Author: Karen Spies

Hayden Dansky (pronouns: they/them/theirs) is a Co-Founder and the current Executive Director of Boulder Food Rescue, a nonprofit that works to create a more just and less wasteful food system […]

A Dartmouth College and University of Colorado School of Law graduate, Clay Fong began writing about food in 2006 by co-authoring a guide book, “The Gyro’s Journey: Affordable Ethnic Eateries […]

Master Puppeteer Cory Gilstrap has 27 years of experience working in television and theater. He is “Denver’s premier puppet builder,” according to The Denver Post. His award-winning creations have been […]

Formerly a vegetarian, Kate Kavanaugh co-owns Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe in Denver. Its meat is grass-fed and pasture-raised within 250 miles of Denver. The shop’s butchers break down the entire […]

David Kay is the Senior Manager of Communications & Operations and first employee at Memphis Meats, a food company developing a way to produce real meat, poultry and seafood by […]

David Laskarzewski is co-founder and co-director of UpRoot Colorado (UpRoot), as well as coordinator of the Farm & Food Mobile Workforce pilot project, a collaborative effort working to bring on-demand […]

One of the leads of First Cow, Orion Lee worked in the finance industry as a fund manager before retraining as an actor at the London Academy of Music and […]

John Lehndorff has written and talked about food in Colorado since 1978. For more than 20 years he has hosted Radio Nibbles weekly on KGNU. John is the former Food […]

Alan Lewis navigates food and agriculture policy at Natural Grocers while developing the supply chain for regenerative producers and products. He will moderate the discussion and Q&A after Sacred Cow.

Liz Marshall is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker. Since the 1990s, she has written, produced, directed, and filmed diverse international and socially conscious documentaries. Her work has been released theatrically and […]