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Conference Speaker Background Information
Dan Burden is a nationally recognized authority on bicycle and pedestrian facilities and programs, with nearly 30 years experience in the field. He specializes in transportation and land use planning and in the research and implementation of pedestrian, bicycle, traffic-calming, and street improvement projects. He has conducted walkability audits, community workshops and design charrettes (intense periods of planning activity involving all stakeholders) in more than 2,100 communities across the United States and Canada.
For 16 years, Mr. Burden served in the Florida Department of Transportation (DOT) as the state bicycle and pedestrian coordinator before becoming the founder and executive director of Walkable Communities, Inc., a non-profit organization helping North America develop walkable communities. In 2005, he joined Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc., a community planning and design firm, as senior urban designer, and he is now principal with the firm. Mr. Burden has a B.S. in Recreation and Management from University of Montana where he also did graduate work in Interpersonal Communications.
In 2001, Time magazine cited Mr. Burden as one of six international “civic innovators,” and in 2001 he was named the Distinguished Lecturer for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. He often points out, however, that a large part of what he does is to use his skills as a former National Geographic photographer to observe and to help local residents learn how to see what works and what doesn’t work in their own communities.
Dayle Hayes is an award-wining author, educator and nutrition coach. In her writing and presentations, she brings a delightful blend of practicality and pizzazz to everyday nutrition advice. Her creativity and common sense have made her a sought-after speaker and workshop leader for professional and consumer groups across the country.
As a parent, nutritionist and member of the School Nutrition Association, Dayle is dedicated to improving school nutrition environments. She collected dozens of school success storied for Making it Happen, a joint project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
From her home base in Big Sky country – Billings, Montana – Ms. Hayes writes a newspaper column and appears frequently on TV and over radio as a nutrition expert. She has been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Prevention, Fitness, Shape, Self, and numerous other publications. She has authored or co-authored Moving Away from Diets and Put Your Best Food Forward; developed a program for parents, “Fit Kids = Happy Kids”; created a game, “5 A Day BINGO”; and produced several videos, including Body Trust: Undieting Your Way to Health and Happiness.
In recognition of her leadership and professional dedication, she has received numerous honors and awards, including Montana Dietitian of the Year, an Excellence in Nutrition Education Award, and the American Dietetic Association Excellence in Consultation and Business Practice Award.
From 1992 to 1998, Ms. Hayes served on The American Dietetic Association’s Board of Directors where she chaired the Public Initiative Team and Technology Task Force. She is also past president of the Montana Dietetic Association. She graduated summa cum laude from University of Massachusetts-Boston and received an M.S. degree in community heath education from University of Massachusetts – Amherst.
Karin Kratina, PhD, MPE, RD, LD/N
Karin Kratina is a consultant, international speaker, and nutrition therapist at Nutrition Therapy Associates in Gainesville, Florida, specializing since 1983 in the treatment of individuals with eating problems. Dr. Kratina’s private practice is devoted to the treatment of women and men with eating, body image and weight concerns.
Dr. Kratina earned her B.S. in nutrition from St. Mary’s Dominican College in New Orleans. She received her M.A. is exercise physiology and a graduate certificate in gender studies from the University of Florida. She earned a Ph.D. in cognitive anthropology from the University of Florida where she examined the unconscious thinking processes of women regarding food and body and how that thinking impacts their behavior.
In 1990, she implemented and directed nutrition and exercise services at The Renfrew Center in Ft. Lauderdale, a health care facility devoted to the treatment of women with eating disorders. She worked with Renfrew for 12 years during which time she received extensive training in this field. She created the only practice group within the American Dietetic Association devoted to eating disorders and disordered eating. For three years she served as chair of the Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN) and was the editor of the disordered eating section of SCAN’s newsletter, PULSE, for 10 years.
Dr. Kratina has co-authored two books, both recently released in their second editions. She has authored a number of book chapters and articles and is frequently quoted in popular press in magazines such as Shape, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Runner’s World, and Lifetime. She has served on the clinical and advisory board of the National Eating Disorders Association and on the editorial board of the Health At Every Size journal. Currently, she is the clinical advisor for a Vermont retreat center that specializes in helping women with eating and weight issues, and she is the eating disorders nutrition specialist at the University of Florida’s student health center.
Susan Linn is associate director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has written extensively about the effects of media and commercial marketing on children. Her book, Consuming Kids: The hostile takeover of childhood has been praised in publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal and Mother Jones and has been published on four continents. Her articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Her commentaries can be heard on NPR's Marketplace.
Dr. Linn is a co-founder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a national coalition. In 2000 she was appointed to the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Advertising to Children. She has been featured on 60 Minutes, NOW with Bill Moyers, World News Tonight, Dateline, and in the acclaimed film, The Corporation. In 2006 she received the American Psychological Association's Presidential Citationfor her work on behalf of children.
An award-winning ventriloquist, Dr. Linn is internationally known for her innovative work using puppets in child psychotherapy. She pioneered this work at Children’s Hospital in Boston, where she used puppets to help children cope with their hospital experiences. Combining her skills as a writer and performer with her role as a child therapist, Dr. Linn has written and appeared in a number of video programs designed to help children cope with issues ranging from mental illness to death and loss. With Family Communications, Inc., the producers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Dr. Linn created Different and the Same: Helping Children Identify and Prevent Prejudice, video-based classroom materials designed for first to third graders. The series won the 1996 Media Award from the Association of Multicultural Educators and is being used in forty-seven states around the country.
Martha Lindgren Marino, MA, RD, CD
The focus of Martha Marino’s career has been to assist food and nutrition professionals in helping people eat more enjoyably and healthfully. A registered dietitian, she is passionate about the importance and pleasures of eating dinner together around the table, and she often speaks on this topic. She also embraces the value of eating locally grown foods.
During her 30 years in nutrition education and dietetics, Ms. Marino has “journeyed through” several food groups, initially as the director of Washington State’s 5 A Day program and later as the first dietitian with the Washington State Beef Commission, a position she created. In addition to nutrition and food communications consulting activities, she currently works for the Washington State Dairy Council, overseeing public relations and nutrition education activities with health professionals (including doctors, nurses, public health staff, dietitians) and culinary professionals (such as food writers, chefs, cookbook authors).
Ms. Marino has taught at the University of Washington and Bellevue Community College and has directed “Eat Better, Eat Together,” a social marketing campaign for Food Stamp families through Washington State University Cooperative Extension. She writes a monthly newsletter through Washington State University called “Take 5,” which provides nutrition educators and food communicators with information to use with their audiences. She is frequently interviewed by local and national media, appearing on television and featured on the radio and in newspapers.
Ms. Marino received her M.A. in nutritional sciences from the University of Washington. She graduated with honors from Oregon State University where she obtained her B.S. in foods and nutrition with minors in journalism and cultural anthropology. She has served in leadership positions within the Food and Culinary Professionals practice group of The American Dietetic Association, the Washington State Dietetic Association, and the Washington State Food and Nutrition Council. She is the first dietitian member of the Seattle chapter of Dames D’Escoffier, an invitation-only women’s culinary organization.
With her 19-year-old daughter, Ms. Marino has volunteered at the Redmond (Washington) Food Bank and with various feeding programs for low income and homeless individuals. Her 26-year-old son graduated from college in California and learned from his mom to enjoy Northwest foods and Washington wines.
Pam McCarthy’s experience as a creative consultant, focus group moderator, and curriculum developer spans 15 years with nearly 100 state, regional, national and international projects. These efforts range from development of effective client education materials for the WIC Program in Massachusetts to a safe drinking water project in Pakistan. Prior to becoming a consultant, Ms. McCarthy was involved with community program work with the University of Minnesota School of Public Heath.
Ms. McCarthy received her bachelor’s degree in home economics education from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and her master’s degree in home economics education with an emphasis in nutrition from Mississippi University for Women in Columbus. A registered dietitian, she did a six-month work experience at Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association, the Society for Nutrition Education, and the Qualitative Research Consultant Association. She has authored or co-authored numerous peer reviewed publications and abstracts.
An assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Jennifer Orlet Fisher’s research investigates the extent to which early eating environments influence young children's eating behaviors and health outcomes. The overall goal of this basic behavioral research is to identify modifiable aspects of intake regulation from birth through the preschool years.
She has been particularly interested in the role that parents play in shaping children's eating habits. In the first years of life, caregivers control the quality and quantity of food provided to the infant, as well as the frequency with which it is provided. She and her research colleagues have directed their current research toward understanding the effects of maternal feeding practices on the developing controls of food intake in infancy and toddlerhood. They are using observations of feeding to characterize infant hunger and fullness cues as well as maternal responsiveness to those cues. The main goal of that work is to understand the implications of responsive feeding interactions for energy intake and growth among infants and toddlers.
A separate line of research considers the quantity of food provided to young children. Large portions of energy dense foods are thought to characterize obesigenic dietary environments. However, well-controlled studies evaluating effects of food portion size on young children’s intake are lacking. She and her research colleagues are using experimental designs to characterize the effects of food portion size on young children’s eating. Environmental influences on young children’s self-served portion sizes are being investigated as part of that work.
Russell Pate is an exercise physiologist with long-standing research, practice, and policy interests in the areas of physical activity and physical fitness in children and in the health implications of physical activity. He joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina in 1974, where he is now a professor in the Department of Exercise Science and the Associate Vice President for Health Sciences.
He is one of 20 members of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, an advisory committee of volunteer citizens who advise the President of the United States through the Secretary of Health and Human Services about physical activity, fitness, and sports in America. The Council also serves as a catalyst to promote health, physical activity, fitness, and enjoyment for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities through participation in physical activity and sports.
Dr. Pate has served in many leadership roles and has been recognized nationally for his contributions. He coordinated the effort that lead to the development of the recommendation on Physical Activity and Public Health of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He served as ACSM president in 1993-94, and he is a past-president of the National Coalition on Promoting Physical Activity. An elected fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, he has served since 1988 as an appointed member of the South Carolina Governor's Council on Physical Fitness. He served on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in 2003-04. In 1996 he received the Citation Award from the ACSM, and in 1999 he received the Alliance Scholar Award of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).
A native of upstate New York, he has a B.S. degree exercise science from Springfield College in Massachusetts and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in exercise science from the University of Oregon. He also has a doctoral degree in physical therapy. He has published more than 150 scholarly papers and has authored or edited five books. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, CDC, the American Heart Association, and several private foundations and corporations. He heads a research team that currently is supported by more than two million dollars per year in federal and other funding.
A lifelong distance runner, Dr. Pate has competed in three U.S. Olympic Trials marathons and twice placed among the top ten finishers in the Boston Marathon. For more than 20 years he served as president of the Carolina Marathon Association, which hosted the U.S. Olympic Trials for the Women's Marathon in both 1996 and 2000.
Jane Stacey is program director for Cooking with Kids, Inc. She works with Lynn Walters to write curriculum and oversee the school-based food and nutrition education program that operates in the Santa Fe Public Schools. Jane holds a bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin in special education. Her passion for food and beauty led her to become a pastry chef and attend The New York Restaurant School. After graduating and working in New York for several years, she became pastry chef for Martha Stewart and catered many parties in Connecticut and New York. She also had the opportunity to develop menus and recipes and do food styling for a number of Martha Stewart cookbooks. She partnered with a friend to form a catering business in Greenwich, Connecticut, and taught professional pastry classes at The New York Restaurant School.
After moving to New Mexico she worked as a caterer, pastry chef, and kitchen manager, and authored several cookbooks. In 1996, her interest in education and food led her to Lynn Walters, whose program was just beginning. Hands-on work with real food and writing and refining the Cooking with Kids curriculum continues to be her passion.Lynn Walters is founder and executive director of Cooking with Kids, Inc., a non-profit organization that works to improve children’s nutrition in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Cooking with Kids engages elementary school children in hands-on experience with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultures. Now in its 12th year, Cooking with Kids serves over 4,250 kindergarten through 6th grade students in twelve Santa Fe Public Schools. Lynn holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Cooper Union, where she studied photography, and a master’s degree in health education from the University of New Mexico.
A restaurateur in Santa Fe for seventeen years, Lynn and her staff prepared and served innovative international meals in a family friendly atmosphere. To highlight her restaurant work, she was invited to publish a cookbook, Cooking at the Natural Café in Santa Fe. A dedicated gardener with an appreciation for the delicious flavors of food in season, Lynn collaborated with the New Mexico Department of Agriculture and the Santa Fe Public Schools to initiate and support Farm to School legislation that promotes use of locally grown foods in school meals. Lynn focuses on using real food to provide positive food exploration experiences for children.
ABC News has dubbed Brian Wansink “The Food Psychologist” for good reason: His research focuses on how ads, packaging, and personality traits influence the frequency and volume of foods eaten. His work on consumption volume has won national and international awards for its relevance to consumers, and his research has been featured on programs such as 20/20, BBC News, and The Learning Channel; through many news networks; and on the front pages of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Dr. Wansink has a Ph.D. in marketing from Stanford University and is the John Dyson Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. Prior to joining the Cornell faculty in 2005, he held marketing professor positions at the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College (1990-1994), the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (1994-1995), and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (1995-1997). From 1997-2005, he was the Julian Simon Faculty Scholar and Professor of Marketing, Nutritional Sciences and Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 1997 Dr. Wansink established the Food and Brand Lab, a series of test kitchens, restaurants, and cooperating grocery stores that are used to understand how consumers “choose and use” foods. With the help of other researchers and students from psychology, history, food science, cultural anthropology, and agricultural and consumer economics, this unique lab examines the psychology behind what people eat and how often they eat it. The lab’s mission is to help consumers eat more nutritiously and control how much they eat. Other emphases have included increasing consumers’ acceptance of soy foods and their consumption of fruits and vegetables. Founded at University of Illinois, the Food and Brand Lab moved to Cornell with Dr. Wansink in 2005. In his current position, he also directs the content of www.foodpsychology.cornell.edu, a user-friendly website that summarizes many of the findings of the Food and Brand Lab research projects.
In 1999 Dr. Wansink founded the Wansink Consumer Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by book royalties and speaking honoraria. The foundation supports high school science projects dealing with consumer welfare and provides textbook-related scholarships to selected college-bound students who wish to promote consumer welfare through their studies. It also supports Consumer Camp, held every spring in Ithaca, New York.
Dr. Wansink has joined USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion as its executive director until January 2009 when he will return to Cornell.
On a personal level, Dr. Wansink was born in Sioux City, Iowa, and lives with his wife Jennifer and daughter Audrey. He plays tenor saxophone in a jazz quartet (“Shaken Not Stirred”) and in an eight-piece rhythm and blues dance band (“The Usual Suspects”).