Sarah Zimmerman is a writer and communications project manager. Her 30-plus years of experience include developing marketing campaigns, remaking websites, and reporting for daily newspapers.  When she served as a course facilitator, Sarah was the Communications Coordinator for the Food Fortification Initiative (FFI), a public-private-civic partnership working to improve nutrition via fortified wheat flour, maize flour, and rice. In her role, Sarah collaborated with the FFI staff and international partners to create and disseminate fortification advocacy materials. She wrote and edited journal articles, managed the FFI website and social media, and spoke at advocacy meetings and training events. Sarah earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Oklahoma Baptist University and served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal.  

Dr. Helena Pachón is a public health nutritionist with over 25 years of work experience in research and programs to address reduce malnutrition particularly in low- and middle-income countries.   Currently, she supports food fortification in her capacity as Research Director for the Food Fortification Initiative (FFI).  At FFI, Helena collates or generates evidence on the public health impact of wheat flour, maize flour and rice fortification.  With her FFI colleagues, she also provides technical assistance to country counterparts in fortification advocacy, monitoring and evaluation.  Helena completed her nutrition doctoral training at Cornell University and her Master of Public Health at Harvard University.  She has an appointment at Emory University as Research Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health.   

Quentin Johnson has more than 40 years of professional experience in new product development, quality assurance and quality control, food safety, and regulatory affairs related to milling and baking. He has provided technical assistance for the development of wheat and maize flour fortification programs in over 80 countries. Through his own business, Quican Inc., Quentin consults with United Nations’ programs and agencies, donor aid agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on the topic of staple food fortification. In 2011, Quentin received an Honorary Degree DLL honoris causa from the University of Guelph for his contribution to the advancement of staple food fortification around the world.