Food is Medicine and Eating For Health Webinar Series Part 1

Food Tank and The Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation present the two-part virtual Webinar Series, "Food is Medicine and Eating for Health," on April 30th and May 1st, 2025 from 12:00-1:00PM EST.

This virtual series will bring together renowned Food is Medicine thought leaders, medical professionals, chefs, and more for a dynamic moderated conversation on eating for health.

Speakers include (in alphabetical order):

-Erika Allen, CEO, Urban Growers Collective

-Dr. Kofi Essel, Director of Food as Medicine, Elevance Health

-Rachel Fisher, Senior Advisor and Food is Medicine Co-lead, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

-Katie Garfield, Director of Whole Person Care, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School

-Devon Klatell, Vice President, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation

-Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director, Arizona State University Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems

-Radha Muthiah, CEO, Capital Area Food Bank

-Danielle Nierenberg, President, Food Tank

-Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota Sioux Chef and Founder, North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS)

-Tambra Raye Stevenson, award-winning nutrition advocate, author and food policymaker

-A-dae Romero-Briones, Vice President, Policy & Research, Native Agriculture and Food Systems Investments, First Nations Development Institute

-Alice Waters, American chef, restaurateur, food writer, and author.

-Lyndsey Waugh, Executive Director, Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation