Keynote Speaker - Stephanie George
Stephanie George (she/her), Mohawk/Turtle Clan & French Canadian, is a mother, wife, sister, daughter, and auntie. She is an Indigenous Midwife and Lactation Consultant, teaching at both McMaster University and York University. Stephanie holds an Honours BA Trent University and is a PPD Support Person, as well as a former or current member of Lactation, IPV, and Arts boards.
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Workshop Speaker - Bhairavi KumarBhairavi Kumar (she/her) is a program manager of Tastebuds, Hamilton’s Student Nutrition Collaborative. Tastebuds volunteers help serve healthy meals/snacks to over 20,000 students every school day at 118 programs at 106 locations in four school boards, including French Catholic and French Public schools and community locations across Hamilton. Through her workshop, Bhairavi will share how her team facilitates student nutrition programs throughout the city, promotes food literacy and the impact healthy food has on a children’s academic, physical and/or social health. Bhairavi has 14 years of experience working in the non-profit sector supporting the expansion of universal student nutrition programs and wishes to see nutrition programs in each and every school in Hamilton and eventually across Canada.
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Workshop Speaker - Cathy HaanCathy Haan (she/her) is the Executive Director of Food4Kids Hamilton, a local non-profit organization. Through their Weekends Without Hunger program, Food4Kids Hamilton feeds 1425 students within 75 schools every weekend of the year. As a nutrition partner of both Hamilton school boards, Cathy and her team ensure the highest need students in Hamilton are provided with food every weekend and during the summer months. Through her workshop, Cathy will explain how food insecurity is identified within a school setting, the impacts on social and academic success and how Food4Kids Hamilton feeds 1425 students 12 months of the year.
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Workshop Speaker - Deborah SlobodaDr. Sloboda (she/her) is a Professor and the Associate Chair of Research in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University, Canada. She completed her PhD training at the University of Toronto in Physiology in 2001 following which she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Dr. Sloboda's laboratory investigates early life impacts on maternal, fetal and placental development and the risk of non-communicable disease later in life. Dr. Sloboda is one of the founding co-Presidents of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Society of Canada, and was the Secretary and member of the Executive of the International Society for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease for 10 years. She has published 130 papers in leading scientific journals and book chapters, on the early life origins of health and disease.
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