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Presenters 2010 * listed in alphabetical order: A B C D E F G, H I J K L, M N O P Q P R, S T U V W X Y Z
While the main Co-Creators will be YOU, we're delighted to introduce:
Julie Castro Abrams - CEO, Women's Initiative / Expert, "Redefining Human Security" Council
Neal Asbury - Free Enterprise Champion Talk Show Host & Author / SEED Economic Forum
Jerry Avila - Regional Manager, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) / SEED Economic Forum
Steve Bhaerman - Author/ Humorist / 7SS WORKShop #7: Transpartisan Upwising…A Grassroots Evolution!
John Perry Barlow - American Poet & Cyber-libertarian / The Global Summit 2008 Policy Action Co-Chair
Andrew Behar - CEO, As You Sow / 7SS WORKShop Presenter, Capitalism 2.0
David Brodwin- Co-Founder and Director American Sustainable Business Council
Marvin T. Brown - Author, Corporate Ethics & Civilizing the Economy/ SEED New Economic Forum Presenter
Bruce Cahan - Ashoka Fellow in Economic Development / Director, Urban Logic / 7SS WORKShop Presenter
Asha Castleberry - Co-founder, International Youth Council/ Beyond Climate Change Solution Council
Bianca Chavez Heyming - Growcology / Native Ceremony Keeper/ 7SS Workshop Facilitator
Dr. Kevin Danaher - Founder, Global Exchange & Green Festivals / New Economic Forum Presenter
Lucia De Garcia - Laureate Poet / "Redefining Human Security" Council Co-Chair
Laura Delizonna - Pro. Coach, Speaker, Instructor / 7SS WORKShop: Leverage Strengths for Success
Peggy Duvette - Executive Director, WiserEarth / "Guarding our Freedoms" Solution CouncilTal Finney - Global Policy Chair / Former Director of Policy to the Governor of California
Eric Corey Freed - organicARCHITECT / SEED Change Environmental Forum
Gil Friend - CEO, Natural Logic / SEED Change Environmental Forum Co-Chair
David Gibbons - Filmmaker, Journalist, Interviewer, IN DISCUSSION International Radio
Trathen Heckman - Director, Daily Acts / Board President, Transition US / SEED - Climate Action 2012
Barbara Marx Hubbard - President, Foundation for Conscious Evolution/ SEED Change Social Forum Visionary
Nick Jankel - "Mind Maverick" & Global Expert on Collaboration, Leadership and Innovation / SEED & 7SS
Scholastica Sylvan Kimaryo - Former UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Africa / CEO, Maadili / Program Chair
Liz "Isabell" Kimbrough - Sustainable Technology Expo "Appropedia.org" / 7SS Workshop #5
Anja Karina-Pahl - Spiritual Scientist / Creator of The PRIZM Game / Co-Chair, Innovation
Melinda Kramer - Founder, Women's Earth Alliance / 7SS #3 Panel: Roadmap to a Healthy Future
Rev. angel Kyodo williams - Transformative Social Change Visionary / SEED Social Forum
Osprey Orielle Lake - Artist/ Author/ Director of Women's Earth & Climate Caucus, State of the World Forum 7SS#1
Tony Livoti - President, Monterey Bay International Trade Association (MBITA) / Tech & Trade Presenter 7SS#7
TBird Tall Flame Luv - (aka Tonya Ridgely) - Musician/ Performer / Cultural Arts Director
Konda Mason - Film-maker / Awakening the Dreamer Trainer/ 7SS #3 Panel: Roadmap to a Healthy Future
Peter Matthies - Founder, Conscious Business Institute / 7SS Workshop Presenter #1
Joseph McCormick - Author & Founder, Transpartisan Alliance / 7SS WORKShop Presenter #7
Stephan McGuire - Founder, CSAfrica / Co-Producer 11th Hour / Co-Chair, "Beyond Climate Change"
Peter Miller - "The Literary Lion" - President of PMA Literary and Film Management, Inc.
Marta Monahan - Author, "The Courage to Be Brilliant" / SEED Speaker & 7SS Workshops
Holly Mosher - Director, Filmmaker for Change / Co-Chair, Solution Councils
Priya Deepika Mohan - "Holistic Esquire" / Sangha Wellness Foundation / Co-Chair, Solution Councils
Dylan Newcomb - Founder of the UZAZU approach to mind-body integration / SEED & 7SS #7 Presenter
Bonnie Nixon - Sustainability & CSR Strategist / SEED Environmental Forum/ 7SS #2 & 6 Presenter
Sarah Noyes - Solution Council Program Co-Chair - "Shifting Economies of Scale"
Melanie Nutter - Director, San Francisco Department of Environment / SEED Environmental Forum / 7SS #6
Jeannine Parker (JP) - Founder, Infinite Solutions Institute / The Global Summit Design Team Member
John Perkins - New York Times Bestselling Author / Former Economic Hitman
Lewis Perkins - Women Saving the World Champion / Sustainability Blogger, Fast Company
Ahmed Rahim - CEO, co-founder and master blender, Numi Organic Tea / 7SS #3 & 6 Presenter
Walt Roberts - Partner, Transformation Systems / TGS II Lead Program Facilitator
Dave Room- Co-founder Bay Localize / 7SS Presenter: Roadmap to a Healthy Future
Erik Rothenberg - Sustainable Technology Expo Demo - Debut of "URSULA"
Daniel Schmachtenberger - Whole System Visionary / 7SS #7:Redesigning Humanity
Adila Shafqat – Lecturer, Department of Geography, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab-Pakistan
Alana Shaw - Founder/ Executive Director, Turning the Wheel / Youth & Solutions Councils Design Co-Chair
Bill Shireman - President and CEO of the Future 500 - Chair, Climate Action Strategy 2012
Nikki Slade - International leader in Chanting and Voice-Work / SEED Change Conductor
Madison Slate - Founder, The Slate Foundation / The Living School / Sustainable Tech Expo
Melanie St.James, MPA - Chair, The Global Summit / Executive Director, Empowerment WORKS
Marc Thibault - CEO & Founder, Green Age 360 / Sustainable Technology Expert
Alex Ticas - Co-founder, International Youth Council / SEED Environmental Plenary Speaker
Alan Tratner - "Minister of Ideas", serial entrepreneur and inventor/ Founder, Green2Gold
Deborah Eden Tull - Sustainability Consultant / 7SS WORKShop Facilitator
Torkin Wakefield - Co-Founder/ Co-Director, BeadforLife / Co-Chair, "Redefining Human Security" Solution Council
Greg Wendt - Director of Sustainable & Responsible Investing, EP Wealth Advisors / Moderator, Capitalism 2.0
Elizabeth Yochum - Los Angeles Program Director, Turning the Wheel / Youth & Solutions Councils Design Co-Chair
Solution Council Expert, "Redefining Human Security"
Chief Executive Officer, Women's Initiative
Julie Castro Abrams is a national leader in microfinance and women’s issues. Following a 20-year nonprofit career in Chicago, Julie joined Women’s Initiative for Self Employment as CEO in 2001. As CEO, she led the transition of Women’s Initiative from a founder-led organization to a rapidly growing non-profit. Under her leadership, the organization has expanded throughout the Bay Area, increasing the number of women served tenfold. In addition, Julie has led the creation and implementation of significant new services which contribute to the success of entrepreneurs and economic growth in the communities served. During her tenure, Women’s Initiative has been recognized by the Urban Institute Best Practices Foundation, the Equal Rights Advocates and Cisco Innovation in Technology, among others.
Julie currently serves on the Board of the National Center of La Raza (NCLR), the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory board and is a highly sought after speaker and expert on microenterprise in the U.S. She is the recipient of the League of Women Voter’s “Women Who Could Be President” Award, SBA Advocate of the year 2009, Human Rights Award from the Commission on the Status of Women, the Women of Color Action Network Award, and the Trailblazers Award for Community Leadership from Leadership California’s Legacy of Leadership awards.
Prior to her work at Women’s Initiative, Julie served as Deputy Director and Director of Development and Marketing at Chicago’s Merit School of Music. Julie’s previous positions include Director of Development at Community Christian Alternative Academy and principal at the Catalyst Group consulting firm. She has also held positions with the Illinois Pro-Choice Alliance, the Chicago Department of Health, and the Chicago Foundation for Women. Julie studied for her master’s degree in Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and she has a BA in Human Development and Social Policy from the school of Education at Northwestern University. She currently lives in Novato with her husband and two children.
SEED Social Forum / Honorary Co-Chair / President, Evolve
Conscious Evolutionary Elder, Barbara herself says she's "getting newer every day". Buckminster Fuller (the acclaimed Grandfather of the Future) has called Barbara Marx Hubbard “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new world view of conscious evolution. She is founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.
She is currently the producer and narrator of an award-winning, DVD series entitled “Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together.” Through the Foundation for Conscious Evolution Barbara developed the Gateway to Conscious Evolution, a global educational curriculum enrolling participants in the developmental path toward the next stage of human evolution.
In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, calling for a “Peace Room” as sophisticated as our war room, to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working in America and the world. As a citizen diplomat in the former Soviet Union during the 1980’s she co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new form of conferencing called SYNCON to foster synergistic convergence.Barbara’s books include: The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s Odyssey toward the Future; The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future; Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth –An Evolutionary Interpretation of the New Testament; Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential and Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence.
- Barbara Marx Hubbard has become the voice for conscious evolution in our times. - Deepak Chopra
- Barbara Marx Hubbard is one of America's brightest lights. She makes this very complicated moment in history seem like a glorious opportunity. She gives guidance, she gives hope. - Marianne Williamson
- Barbara Marx Hubbard is considered a global treasure and one of the greatest visionaries of our time. - Neale Donald Walsch
Konda Mason
7SS WORKShops Presenter: Roadmap to a Healthy Future
Film-maker Awakening the Dreamer Trainer & Faciliator
Konda Mason is a filmmaker and socio/enviro activist who works in media to communicate the change that is needed in the world.
She is currently working on a project that leverages her production skills in full dome digital technology (“Tales of the Maya Skies” at Chabot Space & Science Center) by using portable dome storytelling as a way to co-create the message of unity and resiliency with marginalized communities.
Konda also works with the inmates of the San Quentin Prison “Green Life” media team in using video to tell their transformational narrative stories. Konda is a facilitator and trainer for the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposium created by the Pachamama Alliance. In her past life in Los Angeles, Konda worked as a post-production producer in commercials and produced behind-the-scenes documentaries for Warner Home Video. Her short film “Tuesday Morning Ride” was the recipient of an Academy Award nomination.
Andrew Behar, As You Sow CEO
Andrew Behar has 30 years of experience as a Senior Executive and strategist in the clean-tech, communications and life science sectors. Prior to joining As You Sow, Andrew founded and was CEO of a clean-tech start-up developing innovative fuel cell technologies. He served as COO for a social media agency focused in the sustainability space and has been a strategic consultant in the non-profit sector. He has founded and run start-ups in the medical device and communications areas and serves on the boards of several high-tech innovation companies.
Founder/ Executive Director, Turning the Wheel
Youth Co-Chair/ Solutions Councils Design Co-Chair
Turning the Wheel executive/artistic director/founder, Alana Shaw is noted as a source for major miracles thanks to her talent and inspiration. An inspiring and empowering facilitator, she has over 30 years experience teaching in 25 cities in the US and Canada. She holds an MFA is Dance from the University of Colorado with a thesis on healing and reintegration through creative expression, and is the author of “Dancing Our Way Home,” a 342 page manual of exercises, stories and wisdom. She is also a certified Hendricks Body/Mind Vibrance Coach.
“Everything we do in Turning the Wheel is an attempt to come back into relationship with our interdependence as human beings, and with the need for love, not power, to form the basis for how we live on the earth. We are passionately committed to building and sustaining transformative communities that are inclusive of all people, and that reach for and model unconditional love and acceptance as the norm.” Alana Shaw
“As a director, Alana has proven to me over and over that she has the discipline, perseverance, and physical stamina necessary for evolving and managing an organization on this scale. Her attention to careful planning and consideration, detailed management of every facet of their operation, from fund-raising to housing out-of-town collaborators, to personal notes and flowers for every participant, is exactly what it takes to enable a vision of this nature to thrive and take root.” Mike Vargas, Composer, Musician and Instructor.
Turning the Wheel is a national organization enlivening whole mind, body, and spirit consciousness through authentic self-expression. It is a movement of thousands across the United States of people touched by the numerous classes, workshops, and large-scale community performances produced over the past 20 years. Turning the Wheel dances on the frontier of contemporary culture, integrating both cutting edge research and age-old wisdom, with a blueprint for what creates meaningful connection for human beings and lasting transformation for individuals and community.
Now in its 21st year, Turning the Wheel has touched the lives of over 45,000 people in 12 cities and more than 520 schools and organizations around the country. Imagine the ripple effect as TTW enthusiasts bring a sense of joy and self-confidence into your schools, communities, and families! Learn More: www.turningthewheel.org
Los Angeles Program Director, Turning the Wheel
Youth Co-Chair/ Solutions Councils Design Co-Chair
Trained in Classical Ballet and Art History, with ten years of experience directing international arts projects, Elizabeth Yochim brings awareness to the organization through national and international projects, with diverse partners and collaborators. While directing Turning the Wheel programming in Southern California, Elizabeth dances and performs regularly. She produces shows, urban dance mobs and teaches classes and workshops nationally – including bringing the work to Thailand in 2008.
Turning the Wheel uses the power of art to foster communities, build leaders, and share the joy of self-expression with participants of all ages, economic situations, genders, ethnic backgrounds and challenges. Turning the Wheel seeks to encourage a collective ethic of caring for others and ourselves and to be a contributing force in fostering healthy, creative communities.
Turning the Wheel school and after-school residencies incorporate a unique mix of theater, movement and dance, visual arts, prose and poetry - to provide young people a safe and fun place to express themselves and come to life. TTW students are diverse, both economically and culturally; but all discover new skills, a sense of empowerment and a willingness to explore and innovate. They also gain a new respect for themselves and others that radiates throughout their community.
Founder of the UZAZU approach to mind-body integration
7SS #7 Presenter: How to Be the Change and Embody your Vision
Dylan Newcomb is a Julliard-trained dancer and music composer, and the founder and principal inventor of UZAZU - a leading-edge mind-body wellness modality. Dylan danced for eight seasons with the Netherlands Dance Theater and enjoyed a successful career as an independent choreographer and composer, winning several major Dutch awards.
As a founding member of the Danslab Institute for movement research in The Hague, he organized increasingly large and detailed research projects, involving hundreds of participants, exploring and mapping the interconnections of vocal sounds, movements, and feeling states with existing models of integral theory, personality typologies, cognitive psychology, psycho-social stages of development, collective intelligence, yin/yang theory, Ayurveda, and more. This unique and far-reaching research process has formed the basis for what is now known as UZAZU - a new theory and technique that many people consider to be setting a new standard in body-mind integration and it's application to specific real-life situations. Since 2009, he and his partner Kyung-sun Baek have been traveling and sharing UZAZU across Europe, North America, and Asia with hundreds of trainers, coaches, therapists, consultants, artists, and lovers. Dylan also, maintains a private coaching practice that uses energy psychology, together with UZAZU, to assist people with personal and spiritual development and resolving issues on a mental-emotional-physical level.
For more information about UZAZU and the unique research that underlies it, go to: www.uzazu.org
Moderator, Roadmap to a Healthy Future / 7SS.3
Executive Director of Sustainable World Coalition
Vinit Allen is Executive Director of Sustainable World Coalition, a project of Earth Island Institute, located in Berkeley, CA.
He is the creator and publisher of the Sustainable World SourceBook, providing an overview of the critical global issues, viable solutions, and resources for actions.
Vinit has been an activist in the arenas of the environment, peace and human rights for about 25 years. He co-created and directed the New Paradigm Business Network and was a delegate at the UN World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2002 where the Coalition was founded.
Director, San Francisco Department of Environment
SEED Environmental Forum / 7SS #6 Presenter
In July of 2010, Mayor Gavin Newsom appointed Melanie Nutter as the Director of the San Francisco Department of Environment. Nutter will lead the Department of Environment, which helps all San Francisco residents and businesses take an active role in protecting and enhancing the urban environment, produces and publicizes information on sustainable practices, and develops innovative and practical environmental programs for all residents.
Beginning in 2005, Nutter served as Deputy District Director for the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, where she managed the Speaker’s district office by supervised staff, addressed constituent concerns, and advised on local policy issues. Nutter functioned as the district policy liaison to Speaker Pelosi’s policy advisors on issues including the environment, energy, transportation, environmental health, women’s issues, and food policy.
Melanie has over eighteen years experience in fundraising, events management, grassroots organizing and media relations. As a Principal for Nutter Consulting, she consulted for many organizations including Music for America and SEIU Local 250. In 2002, she worked as the Canvass Director for the San Francisco Democratic Party’s SF Vote Project and oversaw two assistant directors and 80 paid staff on Election Day.
Nutter founded and chairs the Energy and Environment Circle for the Full Circle Fund with the help of Vice President Al Gore and green jobs advocate Van Jones. Nutter has been a grassroots environmental organizer with Greenbelt Alliance, the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), and Green Corps. Nutter holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree from Northwestern University in Communications and Environmental Studies.
CEO, co-founder and master blender, Numi Organic Tea
WORKShop Presenter 7SS.3 (Tuesday) & 7SS.6 (Weds)
Ahmed Rahim is the CEO, co-founder and master blender, behind Numi Organic Tea. Before starting the Numi business in 1999 with his sister, Reem, Ahmed spent a decade living, working and traveling throughout Europe as a professional film maker and photographer. Calling home to Paris, London, the German Alps and eventually Prague, Ahmed help create several teahouses in Prague in the mid 90’s. He became a partner in this enterprise while pursuing his artistic career and building his farm outside of Prague.
From this immersion of European teahouse culture evolved his keen passion for blending teas, and ultimately resulted in Ahmed developing the blends that have become Numi’s distinctive product line. Ahmed remains Numi’s alchemist, seeking and sourcing the world’s most exotic and premium organic and fair traded teas and herbs, blending them into unique flavors that awaken and inspire the American palate.
Ahmed is fluent in English, Arabic, French, German and Czech. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and Theatre from New York University, and has studied Film and Photography at various universities in New York, Paris and Prague. Ahmed currently sits on 7 non-profit boards of directors and consults with over a dozen for profit companies. He is currently studying Architecture to create a sustainable future.
Trathen Heckman
Director, Daily Acts / Board President, Transition US
SEED Environmental Forum - Climate Action Strategy 2012
Trathen Heckman is the founding director of Daily Acts Organization, the Board President of Transition U.S. and a backyard farmer. With an emphasis on reverence for life, Trathen inspires and collaborates with communities and leaders to harness the power of nature and inspired action to restore the vitality of our lives and communities.
Trathen has given oodles of presentations, locally, nationally and internationally and produces an award-winning journal. He lives in the Petaluma River Watershed where he grows food, medicine and wonder while working to compost apathy and lack.
"Mind Maverick" & Global Expert on Collaboration, Leadership and Innovation
"Social Innovation" Presenter in SEED Change Forum & 7SS WORKShops
Nick Jankel is the founder of an influential global community of 1500+ ethical innovators called RadicalReinvention.org (formerly Disruptive Social Innovators) and has worked on social innovations in many countries, consulting to, and collaborating with, the Young Foundation, the National Council of Voluntary Organisations, the Carbon Trust, the World Wildlife Foundation, the Social Enterprise Coalition, Mars Sustainable Innovation and the British Heart Foundation amongst others.
He has advised a number of governments and political parries on social innovation policy. He is currently working on his own mixed-media, mixed revenue stream social ventures including www.ultimatetrip.tv and manupadventures.com, which are both funneling money into am ambitious training program to transform homeless people into social entrepreneurs through his social production company www.wonderinc.cc.
He is a TV presenter and transformation expert on BBC and MTV with a number of shows in development both sides of the Atlantic on topics ranging from enlightening science to transformational travel.
Inspiring his lifelong dedication to grass-roots impact, Nick has been a Science Teacher in rural Zimbabwe and spent 2 years as a Trustee of international development charity, Interact Worldwide. Before this, Nick ran a global innovation and strategy consultancy (which he founded aged 24, without any funding or investment of any kind) and grew it to a world-class organisation with 35 staff and millions in billings. Here he worked with the senior management of many of the world's most successful companies - such as Orange, PepsiCo, Arcadia, Nokia, Diageo, PlayStation, Disney and Microsoft - to create ideas and strategies key to their future. He designed the first major in-house creativity and innovation programmes for Tesco and Cadbury - the inspiration for the creation of wecreate™, the world's only fully peer- powered (And therefore scaleable) leadership and innovation training program / toolkit. He started his career as creative strategist, specialising in applied psychology, at global ad agency TBWA Chiat / Day. In his role as a keynote and lecturer, Nick has taught on the MBA programmes of 3 of the UK's top 5 business schools, including Oxford and Warwick. He has delivered talks and keynote addresses for over 30 conferences worldwide including for: The European Union, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Arts Council, on creativity in business; the Scottish Institute for Enterprise on social innovation; the UK's annual social enterprise conference 'Voice'; Gordon Brown's social business conference 'Chain Reaction'; the unofficial social enterprise conference 'Shine Unconference'; the digital collaboration event '2gether'; and for the NHS Employer's Annual Conference. Nick is a Fellow of the RSA and a Visiting Research Fellow at Exeter and Bath Universities. Nick will be presenting concepts and workshops related to his recent White Paper, "Radical (re)invention" [PDF]
Ashoka Fellow / Founder-President, Urban Logic / 7SS WORKShop Presenter
Bruce Cahan is a social entrepreneur, merchant banker, government technologist, geospatial visionary, Google Tech Talk speaker and 9/11 emergency responder. Bruce practiced corporate and mutual finance law in New York City, and was nonresidential fellow of Stanford’s Center for Internet & Society from 2007-2010.
Bruce creating a new type of banking for the Information Age: highly transparent as to its impacts, providing financial and other incentives for customers who improve regional quality of life.GoodBank™(IO) will combine financial and information services to focus consumers and investors on new measures of risk and return (sustainable resiliency®), yielding market-based investments that are both socially and financially beneficial. At The Global Summit, Bruce will illuminate challenges and solutions for FINANCING SUSTAINABILITY through banking, communications and information technology. Learn more at http://bit.ly/GoodBankinFastCompany, http://bit.ly/CahanFRBSF
7SS WORKShops Presenter: Roadmap to a Healthy Future
Melinda is the Founder and Co-Director of Women's Earth Alliance, a global organization uniting and empowering women on the frontiers of environmental justice, resource sustainability, and community development. Over the last 4 1/2 years, WEA’s programs in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Central America, and the Native American Southwest have equipped grassroots women leaders with crucial access to resources, training, and advocacy support, catalyzing change in issues of climate justice, water, food, and land rights. Prior to WEA, Melinda designed community development and capacity-building programs in East Africa with CARE International, and the Russian Far East, China and Alaska with Pacific Environment. At the Natural Capital Institute, Melinda was also Communications Manager and a key contributor to the web-based communication tool, WiserEarth.org. Melinda has degrees from Washington University and University of Nairobi. She is a trained facilitator and speaks Kiswahili, Spanish, and some Mandarin.
Each week Neal hosts the syndicated Neal Asbury radio talk show, streamed live at www.thenealasburyshow.com and can be downloaded at iTunes. Additionally, Neal’s writings and thoughts can be read online at www.nealasbury.com
When it comes to advocating on behalf of entrepreneurship and free enterprise, there is no one more passionate about these topics than Neal Asbury, chief executive of The Legacy Companies. It's no coincidence that he was the 2008 recipient of the coveted United States National Champion Exporter of the Year Award. He has published over 100 articles on global trade issues, and been quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LeMonde, and has appeared on network television nationally and internationally.
His advocacy has taken him to address the United Nations at the Commission of Trade and Development, as well as frequent speaking engagements at Universities, Government Events and Trade Associations.
Involved in global business since graduating from Rowan State University in New Jersey in 1979, he moved to Asia in 1981 to represent the interests of a number of U.S. manufacturers. In 1987, he founded Asbury WorldWide which became the largest American Export Management Company in its segment. In 1989, he began FAB Asia, Inc. in Manila, Philippines, which was the exclusive Asian fabricator of commercial kitchens for McDonalds and other major chains.
No stranger to Capitol Hill, Mr. Asbury has received the E-Star Export Award and the Export Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce. He is a founding faculty member of Export University (a collaboration between the District Export Council and the U.S. Department of Commerce). He is chairman of the Florida District Export Council, appointed to serve by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee to Governor Charlie Crist of Florida and a member of the prestigious International Policy Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington.
He was born in Sublette County, Wyoming in 1947, was educated there in a one room schoolhouse, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with an honors degree in comparative religion in 1969.
In 1971, he began operating the Bar Cross Land and Livestock Company, a large cow-calf operation in Cora, Wyoming where he grew up. He continued to do so until he sold it in 1988. He co-wrote songs with the Grateful Dead from 1971 until their demise in 1995. He's known them since they looked like this. In 1990 he and Mitchell Kapor founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which promotes freedom of expression in digital media. He currently serves as its Vice Chairman.
In 1990, he first applied William Gibson's science fiction term Cyberspace to the already-existing global electronic social space now generally referred to by that name. Until his naming it, it had not been considered any sort of place.
He speaks, consults, writes for a living. He has written for a wild diversity of publications, ranging from Communications of the ACM to The New York Times to Nerve°. He was on the masthead of Wired for many years. His piece for Wired on the future of copyright, The Economy of Ideas, is now taught in many law schools. His manifesto, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace has been widely distributed on the Net and can be found on more than 20,000 sites. Partly as a consequence of that, he was called "the Thomas Jefferson of Cyberspace" by Yahoo Internet Life Magazine back when such cyber-hyperbole was fashionable.
In recent years, John has devoted much of his time and energy helping to "wire" the Southern Hemisphere to the North and has traveled extensively in Africa. His Wired piece, "Africa Rising" describes the first of these journeys. More recently, he has been working with Brazil's Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, in an effort to get all of Brazil's music online.
In June of 1999, Future Banker Magazine (an ABA Publication) named him "One of the 25 Most Influential People in Financial Services," even though he isn't in financial services.
Echoing Green Fellow / Founder, PROSPERA / Co-Chair of Social Entrepreneurs
Born in Guadalajara Mexico, Gabriela is currently a Private Sector Development Specialist for the International Finance Corporation. Since June 2008, Gabriela has been consulting for the World Bank Group in the Finance and Private Sector Development Division, where she collaborates with the Doing Business project.
She has worked in countries including Colombia, Kenya, Indonesia, the Phillippines and Pakistan, to improve commercial regulations and foster entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) growth. In 2008, Gabriela co-founded CREA, a non-profit focused on empowering women entrepreneurs in rural Mexico. In 2009 she founded PROSPERA, a social enterprise offering low cost supplies for microenterprises, where she is in charge of strategic partnerships, fund raising, finance and leading the PROSPERA team to begin formal operations by the beginning of 2010. She has received the Banamex National Economics Award (2006), is an Echoing Green Fellow for social entrepreneurship (2008) and received the Architect of the Future 2009. Ms. Enrigue received her Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy in 2008. She also holds undergraduate degrees in both Economics and Political Science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Learn more about the difference Gabriela is making with PROSPERA
Founder, Global Exchange/ SEED Change Economics Forum Presenter
Described by The New York Times as the "Paul Revere of globalization's woes," Dr. Kevin Danaher's analytical expertise, sense of humor and blunt eloquence make him an exceptionally dynamic speaker.
Since co-founding Global Exchange in 1988, Dr. Danaher has spoken at hundreds of universities and for community organizations throughout the U.S.
Dr. Danaher is a Founder and an Executive Producer of the Green Festivals and is also the Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center -- a permanent Green Festival. He conducts workshops on issues ranging from the dynamics of the global economy to how we can replace the power of transnational corporations with local green economy networks. A longtime critic of the so-called "free trade" agenda, Dr. Danaher explains how we can create 'grass roots globalization', empowering local communities to create sustainable local economies.
Dr. Danaher 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 (PoliPointPress); Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots (PoliPointPress).
Dr. Danaher has traveled widely in Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, North America and Europe and a veteran activist and has special expertise on the following subjects: the Local Green Economy; the Two Globalizations (Elite vs. Grassroots); Policies of the World Bank; WTO and International Monetary Fund; US Foreign Policy and Activist Strategies for Creating a Sustainable World. Dr. Danaher received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982. Before joining Global Exchange he was a senior analyst at Food First/the Institute for Food and Development Policy, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, and for four years he taught in the School of Government at American University.
Author, "The Courage to Be Brilliant" / SEED Speaker & 7SS Workshops
Marta Monahan is an acclaimed leader in personal development and international etiquette. She assists individuals and organizations to attain their greatest potential and to shine in their endeavors since 1975.
She is the author of the book Your Bouquet of Beautiful Things: Giving the Gift of You (Vittorio Media, May 2008.) Her last book The Courage To Be Brilliant: How Five Acts Of Improvement A Day Will Make You Shine (Vittorio Media, 2003) received a prestigious Independent Publisher Award and was also published by Random House in German.
Clients include leaders in business, politics, and entertainment. Recent corporate clients include executives from NBC Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Barbara Barry Home, and Century 21. She recently gave the keynote address for The Economist Magazine Leadership Forum in Singapore and present anti-violence programs for school children in New York and California.
Ms. Monahan is a native of El Salvador and now resides in Los Angeles. www.MartaMonahan.com.
Coach, Speaker, Instructor / CEO, Choosing Happiness
7SS WORKShop: Leverage Strengths for Success
Dr. Delizonna is a positive psychologist that specializes in the skills that lead to success and sustainable happiness. She coaches individual clients, conducts workshops at companies and nonprofits, and presents keynote speeches. Dr. Delizonna is an instructor at Stanford University where she teaches happiness and emotional intelligence courses. She has written happiness and emotional intelligence handbooks and her research is published in professional journals. Recognized as an authority in happiness, Dr. Delizonna trains mental health professionals and serves as a board member of several nonprofit organizations. Her passion is helping people and organizations reach their greatest potential.
For more information visit www.choosinghappiness.com.
Sustainability Strategist with 25 Years in Social and Environmental Responsibility for Large Corporations, Complex Supply Chains and Government. As Former Director of Environmental Sustainability at Hewlett Packard, Ms. Nixon managed the vision, strategy, marketing, messaging, employee engagement and stakeholder relations program. As HP’s Ethical Sourcing Director, Bonnie implemented the world’s largest and most complex electronic ethical and sustainable supply chain program. Prior to HP, Ms. Nixon owned an environmental planning and Communications Firm, Circlepoint, where she managed major public and private sector infrastructure projects with business, community and public agencies. Prior to Circlepoint, Bonnie managed public outreach and environmental mediation for the Boston Harbor Cleanup Project and began her career in the environment when she was a part of student government at Three Mile Island at Pennsylvania State University.
In Fast Company’s Nov 1, 2009 article titled “An Interview with a Corporate Green Hero” the writer states “After seeing HP on the "Newsweek" list at number one, I was very interested to learn about the woman behind its corporate shift. What was confirmed to me is that behind every major corporate transformation story is a truly heroic man or woman. While I am sure HP has a team of hundreds who have contributed strongly to this position as number one on the "Newsweek" list, I was certain after spending more time with Nixon that she was an integral part of it.
Nikki Slade is an International leader in Chanting and Voice-Work for global companies such as Cisco, Orange, Boots, Thornton’s and Halfords, and a renowned Kirtan leader in the Yoga community UK wide. She has worked with the Central School of Speech and Drama and the London School of Musical Theatre.
She has been pioneering this work in the UK since 1990 in diverse areas including Wandsworth Prison and the Priory Hospital on the addiction treatment programme.
Nikki's mission statement is: “To create an empowering space where individuals free their inner voice, bringing this transformational gift to organizations, stimulating Chemistry at Work that liberates creative self-expression unites teams and aligns company vision, progressing towards the realizations of company goals.”
Mark Fisher is Nikki's multi-percussionist who has been playing with her for 5 years. He has studied in Africa and Cuba and plays for various bands and runs his own group who provide live music for 5 Rhythms Dance.
You can learn more about Nikki at www.nikkislade.com / www.freetheinnervoice.com
Solution Council Facilitator, "Guarding our Freedoms"
Journalist, IN DISCUSSION International Radio Show
David Gibbons has been writing and involved in the broadcast arena since 2003, entering the world in 2004 with "14 Days".
His work in understanding the world we habitate and its people continues to fascinate and perk his interest, in pursuing a direct conversational style with leaders, literature scholars and everyday individuals.
He is the host of In Discussion, the daily program that engages the world's thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business individuals, scientists and religious leaders.
SEED Change Forum Presenter
Dubbed "the most vocal and most intriguing African-American Buddhist in America," by Library Journal, Rev. angel Kyodo williams is a maverick spiritual teacher, adviser and Friend to many. She is the founder of Center for Transformative Change and the author of the critically acclaimed book, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, hailed as "a classic" by Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield, and "an act of love" by novelist Alice Walker.
Regarded as a gifted communicator and unflinching speaker of truth, Rev. williams is a social visionary that sees Transformative Social Change: applying inner awareness practice to broad-based social change, as America's next great movement. Calling this "Third Way" a paradigm shift that "changes the way change is done," angel envisions the building of a presence-centered social justice movement as the foundation for personal freedom, a just society and the healing of divisions of race, class, faith and politic. She notes, "Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters."
angel's work engages at the root, field and resource levels of social transformation. A master translator of wisdom teachings, she has developed the fearless(tm) system of practices: Meditation, Yoga, Learning and Forms. angel sits on the boards of Seasons Fund for Social Transformation, Seeds of Justice, Social Justice Leadership, Forest Ethics and YES!For more info visit http://about.angelkyodowilliams.com and http://transformativechange.org
President and CEO of the Future 500
Chair, SEED Change Environmental Forum / On the Road to COP 16!
Future 500 President and CEO Bill Shireman places himself between groups that love to hate each other: the world's largest corporations, and it's most impassioned advocacy groups. Called "a master social and environmental entrepreneur," Shireman unites business and NGO leaders behind genuine common ground solutions to global warming, deforestation, resource depletion, political repression, and human rights violations.
Shireman forged partnerships between Mitsubishi and the Rainforest Action Network to help save the world's forests. He drove an agreement between Greenpeace and Canada's largest timber company to save old growth forest. He unified Coca-Cola and campus activists to work together to promote peace in the Sudan. He advocates technology to solve labor and human rights problems in the developing world. And he has written some of the world's most effective and economical recycling laws, including California's landmark beverage container recycling law, the nation's most cost-effective "bottle bill." The innovative laws, programs, and policies he has developed have cut pollution and waste and saved more than 0.5 billion for consumers and businesses.
In 1996, Shireman joined with Mitsubishi Electric America CEO Tachi Kiuchi and other Fortune 500 chief executives to form the Future 500. Future 500 drives profitable alliances between companies and their stakeholders - even one-time adversaries - to meet the challenges of climate, water, recycling, and factory labor.
Shireman is the author of many articles and books on business, environment, and the future. His writings have appeared in USA Today, Technology Review, Business Week, the Los Angeles Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and other newspapers, magazines, and journals. He is co-author (with Tachi Kiuchi) of What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Lessons from Nature (Berrett-Koehler).
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In the non-profit world, David is a co-founder of American Sustainable Business Council http://www.asbcouncil.org, a network of business associations that promotes sustainability through public policy, largely at the federal level. Previously, he was president of New Voice of Business http://newvoiceofbusiness.org, another business non-profit advocacy group. Earlier, he was executive director at Rockridge Institute, where George Lakoff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff, author of Don't Think of an Elephant, developed his ground-breaking ideas on political communications. At Rockridge Institute, he worked closely with many progressive non-profits on framing and messaging issues central to their mission.
In the private sector, David was a partner in the media and entertainment practice at Accenture http://www.accenture.com, the leading global management and technology consulting firm; a director at the consulting firm Arthur D. Little http://www.adl.com, where he headed the firm’s Silicon Valley practice; and a vice president of marketing at Radius, a computer peripherals company. His areas of expertise in business consulting include marketing and positioning, business plan development, business unit strategy, corporate development, and process reengineering.
David holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a BA in psychology from Harvard.
Whole System Visionary / 7SS #7:Redesigning Humanity
Daniel is working to evolve a new system of governance…free from vested interests, misinformation, divisive ideologies, disempowering hierarchy and outdated structures…using science and technology to help us answer how we, as a global people (whose problems and resources inter-effect each other), can functionally assess and prioritize what we need to do, best methods for accomplishing those needs, how to allocate resources for greatest advantage…and how to meaningfully engage all people, aligned with their passions, skills sets, and strengths…in a manner that maximizes overall effectiveness, personal fulfillment, and freedom.
1. How do we get from where we are now to a completely sustainable, thriving world that works for all life, as quickly and easily as possible?
2. What is most needed for humanity’s success that is not already being adequately tended to?
3. How can we best accelerate the evolution of consciousness for all humanity…towards truly inclusive values and clear understanding of how to act in support of those values?
4. What are the most effective systems and technologies for meeting human needs at the highest level possible, in harmony with the environment?
5. If we were to redesign human society from the ground up, not assuming that any of the ways we have done things are necessarily the best ways to proceed…motivated by the desire to offer the highest quality of life possible to all, in harmony with the bio-sphere…utilizing all of our knowledge and resources…how would we do it?Motivated by these questions and the vision of a world that works for all...Daniel has worked to understand and inventory global problems in all sectors, their etiologies and how they’re interconnected….and in light of that understanding, inventory and develop strategies to effectively address them.
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Bianca's message is very unique in that her environmental awareness comes from interacting with the earth daily as a farmer and gardener. Her message, similar to her life, is simple and fulfilling. In addition to being the founder of Words for the Many, Bianca is Co-Creator of Growcology, a sustainable education facility and public garden in Riverside California, where she resides with her Husky Luna. |
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Laureate Poet and Author of the Books “Building Bridges of Understanding, My Personal Quest for Unity and Peace” and the Spanish version “Creando Puentes de Comprension, Mi Conquista por la Unidad y la Paz”
Lucía De García is the President and CEO of Élan International founded in 1984 and based in Newport Beach, California. Her recognitions include: Millennial 2000 Manager of the Year from the Society for Advancement of Management, (SAM); The Goddess Artemis Award for bridging Nations and cultures in Athens, and was inducted to the Women's Hall of Fame at the Sacred Island of Delos by the Euro-American Women’s Council in Greece in May 2008; the President’s Gold Medal from the World Academy of Arts and Culture (WAAC).
Ms. De García writes editorials and appears regularly on national and international television, public radio, and in documentaries for the BBC Network and Global Vision Network LTD. Some of her poems are published in the Golden Book of Iberoamerican Poets of the XXI Century. She is profiled in the 1996 Simon & Schuster’s “Latino Success, Insights from 100 of America’s Most Powerful Latino Business Professionals.” Lucia is a global transformational speaker, has worked closely with Jane Goodall, and is featured in a new film with the Dalai Lama, Discover the Gift.
Expert Delegate "Conflicts of Scarcity" Solution Council
Lecturer, Department of Geography, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab-Pakistan
Adila Shafqat graduated from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur in 2005 with a Master in Geography with distinction.
She began teaching at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur in 2006 up-to-date.
Ms Adila Shafqat taught courses at graduate level including Environmental Geography, Environmental Management and Sustainable Development of Natural resources.
The Global Summit will publish Adila's research paper "ROLE OF NGOs IN PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN" as part of its online knowledge base, along with her contribution of personal insights on related issues. She has recently completed her “Ecological Economics Course” with CEECEC (Civil Society Engagement with ECological EConomics) - a European Commission FP7 funded project that aims to enable Civil Society Organisations.
CEO, Maadili / The Global Summit Program Chair
Former UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Africa
Scholastica Kimaryo is the Founder and CEO of Maadili, a consulting and life coaching firm which supports organizations and leaders to realize their potential; especially through the attainment of mind, body, spirit balance and wellness. She brings a wealth of leadership and development experience from over 30 years with the United Nations -- working with leaders across Africa and beyond -- from grassroots to Heads of State levels.
Prior to establishing Maadili, Scholastica served at the rank of Deputy Assistant UNDP Administrator, with the functional title of UNDP Deputy Regional Director for Africa, responsible for 22 countries in East & Southern Africa. Prior to that, she served as UNDP Resident Representative & Coordinator of the UN System in South Africa (2005 – 2007) as well as in Lesotho (2001 – 2004). Scholastica’s versatile professional training & expertise ranges from journalism, social policy & planning, gender & development, diplomacy, international development as well as in the practice of mind and body healing.
During her tenure with UNDP, she accomplished, among others, the spearheading of a broad-based consultative process to find viable ways and means -- as well as galvanizing grass-roots, national and international support -- for the people and Government of Lesotho to address the country’s HIV & AIDS pandemic. This led to the formulation, adoption and publication of the first ever integrated national strategy in the form of a Government policy approved by Parliament, titled Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity: Strategies for Scaling Up the National Response to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Lesotho. Scholastica also spearheaded consultative processes for the forging of a unique partnership between the Government of South Africa and the United Nations System, resulting in – among other things – the joint drawing up and co-signature of the 2007 – 2010 United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), a Joint 2007/2010 GoSA/UN Programme of Action, as well as a Joint Evaluation of the United Nations in South Africa.
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Founder, The Slate Foundation / The Living School
Sustainable Tech Expo / Innovations in Education
Madison Slate started The Slate Foundation because of a deep desire to educate children on the importance of saving endangered animals.
In its inception, The Slate Foundation was focused on creating educational videos on endangered animals and the scientists who spend their lives out in the field trying to save them. Madison followed the lives of biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the US Coast Guard Rescue Divers, Mote Marine Labs, and Sea World on a manatee health assessment. Realizing the impact boaters had on the lives of these ancient creatures led the shift towards where The Slate Foundation is today.
However, it wasn’t until Madison followed two biologists to the Democratic Republic of Congo to film endangered Eastern lowland gorillas, that Madison realized how interconnected the lives are of humans and endangered animals. It was here where Madison discovered that single mothers are the largest group of people poaching and trapping endangered gorillas, okapi and forest elephants for food. Madison realized that she could never help the animals unless she first helped the people who were endangering their lives. This concept quickly became the first pillar of The Slate Foundation.
After talking at length with twenty of these mothers, Madison learned that they were interested in raising chickens instead of poaching, so she helped the mothers built their first chicken farm! Three years later this program has grown to support over 500 single mothers with hundreds of chickens, allowing these poachers to leave the animals alone.
Rabbit farms were also introduced into the program allowing mothers to afford a year’s worth of education for one child by simply selling two rabbits at market.
Educating children quickly became the second pillar of The Slate Foundation. Although an educational program is desperately needed in the DR Congo, it is too dangerous a place to start such a program. However, the stability of Tanzania makes it a perfect place to launch the prototype of the Living School Project, a sustainable school with a water source on-site that focuses on teaching protection of wildlife and environmental conservation while providing children with life skills to improve their quality of life and their surrounding environment.
Using the science of biomimicry in the design of the Living School ensures the success of the school concept in a multitude of ecosystems. Bioswales will direct water to agricultural learning gardens where students will learn about rotating crops to protect habitat and planting multiple plant crops that have higher nutritional value and require less water than typical maize and cassava crops. Livestock and poultry pen classrooms will provide children with skills to earn income without the need to poach and will introduce natural health treatments through probiotics.
The on site water source will allow children, who walk 5 to 10 miles a day for water, to fulfill their family survival requirements while also getting an education.
The focus of The Slate Foundation is to save animals by empowering people. Addressing the root causes of animal endangerment from the adults, who are currently poaching to children who will be the future poachers through learned behavior, is the only method to break the cycle.
Visit The Living School Project exhibit at The Global Summit II to discover how you can participate.
Tony Livoti has been involved in small business development his entire career – starting and successfully operating a creative management company in Hollywood, a small manufacturing company in Felton, California, working as a business broker in the sale of businesses throughout the Monterey Bay region and forming and operating an Export Management Company to service companies throughout California. (EMC).
In 1984, Livoti saw a need for an international trade association for the burgeoning Monterey Bay region and its array of entrepreneurial enterprises, and as a result, founded the Monterey Bay International Trade Association (MBITA). Under his leadership, the MBITA in 1995 became a founding partner in the BAYTRADE public-private sector export promotion program that has helped generate over $350 million in ‘new- to‐market’ exports representing exporting companies throughout 17 counties in Northern California.
Under his guidance as its President, MBITA has grown over the years to become a self-sustaining non‐profit with over 200 members, clients and foreign counterpart partnerships throughout the Pacific Rim, the European Union and the Americas.
MBITA has also become a leader in California on utilizing web based solutions for conducting, facilitating and consummating global trade transactions for small to mid‐sized enterprises. This includes desktop to desktop global eCommerce training and a web based eTraining program for online global trade in partnership with the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) and the GLOBE project.
Priya received her Bachelors degree from Scripps College in Sociology and Public Policy Analysis and a Juris Doctorate from New York Law School.
In developing her law practice as a human-rights lawyer, Priya began her work in San Francisco representing the Middle Eastern Muslim and South Asian communities impacted by Post-9/11 immigration policies and represented individuals impacted by racially motivated detentions, interrogations and deportations.
Since moving back to Southern CA, Priya consults and provides administrative oversight for her family’s medical clinic to improve the quality of care for patients and to improve quality of work environment for the clinic’s staff.
After 10 years of spiritual practice under the direction of Monk Mettananda, Priya has also begun teaching yoga and meditation under the Buddhist Tantra system of Tathagatha- Nama Rupa 5 Elements Yoga system as designed by Sangha Wellness Foundation.
President & Co-Founder, CSAfrica / CEO & Founder, DEEP
Co-Producer, 11th Hour / Producer, TreeMedia
Stephan is President and Co-Founder of CSAfrica. Based in Santa Monica, CA, CSAfrica is an international consortium of nonprofit organizations offering sustainable solutions for grass-roots initiatives to empower the people and communities throughout Africa. Stephan is also Founder and CEO of DEEP (Developing Empowerment for Economic Prosperity), an international social business platform for sustainable & community lead economic enterprises in Africa.
As Executive Director of Green Awareness Africa (GAWA), Founder Gareth Amos and Stephan spent most of 2009 implementing sustainability programs in Namibia, Africa before handing the charity over to local Namibians. Among the projects spearheaded is “Green Zone Schools” and an anti-plastic-shopping bag campaign for Namibia. Both programs are officially mandated programs, directly partnered with the Namibian American Embassy, 5 Namibian Ministers including the Prime Minister, and large African corporations who are taking the lead in environmental awareness and action.
Stephan has studied sustainable, earth-restorative farming and living practices called "Permaculture" on the island of Hawaii in 2001-2002 and in Costa Rica 2003-2004, where he became a certified Permaculture Teacher. Permaculture techniques focus on making our communities healthy, culturally rich, and self-reliant models of integrated living. He also attended city colleges and universities in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Stephan shares his time between Santa Monica, CA, and Cape Town, South Africa.
Mr. Finney's political and government experience has spanned more than two decades. While working on a plethora of state, local, and national campaigns throughout the last three decades, he developed a national network of meaningful relationships. He clerked in the United States Congress in the late 1980's, and began his practice of law at that time. In 1993, Mr. Finney was elected Controller, and thereby Chair of the Finance Committee and Business Council, of the statewide California Democratic Party.
In 1995, he was appointed by the State Controller to serve as General Counsel and Deputy Controller. In 1998, he was appointed to serve as General Counsel to the Lieutenant Governor.
While working in these positions, Mr. Finney served on and staffed a number of other critical positions in state government, including:
- California Public Employees Retirement System
- California State Teachers Retirement System
- California Board of Equalization
- California Franchise Tax Board
- California Board of Control
- California State Mandates Commission
- Regents of the University of California
- Trustees of the California State University
- California Commission for Economic Development
- California State Lands Commission
- A host of state financing and bonding authorities
In 1999, Mr. Finney was elevated to the position of Senior Advisor and Director of Policy to the Governor of California. In this capacity, he served as the Governor’s business liaison and point person on numerous statewide projects, including the first Governor’s Aerospace and Commercial Space Summit, the Governor’s Lifescience Initiative (with four regional summits held in the state’s four main lifescience clusters; San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Sacramento), the first Governor’s Summit on Homelessness, Geothermal Energy, and Hydrogen Technologies and Policies, and creating and managing the Technology Advisory Group to the Governor’s Infrastructure Commission. Other major state projects Mr. Finney worked on included the Digital California Project (an education technology network connecting all of California’s elementary, middle, and high schools with the community college and university system), the Indian gaming compacts, the California Film Commission and entertainment industry, the Governor’s Defense Industry Gold Team, the California Defense Retention and Conversion Council, and the Holocaust Era Insurance Oversight Committee.
Mr. Finney also became the “utility infielder” for the Governor in key posts and for key votes. As the Los Angeles Times reported in an October 24, 2003 article, the Governor considered Mr. Finney among his “most trusted trouble-shooters” and “made a practice of naming Finney to boards and commissions so he could cast deciding votes on key issues.”
Mr. Finney serves as a member of the California Voting Modernization Board, the Hollywood Entertainment Museum Board, the Defense Orientation Conference Association, the Advisors to the Executive Committee of the Environmental Section of the California State Bar, and on the corporate boards of Iceland America Energy, Big House Entertainment, and Herhof California. He has been named a Super Laywer for three consecutive years in the areas of environmental, government, and energy law and was recently distinguished as such in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition for Energy and Natural Resources.
Deborah Eden Tull is a sustainability coach and meditation teacher who has been traveling to, living in, or teaching about sustainable communities internationally for the last 18 years, including seven years as a monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Northern California. She has been an organic gardener and farmer for many years, including at Green Gulch Farm in Marin County, California, at Arcosanti in the Arizona desert, at the Zen Monastery Peace Center, and in urban gardens in the San Francisco Bay area and in Los Angeles.
Certified in Permaculture Design, Bio-Intensive Organic Gardening, and Compost Education, she offers workshops throughout Los Angeles County and beyond, most recently at the Omega Institute in New York. She is the founder of Creative Green Sustainability Coaching (www.creativegreen.net). Her approach to sustainable living is a unique combination of peace and environmentalism that emphasizes the interconnection between personal and planetary well-being. She is the author of The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution (Process Media), which will be available in September 2010. Her teaching style is grounded in compassionate awareness and an unwavering commitment to personal and planetary transformation. Deborah Eden Tull has been featured on KCRW's Good Food and has also been featured in Yogi Times Magazine, Larchmont Chronicle, Westside Today, Bicycle Fixation, Coffee Break TV Show, LA Talk Radio, Your Daily Thread, and other publications. Learn more at www.creativegreen.net
Known as the Literary Lion, Peter Miller has been an extraordinarily active literary and film manager for more than thirty years. He is President of PMA Literary and Film Management, Inc., Millennium Lion, Inc. and Global Lion Intellectual Property Management, Inc. He and his company have successfully managed more than 1,000 books worldwide, as well as dozens of motion picture and television properties. These works include seventeen New York Times best sellers, and fourteen produced films that Miller has managed or executive produced.
Three of those films have been nominated for Emmy Awards: Goodbye, Miss Fourth of July (The Disney Channel, with four nominations); A Gift of Love (Showtime, two nominations); and Helter Skelter (CBS, one nomination).
Peter is also the Executive Producer of The Irishman with Code Entertainment for Anchor Bay, slated for an early 2011 theatrical release. In addition, Miller has a number of film and television projects currently in active development, with some nearing production, in association with Warner Bros. Features, Warner Bros.Television, Paramount/DreamWorks, HBO, and many other producers and production companies.
Peter Miller’s special presentation at the Global Summit will be focused on globally marketing transformational information as books and/or films. Many of his clients have the good fortune of seeing their books marketed around the world. One of PMA’s more recent coups is The Element by Sir Ken Robinson (Viking) which was a New York Times best-seller and has been sold in 18 countries around the world. A follow-up book, Finding Your Element is presently in development. Peter Miller. is presently managing and globally marketing Demian Lichtenstein’s and Shajen Joy Aziz' DISCOVER THE GIFT, which is being released as a film in January 2011 and published as a book in June 2011.
*Note all lecture or conference attendees should read Peter Miller’s book, Author ! Screenwriter! in advance of any sessions. The book will be supplied as an free e-book to all attendees. Miller also likes to screen a copy of his film, Author! Screenwriter! Learn more about Peter & his work
Director of Sustainable & Responsible Investing, EP Wealth Advisors
Moderator, Capitalism 2.0 / Co-Chair, Community Resource Exchange
Greg advises clients who want to align their wealth through investments that reflect their priorities and concerns for a better world. Greg is one of the nation’s leading experts in Sustainable and Responsible Investing. He began his career as a financial advisor in 1991 and worked with Smith Barney, Paine Webber and Prudential Securities prior to joining Enright Premier Wealth Advisors, Inc. in 2002.
Greg is frequently profiled or quoted as an expert in the media including "Living with Ed" Television Show on Home and Garden Television, Business Ethics magazine, Daily Variety, Financial Planning magazine and Yogi Times magazine. Greg speaks regularly at conferences on the matters of new paradigms in economics, sustainable and responsible investing, new consciousness around wealth and related matters.
Mr. Wendt is the co-founder of the non-profit “Green Business Networking” www.greenbusinessnetworking.org, a community of over 3,500 green business owners and professionals in Los Angeles dedicated to green economy, and the founder/visionary behind Green Economy Think Tank Day, www.greeneconomythinktank.org an annual conference for LA Region’s sustainability leaders to evolve solutions and actions for LA's Green Economy.
A native of Southern California, Greg grew up in Palos Verdes Estates and has lived in Santa Monica since 1983. In his spare time Greg enjoys swimming surfing, gourmet cooking, reading, meditation, hiking and hosting wonderful events for his family and friends. You can learn more about Greg on his website www.gregwendt.com, and what is on his mind at www.sustainablewealth.blogspot.com.
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Niurka's life is the story of tenacity through tribulation resulting in massive triumph. She is one of the youngest, most successful and dynamic speakers, entrepreneurs, authors and healers in the mind-body-spirit community. Her message comes straight from the heart into the soul. Niurka's commitment to create a life of success and fulfillment inspired her to study, understand and teach profound and practical wisdom. |
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Alex is a co-founder of the International Youth Council (IYC), a nonprofit organization that aims to foster youth engagement and promote international sustainable development through organizational partnerships, entrepreneurial projects, and leadership opportunities. Alex has focused on developing and promoting entrepreneurial projects as the primary force for socio-economic development.
On an international level, Alex co-founded and chaired the annual United Nations Department of Information/Nongovernmental Pre Youth Conference, which allows college students and young professionals to share their initiatives and network with NGO leaders and government delegations at the annual conference.
Alex also worked extensively drafting and negotiating policy points at the annual United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (17 & 18) as a coordinator of the UN Major Group on Children & Youth - a network of over 1,000+ youth organizations around the world. Other roles in which Alex worked to build inter-generational and cultural partnerships include: Project Manager of the New York AIDS Film Festival and Program Director of the Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations.
On a local level, Alex co-founded a youth program, U Strong, in his hometown of Uniondale, NY in 2008. After eight months of galvanizing support for "U Strong 4 Change" campaign, Alex spoke at a May 2009 press conference with former County Executive Thomas Suozzi to announce the launch of the Nassau County Summer Youth Employment Corp, which created 1,000 summer job opportunities for youth in at-risk communities. The new jobs program received $200,000 from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 and created a joint public & private commission on youth employment.
Alex Ticas graduated from Fordham University in 2007 with a B.A. in International Political Economy. Alex was the recipient of Fordham University's Senior Leadership Award for his dedicated service to the Fordham Community. He studied International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Libera Universitá Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome, Italy.
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As a producer, she has made films on healthcare - Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety and Side Effects; on women’s issues – Maybe Baby, on the environment – Vanishing of the Bees, and on election issues – Free For All. She is currently finishing up her film Bonsai – Celebrating the Vision of Muhammad Yunus. |
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Co-Founder/ Co-Director, BeadforLife / Co-Chair, "Redefining Human Security" Solution Council
Torkin Wakefield is the co-founder and co-Executive Director of BeadforLife, a poverty eradication project working in East Africa. BeadforLife programs focus on women who are living on a dollar a day. BeadforLife engages citizens around the world to get involved in the issue of extreme poverty.
Torkin has started many organizations during her career as a social entrepreneur including The People’s Clinic, AIDS, Medicine, and Miracles, Hollyhock Retreat Center (British Columbia), Wellspring Holistic Healing, and The World Sits Down to Dinner, a theatrical experiential event about food security. She has also served in the Peace Corps in India and worked in Nepal, Mexico, Kenya, Uganda and Italy. She is the former mayor of Gold Hill, Colorado.
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Women Saving the World / Sustainability Blogger, Fast Company
A long-time advocate for “doing the right thing,” Lewis Perkins is a champion for sustainability – personally and professionally. His sustainability consulting group, New House LLC, works with Fortune 500 companies as well as mid-size businesses to develop strategy and solutions to stay competitive in a rapidly shifting corporate landscape.
Prior to consulting, Perkins was the director of sustainable strategies for The Mohawk Group, a leading commercial carpet manufacturer. In this role, Perkins drew on this passion to help advance the company’s mission of environmental and social responsibility. Coupling strong leadership skills with his fervent commitment to ensuring a positive future for the world around us, he helps drive awareness for the importance of sustainable design through strategic marketing communications, and creates partnerships with non profit organizations such as Global Green USA and the U.S. Green Building Council.
Perkins has also served as a board member of GOAL: A Girl’s Journey of Growth (a former nonprofit organization in Atlanta whose mission was to promote self-esteem, self-awareness, and a respect for individual differences in girls) and volunteers with Eve Ensler’s V-day, Men Stopping Violence and The Captain Planet Foundation. He is also an advisory board member for Sustainable Life Media and The Green Chamber of The South.
Perkins holds a Master of Business Administration in marketing and strategy with a focus on social responsibility and marketing from Emory University, Goizueta Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington & Lee University.He is a resident of Atlanta.
Follow insight on environmentalism and corporate citizenship on his blog:Semantics of Sustainability on Fastcompany.com and follow his conversations with women on Women Are Saving The World Now, a site he launched in 2010. Share on Facebook /
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Since 2005, the company has installed commercial and industrial solar projects, including some of the largest of their kind at commissioning. In 1994, Rothenberg co-founded Internet service provider SoftAware and grew it into one of the three largest data storage facilities in the world. SoftAware was sold to Digital Island in 2000 for $430M. |
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Dave Room
Co-founder Bay Localize / 7SS Presenter: Roadmap to a Healthy Future
His given name is Dave Room but his most important identifier is Melia's Papa. He uses storytelling and solo performance theater to awaken and activate mainstream audiences, people of color, and youth. He co-founded Bay Localize, a public benefit organization that helps Bay Area residents build equitable and resilient communities.
As Clean Energy Director, he coordinates the Local Clean Energy Alliance, a coalition of 70 nonprofits and businesses that advocate for more renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean energy jobs.
He initiated TakeBack the Mic Bay Area, an initiative that inspires, supports, and provides a platform for communities to tell their own stories.
Inventor and Serial Entrepreneur / Founder, Green2Gold
working on behalf of greener, cleaner inventions, enterprises and small business for over twenty years, Alan Tratner is President of the non profit Inventors Workshop International and the Entrepreneur’s Workshop, Director of the Small Business Entrepreneurship Center, a SCORE (US SBA) counselor, and publisher of the Lightbulb Journal and INVENT! magazines. He is an inventor and serial entrepreneur, with 12 inventions/patents.
Alan has been dubbed the “Minister of Ideas” by the media and has been featured by the leading media of our time, including the Wall Street Journal, Inc, Entrepreneur, Business Week, TIME, USA Today, Fortune Small Business, America Online Forum, and NPR. He has appeared on OPRAH, CNN, Good Morning America, CNBC, and was co-host of a nationally syndicated radio program on the Business Radio Network “The New Venture Money Show” and “Inventors Workshop of the Air”. Alan has mentored and assisted thousands of inventors, new product developers and small biz start-ups.
Alan Tratner, a former Professor of Environment and Energy, participated in the First International United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm Sweden, was staff member of Environmental Quality Magazine and helped establish Earth Day.
He founded the Environmental Education Group Foundation with Nobel prize winner Dennis Gabor. Alan traveled the USA conducting the Ultimate Crisis and Solutions for Survival seminars, led an environmental and alternative energy delegation to the former Soviet Union for the Citizen’s Ambassador program. He was editor of Energies Journal for the Solar Energy Society of America, published the Geothermal Energy magazine and Geothermal World Directory. In the 1990’s he became director of the Green Business Conference of the ECO EXPOs, created the Eco Inventors and Eco Entrepreneurs workshops, and the New Environmental Technologies Exhibits. Alan also created the Young Eco Inventors Contest for kids. He founded the international Green2Gold workshops and Incubators for sustainable enterprises to foster new renewable energy technologies and green products/services.
He is Affiliate Sponsor of the Maverick Angels international investors network. Alan created the Great Idea Contests and Imagination Fairs and YIPEE! [Young Inventor’s Partnership for Entrepreneurship and the Environment] programs for kids, the Small Business Success Forums, and has presented over 3,700 workshops from Stanford University to Moscow, Russia. He has received recognition and awards from the White House to Governors and Mayors, and is a nominator for the annual Lemelson/MIT $500,000 award to American Inventors.
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