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Jean-Michel Cousteau
Oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer.
Jean-Michel Cousteau
Oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer.
For more than four decades, Jean-Michel Cousteau has dedicated himself and his vast experience to communicate to people of all nations and generations his love and concern for our water planet. Jean-Michel is a dedicated advocate for the protection of the water planet. As a voice for the ocean, he inspires and educates audiences worldwide about the need to act responsibly and preserve the fragile underwater ecosystems tied to all life on earth.
Vandana Shiva
Scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author
Vandana Shiva
Scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author
Vandana Shiva is a tireless defender of the environment. She is the founder of Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers’ rights. She is also the founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. Shiva fights for changes in the practice and paradigms of agriculture and food: “I don’t want to live in a world where five giant companies control our health and our food.”
Captain Paul Watson
Conservation and environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and co-founded Greenpeace
Captain Paul Watson
Conservation and environmental activist, who founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and co-founded Greenpeace
CPW is a marine wildlife conservation and environmental activist. Watson was one of the founding members and directors of Greenpeace. In 1977, he left Greenpeace and founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. A renowned speaker, accomplished author, master mariner, and lifelong environmentalist, Captain Watson has been awarded many honors for his dedication to the oceans and to the planet.
Lynne Twist
Award-winning speaker, author, and global activist. Co-founder of Pachamama Alliance
Lynne Twist
Award-winning speaker, author, and global activist. Co-founder of Pachamama Alliance
Lynne Twist is a co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance, and founder of The Soul of Money Institute. She has dedicated herself to alleviating poverty and hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability.
To date, Lynne is a Pachamama Alliance board member and fundraiser. She also leads journeys into the Amazon rainforest through the organization’s Pachamama Journeys program.
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Prince EA
Rapper, spoken word artist, music video director and activist
Prince EA
Rapper, spoken word artist, music video director and activist
Prince Ea, has touched the hearts, minds and souls of millions of people worldwide. By producing creative, inspirational and thought provoking content, Prince has accumulated over 1 billion views on Facebook alone and even more on a combination of other platforms.
Zainab Salbi
Co-Founder - Daughters For Earth / Author, Speaker
Zainab Salbi
Co-Founder - Daughters For Earth / Author, Speaker
Zainab Salbi has frequently been named as one of the women changing the world by leading publications ranging from Newsweek to The Guardian. Oprah Winfrey identified her as one of the women changing the world to People Magazine and President Bill Clinton identified her as one of the 21st century heroes to Harper’s Bazaar. Most recently Foreign Policy Magazine named her as one of “100 Leading Global
Thinkers” and Watkins Magazine identified her as
one of the top 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2020.
At the age of 23, Zainab founded Women for Women International, a humanitarian organization
dedicated to women survivors of wars. Under her leadership (1993–2011), Women for Women
International grew from helping 30 women upon its inception to helping more than 420,000
women and distributing more than 100 million dollars in aid.
Zainab is the author of several books, including the best seller Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny; Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam (with Laurie Buckland); The Other Side of War; Women’s Stories of Survival and Hope; If You Knew Me You Would Care (with photographs by Rennio Maifredi); and her latest Freedom is an Inside Job; Owning our Darkness and Our Light to Change Ourselves and the World.
She is also the Executive Editor and Host of several shows including Through Her Eyes with Yahoo News, #MeToo, Now What? with PBS, The Zainab Salbi Project with Huffington Post, and The Nida’a Show with TLC Arabia.
In early 2022, alongside Jody Allen, Zainab co-founded Daughters for Earth, a new fund and
campaign that aims to inspire all women to engage in climate change action by mobilizing $100
million for on the ground, women-led efforts to protect and restore the Earth.
Holland Roden
Actress
Holland Roden
Actress
Holland Roden is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lydia Martin in Teen Wolf, and she is a social media influencer and Hidden Heroes Ambassador.
Kim Stanley Robinson
American novelist, widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson
American novelist, widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American novelist, widely recognized as one of the foremost living writers of science fiction. Robinson began publishing novels in 1984. His work has been described as "humanist science fiction" and "literary science fiction". Robinson himself has been a proud defender and advocate of science fiction as a genre, which he regards as one of the most powerful of all literary forms. Kim Stanley Robinson has become an important public thinker. He was named a “hero of the environment” by Time magazine and The New Yorker called him “one of the most important political writers working in America today.”Credit...
Fawn Sharp
Quinault Indian Nation, WA - Politician / Activist / President - National Congress Of American Indians
Fawn Sharp
Quinault Indian Nation, WA - Politician / Activist / President - National Congress Of American Indians
President Fawn Sharp of the Quinault Indian Nation is serving her fifth term as President and CEO of the Quinault Indian Nation. Born on the Quinault Reservation, she lives on beautiful Lake Quinault with her mother and her four children. She is blessed to live in a Nation where you can still travel from mountain glaciers, down flowing streams, through temperate rain forests, and onto pristine sandy beaches -- without seeing short-sighted development and environmental degradation.
Blessed to have been mentored by visionary Native American leaders like President Joe DeLaCruz (Quinault), Billy Frank Jr. (Nisqually), and Chairwoman Ramona Bennett (Puyallup), President Sharp has dedicated her life to fighting to protect the sovereignty, human rights, and cultural inheritances of all Tribal Nations. A human rights attorney by training, she left home to get her education, ultimately receiving degrees and advanced certificates from the University of Washington, Gonzaga University, the University of Nevada, and Oxford University. In 2018, she was recognized by the United Nations as one of the foremost experts on the human rights of indigenous people globally.
After serving as an intelligence officer, Tribal attorney, and judge, Fawn Sharp has been elected to five consecutive terms as President of the Quinault Indian Nation. Under her leadership, the Quinault Nation has seen unprecedented economic growth while upholding its age-old traditions of civil rights activism, public advocacy, and local, regional, statewide, and national leadership on issues of civil rights and environmental protections. In 2018, President Sharp co-authored and co-led I-1631, the most aggressive climate change initiative in American history, ultimately receiving the support of global celebrities like Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Michael Bloomberg en route to forcing fossil fuel companies to spend $32 million in Washington State alone to fight it at the ballot box.
Fawn Sharp was also nominated as one of Forbes' 50 over 50 in 2022.
Laura Storm
Author / Founder - Regenerators
Laura Storm
Author / Founder - Regenerators
Laura is an international thought leader and expert on sustainability leadership and has spent her entire career advising global leaders on sustainability and building impact- and purpose-driven organizations, and movements. All have they focused on the global transformation to sustainability and they include the Copenhagen Climate Council, the World Business Summit on Climate Change, Project Green Light and Sustainia. Under Laura's leadership, Sustainia became a global mega-brand within sustainability with an outreach to more than 150 million people, a database of 4000 sustainable solutions, multiple state-of-the art publications and a unique partner network.
In 2018, she founded Regenerators - a collective focused on teaching leaders from all walks of life about regenerative design, regenerative organizations and leadership and regenerative living. For her work, she has been awarded the title ‘Worldchanger’ by Greenbiz and is selected by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader’. She serves on multiple Boards and on the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network as an expert in sustainable development and climate change. Her academic background is a Master in Political Communication and Leadership from Copenhagen Business School.
Giles Hutchins
Coach / Author
Giles Hutchins
Coach / Author
Giles is a pioneering practitioner and senior adviser at the fore-front of the [r]evolution in organizational and leadership consciousness and developmental approaches that enhance personal, organizational and systemic agility and vitality. He is author of several leadership and organizational development papers, and the books The Nature of Business (2012), The Illusion of Separation (2014) and Future Fit (2016). Over the last 25 years he has been an international Management Consultant and Head of Practice with KPMG, and Global Sustainability Director for Atos, a technology multinational with over 100,000 employees worldwide.
He has helped transform organizations across the world, and across all sectors, has been interviewed by the BBC and advises a number of forward-thinking leadership academies. He contributes to international business school research, runs deep-dive transformation Learning Journeys, is Chair of The Future-Fit Leadership Academy is co-founder of Regenerators, co-founder of Biomimicry for Creative Innovation and an executive coach to senior leaders. He runs a 60-acre ancient woodland Leadership Immersion center near London, UK.
Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining)
Diné Nation - Speaker, Activist, Grandmother
Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining)
Diné Nation - Speaker, Activist, Grandmother
Pat McCabe, Woman Stands Shining, is of the Diné Nation (often known incorrectly as "Navajo), and was also adopted into the Lakota Spiritual way of Life.
She is a mother, grandmother, activist, artist, and international speaker. She identifies as a "radical bridger" of worlds and paradigms, with a focus on sharing from her own deep inquiry into Thriving Life Paradigm: "How do I become that being, that human, whose presence and way of being supports and causes all other life to Thrive?"
She calls upon her lived experience from her indigenous cultures to make hypotheses and proposals to "Modern World Paradigm" as all of humanity is faced with its current crisis of relationship, with ourselves, with each other, and with the Earth.
John D Liu
Ecologist / Filmmaker / Advisory Board Chairman - Ecosystem Restoration Camps
John D Liu
Ecologist / Filmmaker / Advisory Board Chairman - Ecosystem Restoration Camps
After 15 years as a Television Producer and Cameraman for CBS News, RAI and ZDF John began to study ecology. In the mid-1990’s he began a participatory process with a number of media and broadcasting colleagues in Beijing that led to the creation of the Environmental Education Media Project for China (EEMPC).
He has directed the EEMPC (now the EEMP) from its beginning. The EEMPC has distributed over 1000 environmental films in China since then. The EEMPC also helped found the “China Environment and Sustainable Development Reference and Research Center (CESDRRC) and the China HIV/AIDS Information Center (CHAIN). Over the years their activities have broadened beyond China to include the entire world and to include the production of environmental and ecological films. The name was shortened to Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) when they were asked to work in other countries.
From 2003 – 2006 John was a visiting fellow with the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of the West of England, In 2006 he was named the Rothamsted International Fellow for the Communication of Science, from 2010 – 2013 John was a Senior Research Fellow for IUCN.
In 2013 he received the Communications Award from the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER), “Green Gold” a film about his work produced by the VPRO won a Prix Italia award. “Hope in a Changing Climate” was named the best ecosystem film by the International Wildlife Film Festival and won several other honors.
He currently also serves as ambassador for the Commonland Foundation.
Don Jose Ruiz
Bestselling Author
Don Jose Ruiz
Bestselling Author
don Jose Ruiz was born in Mexico City, Mexico and was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. When he was 21 he came to live in the U.S. with his father, don Miguel Ruiz.
Like his father, combining new insights with ancient wisdom, don Jose Ruiz is dedicating his life to sharing the ancient Toltec wisdom by translating it into practical, everyday life concepts that promote transformation through truth, love and common sense. don Jose teaches and lectures across the United States and around the world: Power Journeys to the pyramids of Teotihuacan, Palenque, Tulum and Coba; workshops with guest don Miguel or other teachers at Omega NY, Austin, and Vancouver.
don Jose Ruiz has now collaborated with his father don Miguel Ruiz on a new book that offers a fresh perspective on the Four Agreements, and a powerful new agreement for transforming our lives into our personal heaven: The Fifth Agreement.
Justin Winters
Co-Founder & Executive Director - One Earth
Justin Winters
Co-Founder & Executive Director - One Earth
Justin Winters is the Co-founder and Executive Director of One Earth, a nonprofit organization working to galvanize collective action to solve the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss through groundbreaking science, inspiring media, and an innovative approach to climate philanthropy.
Through One Earth, she is working to create a world where humanity and nature coexist and thrive together through three pillars of action: a just transition to 100% renewable energy, protection and restoration of 50% of the world’s lands and oceans, and a shift to regenerative, carbon-negative agriculture.
Justin was instrumental in launching Daughters for Earth, a new campaign and fund that aims to mobilize all women to actively engage in climate action by supporting on-the-ground, women-led efforts to protect and restore the Earth.
Prior to One Earth, Justin served as Executive Director of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation for 13 years, where she built the organization’s grant-making program, which awarded over $100 million in grants across 60 countries and created a series of innovative philanthropic funds, including Oceans 5, Shark Conservation Fund, The Solutions Project, Lion Recovery Fund, Elephant Crisis Fund, and Quick Response Fund for Nature.
Justin is committed to empowering everyone to become a philanthro-activist for the Earth and supporting impactful, community-driven climate solutions all over the world.
Osprey Orielle Lake
Executive Director - Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Osprey Orielle Lake
Executive Director - Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International dedicated to accelerating a global women’s climate justice movement.
She works nationally and internationally with grassroots, BIPOC, and Indigenous leaders, policy-makers and scientists to promote climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized energy future.
Osprey serves on the Executive Committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, the Steering Committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and is the author of the award-winning book,"Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature."
Atossa Soltani
Founder and Board President of Amazon Watch, director of global strategy for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative
Atossa Soltani
Founder and Board President of Amazon Watch, director of global strategy for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative
Atossa has been directing global campaigns for indigenous peoples rights and protection of tropical rainforests for over three decades. Atossa is the Founder and Board President of Amazon Watch, a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin (www.amazonwatch.org). Atossa served as Amazon Watch's first Executive Director for 18 years and continues to support the organization's mission as Board President.
Currently Atossa is the director of global strategy for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative working with an alliance of 30 indigenous nations to permanently protect 86 million acres of rainforests in the most biologically diverse ecosystem on Earth in Ecuador and Peru.
Leila Salazar-Lopez
Executive Director - Amazon Watch
Leila Salazar-Lopez
Executive Director - Amazon Watch
Leila Salazar-López, Executive Director of Amazon Watch since 2015, leads the organization in its work to protect and defend the bio-cultural and climate integrity of the Amazon rainforest in solidarity with Indigenous and forest peoples.
For 25+ years Leila has worked to defend the world’s rainforests, human rights, and climate through grassroots organizing and international advocacy campaigns at Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange.
She is also a Global Fund for Women Advisor for Latin America, a Greenpeace Voting Member and serves on the Advisory Circle of Daughters of the Earth.
Shawn Heinrichs
Cinematographer / Ocean Defender / Co-Founder - Only One
Shawn Heinrichs
Cinematographer / Ocean Defender / Co-Founder - Only One
Shawn Heinrichs is an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer, photographer, and marine conservationist.
He is the founder of Only One and was one of the lead activists and cinematographers for the Emmy-nominated film, Racing Extinction.
Most recently, he was featured in the award-winning Netflix series 'Tales by Light' that showcased his innovative use of imagery to inspire and drive conservation of one of earth's crown jewels, West Papua. Fueled by his passion for the oceans, Shawn's groundbreaking work fuses dramatic imagery with intimate and thought-provoking stories, to connect the global community to the beauty and vulnerability of threatened marine species and habitats.
Chad Frischmann
Solutionist / CEO, Founder - RegenIntel
Chad Frischmann
Solutionist / CEO, Founder - RegenIntel
Chad Frischmann is the CEO and Founder of Regenerative Intelligence (RegenIntel), a global ecosystem superpowered by a network of world class system thinkers and doers creating a virtuous cycle of collaborative intelligence, we enable the effective implementation of the highest impact ‘system of solutions’ for the planet and for people at scale.
From 2014-2022, prior to launching RegenIntel, Chad was the co-author the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Penguin, 2017), and the lead researcher and architect of the Drawdown Solutions Framework, the engine underpinning the book, the Drawdown Review (February, 2020), and all communications and engagement efforts at Project Drawdown, one of the world’s leading resources for climate solutions. Leading a global team of solutionists, Chad designed integrated global tools to assess the world’s most effective climate solutions and determine if, when, and how the world can reach “drawdown,” the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gasses begins to decline on a year-to-year basis. As the creator and head of Drawdown Solutions since Project Drawdown’s inception, Chad was the key spokesperson and coalition-builder dedicated to sharing the message and model of the Drawdown Solutions Framework to the world.
Chad’s interdisciplinary background in public policy, human rights, sustainable development, and environmental conservation, informs his work as a systems strategist to build a new, regenerative future with cascading benefits to human and planetary well-being.
Paul Redman
Filmmaker, Founder/Executive Director - If Not Us Then Who?
Paul Redman
Filmmaker, Founder/Executive Director - If Not Us Then Who?
Born in South Africa to British parents I am a child of apartheid instilled with a determination to reveal the truth so we can heal our planet. A multi-award (19+) winning documentary filmmaker and social impact strategic communicator who has travelled the world creating environmental campaign videos, investigative exposes and participatory media for over 20 years.
From investigating the tiger skin trade in remote Tibet, discovering a never before filmed stoned face in the Peruvian jungles, filming with an ex-South African paramilitary in his private reserve in Mozambique or training frontline indigenous activists across 3 continents, my travels have allowed me to witness what it takes to save the planet.
Founder and Executive Director at ‘If Not Us Then Who’ a US based charity that uses strategic communication techniques to support the demands of indigenous and local communities across the tropical forest regions. This work includes building alliances through yearly communication events in cities globally. These events range from 4-day dialogues with influencers and creatives to outdoor projections, innovative protests and TED style talks.
In addition the organization has created over 34 participatory short films in indigenous communities, training and equipping 100s of local rural filmmakers and developed ifnotusthenwho.me as a indigenous led media impact charity with a reach of over 60 million. If Not Us Then Who has built strong partnerships with over 40 major organizations and has been featured in a number of major news outlets including The Guardian, BBC, New York Times, Le Monde and El Pais and in 2020 was awarded 'Vital Voices' Social Impact Media Award.
Joe Brewer
Speaker at global conferences on the science of social change and the human dimensions of planetary sustainability.
Joe Brewer
Speaker at global conferences on the science of social change and the human dimensions of planetary sustainability.
Joe Brewer is a complexity researcher and transdisciplinary scholar who has devoted his life to helping humanity through the sustainability bottleneck. He weaves insights from the scientific study of cultural evolution, human cognition, and earth system science into frameworks for action.
Jeremy McKane
Ocean Defender / Artist / CEO - OCN.ai / Co-Founder - Ultramarine Summit
Jeremy McKane
Ocean Defender / Artist / CEO - OCN.ai / Co-Founder - Ultramarine Summit
Jeremy McKane is the CEO of OCN.ai, a company that leverages technology to measure and interpret ocean data, with a focus on building a nature-based economy. He is also an accomplished artist and member of The Explorers Club, and serves as an ambassador for 5Gyres and Coral Gardeners.
In addition to his work with OCN.ai, Jeremy is also the co-founder of Ultramarine, an annual gathering on Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island that brings together thought leaders, artists, business leaders, and politicians to focus on ways to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030.
Jeremy combines his work as a technologist, artist, and thought leader to build a nature-based economy, with a focus on incentivizing countries to protect the environment rather than taking from it. Through OCN.ai, Jeremy is creating a platform that enables governments, businesses, and individuals to see the value of preserving the health of the oceans.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Author / Founder & Director - Local Futures
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Author / Founder & Director - Local Futures
HELENA NORBERG-HODGE, linguist, author, filmmaker and pioneer of the new economy movement, is the founder and director of Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localization Day. She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness and of Planet Local. She is the founder of the International Alliance for Localisation, and a cofounder of the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.
Helena is a recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide."
David Hernández Palmar
Wayuu, IIPUANA Clan, Venezuela : Filmmaker, Activist, Training Program Director - If Not Us Then Who?
David Hernández Palmar
Wayuu, IIPUANA Clan, Venezuela : Filmmaker, Activist, Training Program Director - If Not Us Then Who?
David Hernández Palmar | Wayuu, IIPUANA Clan, Venezuela | is a filmmaker, independent curator and film programmer with recognized experience in the Latin American region. He is also a photographer, journalist, researcher and producer of several audiovisual works that have portrayed the Wayuu world.
He has co-directed films such as: “Owners of The Water”, “Wounmainkat“. With the short film “The Foreign Body“, World Premiere in competition at the Toronto International Film Festival TIFF and Winner of the First Prize at FICMAYAB (13th International Festival of Film and Communication of Indigenous Peoples), he began his career as a Film Producer.
He is currently the executive producer of the Ecuadorian feature film “Semillas de Lucha” by Kvrvf Nawel | Mapuche, Argentina, that was premiered at The International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias – FICCI60; producer of “A son”, a first feature film project in development by Venezuelan filmmaker Héctor Silva Núñez; producer of “The Dusk of the Amazon” a documentary feature in production by Alvaro Sarmiento and Diego Sarmiento | Quechua, Perú); producer of “Suggunya 1698. The key to Darién”, a documentary feature film project in development by Olowaili Green | Guna Dule, Colombia and David Sierra; co – director with Marbel Vanegas | Wayuu Jusayu, Colombia, of “Searching for the marks of the Asho´ojushi”, a documentary feature film project in development.
Other positions David holds: Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Film specializing in Indigenous Film / Member of the Wayuu People Communications Network / Director of the Indigenous Audiovisual Foundation Wayaakua / Curator and Programmer of the Wayuu Film and Video Showcase / Curator and Programmer of the International Indigenous Film Showcase of Venezuela MICIV / Political Advisor for Latin American Coordinator of Cinema and Communication of Indigenous Peoples CLACPI / Guest Curator for Daupará – Indigenous Film and Video Showcase in Colombia / Former Advisor for special selection NATIVe of the Berlinale International Film Festival / Member of The Indigenous Media and Communication Caucus / Member of #ImaginacciónIndígena / Member of the Programmers of Color Collective POC
Téana David
Storyteller-Activist / Co-Director - Circle Of Wisdom
Téana David
Storyteller-Activist / Co-Director - Circle Of Wisdom
Writing and producing at the intersection of ecology and social justice, Téana is Co-Director of the Shift Your World Film Festival and Co-Director of Circle of Wisdom, a non-profit dedicated to intergenerational insight exchange.
As the former Director of Deepak HomeBase in New York City, she curated and produced over 250 events featuring prominent wellness, environmental and social justice leaders.
Raised on Vancouver Island, Téana co-wrote her first TV pilot at age 19 before going on to write for theater, acquiring a masters degree from Naropa University with a focus on playwriting and producing. With her company Wise Planet Media, she co-creates livestreams, documentaries and short form media messaging campaigns with a focus on indigenous rights and environmental justice.
She is currently serving as Impact Producer for the revolutionary new docuseries, Changing of the Gods, and is collaborating with Tribal Trust Foundation and members of the Monpa community of Bhutan on a documentary that tells the story of cultural resilience amidst a changing climate. She is a Founding Member of the advocacy group, Artists for Amazonia.
Adah Parris
Adah Parris is a keynote speaker, futurist, visionary artist, and activist who inspires transformative change.
Adah Parris
Adah Parris is a keynote speaker, futurist, visionary artist, and activist who inspires transformative change.
Adah Parris helps individuals and organisations develop innovative and cultural approaches. She empowers leaders to connect with themselves, others, and the planet to create positive impact and leave a lasting legacy. Adah's approach challenges conventional thinking, encourages deeper questioning of purpose, values, sustainability, diversity, and technology, making it relevant to business leaders seeking new ways to approach challenges during times of change. She has spoken at many notable events including: TEDx Amsterdam, ArabNet, Uniqlo Tate Lates, and the D&AD Festival. She has also spoken for leading companies such as Crowe LLP, Harvest Kaplankaya, Natwest Bank, CPA Australia’s Virtual Conference, VCCP Network, The Drum Network CEO Club, Oxford University, The Parliamentary Internet, Communications and Technology Forum (PICTFOR), The Buckminster Fuller Institute, and RocketSpace London.
Jeremy Lent
Author / Speaker / Founder - Deep Transformation Network
Jeremy Lent
Author / Speaker / Founder - Deep Transformation Network
Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future.
Born in London, England, Lent received a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and was a former internet company CEO.
His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, explores the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day.
His new book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for a worldview based on connectedness that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future.
He is the founder of the Deep Transformation Network, a global community exploring pathways to an ecological civilization, and the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering an integrated worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the Earth. He lives with his partner in Berkeley, California.
Lent writes topical articles exploring the deeper patterns of political and cultural developments at Patterns of Meaning.
Charles X Michel
Food Educator, Consultant, Innovator. Culinary Artist, Experience Designer & Community Catalyst
Charles X Michel
Food Educator, Consultant, Innovator. Culinary Artist, Experience Designer & Community Catalyst
Ethical eating has never been as important as it is now. What we eat everyday is the most intimate connection we establish with the Earth, and people around us. Food is an everyday political and economical act to either build a healthier food system for people and the planet, or to perpetuate an unsustainable paradigm. I believe food is a powerful tool for social and environmental change.
I am currently leading and partaking in grassroots community activism, advising regenerative hospitality projects. In 2020, I worked as a consultant for the World Food Programme in Colombia.
Dr Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
Scientist / Systems Theorist / Author / Founding Director - Center for Ecoliteracy
Dr Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
Scientist / Systems Theorist / Author / Founding Director - Center for Ecoliteracy
Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., is a scientist, educator, activist, and author of many international bestsellers that connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in society.
A Vienna-born physicist and systems theorist, Capra first became popularly known for his book, The Tao of Physics, which explored the ways in which modern physics was changing our worldview from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological one. Published in 1975, it is still in print in more than 40 editions worldwide and is referenced with the statue of Shiva in the courtyard of one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research: CERN, the Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva.
Over the past 30 years, Capra has been engaged in a systematic exploration of how other sciences and society are ushering in a similar shift in worldview, or paradigms, leading to a new vision of reality and a new understanding of the social implications of this cultural transformation.
His most recent book, The Systems View of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2014), presents a grand new synthesis of this work—integrating the biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions of life into one unified vision. Several critics have suggested that The Systems View of Life, which Capra coauthored with Pier Luigi Luisi, Professor of Biology at the University of Rome, is destined to become another classic.
Capra is a founding director of the Berkeley-based Center for Ecoliteracy, which is dedicated to advancing ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education, and serves on the faculty of the Amana-Key executive education program in São Paulo, Brazil. He is a Fellow of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in the UK, and serves on the Council of the Earth Charter Initiative.
He is the author of The Turning Point (1982), The Web of Life (1996), The Hidden Connections (2002), The Science of Leonardo (2007), and Learning from Leonardo (2013). He coauthored Green Politics (1984), Belonging to the Universe (1991), and EcoManagement (1993), and coedited Steering Business Toward Sustainability (1995). He also cowrote the screenplay for Mindwalk (1990), a film starring Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard, created and directed by Bernt Capra.
The main focus of Capra’s environmental education and activism has been to help build and nurture sustainable communities. He believes that to do so, we can learn valuable lessons from the study of ecosystems, which are sustainable communities of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
Marc Buckley
Advocate for the SDG’s, Regenerative Futurist, Member of the Expert Network for the World Economic Forum for Innovation
Marc Buckley
Advocate for the SDG’s, Regenerative Futurist, Member of the Expert Network for the World Economic Forum for Innovation
Marc has been involved in Climate Activism for a long time and would love to show you how to run faster than climate change by being an impactful and exponential human being. One of the first to be trained by Al Gore as a Climate Speaker he has made getting through the Climate Crisis towards Resilient Desirable Futures his life’s work.
As an Advocate for the SDG’s, Regenerative Futurist, Member of the Expert Network for the World Economic Forum for Innovation, Climate Change, Agriculture, Food, and Beverages, Global Food Reformist, and Sustainable Futurist, Marc’s passions lie in social innovation, systems thinking, and dynamic modeling to solve our global grand challenges.
Marc is on a mission to empower billions of global citizens to live an adaptive lifestyle of health and sustainability within planetary boundaries.
Alice Waters
American Chef / Author
Alice Waters
American Chef / Author
Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, and author. In 1971, she opened Chez Panisse, a restaurant in Berkeley, California, famous for its role in creating the farm-to-table movement and for pioneering California cuisine.
Juan Enriquez
Author, teacher, and VC building world changing life science platforms in IT, diagnostics, energy, chemicals, pharma, agribusiness, and biotech.
Juan Enriquez
Author, teacher, and VC building world changing life science platforms in IT, diagnostics, energy, chemicals, pharma, agribusiness, and biotech.
Juan Enriquez thinks and writes about the profound changes that genomics and brain research will bring about in business, technology, politics and society. A broad thinker, Juan Enriquez bridges disciplines to build a coherent look ahead. He is the managing director of Excel Venture Management, a life sciences VC firm. He cofounded the company that made the world's first synthetic life form and seed funded a company that may allow portable brain reading.
Enriquez's book, RIGHT/WRONG: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics, shows why we should be a little less harsh in judging our peers and ancestors and more careful in being dead certain that what we do today will be regarded as ethical tomorrow. In 2015, he published Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Shaping Life on Earth with Steve Gullans. The book describes a world where humans increasingly shape their environment, themselves and other species.
Becca Dakini
Environmentalist, Artivist & Executive Creative Producer
Becca Dakini
Environmentalist, Artivist & Executive Creative Producer
Becca Dakini is a creative & strategic polymath, who is driven by her passion for the preservation & restoration of the natural world.
She is an Executive Creative Producer/Chief Operating Officer/Creative Strategist/Program Director with 20+ years experience internationally in management, communications, operations, business development, production and project management - in the events, media, environmental, arts and non profit sectors.
She is also an Experience Designer, Speaker and Writer - working with some of the world's best talent, storytellers & projects focused on planetary solutions, climate change, indigenous rights and social justice. Collaborating with: If Not Us Then Who?, Projecting Change, Regen Intel, Planet Home, Crowdcast, Onedome, The DoLaB, Burning Man Org, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Design Science Studio, Trillion Trees Coalition, Portl
She is also Producer & Host of speaker program segments for global environmental events One Earth Live, and Live From Earth - featured on online event platform PORTL.
Michael Shaun Conaway
CEO and Director at Storyworks, a social impact creative agency
Michael Shaun Conaway
CEO and Director at Storyworks, a social impact creative agency
Michael Shaun Conaway is the CEO and Director at Storyworks, a social impact creative agency. His mission is to liberate greatness in people and organizations to redesign our failing systems and create an anti-fragile, anti-rival world, one that works for all. His work is in strategy, storytelling and branding for leading edge companies building solutions for a thriving future. In his most recent film project WeRiseUP, director Michael Shaun explores how we can redesign success at the personal, collective and universal levels to create a thriving future for humanity. Learn more at weriseup.com.
Michael Shaun is an undying champion of business as a force for good. At Storyworks, he helps companies grow their purpose, profit and impact focusing on their authentic why and their true north story. For 20 years he has been at the vanguard of using media to move and inspire audiences to learn, grow and develop themselves to their highest potential.
Jacob Devaney
Media Producer / Artist / Co-Founder - Unify
Jacob Devaney
Media Producer / Artist / Co-Founder - Unify
Jacob Devaney is a Co-Founder of UNIFY and Founder of Culture Collective. He is a writer, media producer and collaborative artist with a deep passion for healing ancestral wounds and our planet.
Marco Rios Bollinger
Photographer / Filmmaker / Founder - Uprise Institute
Marco Rios Bollinger
Photographer / Filmmaker / Founder - Uprise Institute
Peruvian-American Marco Ríos Bollinger has directed projects for the UN Refugee Agency and Time Warner, worked with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and photographed Beyoncé and Obama.
He’s produced award-winning social issue documentaries on subjects such as the plight of refugee kids (SAFE ZONE), the healing power of dance (Dance Is My Gun) and the impacts of tourism (2.5%).
He is co-founder of social enterprise Lokal Travel which helps travelers connect to meaningful experiences in more than 200 local communities across Latin America.
More recently he has moved to scale his empathy-building advocacy work by by launching virtual education project Uprise Institute. He consults as a creative director and producer for brands, nonprofits and foundations.
Leah Lamb
Storyteller, Founder, Writer - School For Sacred Storytelling
Leah Lamb
Storyteller, Founder, Writer - School For Sacred Storytelling
Writer, Storyteller and Founder of The School for Sacred Storytelling - Leah teaches the art of sacred storytelling as a pathway of self discovery and developing a relationship with the natural & unseen worlds.
Her experience in storytelling ranges from producing and writing Award-winning plays & PSA’s, short films, one-woman shows, and story ceremonies. She produced the Green Channel for the Emmy award winning television network "Current TV", and her writing about the environment has been featured in National Geographic News Watch, Planet Green, and Huffington Post. Leah is also the creator of Soul Stories, a mystic form of Storytelling she practices as a healing art.
Josiah Edwards
A Los Angeles-based, youth climate organizer with Sunrise Movement
Josiah Edwards
A Los Angeles-based, youth climate organizer with Sunrise Movement
A Los Angeles-based, youth climate organizer with Sunrise Movement, my lived experience as a young, Black man informs my activism. As the hub coordinator of Sunrise Movement Los Angeles, I guided the hub over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic and worked to build lasting partnerships with aligned organizations in the Greater LA region and throughout California, including People's Budget LA and VISIÓN.
Dylan Huey
Content creator, musician, entrepreneur, host, speaker, innovator, and leader in the entertainment, social media,
Dylan Huey
Content creator, musician, entrepreneur, host, speaker, innovator, and leader in the entertainment, social media,
From interviewing executives from the top tech companies, such as Apple, Spotify, NBCUniversal, Disney, Amazon, Canva, and Sony, to working with some of the top brands, such as Google, BMW, PUMA, New Balance, BooHoo, Reebok, Old Spice, and Griffith Observatory, Dylan has proven himself to be the influencer and storyteller of today.
Lynn Mento
CEO, Conservation Nation
Lynn Mento
CEO, Conservation Nation
Conservation Nation launched in the fall of 2021 with a mission devoted to supporting and amplifying underrepresented voices in the conservation field, including women, people of color, Indigenous people, and those from disadvantaged communities. Through the support of donors, we lift long-standing, systemic barriers to accelerate the growth of a strong community of wildlife champions and future leaders solving urgent biodiversity challenges. We do this in two ways: By supporting conservationists from underrepresented groups with grants and professional development to advance their work and help them thrive in the field; And by inspiring the next generation of diverse conservationists through a unique middle school wildlife champion education program. We know that to save the life-giving web of biodiversity we must have every smart voice, solution and lived experience at the table – and we’re determined to make that happen.
Kate Jerome
Children’s Book Author, Publishing Executive, Cofounder Little Bridges
Kate Jerome
Children’s Book Author, Publishing Executive, Cofounder Little Bridges
Kate Jerome is an award-winning children’s book author and a passionate science literacy advocate who has been engaging young readers with breakthrough educational materials for more than 30 years. She’s designed multiple science series for kids and written more than 200+ fiction and nonfiction children’s books, served as President of two major publishing companies, and is cofounder of Little Bridges which produces award-winning intergenerational activity kits for families.
Kate is currently partnering with Ocean X (a Dalio Philanthropies initiative that combines science, technology, and media to explore and raise awareness for the oceans) to create an exciting realistic fiction middle school series called OceanX Adventures. The first two books in the ocean conservation series publish May 2, 2023.
Yurshell Rodriguez
Raizal, Afro-Caribbean : Activist / Environmental Engineer / Filmmaker / Impact Storyteller - If Not Us Then Who?
Yurshell Rodriguez
Raizal, Afro-Caribbean : Activist / Environmental Engineer / Filmmaker / Impact Storyteller - If Not Us Then Who?
Yurshell Rodríguez is part of the native Afro-Caribbean Raizal ethnic group from the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina Islands, Colombia. She is an Environmental Engineer from the National University of Colombia. She is a climate activist, researcher, and plaintiff in the first climate change and future generations lawsuit in Latin America.
Yurshell has been dedicated from a very young age to the protection and conservation of ecosystems, and participating in activities to protect the environment. In 2018, with other 25 young plaintiffs and the NGO Dejusticia, they sued the Colombian government to stop deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and won the lawsuit. By the end of 2020, the Providence island was largely destroyed by Category 5 hurricane Iota, worsened by climate change. Yurshell is currently in Providence island, supporting her post-hurricane community by delivering donations with the FiProvidence Youth Network and working with the National University of Colombia in the Caribbean with the student community on the island.
Yurshell also works with If Not Us Then Who? as an Impact Storyteller and Filmmaker.
Roxi Shohadaee
CEO + Founder: habRitual, Director + ARTchitect: Design Science Studio
Roxi Shohadaee
CEO + Founder: habRitual, Director + ARTchitect: Design Science Studio
Roxi is the Executive Director, Co-Founder and ARTchitect of the Design Science Studio, an educational incubator for artists founded to the build capacity of the creative community to propel the design science (r)Evolution and the Regenaissance. Artists in the Design Science Studio devote their creativity to facilitate equitable, just, regenerative futures through personal, cultural and planetary change. Roxi is also the Founder + CEO of habRitual: an experiential production, interdisciplinary design and immersive art studio creating for 100% of life. Learn more about her past initiatives here.
Roxi is a regenerative artivist, protopian futurist, ontological designer, experiential producer, transdisciplinary social sculptor and creative doula. She is a student of living systems, regenerative design, herbalism and decolonial sustainability. She has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of art, science, experience and technology. Her mission is to harness this intersectional approach to catalyze social and systemic change through inclusive, transdisciplinary collaborations for the regeneration of our planet and culture.
Her path is grounded in a commitment to creating inspiring and embodied ways of learning together. As behavior is a function of culture - she supports and develops creative cultural interventions and co-learning evolutionary containers. Her thesis is rooted in a belief that as we perpetuate equitable and just cultures, societal behaviors participating in life affirming ways of being will emerge in that process. As we are facing a crisis of imagination, Roxi’s efforts encourage collective imagination beyond the limits of the plausible and probable into the possible in service to the potential of a world where all life thrives at the expense of none. She is a deep believer and practitioner in designing for states of being, having those states of being prime us for connection, reparations and regeneration with ourselves, each other and our beautiful living planet.
Henk Rogers
Blue Planet Foundation / Blue Planet Energy / Tetris
Henk Rogers
Blue Planet Foundation / Blue Planet Energy / Tetris
Henk Brouwer Rogers is a Dutch-born entrepreneur and clean-energy visionary who has dedicated the past decade of his life to ending the use of carbon-based fuels.
As the principal and visionary philanthropist of Blue Planet Foundation, Rogers’ efforts led to Hawaii becoming the first state in the nation with a law requiring that 100% of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources by 2045. More than 20 U.S. states and territories have since followed suit with similar renewable-energy goals.
Rogers is now focusing beyond Hawaii to help other jurisdictions enact mandates for 100% renewable energy in their regions. His newest initiative, Blue Planet Alliance, takes a “mandate first” approach to initiate global climate change action by creating measurable and scalable results among individuals, organizations, cities, states, countries, and eventually, the world. The Alliance’s mission is to get humanity to become 100% sustainable by 2045, and the vision is to create a world in which humanity and nature live in harmony. In 2022, the Alliance signed Blue Planet Climate Agreements with two UN Member States — Kingdom of Tonga and the Government of Tuvalu — to help them achieve the 100% renewable-energy transition, and we are determined to sign more agreements in 2023.
He is also the founder of Blue Planet Energy, the leading provider of the most powerful energy storage solutions that power homes, businesses, and critical infrastructure. The company’s innovative, non-toxic, fire-safe Blue Ion technology has allowed Rogers to take his own residences off-grid. Blue Ion battery systems are non-combustible, long lasting, efficient, and use environmentally friendly lithium ferrous phosphate.
Rogers is also renowned as a global leader in the gaming industry, having created Japan’s first Role-Playing Game, Black Onyx which was the #1 game in 1984. Rogers is the founder of Tetris Company, who holds the exclusive intellectual property rights to Tetris, one of the world’s most popular video games which has sold over 600 million units to date. Rogers revolutionized the industry when he brought the now legendary game to U.S. and world markets more than three decades ago. His story has been captured in a new movie, “Tetris,” produced by Apple TV Plus, starring Taron Egerton as Rogers The story revisits how Rogers went inside the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War to obtain the rights to Tetris. The movie premiered in March 2023 at SXSW.
Isla Lester
Youth Eco-Champion
Isla Lester
Youth Eco-Champion
Isla Lester, Aged 11, is an award-winning eco-champion. Some of her achievements include Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots School of the Year 2019, Young Volunteer Award and the Green Blue Peter Badge.She was highly commended for bbc bitesize the regenerators. She was involved in writing the youth manifesto for surfers against sewage which was used for cop26. Isla spoke to the environment minister Michael gove about a deposit return system. Isla is also the UK Ambassador for Australian radio station funky kids radio and she interviewed Ricky Kej and Dr Arun. In addition she started a eco club in middle school known as waste warriors, opened her local world Earth Day with the mayor last year and worked alongside Damers to encourage local shops to give up 3 single use plastics. She also writes her own eco blog for her school.
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Brianna Brown Keen
Award-winning Actress / Host: 2023 Earth Gratitude Celebration
Brianna Brown Keen
Award-winning Actress / Host: 2023 Earth Gratitude Celebration
Minnesota native Brianna Brown Keen is an award-winning actress who has worked for over two decades in Hollywood with projects ranging from top grossing feature films, to Emmy-winning television shows, to indie projects she has produced. She is often recognized for her roles on Dynasty, Devious Maids, General Hospital and Homeland.`
Ryland Engelhart
Chief Mission Officer of Kiss the Ground, owner of Café Gratitude
Ryland Engelhart
Chief Mission Officer of Kiss the Ground, owner of Café Gratitude
Ryland Engelhart co-founded Kiss the Ground in 2013 and plays a leadership role in the organization as the Chief Mission Officer; he is a producer of the Kiss the Ground film released on Netflix and host of the Kiss the Ground Podcast.
As a 15-year entrepreneur, he is also the co-owner and prior Mission Fulfilment Officer of the nationally recognized plant-based restaurants Cafe Gratitude and Gracias Madre, located in Southern California, and co-creator of the documentary film, May I Be Frank.
He is a passionate speaker on the topics of sacred commerce and regenerative agriculture, tools for building community, food is medicine, and the practice of love and gratitude. Ryland is also a dedicated husband and father and lives on a 17-acre regenerative organic farm in Fillmore, CA, where he is learning to practice what he preaches.
Nathalie Kelley
Australian-Peruvian actress presenting 3 Ways You Can Support Your Local Gardener, a Kiss the Ground Production
Nathalie Kelley
Australian-Peruvian actress presenting 3 Ways You Can Support Your Local Gardener, a Kiss the Ground Production
Australian-Peruvian actress and activist. Born in the Amazon. Raised in the Outback.
Ron Finley
Gangsta Gardener
Ron Finley
Gangsta Gardener
Ron Finley is a rebel with a green thumb. In 2010 Ron set out to fix a problem in his South Central neighborhood parkways; those often neglected dirt patches next to our streets. He planted some vegetables there. Soon after he was cited for gardening without a permit by the apparent owners of those dirt patches: the City of Los Angeles. Queue the beginning of a horticulture revolution.
Don Jose Ruiz
Bestselling Author
Don Jose Ruiz
Bestselling Author
don Jose Ruiz was born in Mexico City, Mexico and was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. When he was 21 he came to live in the U.S. with his father, don Miguel Ruiz.
Like his father, combining new insights with ancient wisdom, don Jose Ruiz is dedicating his life to sharing the ancient Toltec wisdom by translating it into practical, everyday life concepts that promote transformation through truth, love and common sense. don Jose teaches and lectures across the United States and around the world: Power Journeys to the pyramids of Teotihuacan, Palenque, Tulum and Coba; workshops with guest don Miguel or other teachers at Omega NY, Austin, and Vancouver.
don Jose Ruiz has now collaborated with his father don Miguel Ruiz on a new book that offers a fresh perspective on the Four Agreements, and a powerful new agreement for transforming our lives into our personal heaven: The Fifth Agreement.
Dr. Mark Hyman
American Physician & Author
Dr. Mark Hyman
American Physician & Author
Dr. Mark Hyman is leading a health revolution—one focused on using food as medicine to support longevity, energy, mental clarity, happiness, and so much more.
Dr. Hyman is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of functional medicine.
He is the founder and director of The UltraWellness Center, Founder and Senior Advisor for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, a fifteen-time New York Times best-selling author, and Board President for Clinical Affairs for The Institute for Functional Medicine.
He is the founder and chairman of the Food Fix Campaign, dedicated to transforming our food and agriculture system through policy. He is the host of one of the leading health podcasts, The Doctor’s Farmacy with 150+ million downloads.
Dr. Hyman is a regular medical contributor to several television shows and networks, including CBS This Morning, Today, Good Morning America, The View, and CNN.
Ciara Byrne
Co-CEO of Green Our Planet, Obama Fellow
Ciara Byrne
Co-CEO of Green Our Planet, Obama Fellow
Ciara Byrne is a documentary filmmaker and social impact entrepreneur. In 2013 Ciara and Kim MacQuarrie founded Green Our Planet and together with their team they helped create one of the largest and most comprehensive school garden and hydroponics programs in the United States.
Currently, Green Our Planet is operating in 10 states and impacting over 140,000 students. In 2019 Ciara was selected from 5,000 applications along with 19 other nonprofit leaders to be a 2019 Obama Fellow.
The Obama Foundation is supporting Ciara and the team at Green Our Planet to scale their program across the United States and beyond.
In 2001, Ciara set up and ran a film production company, Lion Television, with offices in LA and New York. During that time, she managed over 60 employees and produced hundreds of films a year for PBS, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, BBC, Fox, and E! Ciara uses her background in television to include educational films as a core part of the Green Our Planet offerings to schools.
Stéphane Le Foll
President of 4p1000.org, former French Minister of Agriculture, Agri-Food and Forestry
Stéphane Le Foll
President of 4p1000.org, former French Minister of Agriculture, Agri-Food and Forestry
Born in Le Mans (France), He graduated with a M.A from « Le Maine University » and the Université de Nantes (France). He was elected once as a member of the European Parliament (2004-2012), twice as a member of the French Parliament (2012-2017). Elected as MP in the Department of Sarthe, he is presently a member of the Commission of sustainable development in French national Assembly. During President Hollande’s presidency, he served as both Ministry of agriculture and spokesperson of the Government. During five years, as Ministry of agriculture, he succeeded in implementing public policies in favor of agroecology. He is at the origin of the “4 for 1000” Initiative recognized in the world as a prominent and leading initiative to promote agroecology. He is the author of a book “la première graine” (Ed. Calmann-Levy) in which he describes his passion for agriculture, his deep interest in agroecology and his work as French Ministry to fight climate change through the passing of his law on agriculture (2014).
Peggy Callahan
Filmmaker/human rights activist
Peggy Callahan
Filmmaker/human rights activist
Producer and co-director of Mission: Joy and impact director. Together in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, she created the world's largest-ever citizen science project on joy, called the Big Joy Project.
Dr. Paula Kahumbu
CEO of WildlifeDirect
Dr. Paula Kahumbu
CEO of WildlifeDirect
Dr. Paula Kahumbu is the CEO of WildlifeDirect. She has a PhD from Princeton and is an ecologist committed to transforming conservation results in Africa and the world through science, advocacy and education.
She is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife conservationists and sits on the boards of WWF International and National Geographic. She is the brainchild of the Hands Off Our Elephants campaign with Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta, the immediate former First Lady of the Republic of Kenya. The campaign is widely recognized for its singular successes in advocacy and the engagement of the people of Kenya to support the protection of elephants.
Dr. Kahumbu is the producer and presenter of Africa’s first wildlife documentary series made by Africans called Wildlife Warriors which seeks to transform the conservation literacy in Africa by shining a light on the continents front line conservationists. The award winning series is broadcast on free to air channels and in schools across Kenya through the Wildlife. Warriors Kids program which takes children on scientific wilderness expeditions.
Dr. Kahumbu holds the title Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW) and is the Rolex NatGeo Explorer of the Year 2021, winner of the Whitley Gold Award 2021, and is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer.
Dr. Tony Juniper, CBE
Environmentalist, sustainability advisor and author of Climate Change (with H.M. King Charles III)
Dr. Tony Juniper, CBE
Environmentalist, sustainability advisor and author of Climate Change (with H.M. King Charles III)
Anthony Juniper CBE is a British campaigner, writer, sustainability adviser and environmentalist who served as Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. He was Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000 to 2008.