Anne is a senior policy advisor to the director of the CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) where she advises NCCDPHP leadership on cross-cutting policy issues related to chronic diseases, including food and nutrition policy and community transformation. Prior to joining NCCDPHP, Dr. Haddix served as the Chief Policy Officer for CDC. There she provided leadership and perspective on policy development, review, and analysis. Anne joined CDC/ATSDR in 1992 as the first PhD-trained economist at CDC where she successfully cultivated economic analysis as a public health discipline, eventually training more than 2,000 CDC staff and establishing the Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship program. Anne left CDC in 1998 to become an associate professor in the Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. She returned to CDC in 2004. She received her PhD in agricultural economics in 1993 from the University of Georgia. She graduated from California State University Fresno in 1985 with an MS in agricultural economics. She received her BA in biology from California State University Fresno in 1979. Anne grew up on a small family farm in the Central Valley of California.

Mr. Zykofsky has been director of land use and transportation programs at the Local Government Commission and has managed its Center for Livable Communities since 1995. Mr. Zykofsky has experience in land-use, air quality and transportation planning gained while working at a city development agency, an air quality management district and a council of governments. He is co-author of documents on transit-oriented development and street design and has edited numerous documents on sustainable development and community design. During the past four years, Mr. Zykofsky has directed a first-of-its-kind project — in collaboration with the California Department of Health Services — to promote physical activity by improving the design of the pedestrian environment. He currently directs the LGC’s Active Living Leadership project, part of a national initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mr. Zykofsky is a frequent presenter at local, regional and national conferences and serves on the Steering Committee of the Rail-Volution conference, an annual national conference on building livable communities with transit. Mr. Zykofsky has experience facilitating public workshops and planning processes, and is certified to conduct trainings on the following topics: walkable communities (for Caltrans and the California Department of Health Services), Safe Routes to School (for the Federal Highway Administration), and Pedestrian Safety (for the Federal Highway Administration). He also was one of four instructors that developed and administered 3-day classes on Context Sensitive Solutions to several hundred planners and engineers in Caltrans district offices. For the past few years Mr. Zykofsky has given a one-day class on infill development through the U.C. Davis Extension Program. Mr. Zykofsky obtained the degrees of Bachelor of Architecture, summa cum laude, and Master of Urban Planning (Urban Design) from the City College of New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, an Associate Member of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Mr. Zykofsky was born and raised in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.

Michael Dimock has been President of Roots of Change since 2006. ROC develops and provides resources to a network of leaders and institutions in California collaborating in pursuit of a food system that is ecological, affordable, fair to workers and profitable. It has invested nearly $6.3 million directly and attracted nearly $7 million in match for its programs and projects since 2007. For the next three years ROC will act as the backbone organization supporting the State’s first Food Policy Council and the nation’s first statewide council formed from the grassroots up. The California Food Policy Council will be a clear and united voice for providing the Governor, the Legislature and California’s Congressional delegation with education and model policy options meant to unleash the creativity of communities seeking health farms and food. Michael has focused on agriculture and food since 1989. He was a marketing executive in Europe for agribusiness, farmed organically for three years in Sonoma County, and in 1992 founded Ag Innovations Network, where he began his work on community consensus building and strategic planning to create healthier food and agriculture. He founded the Russian River Chapter of Slow Food in 1997. From 2002 to 2007, he was Chairman of Slow Food USA and a member of Slow Food International’s board of directors. Author, Katrina Fried, and Photographer, Paul Mobley, feature Michael in their latest book, Everyday Heroes: 50 Americans Changing The World, to be published in October 2012. Michael’s love for food systems grew from experience on an 11,000-acre cattle ranch in Santa Clara County in the late 1960s and a development project with Himalayan subsistence farmers in Nepal in the late 70s. He has worked in television and film production and was a political advanceman for California Governor Jerry Brown. Michael received a BA in History with Honors at UCLA in 1983 and a Masters in International Affairs at Columbia University in 1988. Title of his talk: The Role of a Regional Food System in the Obesity Crisis

Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, FAAP, is Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health at UCLA. Dr. Jackson is a pediatrician who analyzes and addresses the impact of the environment on health, particularly children’s health. He has a strong focus on sustainability and health including climate change issues. Over the past decade much of his work has focused on how the 'built environment', including architecture and urban planning, affects health. Dr. Jackson was the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control National Center for Environmental Health. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects and is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. Dr. Jackson has co-authored three books on Built Environment and Health and recently hosted a related U.S. Public Television series (www.DesigningHealthyCommunities.org).