Workshops


 * Morning Workshops **

__ “The Vancouver Experience: Making Municipal Food Policy Work” __ Website: http://www.synapse-strategies.com
 * Speaker: ** James O’Neill, Social Planner, City of Vancouver
 * Moderator: ** David Waldron, Owner, Synapse-Strategies
 * Respondent: ** Zsuzsi Fodor, MA Student, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC
 * Scribes: **
 * Alecsandra Dragne
 * Jia Wen (Carol) Xu
 * Facilitators: **
 * Eliana Chia
 * Brent Trainor
 * Theresa Price

__ “First World Hunger: Charitable Food Banks or the Right to Food?” __
 * Speaker: ** Dr. Graham Riches, UBC Emeritus Professor
 * Moderator:** Karin Johnson, Chair, Oxfam Regional Steering Committee for the BC/Yukon region
 * Respondent:** Johanna Li, Downtown Eastside Kitchen Tables Project Manager
 * Scribes**:
 * Agnes Tseng
 * Barry Chan
 * Facilitators: **
 * Elietha Bocskei
 * Jonathan Mong
 * Kelly Melnyk
 * Dylan Chan
 * Eva Chan

__“Reconnecting Youth with Nature”__ Website: [] Website: []
 * Speaker:** Matthew Kemshaw, Coordinator of Community Nursery & Co-Coordinator of Growing Kids, Environmental Youth Alliance
 * Moderator:** Rosalind Sadowski, President, Oxfam UBC
 * Respondent:** Michele A. Sam, Senior Aboriginal Researcher and Liaison at Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), UBC
 * Scribe: **
 * Jiamei (Alice) Hao
 * Annie Chan
 * Facilitators: **
 * Elaiza Datar
 * Ashley Aune
 * Molly Newman
 * Dan Saunier
 * Fanni Kovacs

__“Aboriginal Food Security in Urban Environments: Telling our Stories of Cultural Traditional Foods”__
 * Speaker:**
 * Bethany Elliot, Provincial Health Services Authority
 * Contessa Brown, Heiltsuk Nation
 * Herb Varley, Nuu-chah-nulth Nation
 * Moderator:** Isabel Budke, Instructor, Centre for Sustainability, UBC
 * Respondent:** Dawn Morrison, Chair, Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty
 * Scribes:**
 * Paola Hinojosa
 * Yanina Tarabrina
 * Facilitators:**
 * Eric Alberti
 * Brendan Chan
 * Channel Lee
 * Genoa Point
 * Jolene Andrew
 * Stephanie Lim, Coordinator, Renfrew/Collingwood Food Security Institute

** Afternoon Workshops **

__ “Global Food Systems and Health Equity in Canada and Ecuador” __ __“Urban Agriculture as a Response to Poverty”__ Website: [] []
 * Speaker:** Dr. Jerry Spiegel, Professor, Liu Institute for Global Issues & School for Population and Public Health, UBC
 * Moderator:** Shams Alibhai, Executive Director, British Columbia Council for International Cooperation
 * Respondent:** Brent Mansfield, Co-Chair, Vancouver Food Policy Council
 * Scribes:**
 * Alecsandra Dragne
 * Xue Rong Liu
 * Facilitators:**
 * Nisha Malhotra, Instructor, Department of Economics, UBC
 * Jonathan Mong
 * Dan Saunier
 * Speaker:** Tiffany Tong, Former Urban Agriculture Project Officer, Sustainable Cities International
 * Moderator:** Terry Rogocki, Instructor, Centre for Intercultural Communication, UBC
 * Respondent:** Tricia Sedgwick, Founder of “The World in a Garden” and “Seeds of Plenty”
 * Scribes:**
 * Katherine Song
 * Jenny Kao
 * Facilitators:**
 * Fanny Zhang
 * Brent Trainor
 * Megan Chun
 * Emily Holzman

**__“__**__Fair Trade: Linking Global Poverty and Global Food Security”__ Website: http://www.fairtradevancouver.ca/
 * Speaker:**
 * Sean McHugh, Executive Director, Fair Trade Vancouver
 * Sasha Caldera, Policy & Development, Fair Trade Vancouver
 * Moderator:** Laura Rickard, Oxfam Vancouver
 * Respondent:** Milagros Telles Rios, National Association of Small Farmers, Cuba
 * Scribes:**
 * Agnes Tseng
 * Keertana Reddy
 * Facilitators:**
 * Kelly Melnyk
 * Caroline Duncan
 * Molly Newman
 * Alex Chan

“__Global Philanthropy versus Food Sovereignty”__ Website: []
 * Speaker:**
 * Dr. Martha McMahon, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria
 * Dr. Margo Matwychuk, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria
 * Moderator:** Randy Chatterjee, Village Vancouver
 * Respondent:** Ben Hoogendorn, CEO, Food for the Hungry Canada
 * Scribe:**
 * Michael Barrett
 * Facilitators:**
 * Fatima Johra
 * George Ting
 * Emma Djilali
 * Jade Zhao
 * Karen Neilson
 * Anna Moyu