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Biographies of Workshop Presenters
Phil Dahl-Bredine, married and the father of seven children, received a B.A. in
philosophy from Carleton College and an M.A. in the same from Northwestern
University. In the 1960s and '70s, he worked in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war
movements, for the Catholic Worker, and as an organic farmer and beekeeper. After
20 years working with community development projects in the Mexican-American
communities of New Mexico, he became a Maryknoll lay missioner in 2001. He
presently works with indigenous campesino groups (CEDICAM, the Center for
Integrated Rural Development of the Mixteca) and with popular movements
resisting and building alternatives to the corporate globalization model in southern
Mexico and Central America.
Kristin Dawkins is Vice President for International Programs at the Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Director of the IATP
Program on Trade and Global Governance. She represents the Institute at a broad
range of international negotiations and conferences. Her own work has focused on
food security, environmental policy, and intellectual property rights. She created the
Global Governance program to address the legal relationship among different
international treaties and to build support for a more democratic multilateral system.
She is the author of Global Governance: The Battle for Planetary Power and Gene Wars:
The Politics of Biotechnology, both available from Seven Stories Press. She has a
master's degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Alberto Gómez Flores is the national coordinator of the National Union of
Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA), a network of regional
groups representing 200,000 farmers in Mexico. UNORCA works to secure farmers'
access to land and productive inputs, fair agricultural prices and credit, and a voice in
agricultural policy-making. As coordinator of Vía Campesina activities in North
America, Gómez is involved in many projects at the regional and international level.
Together with Vía Campesina-India, UNORCA coordinates a thematic working
group on biodiversity and genetic resources. Originally from the Mexican state of
Michoacán, Gómez began political work as a youth leader of his ejido and was later
ejido president.
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