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Foundation Report, Summer 2005
Introducing Our Staff
By Bill Sanda
Kathy O’Brien, Office Manager, is responsible for membership,
chapters and orders. She works part-time for the Foundation, from 9-4
on Mondays and Wednesdays, so this is a good time to call with questions
on these matters. Kathy is also a Nutritional Consultant working
at two doctors’ offices in the Washington, DC area. She gives
classes and offers private consultations. She has spoken to groups of
all ages in schools, businesses and social groups and has been interviewed
on the radio about diet and health. She is enthusiastic about sharing
the "back to basics" ideas of traditional diets because she
sees and hears firsthand about the impact this knowledge is having on
her clients and on people calling the Foundation. She has also worked
as a Montessori elementary school teacher in both a school and home-based
setting.
Liz Pitfield takes care of advertising and graphical design. She answers
the phone at the office from 10-2 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She will
also be coordinating exhibitors at the WAPF conference. Liz is fluent
in both Spanish and French and earned a BScN in Public Health Nursing
in Canada. She is experienced in early parenting and infant nutrition
education both in inner city areas and within a Native community in
northern Ontario. She lived for some time in Malaysia and six years
in Argentina where she managed a breast cancer clinic. She came away
from her Argentinean experience very impressed by the healthy hair,
skin and teeth of the children she saw there. The Argentine diet is
very high in beef and dairy products. Currently Liz lives in rural Maryland
with her 11-year-old son; she dreams of one day milking her own dairy
cows.
 As
for me, your new Executive Director, I come to the Foundation with an
extensive background in government and politics, having served in the
U.S. Senate as a professional staff member on the subcommittee on education,
arts and humanities and as a legislative analyst with the Congressional
Research Service. I also cofounded and was partner of an education-based
lobbying and public affairs company in Washington, DC.
So, how did I wind up with the Foundation promoting politically incorrect
ideas about food and nutrition after making my career in mainstream
politics? It turns out to be one of those serendipity stories. I got
really interested in the relationship between food and well-being in
the late 1990s while living in Los Angeles. At that time, my now 14-year-old
daughter got really sick with skin rashes and bloating. Her mother had
met an acupuncturist / nutritionist at a copy store and we decided to
take a chance and have him check out our daughter as nothing else was
working. It turns out that she was having allergic reactions to soy-based
products, which she had been consuming in large quantities as she could
not take milk. This was my first introduction to the downside of soy.
The acupuncturist was also one of the original members of the Weston
A. Price Foundation. When I moved back to Washington, DC in 2001, I
contacted Sally Fallon to get some brochures as I was teaching a nutrition
module for transformational parenting workshops. As we were talking
over the phone, she asked what I did for a living and I said I had extensive
experience in lobbying. She said she needed someone who could represent
the Foundation on some Congressional-related food issues and asked me
if I would be interested. The rest is history.
NOTE: Our new phone system offers a variety of message options
including one to leave your address for a free info pack, one for chapter
leaders or inquiries about chapters, one for membership information,
and one for orders. There are also options for advertising and
for the executive director. However, email is the best way to
contact us. Our new general email is:
and for chapters:
. My e-mail address is
. Our website, www.westonaprice.org,
offers plenty of information on chapters, membership and orders, information
on finding raw milk and many articles that can answer your health questions.
We encourage people to consult the website first before phoning.
About the Author
Bill
Sanda, BS, MBA, served as Executive Director and Director of Public
Affairs for the Weston A. Price Foundation. Bill was a partner and co-owner of
The McAdam Group, a lobbying company specializing in elements of education policy,
and was a consultant to Primezyme, Inc., a nutrition and healing clinic. He has
extensive experience in Washington D.C. politics and government, having served
as a professional staff member in the US Senate.
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