12:45pm to 1:00pm
at the Veggie Runway

Kelly Serbonich has an A.A.S. in Culinary Arts, a B.S. in Culinary Nutrition and a M.S. in Holistic Nutrition. She was the Executive Chef of the Hippocrates Health Institute and co-authored their raw food preparation manual,* Healthful Cuisine*. Kelly is also the contributor for 5 Permacharts on the raw food lifestyle and the website www.eatingfoodraw.com. She currently cooks for the Moosewood Restaurant and is mother to a 5 1/2 year old son, Noah.

Back to Speakers Page

4:30pm – 5:30pm
Presentation Room B

Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M. *is the author of the acclaimed *Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism*. Dr. Joy is a Harvard-educated psychologist, personal/relationship coach, professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and celebrated speaker. Dr. Joy has written a number of articles on psychology, animal protection, and social justice, which have been published in a variety of journals and magazines. Dr. Joy is the leading researcher on * carnism*, the psychology of eating meat, and she has been interviewed for numerous magazines, books, and radio on her work, including the BBC, NPR, PBS, and ABC Australia. She has presented her work at national and international academic and grassroots conferences. Dr. Joy is also the author of Strategic Action for Animals.

Back to Speakers Page

10:15am – 11:00am
at the Veggie Runway

Please join Amie Hamlin, Executive Director of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food, center stage. She will be welcoming attendees to our expo and provide enlightening information about healthy foods in our schools.

Amie Hamlin has been the Executive Director of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food since its founding in 2004. Previously she was the director of a non-profit environmental organization on Long Island and director of a tobacco-control program in Binghamton, NY. In her current position, she works to promote healthy food in schools across New York State. Amie is also the founder of Club Veg: Vegetarian Education Group based in Binghamton and Ithaca, NY. Amie founded Club Veg in 1995.

Back to Speakers Page

Presentation Room A
3:00pm – 4:00pm

After college, marriage, and two years in the Peace Corps in Ghana, West Africa, David went to graduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in physics earning a Ph.D. Since 1974, when gas was hard to come by, David has researched, lived and taught solar energy–the only sustainable energy resource for life on this planet. Since 1982 he and his family have lived in a solar house that gets 85% of its energy from the sun, and they generate 30% more electricity than they use which they sell back to the grid. Besides vegetable gardening, they grow some berries and fruit and nut trees. David’s work with old and new buildings has demonstrated how homeowners can become carbon-neutral and energy-positive, living better with sunshine. David teaches “Solar Devices and Energy” at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and consults on solar energy buildings, boats, and projects.

Back to Speakers Page

2:30pm – 3:30pm
Presentation Room B

Tim VanOrden, creator of the Running Raw Project, is a raw vegan athlete with an international reputation for excelling in some of the world’s most grueling sports. Tim is a 3 time U.S. Trail Running Champion, the 2010 U.S.A Masters Mountain Runner of the Year and he finished 4th (top US finisher) in the 2011 stair climbing world championships up the Empire State Building. He has been featured in GQ, The Wall Street Journal, VegNews, The London Guardian and the Food Network show “My Life in Food”. Over the past 5 years, Tim has transformed himself from a sedentary couch potato suffering from severe depression and chronic fatigue syndrome into one of the world’s fittest men over forty. He did this by adopting a simple, plant-based diet. Tim is a sought after coach and presenter in the fields of diet, health, and athletic performance. He has lectured extensively in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Back to Speakers Page

Presentation Room A
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Q & A 2:30pm – 3:00pm

Ann Crile Esselstyn graduated from Smith College and received a Masters in Education from Wheelock College. She taught English and some history for 27 years. Through the years she juggled 4 chlldren, teaching, and figuring out plant-based, oil free ways to cook. She stopped teaching in 2000 and focused on creating the recipes to prevent and reverse heart disease.

Back to Speakers Page

Presentation Room A
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Q & A 2:30pm – 3:00pm

A retired Cleveland Clinic surgeon, Dr. Essselstyn conducted a twenty year study of coronary artery disease using diet and lifestyle modification. In 1991 he organized the first national conference on the elimination of coronary artery disease. He also chaired a follow up conference, the Summit on Cholesterol and Coronary Disease. In April 2005 he became the first recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for compassion in medicine. His newly released book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease relates to results of his 20 year study on curing heart disease with diet.

Back to Speakers Page

Presenation Room A
4:00pm – 5:00pm

A character in the documentary Peaceable Kingdom, The Journey Home, spent over half of his life in agriculture. Growing up on a beef farm in Michigan and later working in the dairy industry Harold has been involved in the behind the scenes operations of food production that uses animals. Today Harold is an activist advocating for sustainable food production, social and environmental justice, animal rights and peace through non-violence. He is the founder of Farm Kind and currently tours the US. http://www.farmkind.org

Back to Speakers Page

Presentation 1:
Room B, 11:00am – Noon

Presentation 2:
Food Demo and Q & A
Room B, 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Maribeth Abrams, MS is a Certified Nutritional Consultant, Certified Lifestyle Educator, Spokesperson for the North American Vegetarian Society, and author of The Four Ingredient Vegan and Tofu 1-2-3. Known for her enthusiastic demeanor, she has appeared on radio and television and hosts a cooking DVD with former Olympic athlete Carl Lewis.
Maribeth provides individual and corporate-level nutrition counseling through her company Health Harmony and holds degrees from Emory University and Georgia State University. Most people who follow the “healthy version of the Standard American Diet” (e.g. low-fat dairy and grilled chicken instead of beef) struggle with excess weight, high cholesterol, and even heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer. Think diet doesn’t make a difference when it comes to health? Open yourself up to the facts and discover how and why the conventional wisdom that we’ve been “fed” since childhood just doesn’t work, and how a plant-based diet not only helps to prevent and reverse disease but also makes us feel better than we ever knew possible.

Cookin’ Easy: New Everyday Favorites With Just Four Ingredients

Many delicious, vegan foods can be prepared with only four ingredients. Think that’s not possible? Tasting is believing. Four favorites will be made before your eyes, each in just a few minutes flat. Plus, you’ll get an overview of many others to try at home. Samples will be provided.

Back to Speakers Page

3:30pm- 4:30pm
Presentation Room B

Michael Budkie, A.H.T., is the co-founder & Executive Director of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN). After witnessing the
atrocities of animal experimentation during his education, he successfully ended a head injury experiment on cats at the Univ. of Cincinnati. This campaign launched his career leading to positions with several national organizations. In the mid-1990s, Michael cofounded SAEN, which has been successful in terminating research projects & forcing the USDA to take legal action against laboratories. During his 20+ years of activism, he has been published & traveled extensively, appearing on TV & radio programs to expose the truth about animal experimentation.

Back to Speakers Page

Presentation Room A
5:00pm – 6:00pm

International speaker and certified holistic health counselor, Victoria serves as a special guest at events and conferences. She holds a degree in comparative religions and did graduate work on the spirituality of daily life in India and Tibet. She (www.victoriamoran.com) is the author of ten groundbreaking books addressing veganism and spirituality. Has appeared as a guest on The Oprah Show, Today Show, Good Morning America Now, Fox Strategy Room, and NPR’s All Things Considered. A vegan of twenty-seven years, Victoria wrote the 1985 Compassion the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism – her first book and the first full-length book on vegan living ever published. Nine additional books have followed, including best-selling Creating a Charmed Life (in 29 languages and quoted on boxes of Celestial Seasonings teas), and the essential vegan weight loss guide, The Love-Powered Diet: Eating for Freedom, Health, & Joy. Other titles include Lit from Within, Shelter for the Spirit, Fat, Broke & Lonely No More, and Younger by the Day. Coming in 2012: The Vegan Life: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully & Live Compassionately in the Real World. Though many may infer a relationship between veganism and weight loss, Victoria Moran makes the important connection between compassion for animals, a healthy spirit, and a healthy body. Victoria has written for Yoga Journal, Mothering, Natural Health, Woman’s Day, Body & Soul, and Vegetarian Times. Hosts the “Veg and the City” show on HealthyLife.net Radio, and writes the “Veg and the City” blog for the Huffington Post.

Back to Speakers Page

Presentation Room A
11:00am – Noon

Jonathan Balcombe was born in England and raised in New Zealand and Canada. He studied biology at Canada’s York University and Carleton University before earning a PhD in ethology (animal behavior) from the University of Tennessee. He has written over 40
scientific papers and book chapters, and many lay articles on animal behavior and animal protection. A popular speaker, Jonathan has given invited presentations on six continents. He is the author of Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (Palgrave, 2010),
Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good (Macmillan, 2006), and The Exultant Ark: A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure (University of California Press, forthcoming March 2011). His blog The Inner Lives of Animals has appeared on Psychology
Today, Best Thinking, Secretary of Innovation and on his own website. Balcombe is the Animal Studies Department Chair for Humane Society University and he works as a consultant near Washington, DC. In his spare time he enjoys nature-watching, biking, piano, vegan cooking and trying to understand his two cats.

Back to Speakers Page

Room B 2:00pm

Roberta Schiff will be working with Milton Mills during his presentation….

Roberta Schiff has served as President of the Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society in Rhinebeck NY. She has an M.S. degree in Community Health Education and does presentations on vegan nutrition at conferences and in community settings. She is co-author, with Roberta Kalechofsky of “The Vegetarian Shabbat Cookbook” published in 2010. She also performs stand-up comedy.

10:30am Room A (Part I)
12:30pm Room A (Part II)

Room B 11:00am