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Speaker Biographical Sketches
Thomas N. Robinson, M.D., M.P.H. (Chair, workshop planning com-
mittee), is Irving Schulman, M.D. endowed professor in child health and
professor of pediatrics and of medicine in the Division of General Pediatrics
and Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University School of
Medicine. Dr. Robinson received both his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Stan-
ford University and his M.P.H. in maternal and child health from the Uni-
versity of California, Berkeley. He completed his internship and residency in
pediatrics at Children’s Hospital in Boston and at Harvard Medical School,
and then returned to Stanford for postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood
Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Robinson’s solution-oriented research has
focused on experimental studies of environmental, community-, school-,
and family-based health behavior change interventions related to nutri-
tion, physical activity, media use, and smoking behaviors in children and
adolescents, as well as childhood obesity prevention and treatment. Dr.
Robinson was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation generalist physician
faculty scholar awardee. He is board-certified in pediatrics and a fellow
of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and practices general pediatrics
and directs the Center for Healthy Weight at the Lucile Packard Children’s
Hospital at Stanford and Stanford University. He also teaches in the Pro-
gram in Human Biology at Stanford. Dr. Robinson served as a member of
the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Prevention of Obesity
in Children and Youth and the IOM Committee on Progress in Preventing
Childhood Obesity.
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Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H. (member, workshop planning
committee), is professor of epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics
and Epidemiology and Pediatrics (Gastroenterology, Nutrition Section)
and associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention at the
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Kumanyika’s
interdisciplinary background integrates epidemiology, nutrition, preven-
tion, minority health, and women’s health issues across the life course. The
main themes of her research concern the role of nutritional factors in the
primary and secondary prevention of chronic diseases, with a particular
focus on obesity, sodium reduction, and related health problems such as
hypertension and diabetes. She has a particular interest in the epidemiol-
ogy and management of obesity among African Americans. Dr. Kumanyika
has served on numerous national and international advisory committees
and expert panels related to nutrition and obesity, including as vice chair
of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) Secretary’s
Advisory Committee for Healthy People 2020. She is co-chair of the Inter-
national Obesity Task Force and serves as a consultant to the World Health
Organization’s Department of Nutrition for Health and Development. Dr.
Kumanyika has served as a member of the IOM Food and Nutrition Board,
chair of the IOM Committee on an Evidence Framework for Obesity Pre-
vention Decision Making, and a member of the IOM Committee on Preven-
tion of Obesity in Children and Youth. She is currently a member of the
IOM Standing Committee on Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention
and chair of the IOM Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Preven-
tion. She received a B.A. from Syracuse University, an M.S.W. from Colum-
bia University, a Ph.D. in human nutrition from Cornell University, and an
M.P.H. from The Johns Hopkins University. She is a member of the IOM.
Joseph W. Thompson, M.D., M.P.H. (member, workshop planning com-
mittee), is surgeon general of the State of Arkansas, director of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, direc-
tor of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, and professor in the
Colleges of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences. Dr. Thompson has led efforts in planning and implement-
ing health care financing reform and tobacco- and obesity-related health
promotion and disease prevention programs in Arkansas, including docu-
menting the state’s success in halting the progress of the childhood obesity
epidemic. He helped implement ARHealthNet, Arkansas’ health insurance
waiver for low-income workers. He served as Robert Wood Johnson Foun-
dation clinical scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Luther Terry fellow in preventive medicine in the office of the assistant
secretary for health in HHS, and assistant vice president and director of
research at the National Committee for Quality Assurance in Washington,
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DC. In 1997, he served as the first child and adolescent health scholar of
the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (then the U.S. Agency
for Health Care Policy and Research) before returning to Arkansas. Dr.
Thompson earned his M.D. from the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences and his M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. He is a member of the IOM Standing Committee on Childhood Obe-
sity Prevention.
Antronette (Toni) Yancey, M.D., M.P.H. (member, workshop planning com-
mittee), is professor of health services and co-director, Center of Excellence
in the Elimination of Health Disparities at the University of California, Los
Angeles, School of Public Health. She also directs her department’s doctor-
ate in public health program. Dr. Yancey’s primary research interests are
in intervention for chronic disease prevention and adolescent health pro-
motion, with an emphasis on ethnic minority communities. She returned
to academia full-time after 5 years (1996-2001) in public health practice
as director of public health for the city of Richmond, Virginia, and as
director of chronic disease prevention and health promotion, Los Angeles
County Department of Health Services. Dr. Yancey serves on HHS’s Physi-
cal Activity Guidelines Committee, the scientific advisory committee for the
American Heart Association, the IOM Health Literacy Roundtable, and ad
hoc peer review committees for the American Cancer Society and National
Cancer Institute. She served on the IOM Committee on Childhood Obesity
Prevention Actions for Local Governments. She chairs the board of direc-
tors of the California-based Public Health Institute, and formerly served
on the boards of the National Marrow Donor Program and the Pacific
Institute for Women’s Health. Her book Instant Recess: How to Build a Fit
Nation 10 Minutes at a Time was released in November 2010. Dr. Yancey
received her M.D. degree from Duke University School of Medicine and
completed her preventive medicine residency and M.P.H. at the University
of California, Los Angeles.
Linda Balfour is brand marketing manager and recess revolutionary for
KEEN, Inc., a manufacturer of hybrid footwear, bags, and socks. Ms.
Balfour has played a key role in launching KEEN’s Recess is Back, an initia-
tive to re-energize adults around the world through daily play breaks. She
has been part of the KEEN team for 6 years of the brand’s 8-year history.
She contributed to the development and planning of the KEEN STAND and
Hybrid.Pedal programs, designed to inspire conservation and engagement
in the outdoors. Prior to her role as brand manager, Ms. Balfour managed
the KEEN Hybrid.Care giving program. She currently serves on the board
of the Conservation Alliance, an organization dedicated to protecting wild
places for their conservation and recreational value.
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Rear Admiral (Ret.) James Arden Barnett, Jr. serves on the executive advi-
sory council of Mission Readiness: Military Leaders for Kids, a nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization of more than 250 senior retired military leaders
founded in 2008 to ensure continued American security and prosperity
into the 21st century by calling for smart investments in the upcoming gen-
eration of American children. Admiral Barnett served 32 years in the U.S.
Navy and Navy Reserve, retiring in 2008. He was also a senior research fel-
low at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a policy think tank focused
on science and technology issues of importance to the nation, including
cyber conflict and cyber security. He served at the University of Mississippi
as assistant professor of naval science, and was a senior partner at Mitchell,
McNutt, and Sams, P.A. in Tupelo, Mississippi, a governmental law practice
representing municipalities, counties, law enforcement agencies, schools,
and local government officials. Admiral Barnett received his J.D. from the
University of Mississippi Law School.
Edward M. Cooney became the Congressional Hunger Center’s (CHC’s)
executive director in February 2001. He advises Congress, the adminis-
tration, and other interested parties on nutrition programs and policies.
CHC also operates two leadership development programs: the Bill Emerson
National Hunger Fellows Program and the Mickey Leland International
Hunger Fellows Program. Before joining CHC, Mr. Cooney was an anti-
hunger advocate at the Food Research and Action Center and Connecticut
Legal Services. From September 1997 to January 2001, he held two senior
positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—as deputy admin-
istrator for special nutrition programs and special assistant for nutrition to
USDA Secretary Dan Glickman. He received his J.D. from the University
of Connecticut Law School.
James Corless is director of Transportation for America, a coalition of more
than 400 organizations working to promote a new national transportation
policy that is smarter, safer, and cleaner and provides more choice. Prior
to joining Transportation for America, Mr. Corless was a senior planner
for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay
Area, where he managed the agency’s efforts to promote smarter growth,
transit-oriented development, and mobility options for low-income com-
munities. Mr. Corless was the author of California’s groundbreaking Safe
Routes to School law and legislation that paved the way for smart growth
“blueprints” to become part of the regional transportation planning process
throughout the state.
William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., is director of the Division of Nutrition,
Physical Activity, and Obesity in the National Center for Chronic Disease
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Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Previously, he was a professor of pediatrics at the Tufts
University School of Medicine and director of clinical nutrition at the Float-
ing Hospital of New England Medical Center Hospitals. In addition to
his academic responsibilities in Boston, Dr. Dietz was a principal research
scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Harvard Divi-
sion of Health Science and Technology; associate director of the Clinical
Research Center at MIT; and director of the Boston Obesity/Nutrition
Research Center, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). He has been a counselor for the American
Society for Clinical Nutrition and is past president of the North American
Association for the Study of Obesity. In 1995 he received the John Stalker
Award from the American School Food Service Association for his efforts
to improve school lunches. Dr. Dietz served on the 1995 Dietary Guide-
lines Advisory Committee, is a past member of the NIDDK Task Force on
Obesity, and is former president of the then American Society for Clinical
Nutrition. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, his M.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry
from MIT. Dr. Dietz is a member of the IOM.
Sergeant Michael Dillhyon is executive director of the National Police Ath-
letics/Activities Leagues, Inc. (PAL), a youth crime and violence prevention
program that uses educational, athletic, and recreational activities to cre-
ate trust and understanding between police officers and youth. He became
executive director in 2006. Sergeant Dillhyon was previously employed by
the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office in St. Augustine, Florida. While there,
he established the St. Johns County Police Athletic League in 1991, with 40
youth participants. St. Johns PAL currently serves more than 2,000 youth
per year. The majority of Sergeant Dillhyon’s law enforcement career has
involved youth programs. He has served as a school resource deputy in
elementary, middle, and high schools; community policing deputy; PAL
deputy; truancy deputy; and Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)
officer, as well as in other community-based positions.
David J. Erickson, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Community Develop-
ment Investments at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and edits
the Federal Reserve journal Community Development Investment Review.
His research in the Community Development Department of the Federal
Reserve encompasses community development finance, affordable housing,
economic development, and institutional changes that benefit low-income
communities. Dr. Erickson served as editor of a joint research project with
the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program studying areas of concentrated
poverty in the United States. He was also editor of a collection of research
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papers and essays on the Community Reinvestment Act, which was recently
translated into Chinese by the People’s Bank of China. Dr. Erickson received
a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus
on economic history and public policy. He also holds a master’s degree in
public policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley and an
undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. His book on the history of
community development, The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and
Neighborhoods, was published in 2009.
Diane T. Finegood, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of Biomedical
Physiology & Kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Brit-
ish Columbia. Dr. Finegood leads the Chronic Disease Systems Modeling
Lab (CDSM) and serves as executive director of the CAPTURE Project
(Canadian Platform To increase Usage of Real-world Evidence) (www.the
captureproject.ca). Since November 2008, she has convened the Building
Trust Initiative in an effort to build authentic trust among sectors address-
ing obesity and chronic disease prevention (http://buildingtrustinitiative.
wordpress.com/).
Robert García, J.D., is an attorney who engages, educates, and empowers
communities to achieve equal access to public resources. He is founding
director and counsel of The City Project, a nonprofit legal and policy
advocacy organization based in Los Angeles, California. As reported in the
New York Times (November 12, 2007), “The City Project [is] working to
broaden access to parks and open space for inner city children, and . . .
to fight childhood obesity by guaranteeing that . . . students get enough
physical education.” Mr. García has extensive experience in public policy
and legal advocacy, mediation, and litigation involving complex social
justice, civil rights, human health, environmental, education, and criminal
justice matters. He has influenced the investment of more than $20 billion
in underserved communities, working at the intersection of social jus-
tice, sustainable regional planning, and smart growth. Hispanic Business
Magazine recognized him as one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the
United States in 2008. Mr. García received the President’s Award from the
American Public Health Association in 2010. He was called a “civil rights
giant” by Stanford Law School and “an inspiration” by Stanford Magazine.
He graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School, where he
served on the board of editors of the Stanford Law Review.
Michael Greger, M.D., is director of public health and animal agriculture
at The Humane Society of the United States. A physician, author, and
founding member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, he is an
internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public
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health issues. He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the
International Bird Flu Summit, and the National Institutes of Health; testi-
fied before Congress; and was invited as an expert witness in the defense of
Oprah Winfrey in the infamous “meat defamation” trial. He is a graduate
of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University
School of Medicine. Hundreds of his nutrition videos are available free of
charge at NutritionFacts.org.
Captain Chuck Higgins, M.S., is a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public
Health Service and is assigned to the National Park Service, where he is
director of the Office of Public Health. Captain Higgins has 33 years of
experience in public health at the local, state, and federal levels. Previous
assignments were with CDC; the Food and Drug Administration; and the
Wyoming Department of Agriculture, where he assisted the governor in
modernizing the state’s food safety system, culminating in the passage of
the Wyoming Food Safety Act of 2000. In his current position, Captain
Higgins manages a national program responsible for the health and well-
being of almost 300 million visitors a year to the 395 units of the national
park system.
Doug Imig, Ph.D., is professor of political science at the University of
Memphis and director of the Center for Urban Child Policy at the Urban
Child Institute in Memphis, Tennessee. His research and writing concern
mobilization of social movements for marginalized and silent groups, par-
ticularly children. He is the author of Poverty and Power, and co-author
and co-editor of Contentious Europeans. Dr. Imig received an M.A. and
Ph.D. in political science from Duke University and a B.A. in social science
from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland.
Susan Linn, Ed.D., is director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Child-
hood (CCFC), which she co-founded. CCFC is the only national organiza-
tion devoted solely to helping parents raise healthy children by limiting
commercial influence on children. A psychologist, Dr. Linn is an expert
on the impact of media and marketing on children. Her books Consuming
Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood and The Case for Make Believe:
Saving Play in a Commercialized World have been praised in publications
as diverse as the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, the Weekly Standard,
and the Boston Globe. Dr. Linn is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard
Medical School and a research associate at Boston Children’s Hospital. Her
work has been featured on such national media programs as 60 Minutes,
Now with Bill Moyers, Today, Good Morning America, and World News
Tonight, as well as in the film The Corporation. In 2006, Dr. Linn was
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awarded a presidential citation from the American Psychological Associa-
tion for her work on behalf of children.
Mike Metallo is president and CEO of the National Gardening Association
(NGA) and has worked in and served the educational nonprofit commu-
nity for more than 25 years. He has served as executive director/president/
CEO for both trade and educational mission-driven organizations, includ-
ing the National Gallery of Art, the Parks & History Association, and the
Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association. NGA is an author-
ity and resource for gardeners of all ages. Its initiatives for children are
designed to enhance environmental awareness, augment classroom studies
with experiential learning, facilitate cultural exchange, encourage children
to make healthful food choices, and impart a love of nature. In addition,
Mr. Metallo serves on the advisory panel of the National Forum on Chil-
dren and Nature, the USDA People’s Garden Forum, the Learning for Life
Skilled Trades Committee, and the advisory board of the Housekeeping
Channel. He has served as an advisor to institutions such as the White
House First Lady’s office, USDA, and CDC, and has provided his expertise
to magazines, newspapers, television reporters, and for-profit and nonprofit
organizations on the subject of adult and youth gardening and nonprofit
management. Mr. Metallo graduated from Gordon College.
Kathy Mulvey joined the Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) as
policy director in November 2010. CFSC is a national, nonprofit coalition
of diverse people and organizations working from the local to the interna-
tional level to build community food security. CFSC is dedicated to cata-
lyzing food systems that are healthy, sustainable, just, and democratic by
building community voice and capacity for change. Prior to joining CFSC,
Ms. Mulvey served for more than two decades on the staff of Corporate
Accountability International (formerly Infact), guiding dramatic growth
in programs, budget, and staffing during her 11-year tenure as executive
director. She led the organization’s work in the United Nations system,
much of it focused on the World Health Organization (WHO). Under her
leadership, Corporate Accountability International’s campaign challenging
big tobacco contributed to the adoption of WHO’s groundbreaking global
tobacco treaty. Ms. Mulvey also lobbied in support of a WHO initiative
promoting healthy diets and sustainable food security.
Olga Naidenko, Ph.D., is a scientist with Environmental Working Group
(EWG), a nonprofit research and advocacy organization based in Wash-
ington, DC. Prior to joining EWG, she worked in Los Angeles, San Diego,
and St. Louis, publishing 30 peer-reviewed papers in immunology and
biochemistry. At EWG, Dr. Naidenko focuses on the human health effects
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of chemical pollution, the intersection of science and policy, and the envi-
ronmental effects of agriculture and food production. She received a Ph.D.
in immunology from the University of California, Los Angeles, Molecular
Biology Institute.
Miriam A. Rollin, J.D., national director of Fight Crime: Invest in Kids,
has been with that organization for more than 10 years. She also serves as
vice president/chief operating officer of Fight Crime’s parent organization,
Council for a Strong America (CSA), and oversees the work of the CSA
Federal Policy, Research, Communications, and States teams, as well as
the Human Resources and Finance/Administration teams. Fight Crime’s
three sibling organizations, under the CSA umbrella, are Mission: Readi-
ness (retired admirals and generals), America’s Edge (business leaders), and
Shepherding the Next Generation (moderate faith leaders). Ms. Rollin has
been involved in policy issues affecting children, youth, and families for
more than three decades. She is also a lawyer, and has practiced both as
an attorney/guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children and as an
assistant district attorney, prosecuting juvenile, family violence, and child
abuse cases. She received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a
J.D. from Catholic University of America.
Andrea B. Thomas, M.B.A., is senior vice president of sustainability for
Walmart. She is responsible for working across the global organization as
well as with external stakeholders to embed sustainability in all aspects
of the company. Prior to assuming this role in September 2010, she led
Walmart’s global merchandising centers for the home, hardlines, and enter-
tainment businesses, and previous to that was senior vice president of
private brands for the grocery and consumable businesses. Before joining
Walmart in October 2007, Ms. Thomas was vice president, global innova-
tion for the Hershey Company. In this role, she led work that identified
new platform opportunities for growth based on consumer and marketplace
trends and insights, translating them into sustainable product and partner-
ship ideas that delivered profitable growth for the company. Previously, Ms.
Thomas spent 13 years at Pepsico, where she worked in brand manage-
ment, innovation, and retail marketing and promotions. Prior to that, she
served as vice president, retail marketing and promotions at Frito-Lay and
led the marketing efforts for the Fritos and Tostitos brands. Ms. Thomas
earned an M.B.A. from Brigham Young University. She was named one of
the Top 25 Global Champions of Innovation by Businessweek magazine
in 2006.
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