Featured Speakers
Mariam Akiror
Advocacy and Communications Coordinator, Action Against Hunger USA-Uganda Mission
IMELDA AWINO
Deputy Hub Director, Program Development and Quality Assurance, Action Against Hunger
Shawn K. Baker
Chief Nutritionist, U.S. Agency for International Development
Dr. Heber M. Brown, III
Executive Director, Black Church Food Security Network
SEAN CALLAHAN
President and CEO, Catholic Relief Services
Sarah Charles
Assistant to the Administrator, USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)
Mwandwe Chileshe
Global Policy Lead, Food Security and Agriculture, Global Citizen
Rev. Eugene Cho
President/CEO, Bread for the World
Isobel Coleman
Deputy Administrator, Policy and Programming, United States Agency for International Development
Oscar Cordon
Technical Services and Innovation Director, Action Against Hunger
Cathryn L. Dhanatya
President & Co-Founder, Growing Good
Bill Drayton
Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Ashoka
JUAN ECHANOVE
Associate Vice President, Food and Water Systems, CARE
Jan Sebastian Friedrich-Rust
CEO, Action Against Hunger, Germany
Jerry Greenfield
Co-founder, Ben and Jerry's Homemade, Inc
Amy Guterman
Senior Director, Community Innovation, Salesforce
LAWRENCE HADDAD
Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
JESSICA HOOD
VP Strategic Engagement + Digital Transformation, Salesforce
Ashwini Kakkar
Chairperson, Action Against Hunger International Network
Joe Kawly
Anchor/Journalist, Middle East Broadcasting Networks
Raj Kumar
President and Editor-in-Chief, Devex
Asma Lateef
Policy and Advocacy Lead (Agriculture), SDG2 Advocacy Hub
Daniel Maxwell
Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security, Tufts University
SARA MENKER
Founder and CEO, Gro Intelligence
Nicolas METRO
Founder and CEO, Kinomé
Kate Musimwa
Vice President of Program Delivery, Food for the Hungry
Nhlanhla Ndlovu “NN”
Executive Director, Centre for Economic Governance and Accountability in Africa (CEGAA)
YUSUF OMAR
Co-Founder, Seen
Charles Owubah
CEO, Action Against Hunger-USA
GREG PERLSTEIN
Digital Transformation Lead, Salesforce
Suzanne Rexing
Senior Director, Action Against Hunger - USA
Terri Sarch
Nutrition Team Leader, United Kingdom, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Meera Shekar
Global Lead, Health, Nutrition & Population, World Bank
KATHY SPAHN
President and CEO, Helen Keller International
Gloria D. Steele
COO, CARE USA
Roy Steiner
Senior Vice President, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation
Marshall Stowell
President and Founder, Intentional
Gokul Sundar
Growth & Strategy at airSlate, VC at Alumni Ventures
Marielle Amani Thete
Director, US Government Relations, ONE Campaign
BLYTHE THOMAS
Initiative Director, 1,000 Days
Noam Unger
Vice President, Development Policy, Advocacy and Learning, InterAction
Kate Warren
Executive Vice President, Devex
Teresa Welsh
Senior Reporter, Devex
Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma
Diocesan Director and Vicar General, MCS, Ethiopia
Stephanie Zeitz
Senior Product and Solution Manager, Impact Labs, Salesforce
Entertainment
Spoken Word Poetry
Marjan Naderi
D.C. Youth Poet Laureate
KBPC Jazz Quartet
David Cole
Guitar
Manny Kellough
Drums
Wes Biles
Bass
Pete Frassrand
Piano
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