Amie Hamlin has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Healthy School Food since its founding in 2004. Previously she was the director of a non-profit environmental organization and director of a tobacco-control program to ban smoking in public places. In her current position, she wrote a NYS legislative resolution for healthy plant-based entrees and nutrition education in schools which passed unanimously in 2004. The coalition has developed recipes which have been distributed to 25,000 schools nationwide, a middle school Family and Consumer Sciences Cooking Curriculum, a 3 – 5th grade curriculum called Food UnEarthed: Uncovering the Truth About Food, and nutrition education resources including Wellness Wakeup Call and Feel Good Food Cards. In her role with the Coalition for Healthy School Food, she consults with schools to help them get started on a path to healthy change using Coalition for Healthy School Food recipes, curriculum, and resources. Amie has a Master’s Degree in Education and has a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition through E-Cornell.

Website: www.healthyschoolfood.org

Brought to you by the Coalition for Healthy School Food and PlantPure, our main goal for the Healthy School Food Summit (HSFS) is to educate school administrators, teachers, parents, food service workers, legislators and others on ways they can add more healthy food options in their schools to help students grow and excel while also motivating and inspiring them to also eat better at home. We've invited top experts in nutrition and program development to provide their insights through interviews with co-hosts Amie Hamlin, of the Coalition for Healthy School Food, and Ron Gandiza, of PlantPure. Please visit http://www.schoolfoodsummit.com for more information on the Healthy School Food Summit and see a list of all the guest experts.

Coalition for Healthy School Food - http://www.healthyschoolfood.org

PlantPure - http://www.plantpurenation.com