Kaitlin Yarnall is the Deputy Creative Director of National Geographic

magazine, where she oversees staff charged with the magazine's maps

and graphics. She is the lead editorial manager for National

Geographic's current food initiative and was deeply involved in

conceptualizing the graphic storytelling for recent series around

urban impacts and population. Yarnall's work has been recognized by

the Society for News Design's Malofiej competition, for which she has

served as a juror.

Mitchell Davis is the Executive Vice President of the James Beard Foundation, a cookbook author, a food journalist, and a scholar with a Ph.D. in Food Studies from New York University. With the Beard Foundation for 20 years, Davis has created and overseen many of the organization’s important initiatives, including the JBF Greens for “foodies under 40”; the non-profit’s popular five-week pop-up restaurant JBF LTD in Chelsea Market (2011); the annual JBF Food Conference, a national dialogue of thought leaders on sustainability and public health in the food system; and the JBF Chefs Boot Camp for Policy & Change. In 2013 Davis assembled and led the team that was selected by the U.S. Department of State to create the USA Pavilion at the World Expo Milano 2015, the theme of which is American Food 2.0.