WHO IS BEHIND “CERTIFIED HUMANE?”

The staff, board of directors, and Scientific Committee of Humane Farm Animal Care bring extensive experience in the natural foods industry, animal science, veterinary care, and animal welfare to their work on the Certified Humane Raised & Handled program.

STAFF

Adele Douglass, Executive Director, initiated the concept of humane certification for farm animal products in the U.S., beginning with her launch of the Free Farmed program for Farm Animal Services. Ms. Douglass now directs all programs and activities of Humane Farm Animal Care, including managing producer relationships and serving as media spokesperson. As a result of her years showing businesses how humane farm animal care can meet bottom-line interests, she serves as an invited participant on numerous industry animal welfare committees including for the Food Marketing Institute, National Council of Chain Restaurants, and Burger King. In 2003, Ms. Douglass was a keynote speaker at the Animal Welfare Conference of the American Meat Institute. She also serves on the Boards of The Center for Food Safety and the Center for Technology Assessment. In 2006, Ms. Douglass received the ASPCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

In addition, Ms. Douglass was one of 15 winners of the 2007 Purpose Prize. According to Civic Ventures, the San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that awards it, the Purpose Prize recognizes individuals age 60 and over who have "the passion and creativity to discover new opportunities, the experience to come up with practical solutions, and the determination to make lasting change."

Prior to her positions with Humane Farm Animal Care and Farm Animal Services, Ms. Douglass was director of the American Humane Association’s Washington, D.C., office for 13 years. She advanced the organization’s legislative agenda to protect both children and animals, represented AHA at national conferences and developed tools to increase grassroots lobbying. Ms. Douglass gained her expertise on legislative matters as a staff member for former U.S. Representative Bill Green (R-NY).

Corinne Berry, Certification Process Coordinator, holds an undergraduate degree in the Animal and Poultry Sciences from Virginia Tech and is currently enrolled as a Masters Degree candidate in Communications at George Mason University. She has over a decade of animal health and farm animal experience as well as more than five years of professional communications practice.

Kim Beaty, Database Coordinator, has vast experience in the non-profit world managing both large and small information centers. In addition to a great deal of experience in information centers, Kim brings experience in fundraising, information technology, and Web and graphic design.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The HFAC Board of Directors includes members with experience and expertise in animal welfare, natural and organic foods, meat and poultry production and marketing, communications, public policy and financial management.

Gini Barrett, Associate Professor in biomedical ethics and public policy at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. Professor Barrett has an extensive background in public policy analysis and advocacy, having led strategic planning and implementation programs as both a corporate strategist and as a social activist. Over the last 20 years she has worked on topics as diverse as human rights, habitat preservation, toxic waste, water quality, worker safety, public leadership, and freedom of speech. She has specialized in animal welfare issues for over a decade.

Adele Douglass, Executive Director, HFAC – see above.

Jim Emerman is a vice president of Civic Ventures, where he developed and directs The Purpose Prize and the Encore Leadership Network. The Purpose Prize is a $9 million program designed to recognize and invest in social entrepreneurs who are working after the age of 60 to solve important problems in their communities, the country and the world. The Encore Leadership Network comprises leaders from the nonprofit, corporate, and public sectors, including academic institutions and think tanks and the philanthropic sector, who are helping establish "encore careers" as a new stage of work of personal and social significance in the second half of life. Prior to joining Civic Ventures, Mr. Emerman was the chief operating officer of the American Society on Aging, managing a 53-year-old organization which focuses on developing leadership and disseminating knowledge and skills to professionals who are facing the challenges of a diverse aging society.

Patricia A. Forkan, executive vice president of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has 27 years of experience in management, marketing, and international trade. She currently holds responsibility for all of HSUS’s domestic program activities and serves as president of the youth educational division. As senior vice president of Humane Society International, she has directed efforts to stop the importation of dolphin-deadly tuna into the European market. Ms. Forkan is also president of World Women in Defense of the Environment (WorldWIDE).

Carol Jenkins is founding president of The Women's Media Center and a founding member of the board of directors. An Emmy-award–winning former news anchor and correspondent who covered presidential politics as well as international issues, Ms. Jenkins leads WMC's online publication and its advocacy initiatives. As media and political analyst she has appeared as a guest and in debates on MSNBC, among other outlets. Her commentary, which she writes for the WMC Web site at www.womensmediacenter.com, has appeared in The Nation.com, Television Week, and other print and online sources.

Ms. Jenkins enjoyed a 30-year, award-winning tenure with several New York City news departments, including 23 years at WNBC-TV, where she co-anchored the pivotal 6 PM newscast. She was most identified with her reporting of national political stories, including from the floor of Democratic and Republican national conventions that yielded Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. From South Africa she reported on the release of Nelson Mandela from 27 years in prison, and anchored and co-produced an Emmy-nominated prime time special on apartheid. She hosted her own daily talk show, Carol Jenkins Live, on WNYW-TV.

Carol Jenkins is the author, with her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines, of Black Titan, A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. The life story of Ms Jenkins' uncle, the book was selected by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as one of the best nonfiction books of 2004. She is also an executive producer of the PBS documentary, What I Want My Words To Do To You, which won the Freedom of Expression Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003.

Andrew Kimbrell is a public interest attorney, activist, and author. He has been involved in public interest legal activity in numerous areas of technology, human health, and the environment. After working for eight years as the policy director at the Foundation for Economic Trends, Mr. Kimbrell established the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) in 1994 and the Center for Food Safety (CFS) in 1997. Mr. Kimbrell has written several books and given numerous public lectures on a variety of issues. He has been featured on radio and television programs across the country, including The Today Show, the CBS Morning Show, Crossfire, Headlines on Trial, and Good Morning America. He has also lectured at dozens of universities throughout the country and has testified before congressional and regulatory hearings.

Mae Mendelson, M.S.W, Ph.D., founded the Travel & Learn Company, which is dedicated to creating meaningful travel opportunities for older adults through volunteer services across the globe. Dr. Mendelson is also a professor in residence at Chaminade University, and is founder and director of the Intergenerational Center at Chiminade. Dr. Mendelson has many years of teaching and working with communities on intergenerational studies. She is also a national board member of AARP and former state president of AARP-Hawaii.

Daniel J. Murphy has more than 22 years of experience as an editor, reporter, and commentator for business publications in the health care, food processing, and manufacturing industries, including serving as editor of such titles as Modern Medicine, Meat Processing, Poultry Processing, National Provisioner, and Meat Marketing and Technology. Mr. Murphy also has extensive experience in media and public relations and in B2B marketing and communications, having formerly served as vice president of public affairs for the American Meat Institute.

Andrew Rowan, PhD, chief-of-staff for the Humane Society of the United States, has 28 years of experience worldwide in public policy relating to animal and environmental issues. He is an adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and senior fellow at the Tufts Center for Animals & Public Policy. Dr. Rowan serves on the Advisory Committee on Animal Testing for Royal Dutch Shell and on the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Chimpanzee Sanctuaries for the National Institute for Health. He is the author of numerous books and scientific papers.

Kathleen Savesky, executive director of the Leonard X. Bosack & Bette M. Kruger Charitable Foundation, is a veteran of nearly 30 years in the animal protection and higher education fields. Her professional roles have included: executive director of the Peninsula Humane Society in San Mateo, California; administrative director for the Boards of Overseers of Tufts University; senior vice president of the International School for Field Studies; vice president of the Massachusetts SPCA; and director of the National Association for the Advancement of Humane Education.

Ed Sayres, president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has 30 years of experience in both local and national nonprofit management, animal protection, and nonprofit boards. Mr. Sayres was the president of St. Hubert's Humane Society Animal Welfare Center in New Jersey, the director of the Animal Protection Division of the American Humane Association, director of PETsMART Charities, and president of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Sayres is on the board of the Delta Society and the Society of Animal Welfare Administrators.

Michael Selmi, Esq., has been a lawyer for 17 years, and has spent the last nine years as a law professor at George Washington University Law School. Mr. Selmi has served on several boards, including as a Mayoral appointee to the Citizen Complaint Review Board of Washington, D.C.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Leading animal scientists, veterinarians, and producers have worked with Humane Farm Animal Care to develop the Animal Care Standards for humane farming and continue to work with Humane Farm Animal Care to continually review new information pertaining to improving the lives of farm animals.

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