The Latino Nutrition Coalition thanks the following people for their key roles in the founding and development of the Coalition:

Alliance Enterprises
Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages
Eagle Mills Flour
General Mills
Goya Foods, Inc.
Florida Tomatoes
Herdez/Hormel
La Moderna
Mission Foods
Silk Soymilk
SPLENDA Sweetener Products
Tampico Beverages
The Peanut Institute
Unilever
United States Potato Board
USA Rice Federation
Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board

Scientific Advisors
Hector Borges, MD, PhD, Conference Co-chair
Director, National Center for Nutrition in Mexico City

Hannia Campos, PhD, Conference Co-chair
Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health

John Foreyt, PhD, Conference Co-chair
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Adolfo Chavez, MD
Head of Applied Nutrition Department
Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos

Jose M. Ordovas, PhD
Senior Scientist and Director, Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory
Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA, Tufts University

Joanne Slavin, PhD, RD
Professor, University of Minnesota

Luis Vargas, PhD
Investigador, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Michelle Wein, DrPH, RD, CDE
Asst. Professor, Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J.

Culinary Advisors
Elisabeth Luard
Author of The Latin American Kitchen and others

Zarela Martinez
Chef/Owner, Zarela Restaurant (New York City)
Author of "The Food and Life of Oaxaca" and others

Paul O'Connell
Chef/Owner, Chez Henri (Cambridge, MA)
Cuban food expert

Maricel Presilla, PhD
Chef/Owner, Zafra and Cucharamama (Hoboken, NJ)
Author of The New Taste of Chocolate and others

Steve Petusevsky
Author of The Whole Foods Market Cookbook

Patricia Quintana
Chef/Owner, Izote (Mexico City)
Author of The Taste of Mexico and others

Donna Shields, RD
Nutrition consultant; author of Caribbean Light

Advisors
Sara Baer-Sinnott
Executive Vice-President, Oldways Preservation Trust

Cynthia Harriman
Dir. of Food & Nutrition Strategies, Oldways Preservation Trust