Catherine Gund

Catherine Gund, the founder of Aubin Pictures, is an Emmy Award-nominated producer, director, writer and organizer. Her media work focuses on arts and culture, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, and other social justice issues. Gund's most recent project, What's On Your Plate?, is a witty and provocative documentary about kids and food politics which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and is accompanied by a website, curriculum and family workbook. Over the course of one year, the film follows two eleven-year-old city kids as they explore their place in the food chain. Currently in distribution to schools across the country and available for streaming on Netflix, the film was broadcast on Discovery's Planet Green. Whole Foods and Chipotle, among others, have partnered with Aubin Pictures to organize community screenings nationwide.

David Katz

David L. Katz MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP – President and Founder of the Turn-the-Tide Foundation, Dr. Katz is known internationally as an authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease. He is Associate Professor (adjunct) in Public Health Practice at the Yale University School of Public Health, and the Director and founder of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, dedicated to chronic disease prevention. Dr Katz has published over 100 scientific papers and chapters, and 12 books to date. Elected to the governing board of the American College of Preventive Medicine in 2001, and elected President of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine in 2004, Katz has twice been recognized as one of Amercia's top physicians. He is currently an ABC News Medical Consulatant and a syndicated health/nutrition columnist to 'O," the Oprah Magazine.

Dr. Robert Lustig

Robert H. Lustig, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with basic and clinical training relative to hypothalamic development, anatomy, and function. Dr. Lustig's research focuses on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. He is currently investigating the contribution of nutritional, neural, hormonal, and genetic influences in the expression of the current obesity epidemic both in children and adults. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He completed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital in 1983, and his clinical fellowship at UCSF in 1984. From there, he spent six years as a research associate in neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Lustig is the past Chairman of the Ad hoc Obesity Task Force of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, a current member of the Obesity Task Force of The Endocrine Society, a member of the Steering Committee of the International Endocrine Alliance to Combat Obesity and of the Culinary Institute of America, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association of the Bay Area. He is the author of many articles, chapters, and reviews on childhood obesity, including the recent volume "Obesity before birth".

Michael A. Rebell

Michael A. Rebell is the Executive Director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is an experienced litigator in the field of education law, and he is also Professor Law and Educational Practice at Teachers College and Columbia Law School. Rebell has received a great deal of recognition for his work in education law, and on the CFE litigation in particular. In 2003, the New York Times ran a profile of Rebell in its "Public Lives" series. He attended Harvard College as an undergraduate and subsequently served in the Peace Corps for two years in Sierra Leone. After returning from the Peace Corps, he attended Yale Law School.

Scott Stringer

A native New Yorker, Mr Stringer is the 26th Manhattan Borough President. Since taking office at the start of 2006, he has dedicated himself to making Manhattan more affordable, livable…and breathable. Stringer's community-based approach also has succeeded in accelerating New York's urban greening effort. The borough president has launched "Go Green" campaigns in three Manhattan neighborhoods – East Harlem, the Lower East Side, and Washington Heights – to improve residents' health, and to serve as a model for other environmentally neglected neighborhoods. East Harlem now has new farmers' markets, a growing number of street trees, its own Go Green cookbook. Prior to being elected borough president, Stringer served for thirteen years in the State Assembly, where he authored legislation to protect victims of domestic violence, led the successful fight to end "empty-seat voting" in Albany, and voted against every attempt to weaken rent regulations. The New York Times credited him as having "a sterling reputation as a catalyst for reform."