MR 2:10 George McGovern's Anti-Hunger Work: A conversation with Marshall Matz, Alan Stone and Catherine Bertini

The bios for Marshall Matz, Alan Stone and Catherine Bertini Marshall has devoted his career, for the most part, to domestic and global food security. Starting as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Agriculture he crafted all the nutrition legislation championed by Senators George McGovern (D-SD) and Bob Dole (R-KS). He was also counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition when it published Dietary Goals for the United States, which has been memorialized as the USDA-HHS Dietary Guidelines and updated every five years. This focus on food security has led to a devotion to sound science, agriculture research, and biotechnology. He now works with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa helping them to grow themselves out of poverty. Other areas of interest have been Native American policy and rural development including forestry. He represents South Dakota State University on the New Beginnings Program for Tribal Students and the Intermountain Forest Association. Alan Stone Began to work on anti-hunger and anti-poverty issues while in law school. Worked as a VISTA attorney and a Reginald Heber Smith Poverty Law Fellow before joining The Senate Nutrition Committee as Counsel and remaining as Staff Director. Alan wrote all the child nutrition legislation during the 1970’s, when the federal commitment to hunger programs grew from $1 billion to $10 billion annually. He capped his 20 year career in D.C. at the Clinton White House as one of a handful of senior speechwriters, a role he also performed in the '92 campaign in Little Rock. He then served consecutively as Vice President of Columbia University and Harvard University, and has recently retired in Cambridge, MA. He is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and George Washington University Law School in D.C. He is a Chicagoan by birth. Catherine Bertini An accomplished leader in international organization reform, Catherine Bertini has a distinguished career improving the efficiency and operations of organizations serving poor and hungry people in the United States and around the world. She was named the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate for her transformational leadership at the World Food Programme (WFP), which she led for ten years, and for the positive impact she had on the lives of women. While in the US government, she expanded the electronic benefit transfer options for food stamp beneficiaries, created the food package for breast feeding mothers, presented the first effort to picture healthy diets, and expanded education and training opportunities for poor women. Later, she co-chaired a successful effort to impact American policy supporting poor farmers in the developing world. The U.S. program is known as “Feed the Future”. As a United Nations Under Secretary General, she initiated efforts to reform the global system for security of staff and for the recognition of all staff marriages. She interacted with all UN agencies and their leadership through a variety of UN bodies in humanitarian, development, nutrition, security and management roles, and led UN humanitarian missions around the world. She was appointed to senior positions by three UN secretaries general and five US presidents and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.