Feed & Read: Improving Access to School Meals & Quality Education Around the World - USAID/USDA
Title: USDA/McGovern-Dole and USAID/Office of Education Side Event “Feed and Read: Improving Access to School Meals and Quality Education Around the World”
Time: 8:00am to 9:30am
Location: Salon C
Description: Join USDA McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and USAID Office of Education for a discussion on school feeding programs and an innovative interagency collaboration that seeks to further the achievements in access to quality education and improved literacy, food security, and nutrition – especially for girls. This panel will convene seven years after U.S. Senators Robert Dole and George McGovern received the World Food Prize for their global commitment to school feeding, improved school attendance and nutrition. Christie Vilsack (USAID Senior Advisor for International Education and First Lady of Iowa, 1999-2007) will moderate a panel of presenters that includes implementing partners and experts on school feeding and education.
Moderator: Christie Vilsack (Senior Advisor for International Education, USAID, and First Lady of Iowa, 1999-2007)
Special Address: Phil Karsting, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Panelists:
- Jocelyn Brown, Deputy Administrator, Office of Capacity Building and Development, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Barbara Noseworthy, Assistant Executive Director, U.N. World Food Programme
- Asif Saleh, Senior Director of Strategy, Communications and Empowerment, BRAC and BRAC International
- Dr. Elizabeth Kristjansson, Professor, School of Psychology, Center for Research on Educational and Community Services, University of Ottawa