Doc Marshall is a physician, devoted father, grandfather, and U.S. Senator for Kansas. As a 5th generation farm kid growing up in Butler County, Doc Marshall became the first in his family to attend college. After graduating from Butler County Community College, he received his Bachelor’s degree from Kansas State University and his Medical Doctorate from the University of Kansas.

Doc Marshall practiced medicine in Great Bend for more than 25 years and served in the Army Reserves for seven years. As an OB/GYN, he delivered more than 5,000 babies, giving him a deep appreciation and passion for the sanctity of life and an intimate understanding of the healthcare system. During his time in medicine, Doc Marshall was more than a physician. For 25 years, he was a business owner who signed a paycheck every other week for a practice that grew from 5 people to eventually more than 300.

Faith and community continue to be pillars in Doc Marshall’s life. He and his wife Laina taught Sunday school for over 25 years, and he served as an elder, deacon, and board chairman of his church. He has coached numerous community and youth sports teams and is a proud Rotarian having served as a past District Governor for the service organization. He also has a passion for the outdoors and spends as much time as possible at his family’s farm, the Quivera National Wildlife Refuge, and Cheyenne Bottoms.

Doc and Laina, have been married for 40 years and are the parents of four children, and have four grandchildren.

Jim has been the top Democrat on the powerful House Rules Committee since 2018, serving as Chairman during the 116th and 117th Congress. Jim has worked hard on the Rules Committee to change business as usual on Capitol Hill and make Congress work in a more open, transparent, bipartisan way. For example, he put in place rules to give all Members of Congress more time to read bills. He required that bills to go through the committee process instead of just being written behind closed doors, and he created a new office to recruit and retain congressional staff that reflect the diversity of the American people.

On the House Agriculture Committee, Jim has been a global leader in the fight to end hunger. He fought for and successfully secured a White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health to make ending hunger a national priority. Thanks to Jim's advocacy and tireless work, military families are being screened for hunger for the first time ever, families with children get enhanced food benefits, schools are able to provide more nutritious meals, and America now has a plan to end hunger within the decade.

Jim has spent his career in public service working to strengthen America's global leadership when it comes to protecting human rights and promoting peace. He serves on two commissions which monitor, investigate and advocate on behalf of international human rights, the rule of law, and good governance: the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. He has written and successfully passed into law several bills which help America identify and hold accountable corrupt foreign officials and human rights abusers. He has also authored and passed into law several pieces of legislation to hold the government of China accountable for human rights violations, including the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the Tibet Policy and Support Act, and the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act

Jim's concern for human rights goes back to his time as a Congressional staffer, when he led an investigation into the murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador. Jim uncovered that the murders were committed by Salvadoran soldiers who had been trained by the United States Government–leading to a major shift in public opinion and a change in U.S. policy that made future military aid contingent on improved human rights in El Salvador.

Chellie Pingree never anticipated a life in politics. Living on the offshore island of North Haven, Maine, she raised her kids and ran a small business. She served on the school board and as the local tax assessor, a job no one else in town wanted. But in 1991, when she was approached about running for State Senate, she jumped at the chance.

She scored a remarkable upset, defeating a popular Republican, and went on to serve four terms in the Maine Senate. But throughout her political career, from Augusta to Washington and beyond, the lessons she learned on North Haven have always been her guide: Be accountable to your neighbors, and always use your common sense.

Chellie Johnson (she has legally changed her name from "Rochelle") was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1955, the youngest of four children. Her father, Harry, worked in advertising and her mother, Dorothy, was a nurse. Chellie moved to Maine as a teenager, attended the University of Southern Maine, and graduated from the College of the Atlantic, in Bar Harbor. After college, she moved to North Haven, an island town of 350 people twelve miles off the coast of Rockland, to raise her family and make a living.

Dorella Walters, MPA, Chief Program Development Officer

Dorella Walters is the Chief Program Development Officer and is responsible for client outreach efforts and establishing community-based and healthcare partnerships for the agency.

Dorella Walters is the Chief Program Development Officer and for more than 27 years has led various areas of the organization and is focused on supporting the organization’s provision of services that includes serving more than 15,000 individuals nutritious, medically tailored, high-quality meals.

Dorella has held various leadership positions during her tenure at God’s Love, all of which have given her a unique insight into the clients and communities that we serve.  Under her leadership, the organization expanded the types of diagnoses and populations served and has seen significant growth in expanding the organization’s revenue portfolio to include healthcare partnerships with managed care organizations, health systems and community-based agencies.

In this role, she is responsible for reaching more than 7,000 new clients a year and for leading efforts in the development, implementation, and management of client program and service development, research-based community and healthcare partnerships, client growth and client retention.  She leads the departments responsible for being the first line of contact for our clients, their families and the medical and social service providers providing care for them.  The departments she is responsible for include Business Development, Client Services, Healthcare Partners, and Nutrition Services.

Oversight of these areas synthesize her efforts to expand God’s Love’s visibility regarding the impact that food is medicine interventions like medical nutrition therapy and medically tailored home-delivered meals have on health-related social needs, healthcare costs and health outcomes.

Nationally she leads the Healthcare Partners Committee and the healthcare track at the annual Food is Medicine Symposium, where member agencies of the Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC) agencies are trained to engage in policy and healthcare contracts and conduct an iterative learning process to keep up with changes impacting such opportunities.

Dorella has recently represented the agency in the Gravity Project’s partnership with the Coding4Food Medically Tailored Meals (MTM) Workgroup, is a member of the PHS WholeYouNYC Social Care Network Governance Committee, is currently an advisory board member for the New York City Department of Health’s project with the National Institutes of Health funded Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Data to Suppression study and is an advisory council member of the New York State Food as Medicine (FAM) Coalition.  Dorella received her Master of Public Administration from the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College.

Lindsay Hanson is a leader at John Hancock who engages at the intersection of payer strategy, health equity, and Food is Medicine - with a focus on how nutrition interventions can improve outcomes and create value for health plans and employers.

She has been a featured speaker at the Food is Medicine National Summit, contributing to conversations on designing Food is Medicine programs and the broader value proposition for payers.

Steve Brazeel is the Founder and CEO of Project FoodBox and the Founder of SunTerra Produce, where he’s focused on connecting agriculture and health care through scalable “Food is Medicine” infrastructure. He launched SunTerra in 2000, growing it from a one-person brokerage into a full-service produce platform supporting specialty crop producers across North America - spanning sales and marketing, farming, food safety, harvesting, storage, and distribution.

Through Project FoodBox, Brazeel works with partners across the Food is Medicine ecosystem to expand access to fresh produce and strengthen the link between dietary guidance and real-world ability to follow it.

Christina Y. Rodriguez is the publisher of Pull, where she helps healthcare leaders translate mission-driven work into decision-ready business cases - building the financial logic for investments in social care and other supports that improve outcomes and hold up under renewal cycles, budgets, and audit scrutiny.

Her writing and commentary focus on the real-world ROI of roles like social workers and community-based interventions, bridging clinical impact with operational and financial strategy.

Dr. Rajiv Shah is the President of The Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution with a mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. For more than two decades, Rajiv has worked to find fresh innovations, forge partnerships, and fiercely track data to make the big bets needed for a better, brighter 21st century. Trained as a physician and health economist, Rajiv is widely recognized as a global leader who builds strong institutions, leads extraordinarily talented teams, and delivers lasting results.

Kofi Essel, MD, MPH, FAAP is the inaugural Food as Medicine Program Director at Elevance Health. As a core member of the Health Outcomes Organization team, he works to coordinate with the broader social impact strategy, health equity, and medical policy initiatives throughout the enterprise. He leads efforts in designing innovative approaches to address diet related chronic diseases and social risk using novel food interventions.

Experienced Healthcare Executive, Community Pediatrician, Speaker, and Academic with expertise and national recognition in the areas of addressing gaps in nutrition education medical training, obesity stigma, and food/nutrition insecurity. Dedicated career to advocacy and research around healthcare training, health disparities, and community engagement. Dr. Essel sits on the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Obesity Solutions Lived Experience Innovation Collaborative and co-authored a national toolkit for pediatric providers to address food insecurity in their clinical settings with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Food Research & Action Center. Dr. Essel previously served as the Director of Culinary Medicine at George Washington University and Principal Investigator of a large multidisciplinary population health initiative using produce prescription programs and novel navigation systems that aims to strengthen community-clinical ties to address diet related chronic diseases in historically marginalized settings in Washington, D.C. 

A proud graduate of the infamous Little Rock Central High School with a 5A State Basketball championship in his back pocket. A 2018 American Academy of Pediatrics Special Achievement Award Recipient. Named a 2019 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Award by the National Minority Quality Forum. A 2021 Leonard Tow Humanism Award Recipient. Skilled in Public Speaking, Curricular & Program Development, Health Education, Nutrition Education, and Community Collaboration & Outreach.

Arif Kamal, MD, MBA, MHS, FACP, FAAHPM, FASCO serves as the first-ever chief patient officer for the American Cancer Society. In this role, Dr. Kamal drives the coordinated efforts to accelerate progress against cancer through the organization’s patient-facing activities. He is responsible for leading the American Cancer Society’s patient support objectives and developing strategic plans to measurably improve the lives of cancer patients and their families. Dr. Kamal oversees clinical leadership of the organization’s cancer control, patient navigation, educational programs, patient lodging solutions, transportation services, contact center, and digital patient support offerings, as well as all aspects of organizational functions that touch cancer patients across 5,000 communities around the globe.

Prior to joining the American Cancer Society, Dr. Kamal served for more than 12 years as an oncologist, researcher, and innovative leader at Duke University and the Duke Cancer Institute. Dr. Kamal is an associate professor of Medicine and Population Health at the Duke University School of Medicine, and recently served as physician quality and outcomes officer at the Duke Cancer Institute. He holds nationally recognized expertise in oncology quality assessment and palliative care. Dr. Kamal continues to keep a small palliative care clinical practice at Duke Cancer Center.

In addition to clinical and academic pursuits at Duke Cancer Institute, Dr. Kamal co-founded Prepped Health, a company that develops innovative technology solutions to educate and engage patients facing a serious illness like cancer and their caregivers. He also holds several leadership positions within professional organizations, including the National Quality Forum (NQF), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

Dr. Kamal was selected as one of the Top Influential Leaders Under 40 from AAHPM and received an Innovator Award from the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC). He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as JAMA, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Lancet Oncology. He holds grant funding from the National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation. 

Dr. Kamal received his medical degree from the six-year combined BA/MD program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, completed his internal medicine residency and a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, as well as a hematology/oncology fellowship at Duke University. He holds a master’s degree in health science in clinical research from Duke University and a master’s in business administration from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.

Dr. Kamal resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and two young children.

Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist, public health scientist, and Director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University. He is also Distinguished Professor, Dean Emeritus, and Jean Mayer Professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; Professor of Medicine at Tufts School of Medicine; and attending physician in the Division of Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center. Dr. Mozaffarian’s overall goal is to create the science and translation for a food system that is nutritious, equitable, and sustainable. He is globally renowned expert in Food is Medicine and has authored more than 600 scientific publications on nutritional priorities for cardiometabolic health and on evidence-based policy approaches and innovations to advance nutrition security, reduce diet-related diseases, improve health equity, and reduce healthcare costs in the US and globally. He has served in numerous advisory roles, including on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, and his work has been featured in an array of media outlets. Thomson Reuters named him as one of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds.

Dr. Mozaffarian received his B.S. in biological sciences from Stanford University, M.D. from Columbia University, and Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard University; with clinical training in internal medicine at Stanford University and in cardiology at the University of Washington. He is married, has three children, and actively trains as a Fourth Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.

As a full-time mother, farmer, and community organizer Michelle Howell collaborates with local and state partners to increase opportunity for farmers that are equitable and just. With an agriculture degree from WKU, Michelle has 25 years of local food experience including co-owning Need More Acres Farm with her husband Nathan, UK Extension, and Agribusiness management. She utilizes her expertise in nutrition, relationships and consumer trends to encourage common sense and profitable approaches to expand food systems. Off the farm, Michelle has partnered with public health, universities, non-profits and organizations to write over 2.4 million dollars in awarded grants to benefit food access, women’s life courses and urban-rural development.

Emily Broad Leib is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. She is also the Founder and Faculty Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, the nation’s first law school clinic devoted to providing legal and policy solutions to the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system. Working directly with clients and communities, Broad Leib champions community-led food system change, reduction in food waste, increased food access and food is medicine interventions, and sustainability in food production. Her scholarly work has been published in the California Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Food & Drug Law Journal, and Journal of Food Law & Policy, among others.A recognized leader in the field, Broad Leib’s work has been covered by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, TIME, Politico, and The Washington Post. She has made appearances on CBS This Morning, CNN, The Today Show, and MSNBC.

In 2015, Broad Leib became one of seven inaugural recipients of Harvard’s Drew Faust’s Climate Change Solution Fund. Her project, “Reducing Food Waste as Key to Addressing Climate Change”, leveraged the Clinic’s food law and policy expertise to combat food waste, a major producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Her work on food waste and recovery is now global, with a project on food waste policy that engages partners in more than thirty countries across the globe. 

Broad Leib co-founded the Academy of Food Law and Policy, a network of law professors researching, teaching, and mentoring on food law and policy, and from 2016-2019 served as Founding Co-Chair of the Academy’s Board of Trustees. To usher in a new generation of legal practitioners and scholars, Broad Leib has hosted an recurring Food Law Student Leadership Summit and supported the development of the student-led National Food Law Student Network. She is also the faculty supervisor for the Harvard Law School Food Law Society.

Before joining Harvard Law School’s faculty, Broad Leib spent two years in Clarksdale, Mississippi as the Joint Harvard Law School/Mississippi State University Delta Fellow. She served as the Director of the Delta Directions Consortium, a group of university and foundation leaders dedicated to improving public health and fostering economic development in the Delta. Broad Leib remains committed to the project as the faculty supervisor of the Harvard Law School Mississippi Delta Project.

She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude.

Award-winning social entrepreneur and U.S. Navy veteran recognized nationally for reimagining food access through dignity, data, and delivery.

As Founder & Chief Dreamer of Dion’s Chicago Dream, I’ve built a $7M food-is-medicine enterprise serving 5,300+ households weekly and delivering more 250,000 pounds of fresh produce monthly across 182 ZIP codes—growing 6,400% while never operating in deficit.

I also serve as CEO of Cosmic Crate, a logistics-first SaaS platform helping small & medium companies/orgs/teams unify data, inventory, and routing systems to strengthen the food-health ecosystem.

My leadership bridges sectors—government, philanthropy, corporate, and community. I’ve served on the USDA Urban Agriculture Advisory Committee, Tufts Food Is Medicine Institute Council, and Chicago Food Equity Council, and have been recognized by the White House, President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition, and Johnson & Johnson and more.

My vision is centered around neighbor-anchored, data-driven transformation. I’ve been living that mission for most of my life. I bring the energy, operational discipline, and long-term perspective to help lead a national movement where hunger is not an inevitability—but a solvable systems challenge.

Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS is Professor at the University of California San Francisco with appointments in the Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is faculty at UCSF's Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and ARC for Health Equity.

Dr. Seligman is an expert in food insecurity and its health implications across the life course. Her policy and research expertise focus on federal nutrition programs (particularly SNAP), food banking and the charitable food network, nutrition policy, food affordability and access, and income-related drivers of food choice. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, resources, and toolkits for implementers.

Dr. Seligman directs the Food Policy, Health, and Hunger Research Program at UCSF’s ARC for Health Equity and the CDC’s Nutrition and Obesity Policy, Research and Evaluation Network (NOPREN). She also co-directs UCSF's IMPACT Program, which aims to influence real-world decision-makers to use data and science to inform their work. IMPACT provides UCSF faculty and staff with resources and training in collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders to quicken the adoption of evidence-informed policies in healthcare, government, industry, and other sectors.

Dr. Seligman founded EatSF, a healthy foods voucher program for low-income residents of San Francisco (www.eatsfvoucher.org). Outside of San Francisco, EatSF is known as Vouchers for Veggies.

Dr. Seligman directs the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF, School of Medicine. NCSP aims to offer unparalleled training for clinicians as change agents driving policy-relevant research and partnerships to improve health and health care. 

Dr. Seligman serves on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Aidan Dewar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nourish, an AI-powered, insurance-covered virtual nutrition platform designed to make food-as-medicine and nutrition care accessible at scale. Under his leadership, Nourish connects patients to registered dietitians for 1:1 counseling and behavior-change support, with broad insurance coverage across the U.S. His work focuses on repositioning nutrition and lifestyle change as first-line care to improve outcomes and lower costs, including expanding access to medically tailored meals through partnerships in the food-as-medicine ecosystem.

I lead a team of passionate, talented folks on a mission to foster healthy and just communities by empowering people, improving places, and influencing policy. "How big is your staff?" is a common question we get... because we do so much.

Everyone at Reinvestment Partners does more than they signed up for. We each work according to these words: "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." (Theodore Roosevelt) We show up every day in our communities with an innovative spirit and creative solutions, frequently ahead of the curve.

As executive director, it's my pleasure and responsibility to steer our agency toward diversity, sustainability, and efficiency to maximize our impact. Whether I'm cultivating new partnerships, balancing budgets, or measuring performance metrics, contagious energy and an entrepreneurial spirit are my constant companions.

I pride myself on listening. I believe others add value that I can't see. Together we're pioneering change initiatives in Durham, North Carolina, and across the country.

Dr. Jaclyn Albin launched UT Southwestern’s Culinary Medicine Program and serves as its Director, working to teach nutrition and innovation in care through hands-on cooking classes to students, health care professionals, and community. She developed the first Culinary Medicine (CM) Clinical Service Line, integrating a variety of interprofessional CM consults into patient care through insurance reimbursement and meaningful community partnership. She is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Public Health and spent the first 10 years of her post-training career practicing primary care across the lifespan. Dr. Albin invests in medical education and is the founding Associate Program Director for the combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program and leads nutrition and culinary medicine education efforts at UTSW. Dr. Albin also serves as the Medical Director of Food is Medicine Innovation in the Center for Innovation at Value at Parkland Health. Through partnership with innovation and data science experts, she collaborates with community organizations to build sustainable strategies promoting food security and health transformation. Dr. Albin is board certified in pediatrics, internal medicine, and lifestyle medicine (DipABLM) and is a certified culinary medicine specialist (CCMS). She serves as an advisory board member for the American College of Culinary Medicine and the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative,  and she studies the impact of culinary medicine and food as medicine in medical education and health system strategy. As of December 2025, Dr. Albin was appointed to the new statewide Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee (TNAC, established by SB25) and elected Chair. The TNAC will set recommendations for nutrition education beginning in primary schools through medical education. She is passionate about food, lifestyle, and environmental influences on health, and she seeks to drive positive change at a population health level by starting with pragmatic, grassroots programs that actually work and can sustainably scale. The granddaughter of farmers, she loves the magic of growing vegetables and herbs in her backyard. She experiments with globally inspired recipes in her own kitchen, always striving to get her adolescent children to believe that nourishing food tastes delicious!

I have dedicated my career to empowering people to live healthier lives with dignity. As Chief Executive Officer for Open Hand Atlanta, I advance the organization’s pursuit to provide delicious, nourishing meals and nutrition education to thousands of people who are home-bound or too sick to cook for themselves. We serve seniors, children and families, and neighbors who are at risk for or have a disability or illness. We believe that food saves lives.

As the National Executive Director, I lead the American Heart Association's Health Care by Food™ initiative, leveraging over 20 years of experience in public health and policy. My expertise includes advancing health system interventions, securing philanthropic funding, and implementing effective policies that improve population health. I have a strong track record in revenue generation and connecting investments to community needs, aiding in the development of sustainable practices for small and rural healthcare systems. 

Previously, I served as the Senior Consultant for Access to Care policies and Medicaid Issue Specialist at the AHA, and before that, as the Director of Chronic Disease at the Mississippi State Department of Health, managing programs in heart disease, diabetes, and cancer prevention.