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Jen Allbritton, CN, is a wife, mother and Certified Nutritionist who loves researching, writing and experimenting in the kitchen with WAPF-friendly dishes. Her column Growing Wise Kids is a regular addition to the Foundation’s quarterly magazine Wise Traditions. Jen has a B.S. in Kinesiology from the College of William and Mary, writes for other health publications, and has been passionately learning and teaching others about food’s affect on health for over 10 years.

Janice Blair, CPA, is the La Crosse WI, WAPF Chapter Leader. She holds a BA in Business Economics, specializing in Natural Resources. Her background includes commercial fishing and cooking for diving and fishing boats in the Pacific. She studied food preparation under Chef Neil Stuart (Pacific Blue Plates), and operated an organic deli, coffee house, and juice bar in the early 90’s. She has taught cooking courses at Wild Oats and through St Louis Community College. In 2000 she met Sally Fallon and put Sally’s suggestions to work on her new farm, Blackberry Ridge LLC, an organic, biodynamic, bio-diverse, all grass fed, heritage breed eco-farm & ranch (www.blackberryridgellc.com).

Justin Blaircobb, Chef, recently graduated from Le Cordon Bleu with honors. He interned at the Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa in Tucson, AZ and has completed the UW processed meats (sausage & pates) short course. Justin’s background includes spending his teen years on his parents all grass-fed organic ranch and participated in 4-H meat judging and food preparation projects.

Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, graduated with Honors as a Medical Doctor in 1984 from Bashkir Medical University in Russia. In the following years she gained a Postgraduate Degree in Neurology from the Moscow Medical University.

After practicing for five years as a Neurologist and three years as a Neurosurgeon she started a family and moved to the UK. Fairly shortly after that her son was diagnosed autistic, which prompted an intensive study into causes and treatments of autism. It was during this time that Dr. Campbell-McBride developed her theories on the relationship between neurological disorders and nutrition, and completed a second Postgraduate Degree in Human Nutrition at Sheffield University.

Having helped her son on the road to recovery, Dr. Campbell-McBride has returned to practice in 2000 and runs the Cambridge Nutrition Clinic. She has specialised in two areas of nutrition, and has become recognised as one of the world’s leading experts in nutrition for children with learning disabilities and nutritional intervention for digestive and immune disorders in children and adults.

She has recently published a book Gut and Psychology Syndrome. Natural treatment of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression and schizophrenia where she explores the connection between the patient's physical state and brain function. She has contributed to the book Treating Autism by Edelson SM and Rimland B, ISBN 0-9740360-0-5, and is a regular contributing health editor to a number of magazines and newsletters (Health Matters, Natural Products, CAM magazine for practitioners, etc.). She is a keynote speaker at many professional conferences and seminars. She frequently gives talks to health practitioners, patient groups and associations. She is also a Member of The Society of Authors. She is the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Practitioner of the Year Award from CAM sponsored by Nutricentre.

Christapher Cogswell, MA, Board Member --Christapher is co-founder and co-director of the Radiant Life Company. He studied Anthropology at Carleton College and the California Institute of Integral Studies, receiving an MA in 1996. The focus of his academic research included a cultural exploration of sustainable agriculture practices, and work with native peoples in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Discovering the work of Dr. Price only after eight years of formal academic study, he realized that this research was a crucial missing link for humanity's progress toward sustainability. He co-founded the Radiant Life Company to help disseminate Dr. Price's teachings and to directly support people in turning nutritional degeneration into nutritional regeneration.

Porsche Combash

Born at home in Berkeley during the radical sixties, Porsche comes from a truly blended background. Her grandmother was a founding member of the Black Panthers. Her ancestry includes African-American, German, Scottish, Irish, Native-American, and English. She lives in Berkeley with her partner, Michael McGill.

Veronica Daggett, DO is an osteopathic physician in private practice in Nevada City, CA. She uses hands-on osteopathic treatment, nutrition, and life-style advice to support the body's inherent ability to heal itself. She helps patients of all ages, from newborns to elders, and addresses the full spectrum of challenges this human form can encounter.

Dennis Frerking, DC, graduated cum laude from Life Chiropractic College. He has done postgraduate work in Acupuncture, Spinal Biomechanics, Internal Diagnostic Procedures, as well as method training in Thompson, Gonstead, Activator, Cox, Nimmo, and SOT. In the late 1980s Dr. Frerking retired from his successful chiropractic practice in Florida to help Dr. Loomis educate professionals about the Loomis System of Enzyme Nutrition. Since then, he has served as a keynote speaker for hundreds of seminars in the United States and internationally on the diagnosis and treatment of food enzyme deficiency syndromes.

Philip Incao, MD, had an active general practice of anthroposophic medicine for 23 years next to a biodynamic farm in upstate New York, where his children grew up on raw milk. Since 1996 he has been practicing in Colorado. His special interest is children's health. He was featured in July-August, 2003 Mothering magazine article, "The Healing Crisis: Don't Worry Mom-I'm Just Growing!"

Dr. Mary N Megson, M.D., F.A.A.P., Pediatric and Adolescent Ability Center, received her degree of medicine from the University of Virginia. She completed her internship and residency at Bodton Floating Hospital, Tufts New England Medical Center. Dr. Megson completed a fellowship in ambulatory pediatrics at Boston's Children's Hospital and one in child development at the Medical College of Virginia. She is a fellow at the American Academy of Pediatrics and was director of Developmental Pediatrics at Children's Hospital in Richmond for nine years. Dr. Megson currently works at her own private practice where she is devoted to diagnosing and treating developmentally delayed children specializing in autism. She conducts research in the use of vitamin A and Bethanecol in treatment of autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Megson conducted a clinical trial to investigate her hypothesis that G-alpha protein defect is a high risk factor for developing autism after vaccination.

Dr. Phyllis Mullenix is a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her career while at the Harvard School of Medicine, Boston's Children's Hospital and Forsyth's Dental Infirmary for Children was spent researching the long-term toxicological consequences of perinatal exposure to drugs and environmental pollutants such as lead, radiation and fluoride. Outside academia and for over thirty years, she has maintained a private consulting practice that deals with a wide range of toxic exposures and litigation.

Joan Norman, along with her husband Drew, own and operate One Straw Farm in White Hall, Maryland. They have grown certified organic produce for East Coast distributors since 1983. In an effort to promote locally produced and consumed food, the marketing efforts have been directed towards their 600 + member CSA, 3 farmer's markets, restaurant and institution sales.

Vinny Pinto is a degreed Research & Development and applications scientist, with a master's degree in the health sciences, a strong educational background in physics, astrophysics and engineering, and a year of graduate education in acupuncture.

Well-known in the raw foods world for running the world's largest email list group (live-food group) devoted to raw foods diets which include raw animal foods, he also operates an informational website (www.rawpaleodiet.org) on the benfits of eating a largely-raw Paleo diet, which includes raw animal foods. He also offers a limited amount of consulting/coaching to clients on raw food diets and related topics.

He is also known worldwide as an R&D and formulations consultant for nutritional antioxidants and beneficial Paleolithic-era microbes, particularly EM antioxidative syntropic microbes, and their uses in human and animal nutrition, agriculture, and waste remediation. He has lectured on EM and other beneficial microbes in agriculture at the 2006 Acres USA conference (audiotapes of some lectures are available from the Acres USA media store) and at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, WV (seminar available on a three-DVD set available from several sources).

His two free informational websites on EM and beneficial microbes are www.eminfo.info and www.antioxbrew.com. He has published two books on EM antioxidative and syntropic (anti-entropic) microbes, and is currently working on two additional books in that field. Vinny is one of those unusual persons who is both a scientist and a mystic; equally comfortable in the world of science and the world of Spirit and Supreme Heart. While working primarily as a research and consulting scientist in the fields of nutritional antixidants and beneficial microbes, he also offers spiritual healing work and always feels best when equally grounded in both of these realms.

Kathryne Pirtle is the clarinetist and executive director of the Orion Ensemble, which gives three concert series in Metropolitan Chicago, presents a live internationally broadcast series on Chicago's WFMT-FM Fine Arts Radio Network and tours throughout North America. She is principal clarinetist of the Lake Forest Symphony and frequently performs with the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, the Grant Park Music Festival, The Ravinia Festival Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Pirtle has co-authored a book with Sally Fallon and Dr. John D. Turner called Performance without Pain, which was published in 2006 by New Trends that focuses on the modern dietary influences in common inflammatory and degenerative conditions in musicians, athletes, dancers and the general public, and the solutions found in a diet of nutrient-dense foods.

Marianne Rothschild, MD

Drawing upon her life experience as a woman, wife, mother and midwife, coupled with her formal medical training, Dr. Rothschild brings insight to each situation.

She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1990 with honors in emergency medicine and community and preventative medicine.

Marianne completed her family practice residency at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia. She worked with the Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation until opening her holistic practice at Gaia Healing Center.

Michael Schmidt has been a biodynamic farmer for over 33 years. Born in Germany, he came to Canada in 1983 and has been instrumental in massive changes towards the awareness of the cultural importance of agriculture. He is leading the fierce battle to legalize raw milk in Canada.

Amy Shollenberger is Rural Vermont's Director. She is responsible for strategic planning and campaign development, as well as developing a policy agenda, managing staff, and fundraising. She has ten years of organizing and policy experience, including work as a press secretary and legislative assistant for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and as a senior policy analyst for Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program.

Rural Vermont is a state-wide advocacy organization founded by farmers in 1985. They educate, advocate, and activate Vermonters for their vision of living soils, thriving farms, and healthy communities.

Catherine Spanger

With a lineage from Holland, Germany and Arkansas, Catherine believes in the connection between food, family and tradition. She has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and currently resides in Oakland, California.

Sherri J. Tenpenny, DO is the director and founder of OsteoMed II, a clinic established in 1996 to provide the best of integrative medicine for patients in the Cleveland, Ohio area.

A graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Tenpenny received her medical training at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. She is board certified in emergency medicine and osteopathic manipulative medicine. A regular guest on national radio and TV, and at medical conventions, she has published numerous articles for national magazines and medical Internet sites. She is the author of books, DVDs and educational products.

Dr. Tenpenny is respected as one of the country’s most knowledgeable and outspoken physicians regarding the impact of vaccines on health. Through her education company, NMA Media Press, LLC, she spreads her vision of retaining freedom of choice in healthcare, including the freedom to refuse vaccination.

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Kim Thompson specializes in the mechanics of body movement. Pain, stiffness and difficulty in daily activities are often related to how you move. Learning to move in harmony with your body's design can help you find comfort, better range of motion, and ease.

Kim has made this journey personally. A vehicle accident in 1991 left her with low back and neck pain for 10 years. After visiting many health professionals, she finally found relief in Yoga classes. Now certified to teach Yoga, Feldenkrais(r), Bones for Life(r), and Sounder Sleep(tm), Kim helps others improve their ability to move freely and easily. Her clients range from stroke survivors to professional athletes, and from youths to seniors. To learn more, visit www.OptimizedMovement.com.

At this year's conference, Kim will lead morning movement sessions in Bones for Life(r), Healthy Back and Yoga.

Harvey Ussery, founder of themodernhomestead.us. Harvey and his wife Ellen have worked for more than two decades toward becoming more food-independent; and presently either produce most of their food on their own place, or purchase it face-to-face within a 30 mile radius of their home. Harvey offers his homestead as model and inspiration to others aspiring to become more food self-sufficient. He has presented on homesteading and food independence at Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture's annual conference, and he writes on these issues for Mother Earth News, Countryside Magazine, and Backyard Poultry.

Jean Weaver, RD is currently chapter leader for Nourishing Ways of West Michigan and has been a WAPF member since 1999. She has held positions as a clinical dietitian, Corporate Dietitian for Ford Motor Company and coordinated the implementation of their "health promotion" programs. She considers herself a recovering "diet dictocrat" and vegetarian. Jeannie is a frequent speaker on nutrition and is passionate about helping people incorporate traditional ways of cooking and eating into their daily lives. As a mother of two teenage boys she is most concerned about the plethora of misinformation and food fads that presently plague our youth.

Donna Wild has studied, practiced, and taught herbal and natural nutritional health approaches to doctors and laymen for 23 years. She has written, published, and lectured extensively on natural restorative methods for human and animal health. As a technical consultant for doctors, she has worked for Standard Process West for the past 18 years.

Larry Wisch

Larry grew up in the an extended community in the North Bronx The Amalgamated Cooperatives, where socialized medicine, cooperative daycare, nursery schools, and union organizing were part of his original view of the world. Chicken soup and other wonderful Jewish Eastern European smells permeated the hallways and apartments. He now lives in San Francisco with his partner Giancarlo Calabrese.

Jai Yeck spent several years at the Vermont Wilderness School intensively studying earth living skills and the Art of Mentoring. Jai has taught children ages 6 to 18 using traditional native mentoring philosophy throughout her various teaching positions at the Vermont Wilderness School, The Institute for Natural Learning, and Deep Wilds Wilderness Camps. Currently Jai is starting a farm near Louisville, KY. Through her farm work Jai intends to help educate the community about the importance of local foods and provide an avenue for her community members to create their own connections with the land.

Norman Zwagil is currently the General Manager and Senior Food Service Director for Bon Appetit at Goucher College. Since 1976, purchasing, preparing and serving great tasting food has been his passion. He has been a whole grain baker, baking magazine publisher, organic meat purveyor, organic produce distributor, natural food retailer and advisor to the Natural Food Merchandiser magazine. In 1993 he entered the restaurant industry and since then has focused on made from scratch meals. As part of his current responsibilities at Goucher he also oversees the sustainable purchasing and production programs.