Founding Members

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

Industry
Co-chair: Tom Gray, Director, Brand Marketing
Mission Foods

Co-chair: K. Dun Gifford, JD, President
Oldways Preservation Trust

I. Edward Salinas, CEO
Alliance-Enterprises

Mike Veal, Director of Marketing
ConAgra Foods

Samantha Winters
Florida Tomato Committee

Rafael Toro, Director of Public Relations
Goya Foods

Pat Kearney, Program Director
The Peanut Institute

Richard Ross, Vice President of Marketing
Tampico Beverages

Joseph Vizcarra, Integrated Marketing Manager
Unilever

Linda McCashion, VP Public Relations
United States Potato Board

Anne Banville, VP Domestic Production
USA Rice Federation

Scott Stevens, VP/GM Silk Brand
White Wave Foods

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

Miriam Chavez, MD
Research Fellow in Nutrition
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