Local Steering Committee
- Zeynep Kilic, Associate Prof. of Sociology (UAA), Co-Chair
- Rachael Miller, Assistant Prof. of Business (Alaska Pacific University), Co-chair
- Elizabeth Hodges Snyder, Associate Prof. of Public Health (UAA), Co-chair
- Dr. Gary Ferguson, Consultant (Healthy Communities)
- Andrea Schmidt, Convention Sales Manager (Visit Anchorage)
- Chris Pavadore, APU, Executive Director of Auxiliary Services
- Kyla Byers, Arctic Harvest Deliveries
- Andy Mergens, Senior Director, Student Nutrition, Anchorage School District
- Pamela Kaueiyakul, Pipeline Director, Launch Alaska
Programming Committee
- Molly Anderson, Prof. of Food Studies (Middlebury College)
- Raymond Anthony, Prof. of Philosophy (UAA)- local committee
- Jennifer Berg, Director of Graduate Food Studies Program (New York University)
- Rachel Black, Visiting Assistant Prof. of Anthropology (Connecticut College)
- Daniel Block, Prof. of Geography (Chicago State University)
- Paul Burger, Regional Hydrologist, National Parks Service Alaska
- Tracey Burke, Prof. of Social Work (UAA) - local committee
- Sally Carraher, Assistant Prof of Anthropology (UAA) - local committee
- Dayna DeFeo, Director of CAEPR, Research Assistant Professor of Education Policy
- Katie Dentzman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Crop & Soil Sciences (Washington
State University)
- Beth Forest, Professor, The Culinary Institute of America
- Iklim Goksel, Ethnographer and Independent Scholar of Rhetoric, Gender, & Turkish
Studies
- Zeynep Kiliç, Associate Prof. of Sociology (UAA) - local committee
- Rachael Miller, Assistant Prof. of Business (Alaska Pacific University) - local committee
- Marcy Ostrom, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (Washington State University)
- Elizabeth Snyder, Associate Prof. of Public Health (UAA) - local committee
- Caroline Brock, Associate Prof. of Rural Sociology, University of Missouri
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