Anna Lappé is an internationally recognized expert on food systems and the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. A national bestselling writer, Anna is the co-author or author of three books on food, farming, and sustainability including Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. 

Jennifer Clapp is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Clapp is currently a member of IPES-Food and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub.

Lisa Tostado is the Agrochemicals and Fossil Fuel Campaigner in the Center for International Environmental Law's (CIEL) Fossil Economy Program, based in Paris. Her work focuses primarily on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides as interdependent inputs to a destructive corporate-controlled food production model that is contributing to catastrophic biodiversity collapse, toxic pollution, the violation of human rights, and global heating.         

Joanna Larson is the owner of Prairie Gates Farm, North Dakota. The farm sells beef, vegetables and cut flowers. Joanna is a sustainability professional with a production agriculture and energy background.