Consuming Kids:
How Marketing Undermines
Children’s Health, Values & Behavior

March 11-13, 2005
Blackburn Center, Howard University, Washington DC

The 2005 CCFC summit was an overwhelming success.  More than 100 scholars, activists, parents, students, and journalists attended the summit.  For those of you who were unable to attend, many of the summit speakers have generously provided summaries of their presentations.
 

Buzz Marketing: Honest Deception. Bob Ahuja, PhD, Xavier University

Call to Action. Enola Aird, JD, The Motherhood Project

Starting a Local Chapter of CCFC: Methods of Bringing Our Movement to Communities Kathy Bowman and Tim Kasser, CCFC-QC

Building Alliances for Social Change, Joan Almon, Alliance for Childhood

Sacrificing Development for Dollars: The Corruption of Child's Play. Michael Brody, MD, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Protecting Children and Free Speech, Angela Campbell, JD, Georgetown University Law Center

Gun Play and Greed: The Marketing of Violence to Children. Nancy Carlsson-Paige, EdD, Lesley University

Children in Poverty–A Target for Food Marketing. Fern Gale Estrow, MS, RD, CDN, Nutritionist

Government: Hand-Maiden of Commercial Exploitation of Children. And What To Do About It. Sean Faircloth, State Representative, Maine

Campaigning for a Commercial-Free Childhood. Josh Golin, CCFC

Building Resilience to Consumer Culture through Community Involvement. Tim Kasser, PhD, Knox College

Special Video Presentation: Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies and Alcohol. Jean Kilbourne, EdD, Wellesley Centers for Women

The Dress Mess and More: Commercialism’s Challenges to the Black Children’s Health. Velma Lapoint, PhD, Howard University

So Sexy, So Soon: The Sexualization of Childhood in Commercial Culture. Diane Levin, PhD, Wheelock College

Kids Can Make a Difference. Larry Levine, Kids Can Make a Difference

If Values are Right, Then What's Left? Life Lessons from Marketing. Susan Linn, EdD, Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School

The 90-Minute Commercial: Using Feature Films to Sell to Kids. Nell Minow, “The Movie Mom”, Yahoo! Movies and Common Sense Media

Safeguarding Children in the Digital Marketplace. Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, American University

Consumer "Army of One": Values, Marketing, and Latino Youth. Carlotta Ocampo, PhD, Trinity University

The Context of Violence for Children of Color: Violence in the Community and in the Media--Research Findings of the PEPDA Program Kathy Sanders-Phillips, PhD, Research Program in the Epidemiology of Drug Abuse & Ella Mizzell Kelly, PhD, College of Medicine, Howard University

How Consumer Culture Undermines Children's Well-Being: Evidence From a Survey of 10-13 Year Olds. Juliet Schor, PhD, Boston College

When Spider Webs Unite: How African American Communities Are Fighting Predatory Marketing and Winning. Makani Themba-Nixon, The Praxis Project

Promising Approaches for Reducing Junk Food Marketing to Children. Margo Wootan, Dsc, Center for Science in the Public Interest