Advisory Committee

	John H. Anderson is a veterinarian, a habitat restorationist, and owner of Hedgerow Farms, a major producer of native grass seed in Winters, California. He is a founding member of the California Native Grass Association and board member of Audubon California.
	Catherine Badgley is a research scientist at the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan and teaches environmental agriculture courses at the Residential College. She and her husband practice subsistence farming on an organic farm near Chelsea, Michigan.
	Wendell Berry is a working farmer in north central Kentucky and the author of more than 30 books of poetry, essays, and novels. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, a Lannan Foundation Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
	Robert Bugg is a senior analyst in agricultural ecology at the University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. He researches biological control of insect pests, cover crops, and restoration ecology, and currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the international journal Biological Agriculture and Horticulture.
	Dave Foreman is director of the Rewilding Institute and co-founder of the Wildlands Project and Earth First! Dave became widely recognized for his radical acts on behalf of the natural world. He has worked for the Wilderness Society and Wilderness Affairs, and he is currently a member of the board of directors of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.
	Fred Kirschenmann is the director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture and president of Kirschenmann Family Farms, a 3,500-acre certified organic farm in Windsor, North Dakota. He is past-president of Farm Verified Organic and has served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Organic Standards Board.
	Winona LaDuke is a Native American Indian (Ojibwe) and environmental activist and author. She lives on the White Earth reservation where she works with the White Earth Land Recovery Program, a reservation-based land acquisition, environmental advocacy, and cultural organization.
	Frances Moore Lappé is a co-founder of Food First and the Center for Living Democracy. She is a renowned author and food activist who has worked tirelessly for the rights of all people to healthy food and true democracy.
	Gary Nabhan, Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University, is co-founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH, has served as director of conservation science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, and has received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship Grant. He crosses disciplinary, cultural, and ethnic boundaries to work with many different communities in the Southwest.
	Reed Noss is the Davis-Shine Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Central Florida and the chief scientist for the Wildlands Project. He has authored numerous articles and several books related to conservation biology and is a leading expert on large-scale conservation strategies.
	Alice Waters is the owner of Chez Panisse, which was named best restaurant in the U.S. by Gourmet Magazine in 2001. Chez Panisse cultivates a network of local farmers who share the restaurant’s commitment to sustainable agriculture. Alice also initiated the Edible Schoolyard project, which incorporates her ideas about food and culture into the public school curriculum.