""Fixing Food": What Ails Us & The Economy"
August 24-28, 2009
Part 1: From Monday to Noon Wednesday
Monday's Program, August 24
| 1:00 | Salmon River Crossing & Arrival at Westwind. |
| 1:30 | Group Orientation |
| 2:00-3:00 | Settle In-Locate Lodging & Store Gear |
| 3:30-5:00 |
Opening Session "Fixing Food: What Ails Us & The Economy" Keynote Speaker: Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, PolicyLink |
| 5:00-6:30 | Speakers Reception |
| 6:30-7:30 | Dinner Provided by Chef Fernando Divina, Terrace Kitchen Restaurant |
| 7:45-9:30 | Screening of the Documentary Food Fight & Discussion with Christopher Taylor, Producer & Director |
Tuesday's Program, August 25
| 7:30-8:45 | Breakfast Provided by Chef James Bradley of Po Shine’s Café de la Soul |
| 9:00-10:00 | "Fixing Food" - Stopping An Epidemic Speakers: Dr. Mel Kohn, State Public Health Officer, Oregon Department of Human Services Latricia Tillman, Administrator, Multicultural Health & Services, Oregon Department of Human Services Nancy Becker, Dietitian & Nutrition Consultant, Community Health Partnership: Oregons's Public Health Institute |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | "Fixing Food" - Not Enough Food, Not the Right Food Speakers: Sharon Thornberry, Oregon Food Bank Patti Whitney-Wise, Oregon Hunger Task Force Jaime Arredondo, Farmworker Housing Development Corporation Maria Jesus Torres, Guest Cook |
| 12:15-1:15 |
Lunch Program |
| 1:30-3:00 | "Fixing Food" - Fixing U.S. Agricultural Policy Speakers: Andy Fisher, Executive Director, Community Food Security Coalition Douglas Southgate, Professor of Economics & Agriculture, Ohio State University Christopher Taylor, Producer & Director, Food Fight Beth Emshoff, OSU Extension Service |
| 3:00-4:00 | Break |
| 3:00-4:00 | "What's Cooking?" Lessons with Guest Chefs |
| 4:00-5:30 | "Fixing Food" - Starting a Movement/Fueling a Future Speakers: Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder & Executive Director, PolicyLink Christopher Taylor, Producer & Director, Food Fight Larry Wallack, Dean, College of Urban & Public Affairs, PSU Andy Fisher, Executive Director, Community Food Security Coalition |
| 5:30-6:30 | Break |
| 6:30-7:30 | Dinner Program "Fixing Food" - Defining Health vs Healthcare Reform Keynote Speaker: Governor John Kitzhaber, M.D. (Invited) or Elizabeth Baxter, Executive Director, Archimedes Movement Dinner Provided by Chef James Bradley of Po Shine’s Café de la Soul |
| 7:45-9:30 | Screening of the Documentary Food Fight & Discussion with Christopher Taylor, Producer & Director |
| 7:45-9:00 | Music-Bring Your Own Instrument. Singers Needed! |
Wednesday's Program, August 26
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast Provided by Maria Jesus Torres |
| 8:45-9:45 |
"Fixing Food" - Growing Food: Working Conditions & Pay |
| 10:00-11:00 | "Fixing Food" - Fresh, Local, Sustainable, Affordable Speakers: Peter Platt, Owner, Andina Restaurant Beth Emshoff, OSU Extension Service Terry Brandt, Executive Director, Albina Opportunities Corporation Andrew Black, Organic Farm Inspector, Oregon Tilth |
| 11:00-12:00 | "Fixing Food" - The Sacredness of Food: Feeding Our Bodies, Feeding Our Souls Speakers: David Leslie, Executive Director, Ecumenical Ministries Charles Hudson, Public Affairs Manager, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission |
Part 2: From 12:15 Wednesday to 2:30PM Friday
Peer Conference Begins
Wednesday, August 26, 12:15 PM to Friday, August 28, 2:30 PM
From Wednesday afternoon through the end of the conference Friday at 2:30, facilitation experts Adrian Segar and Anne Lezak, will lead participants in a two day Peer Conference. As Segar writes in his forthcoming book, Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love, this approach "reframes the conference as an active event, where the expectation is that people can and will share their experience and expertise" - in response to the expressed interests and needs of all conference attendees. Peer conferences provide maximum opportunities and support for people to share, learn, and build community in an organic, meaningful way that works for each participant. http://www.segar.com/
| 12:15-1:15 | Lunch Provided by Maria Jesus Torres |
| 1:30-3:45 | Round Table |
| 4:00-5:30 | "What's Cooking" Cooking Lessons with Guest Chefs - how to prepare hors d'oeuvres Free time if you want Showing of Documentary Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Killing Us? |
| 5:45-6:15 | Focus group sign ups: Sample, Socialize, and Sign up |
| 6:30-7:30 | Dinner Provided by Joyce McGee of Pots, Pans and Kettles Cooking School. |
| 7:45-9:00 | Music, Campfires, & Dance |
| 7:45-9:00 | Screening of Documentary King Corn by Curt Ellis & Ian Chaney |
Thursday, August 27
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast Provided by Chef Zachary Williams, A Muse Bouche, LLC |
| 8:45-9:45 | Peer Conference Session 1 Adrian Segar and Anne Lezak |
| 9:55-10:55 | Peer Conference Session 2 Adrian Segar and Anne Lezak |
| 11:05-12:05 | Peer Conference Session 3 Adrian Segar and Anne Lezak |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch Provided by John Taboada, Chef/Owner Navarre. |
| 1:45-2:45 | Peer Conference Session 4 Adrian Segar and Anne Lezak |
| 2:55-3:55 | Peer Conference Session 5 Adrian Segar and Anne Lezak |
| 4:05-5:05 | Peer Conference Session 6 Adrian Segar and Anne Lezak |
| 5:10-6:30 | Free time |
| 5:10-6:10 | "What's Cooking?" Lessons with Guest Chefs |
| 6:30-7:30 | Dinner Provided by Chef John Taboada, Owner Navarre. |
| 7:45-9:00 | "Fixing Food: The Skit" |
Friday, August 28
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast Provided by Venita Divine, Zachary Williams and Westwind staff. |
| 9:00-10:00 | Peer Conference Session 7 Adrian Segar and Anne Lezak |
| 10:15-11:30 | Personal Introspective |
| 11:45-12:45 | Lunch Provided by Venita Divine, Zachary Williams and Westwind staff. |
| 1:00-2:45 | Group Spective |
| 3:00-4:30 | Pack & Store Gear at Lodge |
| 5:00 | Crossing to Knight Landing Boatd Launch & Buses Return Home |
About Adrian Segar
Adrian Segar has organized and facilitated conferences for over 20 years. Realizing that he loves to connect with people, and to create spaces for them to connect with each other, he created the first peer conference in 1992, and has been refining the peer conference process ever since. His book Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love will be published in the fall of 2009.
Adrian was an independent information technology consultant for 23 years, taught college computer science for 10 years, and co-owned and managed a solar manufacturing company before that. He has an ancient Ph.D. in experimental high-energy particle physics, lives in Marlboro, Vermont, and loves to sing and dance. http://www.segar.com/
About Anne Lezak
Anne Lezak is a long-time mental health writer, book editor, grant writer, and group facilitator. She is co-developer of Community Leadership Institutes, which provide dynamic, interactive training in leading systems change. Anne also leads organizational retreats, board trainings, and grant-writing workshops. She is looking forward to teaching grant-writing to a group of providers and parent advocates in the Navajo Nation in September. She is currently finishing up her latest book editing gig, working with Adrian Segar on his book on the peer conferencing process.
Anne and her husband Harry Chen moved to small-town Vermont 22 years ago, where they raised their three children and became engaged in school and community activities. Anne served as Harry's campaign manager when he took on a 4-term incumbent Representative to the Vermont House and emerged as the first Asian-American legislator in Vermont history. She has since become immersed in local and state Democratic politics, and is Chair, Rutland County Democratic Committee.
Anne grew up in Portland, Oregon, daughter of Sid and Muriel - she retains a certain chauvinistic pride in her beloved home state, even from 3,000 miles away.