The BYA winners, in their first public appearance, are young activists who have shown outstanding leadership in creating positive environmental and social impacts. Come hear their inspiring stories and have the opportunity to connect with these young activists from all over North America.

Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

With Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network; and Caroline Casey, creator-weaver-of-context of “The Visionary Activist Show” on Pacifica  Radio stations KPFA in the Bay Area and KPFK in Los Angeles.

This organizing and strategizing session will focus on how to launch a women-led rights movement for future generations of all species. We’ll explore visionary new tools, policies and institutions from the local to the international level in a session that pulls together wisdom traditions, the bottom-up organizing of Occupy Wall Street, and new environmental policies.

The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

Hosted by Anuja Mendiratta of Philanthropic and Nonprofit Consulting.

With Robert Engelman, author and President of Worldwatch Institute; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Forward Together; John Seager, President of Population Connection; Muadi Mukenge, Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Fund for Women.

As global population exceeds 7 billion, and climate and social instabilities are on the rise, many believe we’re exceeding Earth’s carrying capacity. The pressure to change our social and ecological systems is ramping up, and women sit firmly at the center of it all. Yet who decides how population and reproductive rights change, and how? With such gross inequities and different perspectives as exist between the global North and the global South, the issue of population has long been a “third rail” in the environmental movement. Within the U.S., issues of reproductive rights, health and justice are surfacing painful political and social wounds, as well as cultural divides that are debilitating for our collective progress. Join us to navigate across a diverse spectrum of perspectives to explore and integrate anthropological, geopolitical, ecological and social identity impacts and narratives, while exploring how these various stories may find common ground.

Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

Hosted by Jeremy Kagan, award-winning filmmaker.

With  Mathew Gross, new media strategist, former Director of Internet Communications for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign; Shirley Sneve, Executive Director of Native American Public Telecommunications; Ian Inaba, Co-Executive Director of Citizen Engagement Lab.

Bold innovators in new media activism are addressing both the need to change the larger narrative to combat apathy, cynicism, hopelessness and paranoia, as well as to explore how to get your message out and mobilize engagement most effectively in a rapidly shifting media landscape.

Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

With Lauren Bon, author of the Metabolic Studio, where she practices at the intersection of art and philanthropy, working with social brownfields and metabolic sculptures that foster relationships, actions and events that transform the site into a more healthful environment and galvanize transition within complex bureaucracies.

Water from the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains supports many of the cities of the West. Our Action Plan envisions a future in which Los Angeles no longer needs imported water. With the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in November 2013, we ask the Bioneers community to discuss our Action Plan: “Toward the Next One Hundred Years of Water.” In this workshop, we aim to remap our bioregion with the intention of maximizing its hydro potential for all living things.

Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

With Ai-jen Poo; Sandra Steingraber; Nikki Henderson;Anisha Desai, Program Director, New Leaders Initiative; Jess Rimington, Founder and Executive Director of One World Youth Project.

With more women ascending into leadership roles, we have an opportunity to re-examine and re-vision new models of organizational and movement culture. Several new initiatives are redefining leadership, transforming outdated methods and structures into practices and networks that are equitable, sustainable, and of the heart.

Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

With Ethan Nadelmann; Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center; Alice A. Huffman, President, California NAACP.

The struggle to end America’s disastrous “war on drugs” is a struggle for common sense, human rights and, without question, racial justice — given the extraordinary and disproportionate extent to which people of color are arrested, prosecuted and incarcerated for drug offenses. The majority of these arrests are for low-level drug offenses, such as possession for personal use.

An extremely high percentage of young people arrested winds up in prison instead of college. What are the policies and factors motivating these arrests? Who’s monitoring these trends? What’s happening at federal and state levels to stop the practice of disappearing so many people into the prison system? And what more can be done?

Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun