Aaron Nakai

Aaron Nakai, an educator of Japanese descent born in Colorado, has worked as a trainer, facilitator, academic tutor, advocate, and youth development specialist in a variety of schools, community spaces and education non-profits for 12 years. He is currently Co-Director of Youth Engagement at the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational and Environmental Design (I-SEEED) in Oakland, CA., where he implements community-based action research projects and co-teaches early college/model high school classes in urban ecology, ethnic studies and environmental justice. He is an expert facilitator who trains many youth and youth-serving adults to co-create and co-lead a range of projects for young people at risk. www.iseeed.org

Adriann Barboa

Adriann Barboa is the New Mexico Field Director of Forward Together, which leads grassroots actions and trains community leaders to transform policy and culture in ways that support individuals, families, and communities in reaching their full potential. She previously served as the Director of Young Women United for eight years and has over ten years’ experience in the social justice sector, working primarily on issues of gender, reproductive rights, anti-violence, and education/youth in communities of color, helping build networks and collaborations across differences in her home state of New Mexico and nationally. www.forwardtogether.org

Afia Walking Tree

Afia Walking Tree, M.Ed, is a Jamaica-born, Bay Area-based, internationally acclaimed master percussionist and performer, workshop leader, and leadership trainer. She is the founder and Director of Spirit Drumz, an international organization that seeks to activate empowerment and healing among women and youth of all cultures using African Diasporic drumming, dancing, and storytelling. Her first solo CD is Soul Affirmationz. www.spiritdrumz.org

Ai-Jen Poo

Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, has been organizing immigrant women workers since 1996. In 2000 she helped start Domestic Workers United (DWU), a New York-based organization that spearheaded the passage of the state’s historic Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, and out of which the National Domestic Workers Alliance was formed. Ai-jenserves on the boards of Momsrising.org, National Jobs with Justice, Working America, and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy and is the Co-Director of the new Caring Across Generations national coalition. She has won numerous awards, including the Ms. Foundation Woman of Vision Award. www.domesticworkers.org/

Aimee Allison

Aimee Allison, a journalist, writer, and activist, is the Co-Executive Director of  RootsAction, a new online initiative dedicated to galvanizing millions  of Americans who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights, civil liberties, environmental protection, and defunding endless wars. She  currently hosts specials for LinkTV and previously hosted Comcast  Newsmakers on CNN Headline News and the KPFA Morning Show. Based in the  San Francisco Bay Area, she founded the local news site OaklandSeen in  2009. Aimee is the co-author of Army of None: Strategies to Counter  Military Recruitment, End War and Build a Better World (2007). (www.rootsaction.org, www.linktv.org, www.oaklandseen.com)

Akaya Windwood

Akaya Windwood, President (since 2008) of the Rockwood Leadership Institute, which was founded in 2000 to provide powerful, effective training in transformational leadership and collaboration to individuals, organizations and social change networks, has led hundreds of such trainings and speaks widely about transformative social change. She and Rockwood co-founder Robert Gass won the Seasons Fund Transformational Leadership Award in 2009, and Akaya was also awarded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Ella Award in 2011. www.rockwoodleadership.org

Alan Webb

Alan Webb is the co-founder of the Peer to Peer University (P2PU) School of Social Innovation, dedicated to building new social and cultural  infrastructure to help learners create their own transformative learning experiences together with such vehicles as: Citizen Circles, a format  for organizing peer-led, rather than teacher-led, courses; a peer-led  Masters, rooted in physical communities around the world; and peer-led  workshops at conferences. Alan previously worked on the sustainability  and eco-efficiency of buildings in Australia, and on social  entrepreneurship in Tibet. www.p2pu.org

Alice A. Huffman

Alice A. Huffman, President of the Sacramento-based California NAACP since 2000 and a member of the NAACP’s national board, is President and CEO of her consulting firm, A.C. Public Affairs, Inc., founded in 1988, which specializes in initiative campaigns, strategic public policy issues and grassroots organizing. Huffman has served and continues to serve on many boards, advisory councils, and governmental commissions and has won a slew of distinguished awards. (www.naacp.org)

Alisa Gravitz

Alisa Gravitz, MBA, the CEO of Green America (formerly Co-op  America), has led this high profile green economy organization, the  nation’s largest green living and green business network, for over 25  years. Green America’s programs focus on growing the green economy,  stopping corporate abuse, advancing fair trade, tackling climate change, and community investing with major events and publications, including  the Green Festivals, the Green Business Conference, the National Green  Pages, and the Green American. She is also a nationally recognized  leader in the social investment industry who authored Green America’s  Guide to Social Investing (over a million copies in print) and served as Vice President of the Social Investment Forum, playing a key role in  the dramatic growth of the socially responsible investing industry. She  has served on many boards, including for the Positive Futures Network,  the Ceres Network for Good, and the Underdog Foundation. www.greenamerica.org

Amira Diamond

Amira Diamond is the Co-Director of Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), where she designs  innovative development and communication strategies, including the  Weaving the Worlds Initiative, a multimedia-based education platform  using storytelling, music and culture to connect grassroots initiatives  with a broad audience. A violinist and vocalist since childhood, she is  also the founder and Director of the Social Prophet Choir, a 75+ person  group of artists, green business owners and NGO organizers. Prior to  WEA, Amira worked as West Coast Director of Democracy Matters and as  Associate Director of Circle of Life. www.womensearthalliance.org

Andy Lipkis

Andy Lipkis is the founder and President of the renowned “citizen forestry” group, TreePeople, which he started at age 18 in 1973. It has inspired and  mobilized volunteers in planting and caring for over two million trees  in Los Angeles and provides a model for environmental, economic, and  social sustainability in cities everywhere. Andy is the recipient of  numerous local, national and international awards, including an Ashoka  fellowship, and has appeared in TV and films, most recently the 11th  Hour and Dirt! The Movie. Currently, Andy is working with numerous  partners on a ten-year plan to scale up urban watershed solutions to  accelerate Los Angeles’ transformation to a climate resilient, safe,  healthy, and sustainable city. www.treepeople.org, www.andylipkis.net, www.ashoka.org/alipkis

Resilient Communities I: Methods and Madness – Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Anisha Desai

Anisha Desai is currently the Program Director of the New Leaders Initiative (NLI)  at Earth Island Institute, which raises the profile of young emerging  environmental leaders in North America and provides them with skills,  resources, and relationships to lead effective campaigns and projects. The NLI also confers the Brower Youth Awards, the premier North American awards honoring bold young environmental leaders. Anisha has a long history of work in youth leadership and social justice, and was formerly the Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland and the Program Director of United for a Fair Economy in Boston. broweryouthawards.org; earthisland.org

Anna Goldstein

Anna Goldstein is the U.S. Campaigns Coordinator at 350.org, an international climate campaign that works with volunteer activists in 188 countries to try to solve the climate crisis via online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions. She works with organizers around the country to help grow the climate movement with a focus on scaling up climate leadership through workshops. Anna has been a Fulbright scholar in Sri Lanka, an English teacher in Taiwan, a rape crisis counselor in Oakland, and a dog walker in NYC. 350.org

Campaign Connection: Organizing for Clean Energy – The Tent of Inspiration | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Anneke Campbell

Anneke Campbell, born and raised in The Netherlands, came to America at 17 and has  worked as a midwife, nurse, yoga teacher, professor of English  literature and composition, poet and scriptwriter. Her first novel, Mary of Bellingham, was published in 2004. She is the co-author (with Thomas Linzey) of Be The Change: How To Get What You Want in Your Community  and co-editor (with Nina Simons) of Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and also co-produces (with Jeremy Kagan) advocacy  videos for non-profits. She is founding member of Transition Los  Angeles, and currently conducting doctoral studies at CIIS.

Motherhood and Leadership: From the Traditional to the Revolutionary – Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Annie Leonard

Annie Leonard is the Director of The Story of Stuff Project and author of The Story of  Stuff (2010). Her 20-minute film, The Story of Stuff, released in 2007,  an eye-opening tour of the hidden costs of our consumer culture, has  generated over 15 million views in more than 200 countries since its  launch. It’s probably the most successful environmental-themed viral  film of all time. Previously Annie spent 2 decades working on  international sustainability, environmental and health issues, traveling to 40 countries working for various environmental organizations,  including Greenpeace International and GAIA. www.storyofstuff.org

Anthony Madrigal

Anthony Madrigal, Ph.D., a lawyer and historian, member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians, has worked as counsel for the California Native American Heritage Commission and in tribal cultural resource management for the Twenty-Nine Palms, the Cahuilla, and the San Manuel bands of Mission Indians. Madrigal has written about Cahuilla and Chemehuevi history, traditional ecological knowledge, and the preservation of sacred lands. He serves on the board of the Native American Land Conservancy.

Antwi A. Akom, Ph.D

Antwi A. Akom, Ph.D, is founding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design (I-SEEED) which focuses on creating sustainable cities and schools. He is nationally recognized for designing models of schooling for sustainability and building college and career pathways in the clean energy economy. Currently Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology, Public Health, and STEM Education at San Francisco State, he has received numerous national awards, and is the author of the forthcoming books: Building Sustainable Cities and Schools and Redemptions Songs: New Visions of Race, Schooling, and Sustainability. iseeed.org

Anuja Mendiratta, MES

Anuja Mendiratta, MES, a Bay Area-based independent consultant with deep expertise in environmental justice and health, food security, ecological sustainability, criminal justice reform, and gender equity, works with foundations, donors, nonprofits, and coalitions on a range of environmental, human rights and social justice issues. She currently manages the Race Gender Human Rights Fund of the Women’s Foundation of California and is co-founder of both the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative and the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance, working to advance the health, safety and rights of salon workers. Anuja is also the board chair of Women’s Voices for the Earth, on the board of San Francisco BayKeeper, and a committee member of Center for Environmental Health’s Justice Fund. www.cahealthynailsalons.org

Ariel Luckey

Ariel Luckey, an Oakland, CA native, is a nationally acclaimed poet, actor and playwright whose community and performance work combines education, art, and activism. His acclaimed solo hip hop theater show Free Land explores the inherited benefits white people receive from stolen Native American land. His most recent collection of poetry is Searching for White Folk Soul. arielluckey.com

Arty Mangan

Arty Mangan, Bioneers’ Food and Farming Director, joined the organization in 1998 as Project Manager for the Restorative Development Initiative, which produced “Wisdom at the End of Hoe” ecological agricultural workshops and collaborated with John Mohawk’s Iroquois White Corn Project and African American farmers in Mississippi and Alabama. A former President of the board of the Ecological Farming Association, Arty has worked with farmers and agriculture since 1978, first as a partner in Live Juice, a fresh, local, organic apple juice company in Santa Cruz, CA, and later with Odwalla where he was in charge of fruit sourcing from farmers in the US, Mexico and Costa Rica. www.bioneers.org

Asher Miller

Asher Miller is the Executive Director of the Santa Rosa, CA-based Post Carbon Institute, which seeks to provide individuals, communities, businesses, and governments with the resources needed to understand and respond to the economic, energy, environmental, and equity crises that define the 21st century and move toward sustainable, resilient communities and re-localized economies. Asher has worked in the nonprofit sector since 1996 in various capacities, including at Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. Asher founded Climate Changers, an organization that inspires people to reduce their impact on the climate by focusing on simple actions anyone can take and currently serves on the board of Transition U.S. postcarbon.org

Ashley Cooper

Ashley Cooper is an educator, school counselor, social emotional teacher, expert in  Child-Centered Play Therapy, life and family coach, mentor, group  facilitator, organizational consultant, wilderness trip leader, and  Executive Director of TEDxNextGenerationAsheville in North Carolina.

Astrid J. Scholz, Ph.D.

Astrid J. Scholz, Ph.D., with an academic background in  Economics, Philosophy, and Energy and Resources, is Executive Vice  President of Ecotrust, a groundbreaking organization based in Portland,  Oregon committed to creating wellbeing for people and place. While  overseeing daily operations, Scholz is also leading development of a  strategic framework for expanding Ecotrust’s international profile.  Scholz is an affiliate faculty member at Oregon State University, and  co-editor of a book on integrated marine geographic information systems, Place Matters. She also serves on the boards of Habitat Media,  Comunidad y Biodiversidad (Mexico), and the Living Oceans Society  (Canada). ecotrust.org

Resilient Communities I: Methods and Madness – Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Atossa Soltani

Atossa Soltani is the founder and Executive Director of Amazon Watch, a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. In partnership with indigenous peoples, Atossa has been leading campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems. Atossa is the chair of the board of trustees of the Christensen Fund and serves on the board of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs. amazonwatch.org

Autumn Summers

Autumn Summers has studied herbalism and ethnobotany for the last 20 years with a kinship for the plants, seaweeds and mushrooms of Northern California. She has guest hosted KPFA’s Herbal Highway show, made herbal medicines at KW Botanicals, and coordinated a community garden in Santa Rosa. Currently she teaches edible and medicinal plant classes at the California School of Herbal Studies, consults for the pioneering herbal company, Herb Pharm, and teaches in their intern program in Southern Oregon. cshs.com

Herbwalk: Medicines and Wild Edibles – Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben, the renowned journalist, activist and author who co-founded 350.org with a handful of student activists and helped make it the most exciting and effective global citizen movement to address climate change yet seen, will describe the group’s campaigns, including stopping the Keystone XL pipeline for the most climate-wrecking “dirty” oil from Canada’s Tar Sands. Against all odds, McKibben and 350.org halted what seemed like a sure thing — at least for now. Bill’s reporting helped expose the faulty review process by the State Department and the crony capitalism behind it. 350.org will also participate in a Campaign Connection to help you make a decisive difference.

Bill Twist

Bill Twist is the co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance, which works with indigenous Amazonian groups on issues such as land rights and sustainable development. The Pachamama Alliance (roughly translated, Pachamama means “our own Mother Earth”), which seeks to protect both the culture and the land of indigenous people, has an office in California and one in Ecuador. Twist is married to Pachamama Alliance co-founder Lynne Twist. pachamama.org

Bob Gough

Bob Gough, an attorney with graduate degrees in sociology and cultural ecology with 35 years’ experience working on tribal cultural and natural resource issues, was the first Director of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Utility Commission, and is currently the Secretary of the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (COUP), an organization composed of many Indian tribes in the Northern Great Plains that seeks sustainable homeland economies based upon efficient and renewable energy. COUP’s plan for tribal wind development across the West was recently awarded the inaugural World Clean Energy Award for Courage. Bob directed the first tribal utility wind turbine project, co-chaired the national tribal climate assessment, and served on the DOE Wind-Powering Native America Initiative.

Bob Stilger, Ph.D

Bob Stilger, Ph.D, sees his mission as helping people build healthy and resilient communities. After working all around the world as Co-President of The Berkana Institute, Bob’s most recent work is in Japan, where he is helping people use disaster as a springboard to creating a new future. In the last century Bob was the co-founder and Executive Director of a Community Development Corporation. Now he consults, speaks and hosts conversations that matter as the founder and Vice-President of New Stories and founder of the newly created Transformation Institute. berkana.org, newstories.org,transform.org

Bonnie Nixon

Bonnie Nixon has 25 years’ experience working on furthering social and environmental responsibility on many fronts in high profile roles for large corporations and as a consultant to a number of governmental agencies and NGOs. Her previous positions include: Director of Environmental Sustainability and of Ethical Sourcing at Hewlett Packard for a decade; and Executive Director of The Sustainability Consortium (an independent standards organization of diverse global participants including 100 corporate, governmental, academic and civil society groups). Currently she runs her own firm, BonnEco, Inc., and is a partner in Code Green Agency and Supply Change Associates. bonneco.com

Brian Swimme

Brian Swimme, a professor of cosmology at the California Institute of Integral Studies and author, with Thomas Berry, of the highly influential The Universe Story, is a mathematical cosmologist and the author of four books on cosmology, evolution and religion. Featured in the 1991 BBC TV series Soul of the Universe with such scientists as Stephen Hawking and Ilya Prigogine, Swimme is also the producer of the internationally popular DVD series Canticle to the Cosmos.

Caleen Sisk

Caleen Sisk, the spiritual leader and Tribal Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of northern California, is the fifth Winnemem leader since the signing of the Cottonwood Treaty of 1851. She received her training and position in the traditional way from Winnemem Wintu Leader/healer Florence Jones (1907-2003). Caleen now leads the tribe’s struggles for sustainability and justice, including efforts to: restore salmon in the tribe’s traditional homeland waters in the McCloud River south of Mt. Shasta; gain federal recognition of the indigenous sovereign rights of the Winnemem Wintu to protect their sacred places and religious/cultural tribal practices; and stop the U.S. government’s plans to raise the height of Shasta Dam, which would drown a number of sacred sites.

Return of the Salmon – Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Carl Anthony

Carl Anthony, co-founder and Co-Director of Breakthrough Communities and a former executive at the Ford Foundation responsible for worldwide programs on the environment and community development, was the founder and first Executive Director of the Urban Habitat Program, one of the U.S.’ oldest environmental justice organizations. He is publisher emeritus of the Race, Poverty and Environment Journal (in its 20th year in print) and was President of Earth Island Institute from 1991 through 1998. breakthroughcommunities.info

Carol Jenkins

Carol Jenkins, an Emmy-winning former television journalist who anchored and reported the news and hosted her own talk show in New York City for many years, is a sought-after speaker and writer on issues relating to the media, specifically the participation of women and people of color, women’s participation in the political and economic structures in the U.S., and the health of women in developing countries, especially in Africa. Founding President and board member of The Women’s Media Center, the groundbreaking non-profit aimed at increasing coverage and participation of women in the media, she conceived the Progressive Women’s Voices media leadership program, and acquired and expanded the largest portfolio of women experts in the country, SheSource. Carol Jenkins is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of AMREF USA, The African Medical & Research Foundation, based in Nairobi, the largest health NGO in Africa. She is also the co-author of an award-winning biography of her uncle, Black Titan: A.G.Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. caroljenkinsmedia.com

The Public Square Is Empty (Aside from the Occasional Hanging) – Restoration Nation Theater | 11:20am, Fri

Changing the Stories that Create Culture, And How We Tell Our Own – Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Carol Newell

Carol Newell, a leading British Columbia (BC), Canada-based social entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the founding investor and Principal of Renewal, a collection of independent businesses and non-profits committed to fostering social change, which include the charitable foundation Endswell, the seed-capital investment firm Renewal Partners Company, the new investment fund Renewal2, the Social Venture Institute, and Play BIG, an initiative to encourage those with wealth to activate their resources for social change. Through Renewal, Ms. Newell has placed over $60 million in organizations and businesses working toward sustainability in BC. She is also an active member of Hollyhock, the Threshold Foundation, Canadian Women’s Foundation, Women Donors Network, Investors’ Circle, Social Venture Network, and the Wealth & Giving Forum. In 2007, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. renewalpartners.com

What Will It Take to Grow Bioregional Economies? – Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Carol Wolman

Carol Wolman, a board-certified psychiatrist practicing in Northern California, has been studying nuclear consciousness for 50 years. A long-time activist, she helped organize many peace groups including the West Coast chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). She ran for Congress three times in California’s 1st Congressional District, including as the Green Party Candidate in 2008.

Fukushima Redux: Inspired Actions for a Safe Energy Future in Japan and the US – Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Caroline W. Casey

Caroline W. Casey, creator-weaver-of-context of “The Visionary Activist Show” on Pacifica  Radio stations KPFA in the Bay Area and KPFK in Los Angeles (also web  and podcast), is the author of Making the Gods Work For You and  founder/Chief Trickster of Coyote Network News, a mythological news  service that provides astrological meta-stories describing collective  global culture in myriad cross-cultural venues  (www.coyotenetworknews.com). Born in Washington DC to a prominent  political family, Caroline comments on politics and social change from  an astrologically-informed perspective and has brought astrology’s  guiding story to many prestigious mainstream venues from Nightline to  the Washington Post. visionaryactivism.com

Caroline Casey: Inaugurating the Trickster Redeemer | Epiphany Theater | 8:45pm-9:45pm, Sat

Carolyn Finney, Ph.D.

Carolyn Finney, Ph.D, is a professor at UC Berkeley specializing in the study of the ways difference, identity, representation, and power affect how people negotiate their daily lives in relation to the environment. A former Fulbright Fellow, she serves on a number of national boards and committees including: the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for Whole Communities, and the National Parks Advisory Board. berkeley.edu

Carolyn Raffensperger

Carolyn Raffensperger is Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) where she draws upon her training as an archaeologist and lawyer in service to the Earth. One of the U.S.’ leading proponents of the Precautionary Principle, Carolyn was co-editor of the seminal texts, Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy (2006) and Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle (1999). Carolyn coined the term “ecological medicine” to encompass the broad notion that health and healing are entwined with the natural world. sehn.org

Carolyne Stayton

Carolyne Stayton is the co-founder (in 2008) and Executive Director of Transition U.S., helping catalyze and shepherd the Transition Towns Movement in this country, which has now spread to over 300 communities in 40 states. The Transition movement advocates for and organizes to promote a historic shift to local community resilience, providing trainings, tools and resources to encourage citizen action, local business development, the reinvention of food/transportation/energy systems, and local “re-skilling” with practical know-how. transitionus.org

Casey McCarroll

Casey McCarroll, M.A. is a rites of passage guide, high school staff therapist and teacher, and is the founder of LAUNCH mentoring and coaching for teens and young adults. He is also a group leader, staff trainer, and vision council member for the Stepping Stones Project (SSP), a coming of age program for Bay Area middle school youth. SSP supports a transition into healthy adolescence through connection to self, nature and community using council practice as its main vehicle. caseymccarroll.com

Cecile Pineda

Cecile Pineda, a critically-acclaimed, award-winning writer, is the author of several novels, including: Face; Frieze; and The Love Queen of the Amazon. A long-time anti-war activist, she recently penned Devil’s Tango: How I learned the Fukushima Step by Step, a dissection of the nuclear industry and the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, with its potentially global catastrophic consequences. Prior to becoming a novelist, Pineda founded/directed her own experimental ensemble theater company, Theater of Man. She has taught fiction-writing since 1987 in San Diego, and currently in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Fukushima Redux: Inspired Actions for a Safe Energy Future in Japan and the US – Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Charles Durrett

Charles Durrett, a noted architect, author and international speaker, introduced the  concept of cohousing to the U.S. with his wife Kathryn McCamant and is  the author of Senior Cohousing: A Community Approach to Independent Living – The Handbook. A leader in sustainable design, Durrett designs new neighborhood  projects that are extremely resource efficient, driven by the wishes of  future residents, and conscious of social justice. Durrett’s socially  relevant projects have won numerous awards, including the UN’s Human  Habitat Award. cohousingco.com

Charlotte Brody

Charlotte Brody is the Director of Chemicals, Public Health and Green Chemistry for the BlueGreen Alliance, a national strategic partnership between labor  unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy. A registered nurse and the  mother of two, Charlotte previously served as the Director of Programs  for Green For All and as Executive Director of Commonweal. She is a  founder and former Executive Director of Health Care Without Harm, on  the boards of Bioneers, Health Care Without Harm and the Regenerative  Design Institute, and on the National Medical Committee of Planned  Parenthood Federation of America. bluegreenalliance.org

Cheryl Dahle

Cheryl Dahle, an entrepreneur and journalist who works at the intersection of business and social change, is founder of the Future of Fish, a non-profit innovation hub that supports innovative companies in the seafood industry whose ideas drive better marine stewardship. Previously, she was a director at Ashoka, where she distilled knowledge from 2,500 fellows to provide strategic insight to foundations. She also spent a decade writing about social entrepreneurship for Fast Company, where she founded the Social Capitalist Awards. futureoffish.org

Claire Greensfelder

Claire Greensfelder, a lifelong environmental and peace activist as well as an educator and journalist, has worked in leadership roles with over four dozen NGOs, electoral campaigns, media outlets and youth organizations, including the International Forum on Globalization, Greenpeace, MLK, Jr. Freedom Center, INOCHI/Plutonium Free Future, Friends of the Earth, Jane Addams Center/Hull House, Sierra Club, American Friends Service Committee, Women’s Environment and Development Organization, the Rainbow Coalition, and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. She is currently a project coordinator for the international multi-media exhibit, Conversations with the Earth: Indigenous Voices on Climate Change.

Cole, MSc

Cole, MSc, an activist, author, and consultant with 15 years’ experience, founded (in 2010) the Brown Boi Project, a groundbreaking program that bridges gender and racial dialogues-the first of its kind to bring queer and straight people of color across the masculine spectrum to do transformative change work. Her most recent writing can be found in the 2011 anthology: Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. A Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar, Coro Fellow, and recipient the Spirit of Delores Huerta Award, Cole has worked across the U.S. and internationally on issues of gender, leadership development, and economic opportunity. (www.brownboiproject.org)

Connie Cagampang Heller

Connie Cagampang Heller is a consultant and co-founder of the Linked Fate Fund for Justice, which seeks to create spaces for people to deepen and broaden their understanding of racialization and its implications for their work. In her free time she uses textile collage to explore race in America, and also serves on the boards of the Center for Social Inclusion and the American Values Institute.

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community – Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Corrina Gould

Corrina Gould, of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone ancestry, is the Title VII Coordinator at the Office of Indian Education at the American Indian Child Resource Center in Oakland, CA. She also co-founded and is a lead organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, which works on raising awareness of the desecration of sacred sites in the Bay Area among other issues. This year she helped lead a successful 109-day prayerful vigil and occupation of the Sogorea Te site in Vallejo CA. Corrina also sits on the California Indigenous Environmental Association and Oakland Street Academy Foundation boards. aicrc.org

Dana Lanza

Dana Lanza is the CEO of a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors-Confluence Philanthropy, a non-profit network of over 175 private, public, and community foundations seeking to enhance the ability of foundations to promote environmental sustainability and social justice. Previously Executive Director of the Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA), Dana also served as the Program Director and Board Advisor at The Swift Foundation. An environmental justice activist prior to her philanthropy career, inculding as founder of Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ) and as a lead organizer in the closure of San Francisco’s infamous Hunters Point power plant, she has been a recipient of several environmental awards. confluencephilanthropy.org

Daniel R. Wildcat, Ph.D.

Daniel R. Wildcat, Ph.D., a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, is the co-founder and Director of a groundbrealing Native American research non-profit, the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center, and is also the Director of the American Indian Studies Program at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, where he has taught for 25 years. A leading Native American environmentalist, his recent activities have included helping form the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group and co-organizing several major events on climate change and Indigenous people. He is the author, co-author or editor of several books, including: Power and Place: Indian Education In America (with Vine Deloria, Jr); and most recently, Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, which suggests indigenous ingenuity (“indigenuity”) will be required to solve our ecological crises. haskell.edu

Darryl Cherney

Darryl Cherney, a long-time activist/organizer and topical singer-songwriter, founder/President of Environmentally Sound Promotions, has produced five albums of his original songs dedicated to environmental protection. He is the producer of the documentary Who Bombed Judi Bari? that will be screened at this year’s Moving Image Festival.

Dave Shaw

Dave Shaw, a nature mentor and “regenerative designer” with the 8 Shields Institute, Regenerative Design Institute, Gaia University, and UC Santa Cruz, is in the process of creating an urban farm and inter-generational learning center that fosters hands-on farm and wilderness skills, entrepreneurial spirit, conversational leadership, and transformative action. 8shields.com

David Lively

David Lively has been involved in the organic agricultural movement and organic  produce trade since 1979, as a gardener, farmer, and employee of  Organically Grown Company (OGC), where he has been a warehouser, account representative, buyer, marketing director, and currently, Vice  President of Sales and Marketing. He has also served as a certification  inspector and on the leadership council of the Oregon Organic Coalition, and on the boards of OGC, Oregon Tilth and, by Governor’s appointment,  the Center for Applied Agricultural Research. organicgrown.com

David McConville

David McConville, President of the Buckminster Fuller Institute since 2011, is: an Asheville, NC-based media artist and researcher; co-founder of The Elumenati, a design and engineering firm specializing in immersive visualization environments inspired by Fuller’s Geoscope; founder of the Media Arts Project; and on the advisory board of Black Mountain College’s Museum and Arts Center. David also collaborates with numerous community initiatives to develop systems-oriented solutions to energy, environmental and educational challenges. (www.bfi.org, www.elumenati.com)

David Orr

David Orr (Member, Bioneers Board of Directors), Professor of Environmental Studies and Senior Adviser to the President at Oberlin College, is an award-winning scholar and leader in the sustainability movement, renowned for his pioneering work on environmental literacy and ecological design. He is the author of: Down to the Wire; The Last Refuge; The Nature of Design; Earth in Mind; and Ecological Literacy; and co-editor of Hope is an Imperative. At Oberlin, he helped guide the building of a state-of-the-art green building, the Environmental Studies Center, and is now coordinating The Oberlin Project-a collaboration between the college, the city, and the Clinton Climate Initiative to create a model of a prosperous post-carbon economy in the heart of the “rust belt.” davidworr.com

De’Anthony Jones

De’Anthony Jones, a former President of the Environmental  Students Organization at Sacramento State, currently works with the  Young Democrats of California Black Caucus as its Northstate Regional  Director. He previously worked with the Environmental Service Learning  Initiative (ESLI) in San Francisco to engage youth of color in the  environmental movement. His passion is to help create a new youth  culture that takes environmental stewardship as a given. youngdems.org/blackcaucus/

Dean Hoaglin

Dean Hoaglin, a true California Native-CoastMiwok and Pomo on  his mother’s side and Wailaki and Yuki on his father’s-currently works  for the Suscol InterTribal Council in Napa, California as the PEI  outreach coordinator. Dean is a traditional dancer who learned about his Indian traditions and cultural practices from his uncle Calvin Smith  Sr. of the Kashya Pomo, Milton “Bun” Lucas (Pomo/CoastMiwok), and Lannie Pinola (Pomo/CoastMiwok). suscolcouncil.org

Deb Lane

Deb Lane has been playing the drums for most of her life. Formerly a member of the Santa Cruz World Beat Band, Pele Juju, she performs with artists throughout the Bay Area and beyond. In addition to her musical endeavors, Deb is a leader in water-use efficiency and works as a Water Resource Analyst. She is influencing change at the state level to redefine the new norm in landscape water management to include a whole systems watershed approach.

Deb Nelson, MBA

Deb Nelson, MBA, is the Executive Director of Social Venture Network, an organization of socially responsible business leaders and impact investors. Before SVN, Deb was Marketing Director for Working Assets and Western Region Marketing Director for American Express. svn.org

Deborah Frieze

Deborah Frieze left a career as a high-tech industry executive to, in 2004, join The  Berkana Institute, which seeks to strengthen communities around the  world by creating strong and sustainable relationships, wisely  stewarding the earth’s resources, and building local resilience. She is  the co-author (with Meg Wheatley) of the award-winning book, Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. Deborah served as Co-President of Berkana from 2005 to 2009 and as a  board member through June 2012. She is a speaker, consultant and advisor to numerous grassroot organizations both locally and abroad. A former  Editor of Snow Country magazine, Deborah is also a passionate ski and winter sports enthusiast. deborahfrieze.com

What Will It Take to Grow Bioregional Economies? – Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Deborah Schoenbaum

Deborah Schoenbaum has been on the faculty of The Center for Whole Communities-a leadership development organization focused on strengthening change efforts by creating relationships between sectors, disciplines and individual leaders-for over a decade. She previously held leadership positions with Social Venture Network, Conservation Corps North Bay, the Nature Conservancy, and the Trust for Public Land. Deborah is committed to serving organizations that align directly with her personal values and is a fierce advocate for economic and environmental justice, racial equity and inclusion, and youth development. wholecommunities.org

Debra Harry

Debra Harry, Ph.D. (Kooyooee Dukaddo; member, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nevada) is the founder and Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB) and the Emerging Indigenous Leaders Institute (EILI). A global leader in the movement to protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples to their genetic resources, ancestral knowledge, and cultural and human rights from biocolonialism, her research analyzes the complex linkages between biotechnology, intellectual property and globalization in relation to Indigenous Peoples’ rights and concerns, and she is a leading advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples in many international fora, including at the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Debra Harry also produced the 2003 documentary film The Leech and the Earthworm, which examines the globalized hunt for genes within Indigenous territories.  ipcb.org

Debra Weistar

Debra Weistar, along with her husband Tom, founded and directs Synergia Learning Ventures and Finding the Good Traveling Semester Program, located in the Yuba River watershed in California’s Sierra foothills. Her pioneering work in informal education spans 25 years and is focused on guiding youth to discover different ways to learn and meaningful ways to contribute to the world. The Finding the Good program, for high school and gap year students, is based on studying and documenting working models of sustainability. findingthegood.org, synergialearning.org

Dennis Martinez

Dennis Martinez, of O’odham, Chicano, and Swedish heritage, founder and Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network of the Society for Ecological Restoration International and Co-director of the Takelma Intertribal Project, has worked in ecocultural restoration in temperate and subtropical ecosystems for 43 years. He works internationally on cultural rights, resource and knowledge protection, climate change, forest restoration, and bridging Western science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and has received numerous awards, including an Ecotrust-Buffet Award for Indigenous Conservation Leadership in NW North America. He is on the steering committee of the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative (IPCCA), and has consulted with the National Congress of American Indians, the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Network and other groups on Indigenous adaptation to and mitigation of climate change.

Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company

Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC), a project of Destiny Arts Center, an Oakland, CA-based nonprofit violence prevention and arts education organization, is a multicultural company of teens that, since 1993, has been performing original pieces combining hip-hop, modern, and aerial dance, theater, martial arts, song, and rap for some 25,000 audience members annually. A documentary film about the company is coming out in 2013. destinyarts.org

Don Shaffer

Don Shaffer, President and CEO of RSF Social Finance, previously served as Executive Director of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), developing it into an alliance of over 15,000 independently owned businesses across North America; and as Interim Executive Director of Investors’ Circle, a network of angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations, and others who invest private capital into companies addressing social and environmental issues. Don’s experience includes over 15 years in senior management positions in several social mission companies. He currently serves on a several boards including those of: B Lab, Comet Skateboards, BALLE, and the Social Venture Network; and co-chairs the Roots of Change Business Leaders Council. rsfsocialfinance.org

What Will It Take to Grow Bioregional Economies? – Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Doug Gosling

Doug Gosling, the Garden Manager and Director of the Mother Garden Biodiversity Program at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC), has been managing the seed and plant collection at OAEC for 30 years and has a special interest in preserving food and medicinal crop biodiversity. Doug teaches Seed Saving and Biointensive Gardening; created OAEC’s famously diverse “Mother of all Plant Sales” and the garden and edible landscape project at Food for Thought, the Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank; is a founding member of Project Africa, which serves people with HIV and AIDS in Africa; and established an organic garden and orchard at Hope Initiatives, a soup kitchen for AIDS orphans in Namibia. Doug is also an authority on contemporary African music and hosts an African music show on KRCB, Sonoma public radio. (www.oaec.org)

Drew Dellinger, Ph.D.

Drew Dellinger, Ph.D., is an internationally known speaker, poet, teacher, consultant, and author who has presented at over 1000 events around the world. His book, Love Letter to the Milky Way, was named a 2011 Book of the Year Award finalist by Foreword Reviews magazine, and received a Writer’s Digest Book Award in 2010. Dellinger’s upcoming book-due in 2013-is titled, The Mountaintop Vision: Martin Luther King’s Cosmology of Connection. drewdellinger.org

Dune Lankard

Dune Lankard (Member, Bioneers Board of Directors), Co-founder and Board President, Eyak Preservation Council, a native Athabaskan Eyak from the Copper River Delta of Alaska, was a commercial fisherman in Prince William Sound when the Exxon Valdez oil spill transformed him into an activist and social entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Redzone, the virtual home of Alaska’s wild salmon, fished and protected for over 3,500 years by the Eyak people. Their mission is to preserve and protect the Delta and Prince William Sound watersheds, so that the salmon will continue to return to their birthplace and nurture the wildlife for which they are the cornerstone species, and so that the community of fisherpeople in Cordova and the region will flourish, for the circle is one: bioregional conservation means local economic sustainability. Dune is co-founder of the Eyak Preservation Council, the Native Conservancy Land Trust, the FIRE Fund, and the RED OIL Network — Resisting Environmental Degradation of Indigenous Lands. redzone.org

Elisa Parker

Elisa Parker is the co-founder and President of the  award-winning See Jane Do™, a social change multimedia organization that seeks to empower everyday women to become heroes in their own lives and to redefine media for women to create positive change. Elisa’s See Jane Do weekly program on Nevada City, CA’s renowned KVMR community radio  station shares extraordinary stories and solutions from women around the world. She also co-founded the annual Passion into Action™ Women’s  Conference, TEDxGrassValley, and the See Jane Do Media Lounge, and is an alumnus of the Women’s Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices program. seejanedo.com

Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown is an attorney and the President of the Public Banking Institute, a  non-profit founded in 2011 that seeks to establish a distributed network of state and local publicly-owned banks that create affordable credit  while providing a sustainable alternative to the current high-risk  centralized private banking system. In Web of Debt, her latest of eleven books, Ellen argues that a private cartel has usurped the power to  create money from the people themselves and that the people can get it  back. publicbankinginstitute.org, webofdept.com, ellenbrown.com

Emily Ryan

Emily Ryan, MSc, is the co-creator and Program Director for Schumacher College’s Cultivating An Ecoliterate Worldview: Person, Place, and Practice, an international program focused on the creation of global ecoliterate learning communities. Emily has since 1993 been a pioneer in creating innovative, experiential learning environments that inspire human beings to remember their place in the web of life, working closely with such leaders in the field as Joanna Macy, Jules Cashford, Gustavo Esteva, David Orr, and Fritjof Capra, dividing her time between the coasts of Devon, England, San Francisco, and Maine. schumachercollege.org.uk

Education for a Sustainable Future: Mobilizing Our Network to Act 
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Emmet Brady

Emmet Brady is pleased to part of the Bioneers community as an innovator in the field of Cultural Entomology, the emerging third branch of insect science and is the creator and host of the Insect News Network dedicated to raising awareness about honeybees and other pollinators.  TEmmet also consults with the ELSEE Mobile Living Laboratory Project in San Jose, CA. He has worked for over a decade with sustainable industries as a biologist, business developer and event producer. He will be releasing his forthcoming book, Humvees and Honeybees: An Introduction to Cultural Entomology later in the Fall of 2011.

Enrique Salmón

Enrique Salmón, Ph.D., who heads the American Indian Studies Program at Cal State, East Bay, previously served as a Scholar in Residence at the Heard Museum and as a Program Officer for the Greater Southwest and Northern Mexico regions for The Christensen Fund. He speaks at numerous conferences and symposia on such topics as: cultivating resilience, indigenous solutions to climate change, the ethnobiology of Native North America and ethnobotany of the Greater Southwest, bioculturally diverse regions as refuges of hope and resilience, and the language and library of indigenous ecological knowledge. Enrique has published many articles and chapters on indigenous ethnoecology, agriculture, nutrition, and traditional ecological knowledge and recently authored Eating The Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience. csulb.edu

Eric Corey Freed

Eric Corey Freed, LEED AP, Hon. FIGP, Principal of organicARCHITECT, has 20 years’ experience in green building. He co-developed the Sustainable Design  programs at the Academy of Art University and UC Berkeley Extension,  sits on the boards or advisory councils of dozens of leading  architectural organizations, was the founding Chair of Architecture for  The San Francisco Design Museum and one of the founders of ecoTECTURE:  The Online Journal of Ecological Design. He is the author of four books, including the bestselling Green Building & Remodeling for Dummies,  Sustainable School Architecture, and most recently the award-winning  Green$ense for your Home. organicarchitect.com

Erin English

Erin English, PE, LEED AP, is an Associate Engineer with Natural Systems International focused on the design of ecological wastewater, stormwater, greywater and rainwater management systems. Formerly an engineer working with biologist John Todd at Ocean Arks International, she also serves on the Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute Board of Directors, where her interest in water intersects with agricultural preservation in Northern New Mexico. Erin has 10 years’ experience in sustainable water infrastructure, ecological design and holistic water master planning. naturalsystemsinternational.com

Ethan Nadelmann, JD, Ph.D.

Ethan Nadelmann, the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, is the leading figure in the U.S. and world to end the “War on Drugs.” As the world comes to recognize that the Drug War is a bust, Ethan is at the forefront of developing and securing a sane drug policy that will address the injustices that disproportionately impact people of color and low-income communities, while saving huge amounts of money, redirecting law enforcement toward greater priorities, and curtailing environmental harms. A spellbinding speaker, he will present an overview of the emerging paradigm shift on drug policy across the political spectrum that has most recently gained the support of several Latin American national leaders and even the Christian evangelist Pat Robertson. drugpolicy.org/

Eveline Shen

Eveline Shen is the  Executive Director of Forward Together (formerly Asian Communities for  Reproductive Justice), which leads the Strong Families Initiative that  seeks to change the way we think, feel and act in relation to families,  gender and race. Eveline also serves on the board of the Reproductive  Health Technologies Project and Movement Strategy Center, as well as the advisory board of the Groundswell Fund. Named by Women’s eNews as one  of the 21 leaders for the 21st Century, Eveline is a 2009 Gerbode Fellow and holds a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley. forwardtogether.org

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community – Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Farha-Joyce Haboucha

Farha-Joyce Haboucha, CFA, a long-time pioneer in good corporate citizenship, is the Senior  Portfolio Manager and Director of Sustainability & Impact  Investments within the Investment Group and a Managing Director at  Rockefeller Financial, which she joined in 1997. Formerly a Senior  Portfolio Manager at Neuberger & Berman, she developed the firm’s  socially responsive investment services, one of the first such offerings by a major investment advisor. Joyce’s previous positions included Vice President in the Personal Trust Division at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company and various positions at Union Trust Company. Joyce has served  and continues to serve on many boards of worthy socially responsible and environmental organizations, and is Chair Emeritus of the Social  Venture Network. rockco.com

Fletcher Harper

Rev. Fletcher Harper, an Episcopal priest, is the Executive Director of GreenFaith, a groundbreaking national interfaith environmental coalition, as well as an award-winning spiritual writer and nationally recognized preacher on the environment. He was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2011.

G. L. Hodge

G. L. Hodge, the church administrator of Providence Baptist Church of San Francisco, is responsible for the daily operations of the church by insuring all ministries of the church have a place, space, time, and the resources needed to function (ministry services, meetings, classes, the foundation, community meetings, homeless shelter, feeding program, after school program, senior housing, and trainings). He also consults with non-profits on facilities’ capabilities as they seek to fulfill the needs of the surrounding community and neighbors. providencecares.org

Gabor Mate

Gabor Maté, MD, a celebrated Canadian doctor who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and Attention Deficit Disorder, will draw crucial connections among the health of the mind, body and human communities. His landmark book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts explores how our childhood experiences can program neurological and psychological mechanisms that can lead to addiction, abuse, ADHD and other disorders. Addressing them, he says, requires us to change our society so that it offers far better support to children and families. A pathfinder in mind-body medicine, Dr. Matédescribes how “adverse childhood experiences” (ACEs) can be reversed and healed.

Toxic Culture: How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill | Restoration Nation Theater | 12:20pm, Sat

Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of  Maryland, is co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, an organization  developing sustainable wealth democratizing approaches to local and  system-wide change. A former Legislative Director for Earth Day founder, Senator Gaylord Nelson, he has been a Fellow of Kings College,  Cambridge, Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and the Institute for Policy Studies. His many books range from America Beyond Capitalism to The  Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. (www.democracycollaborative.org)

Gary Martin, Ph.D.

Gary Martin, Ph.D., is an ethno-ecologist who focuses on the inextricable links between biological and cultural diversity and the role of communities in maintaining socio-ecological resilience. He has a doctorate in anthropology from UC Berkeley and is a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. Since 2000 he has been the Director of the Global Diversity Foundation (GDF), a non-profit organization that helps indigenous peoples and local communities maintain their agricultural, biological and cultural heritage through long-term projects encompassing advocacy, capacity building and research. He leads the annual Global Environments Summer Academy, and is the creator of the incipient Global Environments Network. global-diversity.org, globalenvironments.org

Gary Paul Nabhan

Gary Paul Nabhan, an internationally celebrated nature writer, seed saver, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist considered by many “the father of the local food movement,” is also an orchard-keeper, wild forager and ecumenical Franciscan brother. The author or editor of twenty-four books, he has been honored with a MacArthur “genius” award, a Southwest Book Award, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, the Vavilov Medal, and lifetime achievement awards from the Quivira Coalition and the Society for Ethnobiology. A research scientist at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona, Gary is also the co-founder and facilitator of several food and farming alliances, including Renewing America’s Food Traditions and Flavors Without Borders. (www.garynabhan.com)

Gemma Bulos

Gemma Bulos, a multi award-winning social entrepreneur and musician, is the Director of the Global Women’s Water Initiative, which provides skills, tools and appropriate technologies for women to implement sustainable water solutions in Africa. Peviously she founded A Single Drop for Safe Water in the Philippines, which helped create innovative community-based water service enterprises. Gemma received several awards for this innovative project, including a Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Echoing Green, Ernst Young and the Schwab Foundation; a Tech Museum Tech Equality Award and a Warrior of the UN Millennium Goals (from Kodak Philippines). globalwomenswater.org

George R. Wolfe

George R. Wolfe received the American Canoe Association’s ‘Green Paddle’ award for Waterway Conservation, Resource Renewal Institute’s ‘River Warrior’ award, and the River Network’s ‘River Hero’ award for co-founding LA River Expeditions and navigating the river’s full 51 miles. Rock the Boat: Saving America’s Wildest River, showing at this year’s Moving Image Festival, chronicles Wolfe’s escapades as well as such issues as public access rights and water resource mismanagement.

Georgie Benardete, MSFS

Georgie Benardete, MSFS, grew up in Chile, Mexico, Argentina  and Puerto Rico and has lived in Washington DC, New York, Istanbul, and  London. A former young banker at JP Morgan, she is currently the  Managing Director at Multicultural Capital, LLC, in San Juan, PR, where  her responsibilities center around the sourcing of renewable energy  deals, predominantly in Latin America. Personally trained by former US  Vice-President Al Gore to raise awareness about climate change around  the world, she is an investor and developer of a solar renewable energy  project in Turkey, and founder of Turkey’s green online portal, Yesilist.com. A Senior Advisor to and founding member of the Latin  American climate change NGO, R21, she was recently recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. (www.multiculturalcap.com)

Grace Bauer

Grace Bauer, Co-Director of Justice for Families, is a mother of three from Sulphur, Louisiana whose passionate advocacy for juvenile justice reform arose  when her 14-year old son was abused in a notorious juvenile correctional facility. Grace helped organize the Lake Charles chapter of Families  and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC). FFLIC quickly  became known as the nation’s leading parent organization campaigning for greater fairness, reduced incarceration, and better conditions of  confinement in juvenile justice. Grace also led the development of the  National Parent Caucus and became Co-Director of Justice for Families in 2011, working with families around the country. justice4families.org

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community – Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Greg Cajete, Ph.D.

Greg Cajete, Ph.D., a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo, NM, is a renowned, groundbreaking, award-winning educator whose work is dedicated to honoring the foundations of indigenous knowledge. He worked at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe for 21 years, including as Chair of Native American Studies, and has lectured at colleges and universities around the world. Currently Director of Native American Studies in the College of Education at UNM, he is known for designing culturally-responsive curricula geared to the learning styles of Native American students. He is the author of five books, including: Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education; A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living; and Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence.

Greg Sarris, Ph.D.

Greg Sarris, Ph.D., currently a professor of creative writing and literature at Loyola Marymount University, is the tribal chairman of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria, which Greg successfully worked to establish as a federally recognized American Indian nation. He has served six terms as elected chairman. Greg is also a noted writer whose novel Grand Avenue  was made into an HBO miniseries, which Greg wrote and executive produced with Robert Redford. Greg holds a Ph.D from Stanford.

The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria: Making Home Once Again – Restoration Nation Theatre | 9:55am, Fri

Gretchen Daily, Ph.D.

Gretchen Daily, Ph.D., an internationally renowned, major award-winning pioneer in developing new approaches to harmonizing conservation and development, is Bing Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Biology, Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment, and Director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. She is also co-founder of The Natural Capital Project, an international partnership whose goal is to improve the well-being of people and the environment by mainstreaming the values of nature into major resource decisions. Daily’s work spans scientific research, teaching, public education, and working with leaders to create innovative and practical approaches to environmental challenges. stanford.edu

Harmonizing People and Nature: A New Business Model | Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Sat

Hugo Steensma

Hugo Steensma was a Director of SAM Sustainable Asset Management USA, Inc.  SAM uses financial markets as the most powerful transmission mechanism to promote sustainable business practices. With its exclusive focus on Sustainability Investing, SAM provides a unique and broad range of sustainability solutions for investors, including the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. He founded a consulting firm specializing in assisting sustainable companies to procure equity and debt financing. Hugo started and managed Rabobank’s entry in the U.S. market. He initiated and directed the bank’s corporate finance activities with a focus on the food and agribusiness sector. He opened offices in New York, Dallas and San Francisco. He was with Bank of America, where he held management positions in corporate finance in Amsterdam, Brussels and San Francisco. Hugo served on the Board of Presidio Graduate School, which provides an MBA and MPA in sustainable management (www.presidioedu.org), and several environmental committees.

Ian Inaba

Ian Inaba, a filmmaker, organizer, and new media expert, is Executive Director of  Citizen Engagement Lab, where he guides various social change-oriented  projects, including Presente.org, the leading online advocacy  organization for Latino communities, and ColorOfChange.org, the largest  online constituency representing Black America. Most recently, Ian  helped launch Forecast the Facts, a campaign focused on persuading TV  meteorologists to accurately report climate change. Ian’s many previous  accomplishments include: directing American Blackout, a Sundance  award-winning documentary on voter suppression; co-founding  VideoTheVote.org, a citizen journalism network that monitors election  irregularities; directing award-winning music videos, and co-authoring  True Lies, a muckraking critique of traditional news media.  (www.engagementlab.org)

J.P. Harpignies

J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Conference Associate Producer, affiliated with Bioneers since  1990, and a former Program Director at the New York Open Center, is a  Brooklyn, NY-based consultant, conference producer, copy-editor and  writer. He served on the review team for the Buckminster Fuller  Challenge the last two years, and is the author of: Political Ecosystems, Double Helix Hubris, and Delusions of Normality; co-writer of: The Magic Carpet Ride; editor of the collection, Visionary Plant Consciousness; and associate editor of the first two Bioneers books: Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions. J.P. also taught t’ai chi chuan in Brooklyn, NY, for 25 years. bioneers.org

Jakada Imani

Jakada Imani, Executive Director of the Oakland, CA-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights since 2007, previously led some of the Center’s most high profile campaigns, including: Books Not Bars; Stop the Super Jail; Justice for Moreno and Pacheco; and the No on 21 campaign. Before joining Ella Baker Center staff, Jakada was a Constituent Liaison for Oakland City Councilwoman Nancy Nadel and helped launch or lead a number of important Bay Area organizations, including Empowered Youth Educating Society (EYES), Rising Youth for Social Equality (RYSE), and Underground Railroad (an artist collective). (www.ellabakercenter.org)

James Gollin

James Gollin‘s first career was in Japanese finance, but he transitioned into socially responsible business and then to service on non-profit boards. He is  currently President of Rainforest Action Network’s board, where he  promotes market-based environmental campaigns. He also works with the  Democracy Alliance helping incubate long-term progressive political  infrastructure and with the Angelica Foundation, which supports  environmental, pro-democracy and human rights groups in Mexico, focusing particularly on ending drug war violence. He is also an award-winning  writer, photographer, and author. (www.ran.org)

James S. Gordon, MD

James S. Gordon, MD, is: the founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine  in Washington, D.C.; a clinical professor in the departments of  psychiatry and family medicine at the Georgetown University School of  Medicine; Dean of Saybrook’s Graduate College of Mind-Body Medicine; and the former chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and  Alternative Medicine Policy. Dr. Gordon is the author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression and many other books. In the last decade he has helped train thousands  of healthcare providers, educators, and religious and other community  leaders from around the world to tend to the psychological damage of war and conflict. (www.cmbm.org)

Janelle Orsi

Janelle Orsi is the Director of the Oakland, CA-based Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), which facilitates the growth of more sustainable and localized economies through education, research, and advocacy by supporting such practices as: barter, sharing, urban agriculture, local currencies and investing, and cohousing; and such institutions as community-supported enterprises and cooperatives. She is also a private practice attorney specializing in cooperatives and cohousing and the co-author of two books: The Sharing Solution and Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy. (www.theselc.org, www.janelleorsi.com)

Jay Harman

Jay Harman, a serial entrepreneur and inventor, has grown companies that design innovative products, ranging from prize-winning watercraft (WildThing and the Goggleboat), to non-invasive medical technologies for measuring blood glucose. His latest company is PAX Scientific. Jay also founded a Rudolph Steiner-based wilderness school in Australia. He appears in the feature documentary Harmony being screened at this year’s Moving Image Festival. (www.paxscientific.com)

Jeff Clements

Jeff Clements, an author and attorney, is co-founder and President of Free Speech for People, a national, non-partisan organization that works to challenge the misuse of corporate power and to restore republican democracy and human rights. He is the author of Corporations Are Not People(Berrett-Koehler 2012). Jeff served as Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Public Protection Bureau in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office where he led more than 100 attorneys and staff in the enforcement of environmental, healthcare, financial services, civil rights, antitrust, and consumer protection laws.  Jeff also has been a partner in Boston law firms, served as an elected trustee of a regional water district, co-founded the environmental organization Friends of Casco Bay, and served as Board President of the Lexington Waldorf School. He lives in Concord, Massachusetts. http://www.freespeechforpeople.org,http://corporationsarenotpeople.com/about/

Jeremy Kagan

Jeremy Kagan is an internationally recognized, award-winning (including Emmy and  Cable ACE awards) director/writer/producer of feature films and  television. His credits include the 10-part TV series – the ACLU Freedom Files, and feature films: Heroes, The Big Fix, The Chosen, The Journey  of Natty Gann, Katherine: The Making of an American Revolutionary,  Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8, Roswell, and Crown Heights. A  tenured film professor at USC where he runs the Change Making Media Lab, he has recently been making advocacy videos for The Democracy School,  The Doe Fund and Bioneers. He has also served as Artistic Director of  the Sundance Institute and is the author of Directors Close Up. (cmml.usc.edu)

Jess Rimington

Jess Rimington serves as Executive Director & Founder of One World Youth Project, a not-for-profit which links schools around the world to build mutual respect and understanding among students and provide the global life skills needed for success in the 21st century. In 2008, Jess was named a ‘Rising Talent’ by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. She has received the Earth Island Institute’s Brower Youth Award and Do Something’s BRICK Award for her education work. www.oneworldyouthproject.org

Jim Sheehan

Jim Sheehan spent twenty years as a public defense attorney in Washington State when he received a windfall inheritance that changed his life. Since then he has sought to help transform the lives of others through projects such as the Center for Justice, a nonprofit law firm dedicated to protecting the environment and democracy, and providing justice for the underserved; and the Community Building, a home for progressive ventures in Spokane, Washington. Jim’s approach serves as a model for energizing communities through local investment. cforjustice.org

Resilient Communities I: Methods and Madness – Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Jodie Evans

Jodie Evans, a peace, environmental, women’s rights and social justice activist for  forty years who has traveled to war zones around the world, promoting  and learning about peaceful resolution to conflict, served in the  administration of Governor Jerry Brown and ran his presidential  campaigns. She has published two books, Stop the Next War Now and  Twilight of Empire, and produced several documentary films, including  the Oscar and Emmy-nominated The Most Dangerous Man in America and The  People Speak. Jodie also co-founded CodePink: Women for Peace, is the  board chair of Women’s Media Center, and sits on many other boards,  including those of the Rainforest Action Network, Institute for Policy  Studies, and Drug Policy Alliance. codepink.org

Changing the Stories that Create Culture, And How We Tell Our Own – Restoration Nation Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Joe Munroe

Joe Munroe is the founding President of Muskoday Organic Growers Coop in Muskoday First Nation Indian Reserve, Treaty 6 Cree territory, Canada. Educated by his Cree elders as well as Saskatchewan, Regina, and Trinity Western universities (and agroecology courses at UC-Santa Cruz), his areas of study have included agriculture, economics, law, education, and aviation. His work for his tribe has included governance, economic and social development, restorative justice, and law enforcement. His most recent position has been Indigenous Peoples Field Coordinator for Heifer Project International, Canada, working on food sovereignty and reclamation of traditional foods and food systems by Indigenous people.

john a. powell

john a. powell, an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, ethnicity, housing, poverty and democracy, was just appointed (2012) Director of the Haas Diversity Research Center and Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion at UC Berkeley. Formerly Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University (2003-2011), powell had earlier founded the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota; was National Legal Director of the ACLU; lived and worked in India and Africa; co-founded the Poverty & Race Research Action Council; and taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia. diversity.berkeley.edu/hdrc

1% Solutions: Outing the Oligarchy, Corporate Racial Politics, Election Reform and Constitutional Amendments – Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community – Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

John Bloom

John Bloom, Senior Director of Organizational Culture at RSF Social Finance in San Francisco, has developed innovative philanthropic programs and been a thought leader in social finance and the intersection of money and spirit in personal and social transformation. He writes frequently for RSF’s Reimagine Money blog, and has worked with over 100 non-profits in the areas of capacity building and culture change. John founded two non-profits, served as a trustee on several, including  the Yggdrasil Land Foundation agricultural trust, and worked as the administrator at San Francisco’s Waldorf School before joining RSF. A Renaissance man, John also co-founded a CSA and contributes to the Biodynamic Journal and is a painter and photographer with work in major collections. He is the author of The Genius of Money: Essays and Interviews Reimagining the Financial World. rsfsocialfinance.org

What Will It Take to Grow Bioregional Economies? – Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

John D. Liu

John D. Liu, a Chinese American who helped open the CBS News Beijing News Bureau in  1981 during the normalization of relations between the U.S. and China,  has since the mid-1990s concentrated on producing, writing, directing  and presenting environmental films for the BBC, National Geographic and  others. In 1997 he started the Environmental Education Media Project  (EEMP) in China and helped create the China Environment and Sustainable  Development Reference and Research Center. His award-winning film Hope  in a Changing Climate has led to public speaking engagements on 6  continents. Liu’d work provides compelling evidence that it is possible  to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems and points toward the  path humanity must take to ensure sustainability. www.eempc.org

John Navazio, Ph.D.

John Navazio, Ph.D. is the Senior Scientist for the Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) and an extension plant breeding and seed specialist for Washington State University. John’s major duties with OSA include training farmers, university students and others in organic seed production and the fundamentals of participatory, on-farm plant breeding for organic systems. His breeding work includes increasing genetic breadth in a number of vegetable crops for their nutritional quality, flavor, texture, ability to scavenge nutrients, compete with weeds, and resist heat and drought. John also develops participatory breeding projects with farmers across North America to improve crop germplasm for regional seed independence. www.seedalliance.org

John Perkins

John Perkins, a former chief economist at a major international consulting firm who advised the World Bank, UN, IMF, large corporations, and nations in the developing world but then turned against predatory capitalism, is the author of the international bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man as well as The Secret History of the American Empire, Hoodwinked, and several works about indigenous cultures and worldviews, including: Shapeshifting, The World Is As You Dream It,Psychonavigation, Spirit of the Shuar, and The Stress-Free Habit. John is a founder and board member of the non-profit organizations Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, has lectured widely around the world and has appeared in many prominent print publications, on many major TV and programs, and been featured in several documentary films, including The End of Poverty?, Zeitgeist Addendum, and Apology of an Economic Hit Man. johnperkins.org

John Seager

John Seager, President and CEO of Population Connection, the preeminent grassroots group working on population education and advocacy for population stabilization, previously served with the U.S. EPA during the Clinton Administration and was Chief of Staff for former U.S. Representative Peter H. Kostmayer (D-PA), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs and Interior committees. John writes and speaks widely on population issues. www.populationconnection.org

John W. McCluskey

John W. McCluskey, a teacher, council carrier, activist, and trainer, is the Principal of Horizons K-8, an innovative public option school in Boulder, CO, and co-founded the Colorado Center for Council Practice in 1996. A teacher, advisor, and administrator since 1989, John has been involved both personally and professionally in the practice of Council since 1991 and joined forces with the PassageWorks Institute as a Lead Faculty Trainer in 1998. He has held many councils for youth, educators, men, couples and civic groups, and has been instrumental in bringing Council as a practice into many public and independent schools in Colorado and beyond.

John Williams

John Williams, a winemaker, founder/owner of Frog’s Leap Winery in the Napa Valley, is originally from western New York State and began his winemaking career in the Finger Lakes region of NY as the start-up winemaker at Glenora Wine Cellars. In 1980 John assumed winemaking duties at Spring Mountain Vineyards in California’s Napa Valley and went on in 1981 to found Frog Valley, a small family winery that produces organically grown and naturally fermented Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Rutherford. frogsleap.com

Return of the Salmon – Santa Rosa Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Joshua Gorman

Joshua Gorman is a writer, organizer, facilitator, and the Coordinator of Generation  Waking Up, a campaign to ignite a generation of young people to bring  forth a thriving, just, and sustainable world. He studied ‘Global Youth & Social Change’ at George Mason University, sits on the board of  TakingItGlobal-US, and supports youth-led projects around the world. generationwakingup.org

Generation Waking Up – Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Joy Anderson, Ph.D.

Judy Wicks

Judy Wicks, a national leader in the local economy movement, founded the legendary White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia in 1983 and soon began buying from local farmers. In 2000, she founded Fair Food to connect farmers to other restaurants and co-founded the nationwide Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) as well as the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia (in 2001). Judy sold the White Dog in 2009 through a unique agreement that preserves local ownership and maintains sustainable business practices. Judy’s book, Good Morning, Beautiful Business, will be published in 2013.

Julie Bergman Sender

Julie Bergman Sender began her career in 1982 as a film executive at Warner Brothers, then worked as an executive and producer for director Sydney Pollack’s Mirage Enterprises and eventually partnered with Jodie Foster to form Egg Pictures. She has produced over 10 films including Washington Square, G.I. Jane, and Six Days, Seven Nights, and is also a highly effective activist who has directed large voter registration campaigns and worked for many progressive causes and organizations.

Kami McBride

Kami McBride has inspired thousands of people to use herbs in their daily lives for health and wellness. She teaches experiential herbal programs in reviving the art of home use of herbal medicine. Her work is centered in sustainable wellness practices, creating self-reliance and revitalizing our relationship with the plant world. She is the author of Herbal Kitchen. www.livingawareness.com

Karen Allen

Kate Lipkis

Kate Lipkis, a consultant for the Council Practitioners Center since its launch in 2006, was previously a council facilitator, mentor, retreat leader and program coordinator in the Los Angeles Unified School District and serves currently as consultant to Westwood Charter and Walgrove Elementary Schools. Kate has been working with communication dynamics for forty years, beginning as an award-winning advertising copywriter, authoring several community-organizing books as Vice President of TreePeople in Los Angeles, and empowering women as a homebirth midwife’s assistant.

Kathryn McCamant

Kathryn McCamant, an architect and co-author (with her husband, Charles Durrett) of the seminal book Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, which introduced cohousing to North America in 1987, has consulted on the launching of over 50 cohousing communities. In 2006, she founded CoHousing Partners, a real estate consulting firm specializing in developing sustainable communities. In 2011, she and Charles released Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities, which covers their 20 years of creating cohousing communities across North America. She has lived in cohousing for 17 years. (www.cohousingco.com; www.cohousingpartners.com)

Katie Redford

Katie Redford, a lawyer and human rights advocate, is co-founder of EarthRights International (ERI), a non-profit promoting and defending human rights and environmental justice through litigation, legal advocacy, human rights documentation, corporate accountability campaigns, and the training of grassroots leaders. In ERI’s landmark case Doe v. Unocal, villagers from Burma forced Unocal to settle, making the oil giant the first multinational corporation to compensate victims in an international human rights case. Katie used an Echoing Green Fellowship to establish ERI in 1995, became an Ashoka Global Fellow in 2006, and has been profiled in the books Be Bold and Your America: Democracy’s Local Heroes, and the award-winning documentary film Total Denial. earthrights.org

1% Solutions: Outing the Oligarchy, Corporate Racial Politics, Election Reform and Constitutional Amendments – Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Ken Lee

Ken Lee is co- founder and co-owner of Lotus Foods, a major importer of varietal handcrafted rices from small Asian family farms that is the commercial partner of the “More Crop Per Drop” program pioneered by Cornell University that uses 50% less water and 90% less seed while producing three times the yield. Lotus Foods is using market approaches to help spread this program for the benefit of all involved in the production of rice. (www.lotusfoods.com)

Kenny Ausubel

Kenny Ausubel, Co-CEO and founder (in 1990) of Bioneers, is an award-winning social  entrepreneur, journalist, author and filmmaker. A pathfinder in  advancing “backyard biodiversity” conservation and organic farming and  food, he co-founded the organic seed company, Seeds of Change, serving  as its CEO until 1994. His film Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime  (specially screened for members of Congress) and its companion book  helped influence national policy on alternative medicine. Kenny has  edited several books and written four, including 2012’s Dreaming the  Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature. Among his honors: runner-up, 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge award for Dreaming New  Mexico, a Bioneers program Kenny co-directs with Peter Warshall; more  than 30 awards in international radio competitions; with Nina Simons,  the 2007 Rainforest Action Network REVEL Award, and the 2006 Global  Green-Green Cross Millennium Award for Community Environmental  Leadership. (www.bioneers.org)

Kevin Danaher, Ph.D

Kevin Danaher, Ph.D., who manages the Outreach Program of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, is a co-founder of Global Exchange (1988), co-founder of  TransFairUSA (1997), and founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green  Festivals (2001). He has published numerous articles and is the author  and/or editor of thirteen books, including his two latest: The Green  Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change; and Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots. sfenvironment.org

1% Solutions: Outing the Oligarchy, Corporate Racial Politics, Election Reform and Constitutional Amendments – Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones founded and co-leads (with his wife, Rosa Lee Harden) SOCAP, the world’s leading social enterprise event focused on  for-profit social entrepreneurs, bringing them together with the people  and institutions who are providing them the funding and other capacity  resources they need to create businesses that can have a positive  catalytic social and environmental impact on the world’s toughest  problems. Kevin and his partners also founded and run the largest shared work spaces for social entrepreneurs in the global Hub network-Hub SOMA and Hub Berkeley, both in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also is a  general partner at Good Capital, which created one of the first funds to invest equity to expand social enterprise. socialcapitalmarkets.net, hubbayarea.com, goodcap.net

Investing in Valuable Strangers: Social Capitalism, Community Economics and Impact Investing – Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Kirk Bergstrom

Kirk Bergstrom, founder and President of WorldLink, has led the organization’s media,  education, and civic engagement programs for more than 20 years. Kirk,  who has developed and produced award-winning public television,  interactive multimedia, museum exhibits, and educational curricula,  recently directed the PBS special Nourish: Food + Community (www.nourishlife.org) and a companion PBS program Power Shift: Energy + Sustainability. He  has spoken widely on the topic of Education for a Green Economy,  including at the White House, National Science Foundation, and NOAA.  Kirk also serves on the board of directors for the Buckminster Fuller  Institute. goworldlink.org

Education for a Sustainable Future: Mobilizing Our Network to Act 
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Kirsten Schwind

Kirsten Schwind, is co-founder and current Program Director at Bay Localize, which seeks to inspire and support San Francisco Bay Area residents in building equitable, resilient communities and confronting the challenges of climate instability, rising energy costs, and recession by boosting the region’s capacity to provide for everyone’s needs, sustainably and equitably. She is the author of Bay Localize’s groundbreaking Community Resilience Toolkit and co-author ofTapping the Potential of Urban Rooftops, which won an award from the American Planning Association. Kirsten is deeply involved in local energy policy and food systems and previously served as Program Director at Food First. Kirsten also worked for several years on human rights and the environment in Latin America. (www.baylocalize.org)

Konda Mason

Konda Mason honed her business leadership skills in the entertainment business as an artist manager, Academy Award-nominated film producer and Off-Broadway theater producer. Turning her attention to sustainable personal and global living solutions, Konda has become a facilitator trainer for The Pachamama Alliance, a partner in Earthseed Consulting, LLC, and most recently the founder and CEO of Hub Oakland LLC. huboakland.net

Investing in Valuable Strangers: Social Capitalism, Community Economics and Impact Investing – Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Kristen A. Sheeran, Ph.D.

Kristen A. Sheeran, Ph.D., Acting Director of Knowledge Systems at the Portland, Oregon-based Ecotrust, whose mission is to foster more resilient communities, economies, and ecosystems, is also Executive Director and co-founder of the Economics for Equity and Environment Network (E3), a national network of economists developing new arguments for environmental protection. She is co-author of the award-winning, Saving Kyoto, and has published many scholarly articles as well as general audience articles and op-eds in a slew of prominent publications. www.ecotrust.org

Kristine McDivitt Tompkins

Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, a conservationist and former CEO of Patagonia, Inc., has worked with her husband Douglas Tompkins since 1993 to create new national parks that protect and restore wildlands, biodiversity, and thriving communities in Chile and Argentina. Together, they have protected more land than any other private individuals-over 2.2 million acres-and created two national parks, with five more in the works. In 2000, she founded Conservacion Patagonica (CP) to create national parks in Patagonia. As of 2012, CP has established one national park, Monte Leon, Argentina’s first coastal national park, and is over halfway through the Patagonia National Park project, which seeks to establish a new 650,000-acre park in Chile’s Aysen region. (www.conservacionpatagonica.org)

Krithika Harish

Krithika Harish is the Young Leaders Program Coordinator for the United Religions Initiative, where she works on local and global youth leadership programs with high school students and young adults. She attended UC Davis and holds degrees in International Relations and Spanish. Exposed to a wide variety of faith traditions during her time in India and the United States, Krithika is passionate about fostering and encouraging inter-religious and multicultural dialogue among youth on a global scale.

Laura Weaver

Laura Weaver is a core faculty member and Co-Executive Director of the PassageWorks Institute, which supports educators to develop an authentic and intentional teaching practice and to integrate social, emotional and academic learning into the classroom. Laura teaches courses and workshops, offers presentations, consults with schools, develops resources for educators and parents, and facilitates rites of passage programs for young people. She is co-author of the upcoming Five Dimensions of Engaged Teaching (2013). Before joining PassageWorks, Laura taught college English and founded and directed Bridges: an all-volunteer agency serving the needs of hungry and homeless people in the greater Philadelphia region. (www.passageworks.org)

Lauren Bon

Lauren Bon is the founder of the Metabolic Studio, where she practices at the  intersection of art and philanthropy. Working with “social  brownfields”—locations that for environmental, political or other  reasons are unable to support life—Lauren and the Metabolic Studio make “metabolic sculptures:” site-specific objects that, through the process  of their installation and maintenance, foster relationships, actions,  and events that transform the site into a more healthful environment and galvanize transition within complex bureaucracies. www.metabolicstudio.org

Lilian Hill

Lilian Hill, a Hopi from the village of Kykotsmovi, member of  the Tobacco (Pipwungwa) clan and mother of three children, studied at  the North American School of Natural Building and has studied Applied  Indigenous Studies at Northern Arizona University, focusing on  Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Along with her husband and children,  Lilian is building a home in her village utilizing permaculture  principles and is working to encourage sustainability in her community.

Linda Ruth Cutts

Linda Ruth Cutts, at the San Francisco Zen Center since 1971 and ordained as a priest in 1975, served as the center’s Abbess from 2000 to 2007. She has lived at the center’s three sites: Tassajara; the San Francisco City Center; and Green Gulch Farm, a Zen meditation center and organic farm in Marin County, where she has resided since 1993 and is currently the Abiding Abbess. A Senior Dharma Teacher, Linda continues to teach and lead meditation retreats at Tassajara, Green Gulch, and elsewhere, and is a member of the Zen Center’s Environmental Committee as well as a Steering Committee member of California Interfaith Power and Light, a multi-faith organization which seeks to activate California’s 50 000 congregations to help address climate change. (www.sfzc.org)

Lisa Conte

Lisa Conte is founder and CEO of Napo Pharmaceuticals, which brings proprietary products to the global marketplace through local partnerships in rainforest regions and embraces the “triple bottom line” goals of enhancing financial return by addressing global health needs and environmental sustainability. She is the recipient of several entrepreneurship awards and has sat on several industry, academic and non-profit boards, including that of the Healing Forest Conservancy, which is dedicated to rain forest and indigenous knowledge conservation. napopharma.com

Lois Ellen Frank

Lois Ellen Frank, a Santa Fe, NM-based Native American chef, Native American foods historian, culinary anthropologist, author and photographer, has spent over 20 years documenting the foods and life-ways of Native American communities throughout the Southwest. Her book, Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations, won the prestigious James Beard Award. She is also a cooking instructor at the Santa Fe School of Cooking, an adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the chef/owner of Red Mesa Cuisine (a Native American, organic catering company), and an avid gardener of local cultivated and wild plants. (www.redmesacuisine.com)

Louie Schwartzberg

Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning cinematographer and director whose career spans more than three decades. In 1997, he founded BlackLight Films, a production company specializing in theatrical and IMAX films, HD and TV programming. Currently, he is in production on a nature documentary, Naked Beauty, which will be released worldwide under Walt Disney Pictures’ new production banner, Disneynature. Louie is a member of the DGA and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Luisah Teish

Luisah Teish, a writer, performance artist and ritual design  consultant, is the author of several books addressing spirituality,  culture, and ecology, including: Carnival of the Spirit, Jump Up, and  Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical  Rituals, and is co-author with Hawaiian Kahuna Leilani Birely of the  recent: On Holy Ground: Commitment and Devotion to Sacred Lands. She  currently teaches courses in Ritual Theater, Eco-Mythology, and paper  and fiber arts at several Bay Area colleges. (www.luisahteish.com and www.ileorunmilaoshun.org)

Lynda Grose

Lynda Grose, a pioneer in sustainable fashion, co-founded ESPRIT’s ecollection line (the first ecologically responsible clothing line marketed internationally by a major corporation) in 1992. A designer, consultant and educator, she has worked in a range of capacities with a wide variety of clients, from artisans to farmers, non-profit groups to major businesses. Lynda has also taught sustainability in fashion for eleven years, including at California College of the Arts (CCA), where she develops curricula for a Fashion and Sustainability professional practice certificate. She has written widely on sustainability and fashion/textiles in many publications and is the co-author of Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change.

Lynne Twist

Lynne Twist, a global activist, consultant, speaker, and award-winning author of The Soul of Money, has dedicated her life to global initiatives that seek to create a sustainable future for all. As co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance (www.pachamama.org) she works with indigenous people of the Amazon and committed people worldwide to bring forth an environmentally responsible, spiritually fulfilling, socially-just human presence on this planet. As the founder and President of the Soul of Money Institute, her mission is to educate, inspire, and empower people and organizations to align their financial resources with what they value most. Lynne Twist has raised hundreds of millions of dollars, has spoken to thousands of people in the business, nonprofit, and academic arenas; and has coached individuals and families of high net worth in socially responsible giving and strategic philanthropy. A co-creator of the global media campaign, FOUR YEARS GO, she has won countless prestigious awards. (www.soulofmoney.org, www.fouryearsgo.org)

M. Kalani Souza

M. Kalani Souza, a cultural advisor to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Services Center in Honolulu and Executive Director of Olohana Inc., a Hawaiian nonprofit, is a storyteller, award-winning Hawaiian singer/songwriter/musician, director and theatrical producer with 33 years’ experience, poet, cross-cultural facilitator, mediator, conflict-resolution specialist, and educator. He also recently consulted with the President’s Ocean Policy Task Force and the National Climate Assessment around issues of indigenous knowledge.

Maame Yelbert-Obeng

Maame Yelbert-Obeng, Ghanaian-born, has years of experience in grantmaking, philanthropy, social justice, women’s rights and development focused on Sub-Saharan Africa, working with the Global Fund for Women, UNICEF-Ghana, and World Savvy, and currently serves as the Sub-Saharan Africa Program Director at Women’s Earth Alliance. Part of several networks, including the Global Women’s Leadership Network, the African Feminist Forum, African Studies Association and the International Human Rights Funders Group, Maame is fluent in Twi, Fante, Ga, English, French and Spanish, and has studied and taught in France and Guatemala. She is also an accomplished singer who just released her debut album, Rise.  womensearthalliance.org

Motherhood and Leadership: From the Traditional to the Revolutionary – Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Madison Vorva

Madison Vorva is a Brower Youth Award-winning activist who gained wide attention when she and Rhiannon Tomtishen, then in sixth grade, began a variety of campaigns to convince Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) to make Girl Scout cookies rainforest-safe (by certifying the palm kernel oil they contain) to save the highly endangered orangutan, a campaign she is continuing as a high school senior as co-founder (with Rhiannon) of Project ORANGS (Orangutans Really Appreciate and Need Girl Scouts), achieving GSUSA to adopt a new palm oil policy, a step in the right direction, and the first policy change in the Girl Scouts’ history driven directly by girls. Madison and Rhiannon have been expanding their rainforest activism and were honored this year by the UN as “North American Forest Heroes” for their work to promote the need for deforestation-free palm oil. (www.projectorangs.wordpress.com)

Marco Krapels

Marco Krapels is an Executive Vice President with Rabobank N.A. (part of the Rabobank Group, a leading global financial services provider headquartered in The Netherlands, operating in 48 countries, the premier bank to the global food and agriculture industry), where he manages the Commercial Banking Product Division, including its capital markets and renewable energy finance divisions. He co-chairs the bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) committee, where he initiated notable sustainability efforts, including a Rabobank solar/electric car project. He is also co-founder of Empowered by Light (www.empoweredbylight.org), a non-profit focusing on providing renewable energy solutions to 1.6 billion people without power in the developing world. (www.rabobank.com)

Margaret Golden, Ed.D

Margaret Golden, Ed.D, had a long background in elementary school education before  getting her doctorate and becoming an Associate Professor of Education  and the Director of the Courage to Teach Program at Dominican University of California. She also works with the Center for Courage and Renewal,  which seeks to foster personal and professional renewal through retreats and programs that offer the time and space to reflect on life and work. (www.dominican.edu/couragetoteach

Marilyn Youngbird

Marilyn  Youngbird, a tribal member of the Arikara and Hidatsa Nations, is a renowned holistic health practitioner and teacher who has presented many cultural sensitivity training seminars and traditional Native American holistic health-care workshops in the U.S. and internationally, including at MIT’s and Dartmouth’s medical schools.

Marina Silva

Marina Silva, one of 11 children in a small, poor community of rubber tappers in the Amazon region of Acre, Brazil, orphaned at 16, worked as a maid, made her way through university and became a political leader, creating Acre’s first workers’ union, working with the legendary Chico Mendes to fight deforestation. She became the first rubber tapper and youngest senator in Brazil’s history (in 1994) and eventually became Brazil’s Environment Minister under President Lula, before running for the presidency as the Green Party candidate in 2010 garnering 19.4% of the vote. She has won a slew of prestigious awards, including as a “Champion of the Earth” by the UN Environment Program, and is widely considered one of the most important environmental leaders on the planet. She is the President of Instituto Marina Silva.

The Challenge of Sustainable Development: New Models | Restoration Nation Theater | 11:05am, Sat

Mark “Puck” Myckleby

Mark “Puck” Myckleby, Colonel, USMC (Retired), recently served as a Special Strategic Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff developing grand strategy, including on the relationship of climate change and energy use to national security. Myckleby was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps following his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1987. During his career, he served in numerous operational and staff billets and participated in combat operations in support of operations “Provide Promise,” “Deny Flight,” “Southern Watch,” and “Iraqi Freedom.” He retired from the Marine Corps in July 2011.

Resilient Communities I: Methods and Madness – Epiphany Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Mark Mykleby

Mark Mykleby retired from the Marine Corps with the rank of colonel in July 2011. His last assignment was as a Special Strategic Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in which capacity he co-authored (with Navy Captain Wayne Porter) A National Strategic Narrative, a groundbreaking concept for a 21st Century American grand strategy based on sustainability. Mark is now a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation where he continues his work on grand strategy. (www.nationalstrategicnarrative.org, www.smartstrategy.newamerica.net/dashboard)

Markese W. Bryant

Markese W. Bryant, a recent graduate in African American Studies from Morehouse College  and a leading activist for clean energy, green jobs and energy  efficiency, manages the Green For All College Ambassador Program, which  provides a focused vehicle to foster young, green-economy champions on  fifteen historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). (www.greenforall.org)

Marlon Santi

Marlon Santi is a historic leader of Sarayaku, and Ecuador’s indigenous movement. He was instrumental in the Sarayaku’s resistance to oil drilling plans, and led the organization of peace camps that monitored and ultimately kicked out the oil company. The Saryaku v. Ecuador case was brought to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission under his tenure as Sarayaku President. He most recently led Ecuador’s national indigenous conferedation CONAIE – one of the post powerful indigenous movements in South America, having overthrown several governments through popular uprising, and de-railed several free trade agreements. Under Santi’s leadership, CONAIE beat back several repressive government policies on water and education. Santi has been persecuted for his leadership, and still faces several trumped up charges for leading non-violent protests against the government. Santi has been a vocal advocate for indigenous rights in the UNFCCC climate negotiations at COP 15 and 16 in Copenhagen, and Cancun respectively.

Marsha Maytum

Marsha Maytum, FAIA, a principal at Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects in San Francisco since 1982, has been a leading figure in efforts to produce high-performance architecture that integrates rigorous aesthetics, appropriate technology, and environmental sensitivity. She has focused her career on  creating a bridge between historic preservation and sustainable design and has helped promote this vision throughout the U.S. In the 1990s she participated in several pioneering eco-charrettes including the “Greening of the Presidio San Francisco,” “Greening Affordable Housing” Los Angeles, and the International Green Building Challenge. She currently serves on the San Francisco Waterfront Design Advisory Committee and the UC Berkeley Design Review Committee and regularly participates in design juries around the country. lmsarch.com

Mary Elizabeth Young

Mary Elizabeth Young is a women’s rights activist, writer, speaker, Hospice RN, and mother who has created and led a number of personal development workshops for women. As part of her activism Mary Elizabeth traveled with her family of seven to the historic UN Conference on Women in Beijing China in 1995, and is a founding member  of Gather the Women Nevada County. She is the author of the memoir, Finding Your Light in the Dark. (www.findingyourlight.me)

Mary Gonzales

Mary Gonzales is the Western Territory Director for the Gamaliel Foundation, an  institute that seeks to build faith-based organizations in the U.S.,  Great Britain and South Africa. With nearly 30 years’ organizing  experience, she has helped create many regional faith and value based  community organizations in California and Hawaii. Mary also conducts  leadership-training events within the Gamaliel network and for several  national religious and educational institutions. (www.gamaliel.org)

Mary Liz Thomson

Mary Liz Thomson, Co-producer and Director of Redwood Summer: Where the 90s Begin, which aired on PBS in 1990, has documented war zones in Central America, directed music videos for Island Records, worked for 60 Minutes, shot footage for the Academy Award-winning documentary, Panama Deception, and directed the award-winning Flashpoint, about the alternative music scene in San Francisco. She is the Director of Who Bombed Judi Bari? being screened at this year’s Moving Image Festival.

Mathew Barrett Gross

Mathew Barrett Gross, the Moab, Utah-based co-author (with his wife Mel Gilles) of The Last  Myth: What the Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us About America  (2012), revolutionized presidential political campaigns as the Director  of Internet Communications for Howard Dean’s groundbreaking presidential campaign in 2003. Highly regarded as a new media strategist, he has  consulted for numerous political campaigns, advocacy organizations, and  global NGOs. (www.mathewgross.com)

Matt Taecker

Matt Taecker specializes in urban design, urban policy, and community revitalization. Most of his 25-year career has focused on transit-oriented development and sustainable development. Matt’s approach is cross-disciplinary: integrating expertise in land use planning, transportation, environmental systems, economic development, community engagement, and the design of streets and open spaces. A Principal at Dyett & Bhatia, a San Francisco planning firm, his articles on sustainability and the built environment can be read at: www.centersandedges.org,www.dyettandbhatia.com)

Matthew Dillon

Matthew Dillon, Cultivator for the Clif Bar Family Foundation’s Seed Matters  Initiative, was a co-founder of the Organic Seed Alliance (OSA), where,  as its Executive Director, he launched the first organic plant breeding  research and organic seed production education programs in the country.  In 2010 he produced the State of Organic Seed Report, an in-depth  analysis of seed issues for the organic community. In 2012 Dillon was  appointed to serve on the National Genetic Resource Advisory Council,  advising the USDA on agricultural plant diversity and plant breeding. seedmatters.org

Campaign Connection: Why Seed Matters – Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Mayumi Oda

Mayumi Oda, a world-renowned artist especially known for her extensive visual work with goddess imagery, has, since 1969, had over 50 major one-woman shows throughout the world. She is also a leading global anti-nuclear and sustainability activist who founded Plutonium Free Future in California and Japan in 1992 and Ginger Hill Farm and Retreat Center in Hawaii in 2000. In response to 2011’s Fukushima nuclear disaster Mayumi launched the “Goddess Back to the Village” project to bring sustainable energy to rural Japanese communities.

Fukushima Redux: Inspired Actions for a Safe Energy Future in Japan and the US – Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Megan Cowan

Megan Cowan is co-founder and Executive Director of Programs at Mindful Schools, which since 2007 has provided training to more than 18,000 students in 50  schools and to more than 2000 educators, other professionals, and  parents. The Mindful Schools program teaches focus, self awareness,  emotional regulation and empathy. Megan has been practicing Mindfulness  since 1996, teaching Mindfulness to children since 2001, and has taught  thousands of students and educators through the Mindful Schools program. (www.mindfulschools.org

Melanie Ida Chopko

Melanie Ida Chopko has been working in the field of systems change and strategic dialogue since 2005, translating complex ideas into simple images to create extra-ordinary results. Her work as a graphic recorder has been used to support conversations on climate change, deep ecology, urban farming, alternative education, and women’s leadership. Past collaborators include the Regenerative Design Institute, Margaret J. Wheatley, and Advancing Women Professionals. NotesinPictures.com

Education for a Sustainable Future: Mobilizing Our Network to Act 
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Melinda Kramer

Melinda Kramer is the founder and Co-Director of Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), a  global organization partnering with women on the frontiers of  environmental justice, resource sustainability and community development with programs in Africa, India, and the U.S. Prior to WEA, Melinda  worked with CARE International in East Africa, around the Pacific Rim  with Pacific Environment, and as Communications Manager at the Natural  Capital Institute. She is a trained facilitator and speaks Kiswahili,  Spanish, and some Mandarin. www.womensearthalliance.org

Melissa Nelson

Melissa K. Nelson, Ph.D. (Anishinaabe/Métis [Turtle Mountain Chippewa]), (Member, Bioneers Board of Directors), a cultural ecologist, scholar-activist, writer and media-maker, is a Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State and the President of the Cultural Conservancy, a Native American nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and revitalization of indigenous cultures and their ancestral lands. She is the editor of the Bioneers anthology, Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings For A Sustainable Future and producer of the award-winning documentary film, The Salt Song Trail. She is the co-founder/co-producer of the Indigenous Forum at Bioneers and co-founder of the new Bioneers Indigeneity Program as well as serving on Bioneers’ board. (www.earthdiver.org)

Michael Brune

Michael Brune, the Executive Director of the Sierra Club since 2010, holds degrees in Economics and Finance, and came to the Sierra Club from the Rainforest Action Network, where he served seven years as Executive Director. Under Brune’s leadership, Rainforest Action Network won more than a dozen key environmental commitments from America’s largest corporations, including Home Depot, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Kinko’s, Boise, and Lowe’s. He is the author ofComing Clean: Breaking America’s Addiction to Oil and Coal (2008).

emPOWERed | Restoration Nation Theatre | 12:10pm, Fri 

Michael Presley

Michael Presley, raised on an apricot farm in Los Altos, CA, with a background in atmospheric sciences and weather analysis, has 30 years’ experience in organic gardening and farming (including seedsaving, herbs, food systems, permaculture design, goats, water, soils and microclimates) and teaching in west Sonoma County, co-developing large gardens for such clients as the Farallones Institute, Oceansong Farm, Center for Seven Generations, Taylor Maid Farms, Regenerative Design Institute, Lynmar Winery and others.

Michelle Long

Michelle Long is the Executive Director of the Business Alliance for Local, Living Economies (BALLE), a growing network of 30,000 local entrepreneurs spanning 80 communities. Previously Michelle co-founded and led Sustainable Connections in Bellingham, Washington, which helped make Bellingham “the number one small city in the nation in urban progress toward sustainability.” Michelle is author of Building a Community of Businesses: A BALLE Business Network How-to Kit and co-author of Local First: A How-to Guide. (www.livingeconomies.org)

Monika Bauerlein

Monika Bauerlein is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the San Francisco-based Mother Jones (aka  Mojo), a 32-year-old investigative magazine widely recognized as one of  the most respected, influential progressive publications in the country. Since taking the helm, she and Clara Jeffery have expanded Mojo into a  full-on, 24/7 news organization with a Washington bureau. Prior to  working at Mother Jones, Monika had years of experience in environmental journalism, reporting for a wide variety of newspapers and public radio programs. (www.motherjones.com)

Muadi Mukenge

Muadi Mukenge, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the Regional Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at the Global Fund for Women. She frequently advises donors on their Africa programs, often speaks at international conferences, and writes regularly about women’s rights and African development. Muadi’s previous jobs have included Program Officer for Africa at the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health and researcher at the African Studies Center at UCLA. Mukenge serves on several boards, including those of Priority Africa Network, New Field Foundation, the African Studies Association, and Gender Action. (www.globalfundforwomen.org)

Nick Tipon

Nick Tipon is a member and elder of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. A former teacher, he has served on the tribe’s Education and Sacred Sites Protection committees, and is also the tribe’s National Parks and NAGPRA Liaison. Nick is a board member of the California Mission Studies Association and currently serves on the The Society for California Archaeology’s Ethics Committee where he focuses on tribal consultation under CEQA and Section 106 with federal, state and local governmental agencies to avoid disturbances of and protect the cultural resources of the tribe. (www.gratonrancheria.org)

Nikki Henderson

Nikki Henderson, 27, is Executive Director of People’s Grocery in Oakland, CA. Since 2010, she is an award-winning activist in the food and social justice fields. In 2009, Henderson co-founded Live Real, a national collaborative of youth food movement organizations. Previously she worked with Van Jones and Phaedra Ellis Lamkins at Green for All and at Slow Food USA in Brooklyn, NY. Passionate about youth leadership development among communities of color from a young age, she directed Foster Youth Empowerment Workshops.  During college, became a leading student advocate for statewide environmental justice.

Flavas of a Whole Community: Ingredients for Food Access in Historically Under-Invested Communities – Restoration Nation Theater| 10:25am, Fri

Nina Sicha Siren Gualinga

Nina Sicha Siren Gualinga is a young woman leader from Sarayaku. She represented the Sarayaku youth at the final hearing before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, as well as international events, and a recent press conference on the historic court victory with Amnesty International in London. Nina splits her time between Sweden and Sarayaku, and is currently working with Sarayaku youth on leadership development skills. She will return to Sweden next year to continue studying. She is 19 years old.

Nina Simons

Nina Simons, Co-CEO and co-founder of Bioneers, is a social entrepreneur who previously served as President of Seeds of Change and as Director of Strategic Marketing for Odwalla. Nina directs Bioneers’ Moonrise program, a whole systems approach to women’s leadership, which includes co-leading (with Toby Herzlich and other guest facilitators) Cultivating Women’s Leadership intensives for women leaders of diverse backgrounds, ages and ethnicities. Her recently-published anthology, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, edited with Anneke Campbell, is being used in a range of college classes. Nina has received many honors, including a Robert Rodale Award, the Rainforest Action Network REVEL Award, and the Green Cross Millennium Award for Community Environmental Leadership. In Feb 2012 she was selected by Technica as one of the Top 10 Women of Sustainability.  bioneers.org

Oren R. Lyons

Oren R. Lyons, Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, is a member of the Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy. An internationally renowned spokesperson on behalf of Native peoples who has received numerous honors and awards, Oren is a tenured Professor of American Studies at SUNY Buffalo, serves on the executive committee of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival, and is a principal figure in the Traditional Circle of Indian Elders. His many books including Exiled in the Land of the Free; Democracy, Indian Nations, and the U.S. Constitution; Voice of Indigenous Peoples; and Native People Address the United Nations. Since 2008, he has been Chairman of Plantagon International AB, a Sweden-based company 85% owned by the Onondaga Nation, which is developing urban agriculture technologies.

Pam Smith

Pam Smith, an Eyak from the Copper River Delta and Prince William Sound, learned how to harvest and smoke salmon from her mother and grandmother, and has become renowned in her region and nationally as a national treasure for her profound expertise in the authentic, traditional ways of smoking wild salmon.

Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is a world-renowned environmentalist, entrepreneur, activist, journalist, and author whose work has included starting ecological businesses, writing about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs. He is the author or co-author of seven globally influential books, including the bestselling classics, The Next Economy, The Ecology of Commerce, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, and Blessed Unrest. Paul, who founded some of the first natural food companies in the U.S. that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods, is currently Founder and Director of OneSun, Inc., an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimicry. He is also founder of the Natural Capital Institute (www.naturalcapital.org), a research organization that created Wiser Earth (www.WiserEarth.org), an open source networking platform that links NGOs, foundations, business, government, social entrepreneurs, students, organizers, academics, activists, scientists, and citizens concerned about the environment and social justice. He has served on slews of boards of leading environmental organizations and won countless prestigious awards. paulhawken.com

Regeneration | Restoration Nation Theater | 11:45am, Sun

Paul Kephart

Paul Kephart, a renowned designer, biologist, and expert in land-use planning, is  best known for his pioneering efforts in Living Architecture, an  alternative approach to conventional development through sustainable  design strategies developed over the course of almost thirty years of  master planning, architectural design, landscape design, and project  management. His expertise in sustainable architecture and ecologically  sound landscape design has positioned him as an expert in ‘restorative’  buildings and site integration. ranacreekdesign.com

Peggy Duvette

Peggy Duvette has since 2005 managed WiserEarth, a non-profit that facilitates  organizations and individuals to connect and collaborate within the  social and environmental sphere. Before WiserEarth, Peggy worked with  the Natural Capital Institute, undertaking groundbreaking research on  the field of socially responsible investing. (www.wiserearth.org)

Peggy O’Mara

Peggy O’Mara founded Mothering.com in 1995, and it is now one of the top 1500 sites on the web with over 3 million unique visitors a month. The Editor and Publisher of Mothering magazine from 1980 to 2011, O’Mara is the author of: Natural Family Living, Having a Baby Naturally and A Quiet Place. She sees pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding through the lens of social justice and is a fierce advocate for the human rights of mothers and children. mothering.com

Motherhood and Leadership: From the Traditional to the Revolutionary – Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Penny Livingston

Penny Livingston, an internationally renowned expert Permaculture designer and teacher,  is the founder of the Permaculture Institute of Northern California and  the Regenerative Design Institute. Penny co-manages the 17-acre organic  Commonweal Garden, a certified salmon-safe farm in Bolinas, California.  She co-created the Ecological Design Program and its curriculum at the  San Francisco Institute of Architecture, and co-founded the West Marin  Grower’s Group, the West Marin Farmer’s Market, and the Community Land  Trust Association of Marin. www.regenerativedesign.org

Peter Warshall, Ph.D.

Peter Warshall, Ph.D., currently a Senior Research Fellow at the  Center for Tropical Research/Institute of the Environment and  Sustainability at UCLA, and Science Coordinator for the Northern Jaguar  Project, is a world-renowned water steward, biodiversity and wildlife  specialist, research scientist, conservationist, and environmental  activist. His multi-faceted areas of expertise include natural history,  natural resource management, conservation biology, environmental impact  analysis, conflict resolution, and consensus-building between divergent  interest groups. Peter’s rich life has included a stint as a Fulbright  Scholar studying in Paris with Claude Lévi-Strauss, working for the  U.N., USAID and other organizations in eleven African nations, working  with the Tohono O’odham and Apache people of Arizona, and advising  corporations and municipal governments. He also edited the legendary,  highly influential publication Whole Earth, from 1996 till it ceased  publication, and is the Co-Project Director of Bioneers’ Dreaming New  Mexico initiative.

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is the CEO of Green For All, which under her leadership has become one of the country’s leading advocacy groups for a clean-energy economy, winning policy victories and developing innovative pilot projects at the federal, state, and local levels while redefining the face of environmentalism through youth engagement and partnerships with popular artists. Phaedra, who has been widely featured in many of the nation’s most prominent newspapers and TV broadcasts, serves as the Chair of the Department of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship and sits on numerous boards. In 2010, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. (www.greenforall.org)

Phil Busse

Phil Busse, Executive Director of the Media Institute for Social Change, formerly Assistant Director of the Oregon School of Business’ Entrepreneurship Center and currently an adjunct instructor at Portland State, has also been a media producer, political advisor and journalist for publications such as salon.com, The Believer, and The Oregonian.

R. Carlos Nakai

R. Carlos Nakai, a world renowned musician, is a Native American flutist, composer, and educator/author of Navajo/Ute descent. He has released over forty-five records, sold more than four million albums, received nine Grammy nominations in three categories, has two gold records for his solo flute work, and is the author ofThe Art of the Native American Flute. A groundbreaking musical pioneer, Nakai is often credited for the resurgence and evolution of the Native American flute and its popularity in diverse musical styles. (www.rcarlosnakai.com)

Rachel Barge

Rachel Barge is a young (25), Berkeley, CA-based social  entrepreneur passionate about employing enterprise-based solutions to  solve the world’s most pressing environmental problems. A highly  effective, renowned campus sustainability activist while at UC Berkeley, upon graduation she founded Campus InPower, a national consultancy that spread innovative financial mechanisms for campus sustainability  projects and trained over 2,000 students from over 250 universities.  Rachel then became the Director of the Business Council on Climate  Change, a network of leading Bay Area companies committed to sharing  best practices on climate solutions, and now works for Greenstart, a new cleantech startup accelerator. Rachel has won many awards, including  the David Brower Youth Award, the nation’s top prize for young  environmental leaders. (www.greenstart.com)

Rachel Kaplan

Rachel Kaplan, a Petaluma, CA-based licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with  expertise in Somatics and eco-therapy, is also a writer, educator,  permaculture designer, activist, and mother. An urban gardener for over  20 years, she is a passionate advocate for the simple life and the deep  work of transition our culture currently requires. She is the lead  author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living. (www.urban-homesteading.org, www.rachelkaplanmft.net)

Rebecca Adamson

Rebecca Adamson is a Cherokee economist who founded and is President of First Peoples  Worldwide, an institution dedicated to strengthening Indigenous  communities globally through the restoration of their authority and  control over their assets. A groundbreaking leader and activist, Rebecca has used finance and market-based strategies to take on giant interests and win significant victories for a number of Indigenous peoples. (www.firstpeoples.org)

Rebecca Newburn

Rebecca Newburn is the co-founder and Coordinator of Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library, a free seed-lending library located in the Richmond Public Library. She studied seed saving at Seed School under Bill McDorman. When she’s not working on Richmond Grows, she is a middle school science teacher. richmondgrowsseeds.org

Campaign Connection: Why Seed Matters – Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Rebecca Tarbotton

Rebecca Tarbotton is the Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network. An environmental, human rights, and food activist, and a self-described pragmatic idealist, she has over 15 years of experience in non-profit grassroots leadership, strategic planning, and a strong track record in developing and scaling up winning programs and campaigns. www.ran.org

Rev. Canon Sally Grover Bingham

Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham, Canon for the Environment in the Episcopal Diocese of California and one of the first faith leaders to fully recognize global warming as a core moral issue, has mobilized thousands of religious people to put their faith into action on energy stewardship issues through her work on The Regeneration Project and the Interfaith Power and Light campaign. She is the lead author of Love God, Heal Earth.

Rhiannon Tomtishen

Rhiannon Tomtishen is a Brower Youth Award-winning activist who gained wide attention when she and Madison Vorva, then in sixth grade, began a variety of campaigns to convince Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) to make Girl Scout cookies rainforest-safe (by certifying the palm kernel oil they contain) to save the highly endangered orangutan, a campaign she is continuing as a high school senior as co-founder (with Madison) of Project ORANGS (Orangutans Really Appreciate and Need Girl Scouts), achieving GSUSA to adopt a new palm oil policy, a step in the right direction, and the first policy change in the Girl Scouts’ history driven directly by girls. Rhiannon and Madison have been expanding their rainforest activism and were honored this year by the UN as “North American Forest Heroes” for their work to promote the need for deforestation-free palm oil. projectorangs.wordpress.com

Youth Leadership – Restoration Nation Theater | 11:50am, Fri

Richard Tarnas

Richard Tarnas is a professor of philosophy and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he founded the graduate program in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. He is the author of the classics: The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of Western thought widely used in universities, and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, which received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network. (www.cosmosandpsyche.com)

Rick Reed

Rick Reed is a senior advisor to the Garfield Foundation, leading its collaborative clean energy project, RE-AMP (a community of 10 foundations and 70 NGOs using system-mapping and shared learning to align their clean energy strategies across seven states in the upper Midwest). Thanks, in large part, to RE-AMP’s activities, governors throughout the U.S. heartland, in late 2007, committed themselves to reducing global warming pollution from their states by 80% over the next 40 years. With a background in organic farming and molecular biology, Rick has been working in the fields of philanthropy and sustainability for nearly 20 years.

Robert Engelman

Robert Engelman, President of the Worldwatch Institute, a renowned environmental think  tank based in Washington, D.C., directs the Institute’s 21-person staff  and pursues research in the areas of climate change, human population  dynamics, and sustainability science. The Population Institute awarded  his book, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, the Global  Media Award for Individual Reporting in 2008. Engelman’s writing also  has appeared in Nature, The Washington Post, Scientific American and The Wall Street Journal. (www.worldwatch.org)

Rose Aguilar

Rose Aguilar, a San Francisco-based print and radio journalist, activist, and writer, is the host of the daily call-in show Your Call on KALW 91.7 FM. She also provides a weekly commentary about underreported activism for KPFK’s Uprising show and writes for Al Jazeera English and Truthout. She’s the author of Red Highways: A Journey into the Heartland, and contributed to the collectionRed State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. Rose recently joined the OpEd Project, an organization whose goal is to increase the range of voices we hear in the world.(www.yourcallradio.org)

Rucha Chitnis

Rucha Chitnis, with academic backgrounds in journalism and sociology, is the India  Program Director of Women’s Earth Alliance, overseeing a program working on the connections between the human rights and food security of women  farmers and environmental crises. She was previously Director of  Programs and Development at One World Children’s Fund and also, in 2010, coordinated the first Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brought together  technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists and academics. Rucha  is also a photographer whose most recent exhibit at theThoreau Center  for Sustainability, Winged Neighbors, raised awareness about avian  biodiversity in San Francisco. (www.womensearthalliance.org)

Ruth Rominger

Ruth Rominger, an organizational designer and strategist with a life-long passion for learning and collaborating to catalyze large-scale social change, has held positions as co-founder, leader, manager and advisor in the non-profit sector and publishing industry. A designer and systems thinker by nature and study, Ruth has focused on applying systems and network theories to the design and operation of action networks and learning communities with education, food, health, and sustainability advocates.

The Emergent Power of Global Action Networks – Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri 

Sage LaPena

Sage LaPena, a medical herbalist, ethnobotanist, teacher, and gardener specializing in both Native American and Western herbal traditions, started her herbal education at age seven, working with local medicine people from her tribe, the Northern Wintu (California) and others from neighboring tribes and has been a life-long participant in their ceremonial and cultural activities. She has been teaching the ethnobotany of California native plants for over twenty years, leading plant walks throughout the state.

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., is a biologist, author, and 2011 recipient of a Heinz Award for her research and writing on environmental health. She donated the $100,000 cash prize to the fight against hydraulic fracturing, convening a grassroots coalition, New Yorkers Against Fracking. In 2010, her book on the environmental links to cancer, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and Environment, was released as a documentary film. Her most recent book is Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. She also wrote: Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood. Hailed by the Sierra Club as “the new Rachel Carson,” Steingraber is presently at work on a book about the environmental life of children. She has addressed many environmental health conferences, testified at Congressional briefings, and appeared frequently on national media. steingraber.com

The Whole Fracking Enchilada | Restoration Nation Theater | 9:20am, Sun

Sara McCamant

Sara McCamant works with Seed Matters, an initiative of the Clif  Bar Family Foundation, coordinating their Community Seed Toolkit  campaign. A longtime local food activist, garden educator and seed saver in Northern California, she helped co-found the West County Community  Seed Exchange in Sebastopol, CA. seedmatters.org

Campaign Connection: Why Seed Matters – Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Sarah Hodgdon

Sarah Hodgdon, Conservation Director for the Sierra Club, oversees the organization’s national campaigns and programs including its Beyond Coal, Beyond Oil, and Resilient Habitats campaigns, as well as the Club’s outings programs and partnerships with labor, environmental justice groups, and youth. Sarah also leads the Sierra Club’s teams of federal lobbyists, organizers, and lawyers and helped land a $50 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Prior to joining Sierra Club, Sarah was Executive Director of Dogwood Alliance, a North Carolina-based forest protection organization from 2000-2006. She began her grassroots organizing career in 1993 with Green Corps and served as its Recruitment Director from 1996-2000. (www.sierraclub.org)

Scott Spann

Shailja Patel

Shailja Patel is an internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet, playwright and activist. Her performances have received standing ovations on four continents. Her first book, Migritude, was an Amazon poetry and a Seattle Times best-seller. In 2011, the African Women’s Development Fund named her one of fifty inspirational African feminists, and in 2012 she was chosen to represent Kenya at the Cultural Olympiad in London. www.shailja.com

Shakti Butler, Ph.D.

Shakti Butler, Ph.D., is a multiracial African-American woman  (African, Arawak Indian, and Russian-Jewish) whose work as a creative  and visionary bridge builder has inspired learning for over two decades. Her approach uses film, dialogue and framing to expand people’s  capacity for building community. Butler is Creative Director of World  Trust and is the director of groundbreaking documentaries including: Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible and her latest, Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity. world-trust.org

In Pursuit of Happiness: Becoming Beloved Community – Restoration Nation Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Shana Mariarz

Shana Mariarz, the Creative Director of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City, CA, spent a decade working in outdoor education, and has been a high school principal, farmer, college professor, and whitewater guide, among other jobs. A lifelong inhabitant of the Yuba River watershed, she will be the facilitator for the post-screening discussion of Rock the Boat at the Moving Image Festival.

Shana Rappaport

Shana Rappaport joined Bioneers in 2010 as the Education for Action Program Manager. Shana earned a Master’s degree in Communication Management, emphasizing her studies on sustainability and social change, from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. During her time at USC, Shana was actively involved as a leader of numerous campus organizations and initiatives, including being instrumental in motivating USC to establish their first Office of Sustainability. Through her role with Bioneers, Shana is now working to drive much larger-scale transformations in formal education by spearheading the development of Bioneers’ first formal education program. Committed to building a strong foundation for the program, Shana is actively forging and deepening partnerships with some of the leading groups in the field, and working to make Bioneers’ educational media content increasingly accessible for teachers and students. Shana views education as one of the most powerful tools we have for realizing our dream of a sustainable future, and is thrilled to be working towards it with Bioneers.

Education for a Sustainable Future: Mobilizing Our Network to Act 
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Shanelle Mathews

Shanelle Mathews is the Communications Manager at the Oakland, CA-based organization Forward Together, which leads grassroots actions and trains community leaders to seek to transform policy and culture so all people will have the economic, social and political power, and resources to make decisions about their gender, bodies, and sexuality. Previously Shanelle worked for Law Students for Reproductive Justice as their first Development and Administrative Associate, before which she was a freelance journalist contributing to such outlets as Women’s eNews and the Women’s Media Center.  She is currently working toward a MS in Urban Studies with an emphasis in Race, Ethnicity, and American Urban Culture. (www.forwardtogether.org)

Sharmila Singh

Sharmila Singh, a graduate of the Presidio MBA program in Sustainable Management, has over 10 years’ experience in marketing, PR, and business-to-business sales, and has directed marketing teams in the U.S. and internationally to engage communities in creating social change. Sharmila, the Director of Sponsorships and Business Development for the Green Living Project and on the advisory board for Bay Area Green Tours, will be presenting the film Harmony at this year’s Moving Image Festival.

Sharon Shay Sloan

Sharon Shay Sloan, a council practitioner dedicated to supporting individuals through life’s transitions and helping bridge languages and cultures, is a guide and council trainer in training. For the past  thirteen years she has worked as a facilitator and leader in community  organizing, youth empowerment and project management, including with UN  projects in Canada and in Mexico, with the World Wilderness Congress,  and with Native Oceans. She recently completed a yearlong leadership  training and intergenerational, international pilgrimage called Beyond Boundaries, and currently works with the Wild Foundation.

Shaun Paul

Shaun Paul has worked internationally for 20 years with policymakers, indigenous groups, business leaders, private foundations, and environmentalists to forge new models of resilient communities and accelerate the development of an inclusive, restorative economy. He co-founded EcoLogic and later EcoLogic Finance, an international social investment fund (rebranded Root Capital) that has lent over $250 million to hundreds of small ‘green’ businesses in 30 developing countries. Shaun is the co-chair  of Pico Bonito Forests, a board member of International Funders for Indigenous People, and a long-term member of both the Social Venture (SVN) and the Sustainable Business networks. His most recent venture is People and Planet Holdings which seeks to invest in projects that protect and restore nature, affirm traditional cultures, and create economic opportunities for historically marginalized populations. shaunpaul.org

Investing in Valuable Strangers: Social Capitalism, Community Economics and Impact Investing – Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Shaunna Thomas

Shaunna Thomas is the co-founder and President of Finance and External Affairs at UltraViolet, a group dedicated to expanding women’s rights and combating sexism in politics, government, media, and pop culture. Previously Shaunna served as Executive Director of the P Street Project, the lobbying arm of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee dedicated to organizing progressive members of Congress and connecting them to the progressive grassroots, and as COO of Progressive Congress, the outside organization supporting the Congressional Progressive Caucus. www.weareultraviolet.org

Shilpa Jain

Shilpa Jain is the Executive Director of YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity.) She has been a member of the Jamily (Jam family) for nearly ten years, and, in that time, has co-facilitated and co-organized nearly 20 Jams around the world. She is a learning activist who spent ten years working with Shikshantar, based in Udaipur, India. Her passions are around healthy food, organic farming, cooperative games, zero waste and diverse ways of building learning communities. Prior to serving YES! in this capacity, she spent two years with Other Worlds, an organization focused on alternatives in economics, ecology, education.

Shirley K. Sneve

Shirley K. Sneve, a member of the Rosebud Sioux (Sicangu Lakota) tribe, is the Executive Director of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based Native American Public Telecommunications, whose mission is to advance media that represents the experiences, values, and cultures of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Her many former roles include: Director of the Arts Extension Service, a national arts service organization; founder of the Alliance of Tribal Tourism Advocates; Director of the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science Visual Arts Center in Sioux Falls; Assistant Director of the South Dakota Arts Council; and Minority Affairs Producer for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Shirley has also been an adjunct professor in Native American Studies, and serves on the board of The Association of American Cultures (TAAC), the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) and the Arts Extension Institute. (www.nativetelecom.org)

Staci K. Haines

Stacy Malkan

Stacy Malkan is the Media Director for the California Right to Know ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods. A longtime media strategist for environmental health campaigns, most recently as the co-founder and Communications Director of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, she is the author of Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry. safecosmetics.org

Campaign Connection: Why Seed Matters – Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Steve Katz, Ph.D.

Steve Katz, Ph.D., Publisher of the renowned investigative reporting bimonthly Mother  Jones, previously worked at Earthjustice, the national environmental  non-profit law firm. Steve was also a co-founder of The Media  Consortium, a network of more than 50 progressive, independent media  organizations around the U.S. He has more than 30 years’ experience  working in journalism, environment advocacy, the arts, social justice,  and community housing and has served on many non-profit boards,  including for: Earthshare of California, the As You Sow Foundation, the  Marin Center for Peace and Justice, and Turtle Island Restoration  Network. motherjones.com

Steven Hill

Steven Hill, a Bay Area-based writer, columnist and political professional who is a frequent speaker on political economy, political reform, climate change, global geo-strategy and trends at a wide range of major academic, government, NGO and business events, is the author of several influential books including Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope for an Insecure Age and 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy, 2012 Election Edition. His articles and interviews have appeared in a wide gamut of the most prestigious newspapers, magazines, and media outlets around the world. steven-hill.com

1% Solutions: Outing the Oligarchy, Corporate Racial Politics, Election Reform and Constitutional Amendments – Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Steven R. King

Steven R. King, Senior Vice President of Sustainable Supply and Ethnobotanical Research for Napo Pharmaceuticals in San Francisco, previously (1990-2001) worked with Shaman Pharmaceuticals where he focused on international relations, field research, conservation and the long-term supply of plant material. He has done extensive field research on the long-term sustainable harvest and management of “Sangre de Drago” (Croton lechleri) and has conducted research in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Nigeria, Tanzania, Nepal and Papua New Guinea. napopharma.com

Steven Waddell

Steve Waddell, a Boston-based, Canadian-American entrepreneur specializing in promoting change through networks, has 30 years’ experience as a consultant, educator, researcher, and leadership trainer. His special focus is on multi-stakeholder change initiatives, and, for the past 10 years, through his firm, NetworkingAction, specifically on “Global Action Networks.” He is the author of a number of papers and several books, including, most recently: Global Action Networks: Creating our future together (2011). networkingaction.net

The Emergent Power of Global Action Networks – Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri 

Susan Kelly

Susan Kelly is an independent graphic artist specializing in  visual thinking and interactive group process who has worked with groups of people and individuals for 25 years to bring their ideas to life,  helping make the invisible visible, so people can organize, visualize,  analyze, learn, remember, collaborate, negotiate, plan strategically,  think systemically, and do it in ways that are productive, efficient and satisfying.

Ted Howard

Ted Howard, co-founder and Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, a national leader in the study of community  wealth building strategies, is also a Senior Fellow for Social Justice  at The Cleveland Foundation helping develop a comprehensive economic  inclusion, job creation and wealth building strategy known as “The  Cleveland Model.” Previously Ted served for nine years as board Chairman of Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest conflict resolution  NGO. He also serves on the board of LIFT, a national organization  dedicated to engaging young Americans in combating poverty.

Thea Mercouffer

Thea Mercouffer, who directed, co-produced and co-wrote 6 films about sexual assault in six different languages, as educational tools for immigrant communities in the U.S., is an award-winning filmmaker whose documentaries include I just keep quiet (about human trafficking), and Heather and Goliath. Her film Rock the Boat is showing at this year’s Moving Image Festival.

Tiffany Adams

Tiffany Adams, an enrolled member of the Chemehuevi tribe of Lake Havasu who also bears heritage from the Konkow band of the Sierra foothills Maidu and Miwok, is a California Native artist and Maidu dancer. Tiffany specializes in the art of traditional regalia and finery, as well as cutting-edge contemporary variations on traditional jewelry, and she also produces a clothing line with silk-screened California basket motifs in her business, Native Ink.

Toby Herzlich

Tom B.K. Goldtooth

Tom Weistar

Tom Weistar, along with his wife, Debra, founded and directs Synergia Learning Ventures and Finding the Good Traveling Semester Program, located in the Yuba River watershed in California’s Sierra foothills. His pioneering work in informal education spans 25 years and is focused on teaching youth how to use filmmaking as a tool for social change, often while in a wilderness setting. The Finding the Good program, for high school and gap year students, is based on studying and documenting working models of sustainability. (www.findingthegood.org and www.synergialearning.org)

Trathen Heckman

Trathen Heckman, the Petaluma River watershed-based co-founder of Daily Acts  Organization, Board President of Transition U.S., and front-yard farmer, works with engaged citizens and leaders to harness the power of nature  and of inspired action to solve problems and build leadership and local  self-reliance with projects ranging from installing community food  forests to greywater systems to planting hundreds of gardens through the 350 Home and Garden Challenge. (www.dailyacts.org, www.transitionus.org)

Tupak Amaru Viteri Gualinga

Tupak Amaru Viteri Gualinga is the young Vice President of the Sarayaku federation. Named for the last monarch of the Incan Empire, he comes from a long familial line of leaders steeped in Sarayaku’s struggle to defend their culture and territory. He has traveled to Europe and Costa Rica in representation of Sarayaku. Together with President Jose Gualinga, he is working to force the Ecuadorian government to comply with the favorable decision from the Inter-American Human Rights Court and defend Sarayaku lands from new oil extraction.

Valerie Love

Valerie Love, a committed activist dedicated to youth empowerment, sustainability,  justice, and vibrant local economies, has coordinated the Buy Fresh/Buy  Local program in Contra Costa, worked with a network of state and local  governments to increase socially and environmentally responsible  purchasing, and has taught workshops exploring transformational  leadership for social change. She is currently serving as the WakeUp  Program Coordinator at Generation Waking Up. generationwakingup.org

Generation Waking Up – Youth Unity Center | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Vanessa Daniel

Vanessa Daniel, Executive Director of the Groundswell Fund (one of the largest funders of reproductive justice work in the U.S.), has over 15 years’ experience working in social justice movements as a union and community organizer, researcher, freelance journalist, and grantmaker. She has supported grantmaking on LGBT rights and economic justic, organized homecare workers with the SEIU, and organized with EBASE to pass a landmark living wage law in Oakland. groundswellfund.org

Motherhood and Leadership: From the Traditional to the Revolutionary – Manzanita Room | 4:30pm-6pm, Fri

Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin, a longtime social change activist, is co-author of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life, and co-founder of Conversation Cafés, a drop-in dialogue method now used around the world. Her newest book, Blessing the Hands that Feed Us: Lessons from a 10-mile Diet, will be published in 2013. Vicki is also a member of Comedy Island, an improv and sketch comedy troupe based on Whidbey Island, WA. (www.vickirobin.wordpress.com)

Victor Menotti

Victor Menotti, the Executive Director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) since 2009, was also its first employee at its founding in 1994. Victor has written and spoken extensively about the impact of globalization on ecosystems and disenfranchised communities and helped build international networks to defend them. He is the author of several IFG reports and papers, including “Free Trade, Free Logging: How the World Trade Organization Undermines Global Forest Conservation,” “The Other Oil War,” “WTO and Native Sovereignty” (in Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Economic Globalization), and ”The WTO and Sustainable Fisheries.” ifg.org

1% Solutions: Outing the Oligarchy, Corporate Racial Politics, Election Reform and Constitutional Amendments – Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Vince Siciliano

Vince Siciliano is President and CEO of New Resource Bank, a San Francisco-based mission-oriented bank that works with businesses, nonprofits, and individuals seeking environmental and social as well as financial returns. Previously the president or CEO of a number of San Diego financial institutions, he started his banking career in Bank of America’s International Division. Vince serves on the advisory board of the American Sustainable Business Council, is board Chairman for the Ken Blanchard Center for Faith Walk Leadership and a founding member of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. (www.newresourcebank.com)

Walter Whitewater

Walter Whitewater, (Diné from Pinon, Arizona), is a renowned chef who began cooking professionally in 1992 in Santa Fe, NM. After apprenticing under several illustrious chefs at many top restaurants, his own career took off. A culinary advisor on Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations, he (along with Lois Ellen Frank) won the James Beard Award in the Americana Category in 2003. He has appeared on several TV shows including: Southwest Cooking with Bobby Flayand The Secret Life of Southwest Foods, currently airing on the Food TV Network. He is currently working with Lois Ellen Frank in her national Native American Catering and Food Company, Red Mesa, and teaches at the Santa Fe School of Cooking.

William N. Ryerson

William N. Ryerson is founder and President of Population Media Center (PMC), an organization that strives to improve the health and well-being of people around the world through the use of entertainment-education strategies. In developing countries, PMC creates long-running serialized dramas on radio and television, in which characters evolve into role models for the audience, resulting in positive behavior change. Mr. Ryerson has a 41-year history of working in the field of reproductive health. www.populationmedia.org

Yasuteru Yamada

Yasuteru Yamada is an engineer and co-founder of the Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima (SVCF), a group of about 700 elderly experienced nuclear industrial workers who volunteered to take the place of younger workers in helping the containment/cleanup of the now infamous crippled reactor complex. Mr. Yamada is touring the U.S. in order to raise international awareness about the ongoing crisis at Fukushima that is far from contained and has the potential to pose global health and environmental risks.

Fukushima Redux: Inspired Actions for a Safe Energy Future in Japan and the US – Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Fri

Yeshi Neumann

Yeshi Neumann, a midwife since 1970, has a passion for maternal-child health for all families and for social justice. For the last few years she has been the principle educator in the community health project, Jungle Mamas, in the Amazonian rainforest in Ecuador. Yeshi also trains social change leaders from the non-profit, philanthropic, labor and socially responsible business sectors at Rockwood Leadership Institute.  www.mindfulfamilycircles.com