Amie is the executive director of the NY Coalition for Healthy School Lunches and has given us a very inspiring interview of her success in NY State for providing healthy meals in-school. The New York Coalition for Healthy School Food (NYCHSF) is a statewide nonprofit that works to improve the health and well-being of New York's students by advocating for healthy plant-based foods, including local and organic where possible, farm to school programs, the elimination of unhealthy competitive foods in all areas of the school (not just the cafeteria), comprehensive nutrition policy, and education to create food- and health-literate students. We also have great interviews with the executive Chef in charge of 864,000 meals a day and some of his young up and coming "healthy" chefs in training.

International bestselling author and independent filmmaker Jeffrey M. Smith is the leading spokesperson on the health dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).  His meticulously researched books and films document how the world’s most powerful Ag biotech companies bluff and mislead safety officials and critics to put the health of society at risk.

His first book Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You’re Eating, became the world’s best-selling and # 1 rated book on GMOs. More

Shayla Wright has spent a lifetime studying and teaching inquiry, creativity, communication, and the transformation of consciousness. She has studied intensively with Joshu Sazaki Roshi, Osho, and Adya Shanti. She was a senior teacher and coach in her community in the Himalayas, the International Meditation Institute, where she lived for 23 years. She has a doctorate in non-dual philosophy, a teaching degree in Soma Yoga, and is a certified coach. Her current focus is on supporting the full embodiment of unconditioned awareness, in the midst of human life. She offers her own coaching, courses and workshops in Canada, and is now engaged as a non-dual coach with Peter Fenner and the Radiant Mind course. To read some of her writings, click here to visit Shayla’s blog.

Melissa is an explorer, dedicated to freeing herself from the prison of the mind,  to open to new frontiers of wonderment.........Her palette is her family, the arts, gardens, health, and wealth of spirit/earth/nature.....

David Livingston MA, M.F.T. Is the Executive Director for the Center for Psychotherapy and Wellness in Beverly Hills, California. He is trained in analytic psychotherapy and has been in private practice for over 12 years.  David also heads the aftercare program for the Waissman Method Drug Detoxification.  He practices vipassana meditation and was an All American tennis player at UCLA. 

David comes to this project through his friendship with Craig King and their mutual belief that the quality of our relationship with food, our environment, and each other, creates a healthy and meaningful life.

Chef Chris Jackson (aka “Ted”) is the Executive Chef and Owner of Ted & Honey, an organic café, caterer, and gourmet market in trendy Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.  Chef Chris relocated from Pittsburgh, where he was Executive Chef of Six Penn Kitchen and named Best Chef by the Pittsburgh City Paper in 2007, with a track record of procuring fresh, local, sustainable ingredients to make the very best food possible with the least negative impact on the earth. He’s also broken into television since landing in New York, most recently participating in the popular Food Network show “Chopped.” More

It was Pangea founder and CEO Joshua Onysko’s personal devotion and commitment to inspiring social sustainability that sparked the inception of Pangea Organics eight years ago.  He devised the selling of the highest quality organic, personal care products as a means to an even greater end.  After seven years of traveling to the likes of India, Nepal, and Tibet, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Thailand, Onysko had an epiphany:  He realized that corporations were inheriting the earth and that by leading by example there was potential to influence others to reconsider their ways.  He shared with his friend Tom that he dreamed of starting an Institute to aid existing corporations in learning to become more socially responsible and environmentally sound.. More

Michelle Moe Forsyte is a Continuing Lecturer in UCLA Writing Programs and has been teaching analytic writing for 19 years. While her courses have focused on a variety of social justice issues, she is currently teaching "Food Fight: The Culture and Politics of Eating." She received her doctorate in Cultural and Literary Theory from Carnegie Mellon University.

Michael jones was born in the Windy City and spent the greater part of his life in the Los Angeles area.  At the age of 18 he joined the US Navy as particular delinquencies got the better of him.  After four and a half years of service he honorably discharged--miraculously--subsequently bouncing around greater Los Angeles.  A period of homelessness ensued.  Michael eventually found his way off the streets and not long after pursued a degree in sociology.  He graduated with highest honors from the University of California Santa Cruz.  If nothing else Michael's life has beeen one of sheer resilience.  After other periods of tribulation and hardship he completed a MFA in writing and poetics at Naropa University.  Michael is an accomplished poet and dj now residing in Boulder, Colorado.

Inspired by the traditional Lebanese cooking of her grandmother Maria Cooper has proved to be a force to reckoned with in the culinary world.  Maria was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pennsylvania Culinary Institute’s Le Cordon Bleu program. Maria has worked as a private chef as well as being instrumental in the creation of three restaurants.  She has also written articles for magazines such as Natural Solution's along with numerous others.  Most recently she was asked to help open Harvest restaurant in Madrid, Spain. 

Arnel Lindgren, President and Chairman of the Board, has spear-headed several projects focused on internal bio-environment and preventive medicine.  As a clinical nutritionist for over 15 years, Arnel is driven to establish credibility for predictive, health oriented medical models, and sees Bio-Terrain as a path for national health care cost reduction.

Arnel has served as a consultant for; The Viera Group, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Rosewood Hotel & Resorts, and MGM.  He serves as advisor and formulator to numerous holistic practitioners, vitamin and food companies including: Essential Living Foods, MacroLife Natural’s, Luscious Living Edibles, and UAS Laboratories.  More