Task Force
Our Task Force is a diverse, non-partisan group of stakeholders working to inform the goals of the White House Conference.
Chef José Andrés (Co-chair)
Founder, World Central Kitchen
President/Chef at ThinkFoodGroup
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin (Co-chair)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Food Systems for the Future
Former Executive Director, World Food Programme
Senator Bill Frist (Co-chair)
Former Majority Leader of the United States Senate
Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Secretary Dan Glickman (Co-chair)
Distinguished Fellow of Global Food and Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Former United States Secretary of Agriculture
Dariush (Dary) Mozaffarian (Co-chair)
Special Advisor to the Provost, Dean for Policy, and Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University
Professor of Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center
Sonia Angell
Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College
Catherine Bertini
Distinguished Fellow of Global Food and Agriculture, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Catherine D’Amato
Founder, Hunger to Health Collaboratory
President & CEO, Greater Boston Food Bank
Robert Egger
Community Nutrition Innovator and Elder Ally
Curt Ellis
CEO, FoodCorps
Priya Fielding-Singh
Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah
Sam Kass
Founding Partner, TROVE
Former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition
Jim Krieger
Executive Director of Action, Healthy Food America
William Li
CEO, Angiogenesis Foundation
Roberto Meza
Board President, National Young Farmers Coalition
Angela Odoms-Young
Associate Professor, Director, Food and Nutrition Education in Communities Program and NYS Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), Cornell University
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Frank Ponds
Nutrition and National Security Speaker’s Bureau Member, Mission: Readiness
Martin Richards
Executive Director, Community Farm Alliance
Teresa Romero
President, United Farm Workers
Leslie Sarasin
President and CEO, FMI – The Food Industry Association
Pam Schwartz
Executive Director of Community Health, Kaiser Permanente
Hilary Seligman
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco
Brooks Tingle
President And Chief Executive Officer, John Hancock Insurance
Ann Veneman
Former Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Donald Warne
Chair & Professor, Department of Indigenous Health; Director, Indians Into Medicine (INMED) & Public Health Programs; University of North Dakota
Kim Williams
Chair of Medicine, University of Louisville
Former President of The American College of Cardiology