Keynote Speakers

Cathy Berry
Managing Director, Baldwin Investment Management, LLC

Susan Knight
CCO, Commonwealth Dairy

Winona LaDuke
Executive Director, Honor the Earth

Lisa Lorimer
Entrepreneur, co-founder of MamaSezz Foods
Prior to MamaSezz, Lisa spent over 20 years as the pioneer owner and CEO of the Vermont Bread Company, supplying all-natural and certified organic breads, rolls and English muffins to supermarkets and natural product stores in the Northeast, including private label for Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. She sold a majority stake in the company to a large private equity firm and worked with them to create the first national certified organic bread company. Lisa went back to school to get her MBA and on one day in April 2014, her final paper was due at 9:00 am and at 9:01 it hit the WSJ that the business was sold to a public company.
Lisa is the co-author with Margot Fraser, founder of Birkenstock USA, of the book Dealing With the Tough Stuff: Practical Wisdom for Running a Values-Driven Business. She has served on numerous boards including Vermont Community Foundation, Vermont Smoke & Cure, Chittenden Bank, The White House Project, VBSR and the Women’s Freedom Center. She has an MBA from the UVA Darden School of Business and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Owner-President Management Program. Lisa lives with her three generations of her family in Brattleboro, VT.

Charles Merinoff
Principal Founder, Breakthru Beverage Group

Orly Munzing
Founder & Executive Director, Strolling of the Heifers

Stacey Vanek Smith
Co-Host, The Indicator from Planet Money; Correspondent, Planet Money
Prior to coming to NPR, Smith worked for Marketplace, where she was a correspondent and fill-in host. While there, Smith was part of a collaboration with The New York Times, where she explored the relationship between money and marriage. She was also part of Marketplace's live shows, where she produced a series of pieces on getting her data mined.
Smith is a native of Idaho and grew up working on her parents' cattle ranch. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and creative writing. She also holds a master's in broadcast journalism from Columbia University.
Speakers

Kaeleigh Barker
Communications Director, Cooperatives for a Better World

Sue Bette
President + Conductor, Bluebird Hospitality

Stacy Carroll
Director of Partnerships, Hungry Harvest
Within Hungry Harvest, Stacy Carroll created “HarvestRX,” a farm to patient food access platform that supplies preventative health programs with affordable access to fresh fruits and vegetables, delivered. To date, Hungry Harvest has recovered and delivered 9 million pounds of surplus and cosmetically imperfect produce while donating 700 thousand pounds to our hunger relief partners.
Carroll holds a masters degree from Wagner College and has spent the majority of her career consulting for the hospitality and consumer food industries.

Leslie Cerier
The Organic Gourmet

Amy Chamberlain
Chef-Owner, The Perfect Wife Tavern

Karin Chamberlin
Clean Yield Asset Management
Karin started her career in sustainable investing in 1997 as a social research intern at Trillium Asset Management while pursuing her masters at Tufts University. After graduation she spent 10 years with KLD Research & Analytics, where during her tenure as Index Manager the number of sustainability indices grew from 2 to more than 30, and the assets under management licensed to those indices increased ten-fold to over $11 billion. Prior to joining Clean Yield in 2013, Karin worked as an independent consultant.
Karin is a vice president of the Vermont Community Loan Fund, council member of the Vermont Women’s Fund, on the executive committee of Slow Money Vermont. She enjoys being a guest lecturer on sustainable business and investing at local business schools and a judge for impact investing and social entrepreneurship contests.
From 1994-1997 Karin served as a livestock production volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Ecuador. She holds a B.A. in international relations from Kenyon College and MALD in economics and environmental policy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Karin is trilingual in English, Spanish and German.
Karin is a recovering endurance athlete who now enjoys hiking and biking in the summer, telemark skiing and Nordic speed skating in the winter and Crossfit year round. Having grown up on an organic sheep farm in Etna, New Hampshire, Karin is thrilled to be back in the Upper Valley.

Cairn Cross
Co-Founder and Managing Director, FreshTracks Capital

Amanda Freund
Freund's Farm Market

Deborah Leta Habib
Co-creator, Seeds of Solidarity

Christine Hallquist
Former CEO of Vermont Electric Cooperative & 2018 Democratic Candidate for Governor of Vermont

Addie Rose Holland
Co-Founder, Real Pickles

Jake Ide
Director of Investment & Philanthropy, Vermont Community Loan Fund

Marni Karlin
Principal, Karlin Strategic Consulting LLC

Rob Michalak
Global Director of Social-Purpose Impact, Ben & Jerry’s

Christine Ng, Ph.D.
Manager & Principal Engineer, Nutrition & Technology Solutions, General Mills

Gwen Pokalo
Center for Women & Enterprise, Vermont Director

Jaquelyn Fernandez Rieke, Martina Anderson & Liz Knapp - Nutty Steph's
Nutty Steph's
Martina Anderson is a nomad coming all the way from Austria that finally settled with her two children in Vermont. She has a background in Special Education and is all about Inclusivity and building community through relationships.
Liz Knapp lives in Adamant with her two kids and a dog and a cat. She has been intimately involved with the local food movement in Vermont in a variety of ways for over 15 years, including (but not limited to) running her own farm, advocating for policies that would strengthen family farms, and building relationships between local farmers and small businesses.

Louisa Schibli
Co-founder, Milk Money VT

Dr. Amber Sciligo
Manager of Science Programs, The Organic Center

Janice Shade
Co-founder, Milk Money

Kate Stephenson
Program Manager of the Vermont Farm Fund

Anson Tebbetts
Vermont Secretary of Agriculture, Food, and Markets

Nicola Williams
Founder, The Williams Agency

Heather Wright
Attorney, Wright Jones PLC
Summit Hosts

Orly Munzing
Founder & Executive Director, Strolling of the Heifers

Jim Verzino
Director and Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Cairn Cross
Co-Founder and Managing Director, FreshTracks Capital

Jennifer Brandt
Slow Living Summit Coordinator