informs its mission and, in Carol’s mind, is the best environment in which to educate young children about social justice issues. Carol will be retiring from Caedmon in June 2007 and looks forward to doing many things she was unable to do while she had such a full time job.  Among those things is traveling, specifically to join her daughter, Anne, who is working in Sierra Leone for the International Rescue Committee.  It will be Carol’s first trip to a developing country.

            Carol did her undergraduate work at Albertus Magnus College, where she received a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology.  She completed her Montessori training with the St. Nicholas Montessori Program in London and subsequently received an M.A. and an Ed.M. from Teachers College, Columbia University in Early Childhood Special Education.  Carol is a past Director of the Guild of Independent Schools, for which she served as the Treasurer for four years.  Currently, she is on the Accreditation Commission for the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS), and serves as the secretary for the NYSAIS Board of Trustees. She is actively involved in their school accreditation process and has initiated a training program for educators new to the evaluation process. Carol and her husband have been volunteers at a shelter for homeless women in Brooklyn, N.Y. continuously for the past 19 years.  They readily involved their two children in this work from the age of three, and credit this experience with their children’s current interest in social justice issues.

Rex Enoch is the Manager of Adult Education Programs for Heifer International. Prior to coming to work for Heifer in 1997, he was Professor of Sociology and Director of International Studies at The University of Memphis (UofM).  He has been active in international and development education for many years.  He also served as Director of the Tennessee Governor's School for International Studies while at the UofM.  His interest in international development brought him to Heifer International, and he became Global Education Manager at Heifer Ranch, a learning center near Little Rock which has over 25,000 visitors per years participating in various programs focusing on the root causes of hunger and poverty, and environmental degradation.  In his current role, he is helping in educational programs for Heifer staff and volunteers, in new educational outreach programs (primarily aimed at colleges and universities), and in environmental education programs.  He has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas in Austin.

Fern Gale Estrow is a Registered Dietician out of New York City consulting to organizations and government agencies around nutrition education, food service, media literacy, hunger, environmental nutrition, building communities partnerships and public policy.   She is the current Chair-Elect of the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association and the 2002 recipient of the Society for Nutrition Education’s President’s Award.  As Co-chair for the Society’s 2001 Annual Conference, she was able to highlight her commitment to food systems through the conference theme, “Full Circle: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health”.  Fern works with the Community Food Security Public Policy Committee, is Co-Chair of the Society for Nutrition Education’s Public Policy Taskforce on Child Nutrition Reauthorization and a member of the Steering and Envisioning Committee for the New York City Nutrition Education Network, for which she is liaison to their Public Policy Workgroup and the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity.  Through these positions with her professional organizations she is actively working with colleagues, communities and legislators towards ensuring that policy and budget supports are in place for the programs impacting food, nutrition and health.

Martin C. Fergus, a member of Fordham University’s political science department, teaches courses in Fordham College at both the Rose Hill (Bronx) and Lincoln Center (Manhattan) campuses, and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Teaching Award in the Social Sciences from Fordham College at Rose Hill. Several of his undergraduate courses are cross-listed in the Peace & Justice Studies Program and his graduate course on poverty is cross-listed in the International Political Economy and Development Program.
            His current research interests focus on international and domestic poverty, and grassroots development. Among papers, published articles and book chapters are: “Land and Hunger: A Simulation Exercise,” “Poverty, Domestic and International: Is There a Connection?,” “Promotion of Openness in a Democracy,” “Using Simulations to Teach Political Science: What Lessons Do Students Really Learn?,” “International Justice and the World Hunger Problem,” and “The Massive Retaliation Doctrine: A Study in United States Military Policy Formation."
            Dr. Fergus' service, both within the university and in the larger community, has been extensive. He has served as Chair of the Political Science Department, Director of the graduate Public Affairs (Public Policy and Administration) Program, Director of the graduate International Political Economy and Development Program, Director of the undergraduate Peace & Justice Studies Program, and as a member of the Faculty Senate. For fifteen years he was an elected school board member in the village of Elmsford, New York. He has been an active member of Bread for the World for many years and served for six years on its national board of directors. Currently he is a member of the speakers' bureau for Lutheran World Relief and is Chair of the World Hunger Committee for the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Lutheran Church (ELCA).

Rev. Marta M. Flanagan is a Unitarian Universalist minister and a spiritual director helping people heed what is Good and Right and Holy in their lives. She is a graduate of Smith College and Harvard Divinity School. Now
minister emerita of South Church in Portsmouth NH, Marta served congregations for eighteen years. She currently serves on the Northeast ministerial credentialing body for UU ministers.

Joan Dye Gussow is the Mary Swartz Rose Professor Emerita of Nutrition and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University (NYC) where she formerly headed the Nutrition Education Department.  She is author, co-author or editor of a number of articles and several books.  Disadvantaged Children: Health Nutrition and School Failure (with Herbert Birch), l970; The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology, l978; Food as a Human Right, co-edited with Eide, et al..l985; The Nutrition Debate (with Paul Thomas), l986; and Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture: Who Will Produce Tomorrow's Food?, 1991. Her latest book about learning to eat locally in the northeast was published by Chelsea Green in the spring of 2001. During her career she has served in various capacities for various public, private, and governmental organizations, including chairing the Boards of the National Gardening Association, the Society for Nutrition Education, the Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation, and Just Food.  She also served two terms on the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, was a member of the FDA’s Food Advisory Board and the National Organic Standards Board. She is interested in food policy generally and, specifically, in issues related to the environmental necessity of, and practical barriers to, the relocalization of the food supply.  She resides and grows much of her own food on the west bank of the Hudson River in Piermont, New York

Andrew Steven Halperin is an attorney concentrating mainly in the areas of estates and trusts and income tax and estate planning for individuals. His work also involves services in the areas of real estate, contracts and business. Halperin maintains offices in New York City and Rhinebeck, NY. He received his B.A. from Yale College and graduated from Columbia Law School.

Judy (Linebaugh) Huynh graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Dairy Science. After spending one year studying at Massey University in New Zealand, she married Han Huynh and moved to Saigon, South Vietnam where they lived for the next seven years. Judy spent two and a half years teaching in the International School in Saigon, three years teaching English as a second language, and six months owning and operating a preschool there. She returned to Michigan with her husband. She  taught sixth grade at Palo Community Schools for 17 years and has been the Service Learning Coordinator for three years. In 2003, she was selected as one of Michigan’s Social Studies Teachers of the Year by the Michigan Council for Social Studies. She is a member of LATTICE (Linking All Types of Teachers To International and Cross-Cultural Education).. Her sixth grade students are active in educating their community about world hunger; and coordinate the school-wide International Dinner each year to raise money for Heifer International. The sixth grade class also has a partnership with Mohomou Refugee School in Guinea, which was established through RESPECT International (Refugee Education Sponsorship Program Enhancing Communities Together). The classroom is also involved in online projects with iEARN (International Education and Research Network).

Stephanie Kempf has taught in public and private schools in New York. She has a Masters Degree in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and is a member of the advisory board of World Hunger Year (WHY) as well as the Board of Overseers of St. Meinrad Archabbey. Ms. Kempf developed a reading and writing program for women in East Harlem using a grant from the Department of Education. She is the author of Finding Solutions to Hunger: Kids Can Make A Difference published by World Hunger Year and the forthcoming Through the Looking Glass, a teacher's guide to restoring the female image in art, literature and film. She has conducted research for film scripts and was the supervising editor of the documentary, The Big Bang, directed by James Toback and featured in theaters nation-wide, on PBS, BRAVO and the BBC.

Velma LaPoint is Associate Professor of child development in the Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education at Howard University in Washington, DC.  Dr. LaPoint teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in child development, children’s development and family life, and children’s development and public policies. After earning a doctorate in counseling at Michigan State University as a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH/NIH) pre-doctoral fellow, Dr. LaPoint completed post-doctoral fellowships in child development at the NIMH and two Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) fellowships in (a) research on the social and emotional development of Black children and (b) child development research and public policy.  Dr. LaPoint has conducted and conducts research on children’s development in varying contexts such as families, schools, the marketplace, and human service settings:  (a) academic achievement and social competence of Black and low-income middle and high school students, (b) impact of commercialism’s influences on children’s development, especially children of color and low-income children, and (c) impact of mothers’ imprisonment on children’s development. She has authored or co-authored several existing or forthcoming journal articles in venues such as New Directions in Evaluation, Journal of Black Psychology, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Education Digest, and Journal of Negro Education.  She is or has been a member or consultant to national organizations such as the Steering Committee of the Coalition to Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children and the Advisory Board of the Task Force on Advertising to Children of the American Psychological Association.  Dr. LaPoint has presented at conferences such as the American Psychological Association (APA), American Education Research Association (AERA), Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), American Society for Criminology (ASC), Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), SRCD Black Caucus, Coalition to Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children (SCEC), Association of Black Psychology, American Correctional Association (ACA), and the 2001 Surgeon General’s Conference on Children’s Mental Health/U.S. Public Health Service.  

  Ava McCall is Professor and Department Chair, Curriculum and Instruction Department, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Taylor University in Indiana, a Master's Degree in Elementary Education from Indiana University South Bend, and a Ph.D. in curriculum and women's studies from Indiana University. For 13 years she was an elementary teacher in South Bend, Indiana and is now completing her 18th year as a teacher educator, mostly at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She teaches social studies methods for elementary education majors and supervises clinical students. In the social studies methods course, McCall encourages preservice teachers to integrate real world issues into the social studies curriculum as part of her emphasis on multiculturalism and social responsibility. She has written over 25 articles and book chapters on caring in education, feminist pedagogy, feminist struggles in higher education, challenges and possibilities as a feminist department chair, students' responses to a multicultural, social reconstructionist approach to social studies methods, improving social studies education through women's textile arts and multicultural ideas, and teaching multicultural state history. McCall co-authored Teaching State History: A Guide to Developing a Multicultural Curriculum published in 2003 by Heinemann Press. “Struggles and Possibilities of a Feminist Department Chair” will soon be published by Greymill Press in the monograph Transforming the Academy: Struggles and Strategies for Women in Higher Education, Volume II. 

Melanie Motter- teaches 5th grade at McAlister Intermediate School in Suffield, Ct.  She holds a Masters in Education degree from Lesley University.  She taught for 3 years in Springfield, MA, where she became especially aware of the issues of hunger and poverty that children are facing.  Currently she has introduced the Kids Can Make a Difference curriculum to students in grades 3-5 in Suffield through an after school program called Expanding Horizons.  Her group learned about important issues and devised a fundraiser for Suffield Emergency Aid Association. She and her husband, Paul, also perform in the Satinwood Band, which raises funds and awareness for various non-profit organizations, including KIDS.

Julianne Rana is the Director of Foundation and Corporate Giving for The Children's Aid Society, one of New York City's oldest and largest child welfare organizations. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (BA) and New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (MPA), Julianne has been a dedicated member of the nonprofit community for more than 10 years. She has previously worked with and for nonprofits that draw attention to child labor and sweatshops, domestic hunger and poverty, farmworker rights, the status of recent immigrants and refugees and the special needs of girls.