
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