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The Kickapoo Country Fair is Proud to Welcome:
Keynote Speaker: FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ
Sunday July 27th, 2008 2:00pm
Workshop, Saturday July 26th: 2:00pm
The Power of Frame & the Frame of Power: With daughter Anna Lappé
Frances Moore Lappé is the author of sixteen books, beginning with the 1971 three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, which awakened a whole generation to the human-made causes of hunger and the significance of our everyday choices. Her newest book, Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, & Courage in a World Gone Mad, arrived in bookstores in September, 2007.
Lappé's life and work have been featured in O Magazine, Glamour, People Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Utne Reader, Vegetarian Times, Orion Magazine, and many other publications. Lappé's articles have appeared in publications as diverse as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Readers' Digest, Christian Century, Chemistry, Le Monde Diplomatique, National Civic Review, Tikkun, and Harpers.
Her television and radio appearances have included a PBS special with Bill Moyers, the Today Show, CBS Radio, and National Public Radio. Lappé's work has been featured in several television documentaries, including Democratic Allsorts, an hour-long special devoted to her life that aired in Australia and Great Britain. She lectures widely to university audiences, community groups, and professional conferences. Lappé has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions, including the University of Michigan, Kenyon College, Allegheny College, and Lewis and Clark College. In 2000-2001 Lappé was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and during October, 2007, she was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.
"Some of the 20th century's most vibrant activist thinkers have been American women—Margaret Mead, Jeanette Rankin, Barbara Ward, Dorothy Day—who took it upon themselves to pump life into basic truths. Frances Moore Lappé is among them."
—Washington Post
"Frances Moore Lappé energized our campus during her two visits at Allegheny College. Students and faculty alike were inspired by her insights and models for civic engagement in a democracy. It is a message that students need and want to hear and provides approaches to the seemingly intractable challenges of true involvement that discourage or distract this generation of students (and even their parents). I highly recommend Ms. Lappe for her scholarship, her engaging and approachable style, and the inspirational message she brings to social and political challenges of today."
—Richard J. Cook, President, Allegheny College
"Frances Moore Lappe spoke to the core of our vision and reminded us of why a business can make such a positive difference in the world."
—Gary Erickson, CEO and Founder, ClifBar
"Frankie Lappé has a gift for synthesizing complex ideas into accessible and inspiring simplicity. Living Democracy is an excellent primer on what our democracy was intended to be, where it went astray, and what needs to happen (and is in fact already happening below the radar of mainstream media) for democracy to come alive. Take hope and then take action!"
— Nina Utne, Chair, Utne Magazine
Mary Panks-Holmes President and Founder of Climate Culture
Workshop, Sunday July 27th: 10:00am
Ecopreneuring: Growing a Green Business
Mary Panks-Holmes is an environmentalist, a strategist and an advocate of sustainable innovation and social justice. In 2007, she married the disciplines and created Climate Culture™ Incorporated, a boutique consultancy focused on integrating sustainability into the culture and values of all sectors of society. Born and raised in Northern Michigan, Mary has been planting trees since not long after she could walk. After moving to the greater Orlando, FL area in 2005, she had the pleasure of being one of 1000 individuals in America selected to participate in The Climate Project, an intensive training program focused on climate change education and solutions scenarios conducted by Former Vice President Al Gore and a world class team of specialists in 2006. She is a Presenter for The Climate Project. In 2007, Climate Culture™ was awarded Co-Op America's Seal of Approval, placing the firm among a peer group of nearly 3,000 progressive business leaders addressing today's complex environmental and social issues. The NRDC and Union of Concerned Scientists are among her memberships. Recently, Mary counted how many trees were left of those she helped plant around her family's home as a child. There were 400 still standing.
John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist
Workshop, Sunday July 27th: 10:00am
Ecopreneuring: Growing a Green Business
In addition to co-authoring ECOpreneuring, Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko are co-authors of Rural Renaissance and Edible Earth, organic growers, national speakers, writers, and innkeepers of the award- winning Inn Serendipity Bed & Breakfast, completely powered by renewable energy. This husband-and-wife duo regularly contribute to projects for the non-profit organization, Renewing the Countryside, providing success stories and practical resources for rural entrepreneurs and farmers. Kivirist is also a distinguished W.K.Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow and Ivanko is the co-author and photographer for numerous multicultural children's books, including the award-winning Be My Neighbor and To Be a Kid. They share their farm in Browntown, Wisconsin with their son and a thriving colony of honey bees.
Fred Kirschenmann
Workshop: Sunday July 27th - 12:00pm
Livestock in the system: Diversity After Peak Oil
Kickapoo Film Festival; Panel Discussion: Saturday July 26th - 8:30
(Festival runs 6:00-9:00pm)
In November 2005 Fred Kirschenmann was appointed Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center after having served since July 2000 as Director following a nationwide search. He also serves as the President of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture located in Pocantico Hills, NY. and still manages his family's 3,500-acre certified organic farm in south central North Dakota. He helped found Farm Verified Organic, Inc., a private certification agency, and the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society. Fred has served numerous national/ international appointments, including USDA's National Organic Standards Board, the North Central Region's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) administrative council, Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture board of directors. He has earned degrees from Yankton College in South Dakota, Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. Fred has authored numerous articles and book chapters dealing with ethics and agriculture.
He also is a member of the National Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production operated by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and funded by Pew Charitable Trusts. Kirschenmann is convening chair of a multi-state task force, Agriculture of the Middle, that focuses on research and markets for midsize American farms. The group also has established the Association of Family Farms to create standards and markets for these types of food.
Carolyn Raffensberger
Carolyn Raffensberger, M.A., J.D. is executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network which is known for its work on the "precautionary principle". Carolyn is co-editor of Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy and Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle. As an environmental lawyer she specializes in the fundamental changes in law and policy necessary for the protection and restoration of public health and the environment.
Carolyn coined the term "ecological medicine" to encompass the broad notions that both health and healing are entwined with the natural world. She is at the forefront of developing new models for government that depend on these larger ideas of precaution and ecological integrity. The new models include guardianship for future generations, a vision for the courts of the 21st century and the public trust doctrine. www.sehn.org
Fabu Carter-Brisco
In early 2007 Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and the Madison Arts Commission announced Fabu Carter-Briso as Madison's third Poet Laureate. He presented her with a Mayoral Proclamation on January 17, 2008, at the MAC Honors Event. Fabu is a gifted writer, a graduate of the U.W. Madison with a Master's in African Languages and Literature and also in Afro-American Studies. She serves the Madison community as both an educator and as a literary artist. She is passionate about the ability of each child to learn and has designed innovative curriculum to strengthen the learning abilities of African American children. As a literary artist, she creates and shares enchanting original, unique stories and poetry, most often from the perspective of women, children and African Americans. She is multicultural in perspective and encourages writing in many languages. This combination of a creative and literary background makes her an exceptional poet or storyteller in residence. She is wildly creative, drawing the best out of students, including special needs students and the gifted and talented.
Chef Ann Cooper
Chef Ann Cooper, CEC, is a renegade lunch lady working to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms for students—one school lunch at a time. Ann is the Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley Unified School District and is the former Executive Chef and Director of Wellness and Nutrition of The Ross School in East Hampton, New York. At the Ross School, Ann cultivated an innovative food service program serving over 1300 regional, organic, seasonal and sustainable meals each day, a pilot wellness program that proved successful, and Chef Ann was invited to work with schools across the country. She has transformed public school cafeterias in New York City, Harlem and Bridgehampton, NY. Presently in Berkeley, CA teaching more students why good food choices matter by putting innovative strategies to work, and providing fresh, regional, organic lunches to all students. Chef Ann has not always served cafeterias and her resume is vast. Recently she’s authored Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, as well as numerous other books. A well seasoned award winner, Slow Food USA honored her for her advocacy work on upgrading school lunch for children across America.
Chef Michel Nischan
Growing up on a farm instilled in Michel Nischan a deep appreciation for sustainable agriculture, and those who work the land, that has never left him. Nischan is Chef/Owner of Dressing Room: A Homegrown Restaurant, and President of Wholesome Wave Foundation Charitable Ventures, a non-profit organization focused on making locally grown, organic and sustainable foods available to all. A renowned chef and best-selling author, Michel came to know Paul and Nell Newman. They found their beliefs on food, family, and community to be remarkably aligned, and Dressing Room evolved as the place where their shared values could have a common home and expression. In keeping with their belief that America needs to rediscover the neighborly sense of community that once helped Main Street America thrive, Wholesome Wave was formed with funding from Newman’s Own Foundation and the Betsy and Jesse Fink Foundation. Wholesome Wave and Dressing Room work in tandem to create grass-roots initiatives that celebrate the local food systems and recipes that once endeared America to the rest of the world. After years of focusing on healthful, sustainable and culturally significant cooking causes, Michel decided to put his passion in print. Among the various publications, he’s authored the best selling book; Taste Pure and Simple: Irresistible Recipes for Good Food and Good Health (Chronicle Books, 2003).
Chef Monique Hooker
Monique Jamet Hooker is best described as a culinary pioneer. As a girl of fifteen she set forth into the traditionally male-dominated world of the French restaurant kitchen. It was the beginning of a distinguished career in the culinary arts, spanning four decades and two continents.
During her years of apprenticeship in France, Hooker also worked as a photography food stylist, honing not only her skills in the kitchen but her eye for color and food presentation. After coming to the US in the sixties she took a position in her brother’s restaurant in New York state before moving to Chicago where she made a name for herself as a food stylist and caterer. She also began teaching classes for people eager to recreate her art in their own kitchens.
In 1983 Hooker opened Monique’s Café in Chicago’s River North district which has since become the premier dining area in the city, with many restaurants copying Monique’s Café bistro style seasonal menu.
Fans of Chef Hooker enjoy her award-winning book, Cooking with the Seasons, which introduces readers to over 200 recipes that emphasize seasonal distinctions of taste, texture, and color.
Now “retired” to the hills of southwest Wisconsin, Hooker is working harder than ever. She continues to teach, lecture and demonstrate her true love – the art of seasonal cooking.
