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CSHS 2022 Conference
Vegetable Symposium
Symposium Chair: Dr. Lord Abbey
Invited Speaker
Dr. Kathleen Kevany
Associate Professor of Business and Social Sciences
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Can plant-foods help to reverse global warming and strengthen human, animal, and planetary health?
Kathleen Kevany is a social psychologist and specializes in individual and collective well-being and social
change. She is Canada’s leading authority on sustainable diets and plant-rich living and the editor to large
book projects in these areas. As a certified Psychotherapist, she ran her own counselling and consulting
firm for 10 years called the Decentralization Intelligence Agency. Kathleen has worked in many countries
on facilitating vibrant communities and collaborative relationships. She is an Associate Professor with
Dalhousie’s Faculty of Agriculture where she works to advance the Sustainable Development Goals and
recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Also, she is leading innovative efforts to
increase plant protein production and consumption in Atlantic Canada, and around the world as an
optimal approach for health and reduced emissions.
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