Honduras World Food Prize Youth Institute

The Speakers

Barbara Stinson

President of the World Food Prize Foundation

Aaron R.

Winner of 2018 World Food Day Poetry Competition as offered by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and Poetry X Hunger

Ashley Shunk

World Food Prize Youth Institute Coordinator, Teacher at Alison Bixby Stone School

Dr. Jeffrey Lansdale

Director of Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural University

MOrgan Day

Director of Global Programs and International Partnerships

Dr. Patricio Paz

Associate Professor at Zamorano University

Areas of research:

Nutrition - Additives: probiotics, enzymes, growth promoters.
Aquaponics: NFT and RAFT systems.
Shrimp: fattening and larvae.
Aquamimicry (Synbiotics).
Tilapia: pre-fattening and fattening.

Julio Lopez

Associate Professor at Zamorano University

Areas of research:

Trialing and generation of technologies for small- and medium-scale producers.
Climate-smart household agriculture.
Food and nutrition security.
Postharvest technologies.
Agricultural extension.

Muna Nehme

Muna Nehme has been teaching high school science for five years. She is a promoter of women being leaders in STEM fields and hopes to inspire her students to think of global solutions to environmental problems.

Lorraine Martinez

Lorena Martinez is a retired science teacher and lab manager, and a devoted environmentalist. In 25+ years of teaching it has been a goal of hers to inspire a love for science and sustainability in her students.

Marjorie Mayr

"We cannot love and care for what we do not know": the importance of environmental education for all, starting with the smallest. Graduated in the class of 1983 and is one of the four women who made up the first class of graduates from Zamorano. There is much more to tell about this Honduran fighter and visionary.

Miguel Cocom

Instructor at Zamorano University

Areas of research:

Plant protection, biological pest control, mass production of nematodes, and projects to monitor insect resistance to chemical pesticides.
Baseline dose response studies for genetically modified crops and new active ingredients in chemical products.
Research into potential biological products and new agrochemicals.
Massive reproduction through liquid fermentation of entomopathogenic nematodes or parasitic insect nematodes.

Keegan Kautzky

Leads the national expansion of The World Food Prize Foundation's education programs, developing strategic partnerships and new opportunities to engage and inspire the next generation of young scientific and humanitarian leaders in the global effort to end hunger and poverty.

Cinthia Cano

Director of Alison Bixby Stone School

Meghan Walters

2015 George Washington Carver Intern.

She also served on the event staff at the Hall of Laureates. In 2019, Ms. Walters was named Special Assistant to the President.

Judith Thimke

World Food Program: Country Representative of Honduras

Leyla Sabrina Andino Molina

Sabrina Andino was Training Manager of the Pollo Campero Brand for 3 years at a National Level and for 6 years she has been working in Zamorano as an Administrative Assistant of the academy in the Food Science and Technology Department.

Hiram Larew

Larew is retired from the US Department of Agriculture where he helped to guide international agricultural science programs. As a poet, he launched Poetry X Hunger (PoetryXHunger.com) as a way to encourage poets to speak back to hunger.

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