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29th ANNUAL NATIONAL BIONEERS CONFERENCE OCTOBER 19-21, 2018 MARIN CENTER • SAN RAFAEL, CA

“Bioneers is clearly a crucial organizing principle... It offers an edge system, an ecotone where ideas can venture a little out of their natural habitats and meet and merge.”

– BILL McKIBBEN TABLE OF CONTENTS

Bioneers Welcome Letter...... 1 Pre- and Post-Conference Intensives ...... 2 Helpful Information...... 3 Program Schedule...... 4 Re:DOME Sessions...... 27 Indigeneity Program...... 28 Interactive and Experiential Program...... 29 Youth Leadership Program...... 30 Things to See and Do ...... 31 Real Books Book Signing Schedule...... 32 Biomimicry Design Award ...... 33 Films at Bioneers...... 34 Art, Performances and Yoga at Bioneers ...... 35 Stage Art & Silent Auction...... 36 Bioneers Limited Edition T-Shirt...... 37 Change-Makers Fair Exhibitors ...... 38 Greening the Conference...... 39 Presenter Biographies...... 40 Bioneers Radio and Podcast ...... 61 Bioneers Books and Media Collections...... 62 Support Bioneers...... 64 Acknowledgements...... 65 Bioneers Board of Directors and Staff ...... 66 Map...... Inside Back Cover

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For 29 years, Bioneers has chosen an artist and piece of artwork to provide the look, feel and visual inspiration for our annual conference. We were over- joyed when artist Lisa Ericson was willing to donate an image of her painting, Terrarium II, to Bioneers as the featured image for this year’s annual Bioneers Conference. Learn more about her work at lisaericson.com. AYS FOR THW WA PA RD

WELCOME TO BIONEERS 2018

Dear Bioneers: It’s a welcome gift to gather together at this sober and precarious turning point where we can move the world from breakdown to breakthrough. These coming years will be the most important in the history of human civilization – the decisive and fleeting window to make essential shifts in our course. This Age of Nature calls for a new social contract of interdependence. Taking care of nature means taking care of people — and taking care of people means taking care of nature. And we can have peace with Earth only when we practice justice with each other – in a process that never ends. Real and lasting change will come only by changing the systems that are driving the destruction and by transforming our underlying values and principles. The time to act is now. Future generations and the web of life are counting on us. As the Bioneers community of leadership has long demonstrated, in great measure the solutions are present, or we know what directions to head in. Bioneers 2018 is very much focused on these pathways forward: the authentic, effective models and solutions, both visionary and practical, that will create a very different equitable and regenerative world. The ground truth is that large majorities of the world’s peoples want these new pathways. The democracy deficit – the disconnect between what majorities want and what retrograde elites impose on us – has never been greater. It feels as if tectonic plates are moving in different directions, and something’s gotta give. The outcome hinges on growing this movement of movements that Bioneers embodies, encour- ages and reflects. As David Orr has said, “Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.” We honor you for being a change agent in this pivotal time when we’re all called upon to be leaders. Bioneers is by its nature systemic and kaleidoscopic. The conference is a wellspring of inspiration, solutions, renewal, community and hope. We invite you to open yourself to new ideas, people and projects, to make connections, to embrace the spontaneous flow of synchronicities and epiphanies that may arise. As conditions continue to worsen, the clamor for solutions is already starting to spike exponentially. Education and media are critically important to help spread the successes. Please share what you learn at Bioneers, check out our award-winning media and podcasts, and spread the word! Looking back over these nearly three decades of Bioneers, we’re amazed at how far this movement of movements has come. At the same time, we’re clear-eyed about how far we have to go at this perilous cusp of permanent emergency. We have no time to lose. We wish you a profoundly inspiring and fruitful experience. As Sarah Crowell says, “The way we’ll hold it together is to hold it – together.” On behalf of the entire Bioneers team, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for choos- ing to take part and join with us in co-creating this revolution from the heart of nature and the human heart. With Love and Gratitude – Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons and Joshua Fouts PRE-POST CONFERENCE INTENSIVES

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 9am-5pm TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (TEK) WORKSHOP Abalone and Seaweed TEK: Our Original Instructions for Harvesting the Ocean We Indigenous people have ceremonies, ancestral teachings, cultural practices and strict rules for harvesting all of our resources. Sometimes we pray and talk to our plants before collecting them, assuring them we’ll do no harm and that we’ll leave them the ability to continue their life cycles and their ability to regenerate. Shellfish and seaweed have been important parts of the West Coast Indigenous dietfor thousands of years, but this ongoing legacy is under threat by ecosystem disruption and dis- criminatory harvesting regulations. Through discussion, demonstrations and hands-on activities, California Indian TEK experts will share the importance of intertidal resources to the traditional diet, to clothing manufacturing and ceremonial life. They will also discuss ways to address ongoing threats to these cultural practices. First Peoples have a saying, “When the tide is out, the table is set.” If we cannot change harvesting practices together, we will not have food on our tables. With: Leah Mata (Northern Chumash); A-dae Romero-Briones (Cochiti Pueblo); Ilarion Mer- culieff (Aleut; Vincent Medina (Muwekma Ohlone); Hillary Renick (Sherwood Valley Pomo); Edward Willie (Pomo/Wailaki/Wintu); Dean Hoaglin (Coast Miwok/Pomo/Wailaki/Yuki); Jacob White Horse (Northern Chumash/Rosebud Sioux) Location: McNears Beach Park Price: $195 (includes Native Harvest lunch provided by Chef Crystal Wahpepah [Kickapoo] from Crystal Wahpepah’s Kitchen)

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2018, 10:00am-5:00pm Regenerative Agriculture: Healthy Soils, Economic Justice and Climate Change Mitigation Contemporary industrial agriculture has been massively damaging our soil, water, biodiversity, and people. In order to be able to feed the world’s people without destroying the biosphere in this turbulent era of climate change, we need to develop new approaches to farming. Regenerative Agriculture is a highly adaptable, dynamic, ever-evolving system that increases biodiversity, enriches soil, improves watersheds, and enhances ecosystem services while increasing soil carbon storage, thereby helping mitigate climate change. It combines the best practices of organic farming, permaculture, holistic management and agro-ecology while developing just and equitable relations with all stakeholders, including farm workers. At this daylong workshop held at Elizabeth and Paul Kaiser’s exemplary Singing Frogs Farm (a no-till, highly innovative organic vegetable operation that has radically boosted the quantities and health of its soil and the biodiversity on its land), we will learn all about Regenerative Agricul- ture from some of the nation’s leading experts and practitioners, including: Doniga Markegard, co-owner/co-manager of Markegard Family Grass-Fed LLC.; Timothy J. LaSalle, Ph.D., co-founder and Co-Director of the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative at CSU Chico, formerly President/CEO of the California Agriculture Leadership Program and first CEO of the Rodale Institute. Location: Singing Frogs Farm, Sebastopol, CA Price: $195 (includes lunch)

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INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT: Bioneers is committed to creating and upholding an inclusive, safe and respectful space so that all conference participants and partners have the best opportunity to interact, learn and grow. We invite you to uphold the Bioneers inclusivity norms: Respect, Listen, Honor, and Value Differences.

RECORDING & FILMING: No audio or film recording is permitted in the VMA theater or Indigenous Forum Tent without express permission from Bioneers. To obtain permission in the form of a special Press/Media pass, you must check in at the Press Check In in the Registration area. Thank you for your cooperation.

2018 CONFERENCE INFO AT YOUR FINGERTIPS! Our conference website is opti- mized for mobile devices. Visit conference.bioneers.org/mobile for schedules, speaker bios and more. Use #bioneers18 to share your conference photos, comments and updates on Facebook (facebook.com/Bioneers.org), Twitter (@bioneers) and Instagram (@bioneers).

CONFERENCE INFO BOOTH & MESSAGE CENTERS are located across from the Registration Tent. Get assistance with directions, workshop locations or messages. There is also a bulletin board in the north hallway of the Exhibit Hall where messages may be posted.

LOST & FOUND articles may be turned in or claimed at the Bioneers Office in the Exhibit Hall building. The office is located in the Buckeye Room at the end of the Exhibit Hall hallway. Neither Bioneers nor the Marin Center is responsible for any lost or stolen items.

MEALS: Lunch will be available on the conference grounds after 1pm, following keynotes. Options are à la carte vendors and food trucks on site. Food will be organic and locally sourced when available. Offerings include vegetarian, vegan, omnivore, gluten-free and more. General dinner will not be offered on-site but there are many local eateries to choose from.

CONFERENCE CREW: Throughout the 2018 Bioneers conference you will see people with “Conference Crew” badges. They are dedicated to helping Bioneers and helping you enjoy your conference experience. Feel free to ask questions, or simply say “Thanks!”

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 JACQUELINE GARCEL Unleashing the Power of Love in Philanthropy KEYNOTES AND Introduction by Dan Skaff, co-founder and PERFORMANCES 9am–1pm Managing Partner of Radicle Impact Partners Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium Social Justice warrior Jacqueline Martinez Gar- Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia cel leads a foundation with the largest network Walking Tree of civically engaged Latino philanthropists. On a mission to unleash the power of Latinos, the Welcome by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Latino Community Foundation (LCF) seeks to Simons, Bioneers founders, and Joshua radically change the concept, purpose, and Fouts, Bioneers Executive Director pathway to philanthropy by returning it to its Opening Ceremony by Vincent Medina, core roots: love. At a critical moment in our Muwekma Ohlone tribal Councilman, nation’s history, the rising groups of Latino born and raised in his people’s traditional leaders are fighting the battles of racism and homeland of Halkin (southern Oakland/San classism that are raging in our country by hon- Leandro/San Lorenzo). ing in the healing and redemptive power of love. Driven by change and impact, not char- Opening Remarks by Nina Simons, ity—Jacqueline will share how the work of LCF Bioneers co-founder and Chief Relationship is radicalizing the power dynamics that have Strategist crept into the field of philanthropy and have held the sector captive in an oppressive and counterintuitive cycle. The ultimate objective MONICA GAGLIANO for Jacqueline is to liberate capital and invest Imagination, Science, in grassroot movements and leaders that will and the Mind of Plants drive us closer to a more just and representa- Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, tive democracy. Bioneers CEO and founder From ancient myths to modern blockbuster INTRINSIC: A Performance by movies, humanity has recounted countless CLIMBING POETREE stories in which a seemingly inert vegetal These two Brooklyn-based poets-artists-ac- world suddenly comes to life to express itself tivists-educators-musicians-performers may like a person. What if these stories were be the most brilliant socially engaged spo- more than the fruit of vivid imaginations and ken word duo in the known universe. They’ll were based on an underlying truth? Monica perform material from their recent kickass Gagliano, Research Associate Professor in Evo- album, Intrinsic. lutionary Ecology at the University of Western Australia, has courageously illuminated the MAY BOEVE revolutionary new field of Plant Bioacoustics. Climate Change is Changing the She’ll share startling cutting-edge research World—Now We Too Must Change and show how contemporary science has Introduction by Clayton Thomas-Muller, finally begun lifting the veil of our assump- Stop-it-at-the-Source Campaigner of 350.org tions by beginning to attune its ears to As Executive Director of 350.org, the ground- vegetal “voices.” She believes this new para- breaking grassroots international climate digm will expand our perspectives to provide change campaign whose innovative organiz- us with imaginative new solutions to our cur- ing and mass mobilizations have uniquely rent eco-cultural predicaments. helped generate a mass global sense of urgency and action, May Boeve will share her eagle’s-eye perspectives on the current state of the climate struggle. She’ll illustrate 350.

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Youth Leadership Keynote: JAYDEN LIM Beyond the Headdress Award-winning young Pomo activist Jayden Lim of the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center’s Tribal Youth Ambassadors program will illuminate the hidden history of California and how she has had to grapple with stereotypes and historical trauma to find her identity as a Native youth.

MICHAEL POLLAN How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, Michael Pollan – Author and Transcendence Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, org’s learnings and strategies moving forward, Bioneers CEO and founder including ways of learning about and incor- Bestselling author of landmark books such porating justice and equity. She’ll illuminate as The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore’s pathways our species must take to keep 80% Dilemma that have challenged our fundamen- of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground tal civilizational assumptions, Michael Pollan and radically accelerate the shift to 100% once again bravely ventures where angels fear clean energy. to tread. His new book How To Change Your Mind surveys the highly controversial terrain RUPA MARYA, M.D. of the renaissance of both the science and Health and Justice: The Path of popular usage of psychedelic substances. Liberation through Medicine As one of our most brilliant and clear-eyed Introduction by Cat Brooks, Executive Director explorers of such topics as plant intelligence of Justice Teams Network and how we feed ourselves, Michael will share Health visionary Rupa Marya, Associate Pro- his luminous insights from what began as fessor of Medicine at UC San Francisco and investigative reportage and became a very Faculty Director of the Do No Harm Coalition, personal interior journey into the mystery of urges us to radically re-envision and expand consciousness and the nature of spirituality our concept of medicine to encompass and at this perilous moment when only a shift in address the health impacts of poverty, rac- human consciousness can alter the deadly tra- ism and environmental toxicity. She has been jectory of our societies. working to make visible the health issues at the nexus of racism and state violence through: her medical work; The Justice Study FRIDAY AFTERNOON (national research investigating the health SESSIONS, 2:45-4:15pm effects of police violence on Black, Brown and other disenfranchised communities); helping Plant Intelligence and Human set up a free community clinic for the practice Consciousness: Into the Mystery of decolonized medicine under Lakota leader- Monica Gagliano has single-handedly pio- ship at Standing Rock (the Mni Wiconi Health neered the revolutionary new field of Plant Clinic); and international outreach with her Bioacoustics, which is providing the most band, Rupa and the April Fishes. powerful evidence to date that plants pos- sess forms of cognition that could constitute

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“personhood.” Michael Pollan, who has work challenging racism in our approaches to studied the human-plant relationship in such public health; Victoria Sweet, MD, Ph.D., Asso- classic bestselling works as The Botany of ciate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Desire, has now turned his attention in his new prize-winning medical historian, a passion- book How To Change Your Mind to what cut- ate advocate of patient-centered medicine, ting-edge research on psychedelic substances and best-selling author, most recently of the (which are nearly all derived from or modeled classic, Slow Medicine. Moderated by Son- on plant molecules) is revealing about human ali Sangeeta Balajee, founder of The Bodhi consciousness. These two brilliant visionaries Project and former Senior Fellow with HIFIS will engage in conversation, hosted by J.P. Berkeley. Harpignies, Bioneers senior producer. Location: Showcase Theater Location: Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium Women at the Frontlines of Climate Change, Natural Disasters Climate Justice: Integrated and Community Resilience Global Strategies Call it the “new normal” or the “long emer- In many parts of the world, women are often gency,” but there’s no question we’re living the ones hardest hit by climate change’s in an unstable climate-changed world. The destructive effects, but they are also very increased frequency and scale of natural disas- often the ones taking the leading roles in the ters pose one of the greatest challenges we struggles to mitigate and adapt to climate face. Leaders from three different communi- change. Leaders from three of the most sig- ties currently in the process of responding to nificant global networks on the frontlines of different types of natural disasters will share these efforts — the Women’s Earth and Cli- their stories and their strategies to build com- mate Action Network, Indigenous Climate munities that are both resilient and socially Action and the Climate Justice Alliance — will just. Hosted by Trathen Heckman, Executive share their inspiring stories about how wom- Director of Petaluma’s Daily Acts. With Sigrid en-led movements are doing cutting-edge Wright, Executive Director of Santa Barbara’s organizing that advances climate stability, Community Environmental Council; Estrella social justice, and gender and economic Santiago Perez, Environmental Affairs Man- equity. Hosted by Anneke Campbell, author/ ager of Puerto Rico’s ENLACE. activist. With: Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Exec- Location: Manzanita Room utive Director of Indigenous Climate Action; Osprey Orielle Lake, co-founder/ Executive Revisioning Healing and Public Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Health in the 21st Century Action Network; Tere Almaguer, Environ- Medical systems around the world are in mental Justice Organizer for PODER in San crisis. In poorer nations and communities Francisco. medical care is grossly inadequate and most Location: Larkspur Room often inaccessible except to the well-to-do. In more prosperous regions, powerful private Using Your Investments to Hold interests profit obscenely as drastic inequi- Corporations Accountable and ties in the quality and availability of medical Change the World care grow exponentially. What is to be done? The great majority of us have our savings Two extraordinary physicians with radical cri- parked at a big bank and in a 401k invested tiques of the current medical paradigm share in a bunch of mutual funds, and nearly all that their strategies and visions of what an effec- money is helping finance climate change, gen- tive, equitable, truly compassionate medical der inequality, forced labor, overpaid CEOs, and system would look like. With: Rupa Marya, the corporate takeover of our political system. MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, We have all been blindly abdicating our finan- renowned for her dynamic, multi-faceted cial power, but this very practical workshop

6 PROGRAM SCHEDULE • FRIDAY will show us how to align our investing with polarized times. Facilitated by Center for our values in easy steps. We will leave know- Whole Communities’ Senior Fellow Samara ing how to divest from destructive investments Gaev and Co-Directors Mohamad Chakaki and fund the future we actually want to live in. and Ginny McGinn. With: Thomas Van Dyck, Managing Director/ Location: Interactive & Experiential Tent Financial Advisor with SRI Wealth Management Group, a leader in socially responsible investing Indigenous Forum. Abalone Wars: for 30+ years who founded the shareholder Indigenous Voices from the advocacy As You Sow Foundation; Danielle Coastal Frontlines Fugere, President and Chief Counsel at As You The ability to gather intertidal resources in Sow. Hosted by Nick Guroff, Deputy Director California has been critically affected by eco- of Communications and Foundation Relations system disruption. Recently, the crisis has at Corporate Accountability. become worse as Natives and commercial Location: Sausalito Room harvesters have gone head-to-head over abalone and seaweed within a regulatory system Advancing the Legal Rights that ignores the wisdom of Traditional Eco- of Nature in a Time of logical Knowledge about how to manage Environmental Crisis the intertidal ecosystem. Indigenous leaders The first “rights of nature” law was enacted in share their experiences on the frontlines of a Pennsylvania community in 2006, followed the battle to save our coasts, while fighting to two years later by Ecuador’s enshrinement maintain their cultural connections to these of that principle in its constitution, the first resources. Moderated by Adae Romero-Bri- country to do so. This is the ten-year anniver- ones (Cochiti Pueblo) Director of Programs, sary of that historic event. Come learn how First Nations Development Institute. With: Indigenous people, communities, countries, Ilarion Merculieff (Aleut), Global Center for and courts have continued the struggle to Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways; Leah secure the highest legal protections for nature Mata (Northern Chumash), artist; Hillary and how you can become part of this grow- Renick (Sherwood Valley Pomo), BIA Sac- ing movement. With Mari Margil, Associate ramento; Jacob White Horse (Northern Director of the Community Environmental Chumash/Rosebud Sioux) who interned with Legal Defense Fund, a leading figure in the the U C Davis Marin Biology Lab’s abalone global movement to enshrine Rights of Nature management research program. in jurisprudence; and Bill Twist, co-founder Location: Indigenous Forum and CEO of the Pachamama Alliance. Location: Santa Rosa Room Youth Leadership. Tell Your Story Jodie Geddes, Community Organizing Coordi- Engaging our Differences: nator of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth Practice and Presence (RJOY), will hold space for youth to share their In this interactive workshop we’ll experience stories, with a focus on finding ways to help Whole Communities’ innovative approach to interrupt the tragic cycles of violence, incar- creating transformative change in ourselves, ceration and wasted lives that trap so many our organizations and our communities. young people. We’ll also explore how these We’ll engage in embodied awareness and cycles are exacerbated by excessively punitive storytelling practices deeply informed by school discipline and unfair juvenile justice systems thinking, neuroscience, and cut- policies. RJOY promotes institutional shifts ting-edge approaches to ecology and human toward restorative approaches that engage behavior. This experiential session is designed families, communities and systems to repair to help us bring theory into practice and to harm and prevent juvenile re-offending. cultivate our capacity to stay in relationship Location: Youth Unity Center across difference in these intensely divisive,

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Earth Connection Herb Walk ThisChairRocks.com; Kristy Drutman, The with Kami McBride Brown Girl Green Show, CA Digital Campaign How do we tune in to the Earth for guidance Organizer with 350.org. Hosted by: David on how to partner with nature to live sustain- Shaw, Santa Cruz Permaculture & UCSC Com- ably on our beloved planet? Come explore the mon Ground Center; Amy Lenzo, weDialogue medicine under our feet as we practice some & The World Cafe Community Foundation. simple, everyday ways of tuning in and listen- Location: World Café ing to what the Earth has to teach us. Location: Meet at Bioneers Info Booth Community of Mentors near the Central Lawn Bioneers is inherently a community of mentors; people eager to learn, share, explore Growing Our Evolved Self: and create together. Community of Mentors Dissolving Like a Caterpillar, offers youth the opportunity to be in small Evolving Like a Butterfly group mentoring sessions with Bioneers pre- All of us are constantly in a state of transition. senters. The presenters will share their life Often, like a caterpillar in its larval stage, we experience in an interactive dialogue with cannot imagine our own most evolved future, youth who are seeking guidance on their path and so we fight the necessary breakdown of to activism. With Lyla June, a Diné/ Cheyenne our old and familiar patterns. In this work- poet and musician. Facilitated by Lauren Dal- shop, we’ll use the caterpillar’s transformation berth Hage and Dave Hage of Weaving Earth. into a butterfly as a template for exploring Location: Community of Mentors the transitions we humans need to make to become more evolved citizens on the planet. This outdoor session will include a half-hour FRIDAY AFTERNOON solo walk on the grounds of the Marin Cen- SESSIONS, 4:30-6:00pm ter in which we’ll each ask natural beings for insights and then return to share our experiences in pairs and as a whole group. Facilitated Organizing Strategies: by: Polly Howells, Jungian analyst and facilita- How To Be Effective Activists tor for the Pachamama Alliance’s “Awakening We’ve been seeing an outpouring of new the Dreamer” symposium; Trebbe Johnson, energy in broad-based social and political founder/director of Radical Joy for Hard Times. mobilizations: Black Lives Matter; the Wom- Location: Meet at the Hands-On en’s Marches; the extraordinary Never Again Workshop Space youth movement to curb gun violence; organizing to defend immigrants’ rights; Intergenerational Activism: grassroots efforts to elect progressive candi- Working Together for Social dates, and many more. Leading figures from Change/World Café different generations and very diverse and What are the pitfalls and possibilities, person- highly effective campaigns will share their ally and for our movements, when we partner strategies. With May Boeve, Executive Direc- across generations? Join us for a series of tor, 350.org; Jacqueline Garcel, CEO of the participant-driven World Café conversations Latino Community Foundation; Cat Brooks, about how we can collaborate to shape the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project future by synergizing the unique gifts of all and Executive Director of the Justice Teams generations. The World Café provides a hos- Network; Edna Chavez, March for Our Lives pitable space for integration and reflection youth leader. Hosted by Annie Leonard, Exec- on what is emerging at the conference as utive Director of Greenpeace USA. well as for building partnerships of personal Location: Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium and professional value. Let’s create tomorrow together! With: Ashton Applewhite,

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Global Festivals: Cutting Edges Women Leading of a New Emerging Culture... Environmental Action or Escapism? Co-sponsored with the Global Greengrants Fund From Burning Man to Boom to Envision to Light- We’re living at a critical moment for global ning in a Bottle and hundreds of others around climate change action, and women at the the world, festival gatherings have become grassroots are increasingly leading efforts truly significant phenomena. Might the most for real solutions all over the globe. Join conscious of these events be the harbingers of Terry Odendahl, Ph.D., President/CEO of the a new, far more joyous, compassionate, cele- Global Greengrants Fund; and Cristi Nozawa, bratory, less materialistic civilization? Or are a highly experienced Asia-based conservation these “temporary autonomous zones” merely activist and researcher, Executive Director of escapist interludes that siphon off energy the Samdhana Institute, as they share stories for real political change? What role do psy- of diverse women around the world who are chedelics play in these cultural experiments? leading a wide range of innovative grassroots Join a panel of leading figures in different climate solution initiatives while also fighting aspects of “festival culture” to explore these for human rights and positive social and envi- and other questions. With: Nicholas Powers, ronmental change. Ph.D., a leading thinker on the intersection Location: Manzanita Room of psychedelics, race, cultural diversity and festival culture; Natalie Metz, ND, renowned Growing a Living Future naturopathic physician and professor of Inte- Hosted by The International Living grative Health at CIIS; Stephen Brooks, a key Future Institute organizer of the renowned Envision Festival, held annually in Costa Rica. Hosted by: Erik The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) Davis, Ph.D., journalist, scholar of subcultures, is perhaps the world’s most visionary green host of the Expanding Mind podcast, author think-and-do-tank “to lead and support the of: Nomad Codes, Techgnosis, and The Visionary transformation toward communities that are State: A Journey Through California’s Spiritual socially just, culturally rich and ecologically Landscape. restorative.” It runs a slew of leading-edge Location: Sausalito Room programs that radically push the envelope of eco-design, including: the Living Building, Living Regenerative Agriculture: Community, and Living Product Challenges, Net State of the Art Practices Zero Energy Certification, the Cascadia Green Regenerative Agriculture goes far beyond Building Council, and Ecotone Publishing. This organic standards by also placing a strong global network spanning nearly 30 countries emphasis on practices that boost soil health. It is now driving the local adoption of restor- enhances the soil’s capacity to capture carbon ative principles in their communities. Some of and thereby helps mitigate climate change. It ILFI’s leading lights will explore the organiza- restores biodiversity above and below the tion’s programs that are collectively pointing ground, creating resilient farming systems us towards a world of technologies, buildings that support ecosystems. With: Doniga and products that replenish rather than imperil Markegard of Markegard Family Grass-Fed Earth and its living creatures. Hosted by Al in Pescadero, CA; Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser Tozer, Education and Living Building Challenge of Singing Frogs Farm, a remarkably produc- Director at the International Living Future Insti- tive-per-acre vegetable farm in Sebastopol, tute. With: Tom Elliott, co-developer of Desert CA. Moderated by Josh Whiton, eco-tech Rain in Bend, OR, the world’s first “Living Build- entrepreneur, founder of MakeSoil.org. ing” certified project ever built; Marti and Tom Location: Showcase Theater Burbeck, co-developers of only the second certified “Living Building” in the world, connected to a permaculture farm. Location: Larkspur Room

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Taking It To Court: for a river’s rights to protection? How do we Legal Strategies for the help guarantee such “rights of nature” in Environment and Human Rights mainstream jurisprudence? As we take leader- We’re in the midst of a sea change in how ship roles in restoring our rivers, how do we we use the law and legal strategies to stand blend our Traditional Ecological Knowledge up for the rights of nature and human com- with contemporary science? Tribal leaders munities. Bold innovative approaches are working to restore riparian ecosystems will managing to simultaneously create and ride a explore cutting-edge Indigenous approaches wave of progressive action. Courageous attor- to watershed management and restoration. neys are mounting legal challenges against the Moderated by Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), U.S. government on behalf of young people. Director Bioneers Indigeneity Program; and Municipalities, counties and states are filing featuring Caleen Sisk (Wintu), Josephine Man- suits against fossil fuel companies. Stalwart damin (Anishinaabe), Waniya Locke (Ahtna legal advocacy organizations continue their Dene/Dakota/Lakota/Anishinaabe), and Carrie missions of defending communities and natu- “CC” Curley (San Carlos Apache). ral systems whose voices would otherwise go Location: Indigenous Forum unheard. Hosted by Jason Mark, Editor of Sierra Magazine. With: Kate Sears, Marin County Youth Leadership. Dreaming the Supervisor; Abigail Dillen, Vice President of Lit- Queer Ecological Future igation for Climate and Energy at Earthjustice; Why is it that for centuries we LGBTQ peo- Coreal Riday-White, J.D., Community Engage- ple have been called “unnatural” or “crimes ment Manager for Our Children’s Trust. against nature” when we are as completely Location: Santa Rosa Room part of nature as all other living beings? Come join us for a participatory, immersive explo- Art, Power and Social Change ration of: gender and sexual diversity on this Drawing on the modalities of theater, play, planet; the healing powers of plant allies; and writing, storytelling and collaboration, this storytelling practices that highlight resilience experiential workshop will offer community in both the human and non-human worlds. members, educators, activists and organizers Together, we’ll reclaim our place as forces of the tools for engaging their constituencies nature within diverse social ecosystems, and and leveraging the stories that so often go we’ll dream together of a queer ecological untold in our communities. Sourcing the future where all beings can exist in harmony collective wisdom and collaborative power and peace. With: Orion Camero, visual sto- in the room, this workshop will use art and rytelling educator and community organizer embodiment to create a safe space for radical affiliated with the Beehive Design Collective; self-reflection, systems analysis, community Vanessa Raditz, farmer, environmental edu- building and articulating visions for change. cator, co-founder of the Queer Ecojustice Led by: Samara Gaev, activist/educator/ Project collective. performer, founder of Truthworker Theatre Location: Youth Unity Center Company; and friends. Location: Interactive & Experiential Tent Community of Mentors Community of Mentors offers youth the Indigenous Forum. Mni-Winconi: opportunity to be in small group mentoring We Are Here to Protect Our Rivers. sessions with Bioneers presenters. The pre- The Lakota phrase “Mní wi hóni” (“Water senters will share their life experience in an is life”) was the protest anthem from Stand- interactive dialogue with youth who are seeking Rock heard around the world, but it also ing guidance on their path to activism. With has a spiritual meaning rooted in Indigenous permaculturist Trathen Heckman, founder worldviews. For Native Americans, water does of Daily Acts. Facilitated by Lauren Dalberth not only sustain life—it is sacred. How can Hage and Dave Hage of Weaving Earth. Natives create cross-cultural understanding Location: Community of Mentors

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FRIDAY NIGHT FILMS with FILMMAKERS 7:00-10:30pm Location: Showcase Theater

7:00pm - Changing of the Gods. We’ll screen two episodes-in-progress from the forthcoming 10-episode film series produced, written and co-directed by Bioneers founder Kenny Ausubel. The series is a visionary exploration of cycles of revolution and Crescent Moon Theater Performance social transformation across history landing us in the “fierce urgency of now,” and of the FRIDAY NIGHT nature of consciousness itself. It’s based on 6:15pm “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New Crescent Moon Theater Productions World View” by cultural historian, scholar presents Julia’s Travels and astrologer Richard Tarnas, co-directed Crescent Moon, a cutting-edge, socially by Louie Schwartzberg, produced with Bill engaged troupe founded by artist, performer Benenson and features John Cleese of Monty and theater producer/director Polina Smith, Python fame. Introduction by Kenny Ausubel. uses vibrant dance, theater, music, circus arts and spirited storytelling to offer us a powerful 8:35pm - From Clenched Fist environmental fable that explores humani- to Compassion ty’s connection to nature and our hopes and From Clenched Fist to Compassion is a short doc- dreams for the future. umentary about how Samara Gaev’s youth Location: Youth Unity Center* theater company Truthworker is interacting with convicted murderer Jarvis Masters, a Bud- * NOTE: Though this is being held at the Youth Unity dhist author, and how that relationship has Center tent, it’s an adult oriented show. Nothing informed their theater work and their lives. in it is inappropriate for children, but the story- Introduction by Director Samara Gaev. line may be hard to follow for the very young.

9:00pm – Award-Winning 2018 9:00pm Short Films from the Wild and Caroline Casey: Democratic Scenic Film Festival Animism Now! (Co-Operators are Bioneers is delighted to be able to present standing by!) some of this year’s best short films from The one-and-only “Chief Trickster” at Coy- our friends and allies at the Wild and Scenic ote Network News (the “mythological news Film Festival: Imagination; Dragging 235 lbs service”) and renowned “weaver of context” uphill both ways; Conservation Generation; A for the immensely popular Visionary Activist Letter to Congress, Naturally Selected; During Show on Pacifica Network radio for the past the Drought; Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen; 23 years, who has been rocking Bioneers audi- and Mothered by Mountains. Introduced ences for 20, returns to drop her wisdom about by Theresa Huck, On Tour Sales Manager how we can tune into our “Trickster Mind” to of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival. For bring our rogue species back into cooperation more information about the films: www. with Nature’s guiding genius, and, despite the wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/2018-award-win odds, dream together to find a unifying story ning-films-announced/ and build a world we can truly love. Location: Exhibit Hall

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 has developed a bold, new plan to avert a climate crisis and protect our biosphere. Justin KEYNOTES AND Winters, LDF’s Executive Director, explains the three goals humanity needs to achieve PERFORMANCES 9am–1pm by 2050: Transform our energy systems to Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium 100% clean, renewable energy; Protect, connect and restore 50% of our lands and seas; Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree Welcome by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons and Joshua Fouts Opening Remarks by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers CEO and founder

REBECCA MOORE Earth’s Vital Signs: Using Big Data to Map Solutions Introduction by Joshua Fouts, Ceibo Alliance Leadership Team–Amazon Guardians Bioneers Executive Director Google Earth Outreach founder and visionary engineer Rebecca Moore says the signs are and Shift to regenerative, carbon-negative all around us, telling us that our life-support agriculture globally. At the heart of this effort systems are in critical condition, and only is a new map of the world called the Global recently has it become possible to monitor Safety Net, which shows what the world the health of Earth’s life-sustaining resources could look like if we achieve these three goals. in a manner both globally consistent and This vision of a world where both nature locally relevant. She’s showing how satellite and humanity coexist and thrive can only be data, cutting-edge science and powerful cloud achieved if activists and communities around computing technology such as Google Earth the world are connected and strengthened Engine allow us to achieve an unprecedented with the resources and solutions to make understanding of our changing environment this global transformation a reality. One Earth and put this data into the hands of those is accelerating this transformation through who can take action. Combined with Goo- innovative science, radical tools for collabora- gle Earth’s new narrative storytelling tool, tion, and creative storytelling that will inspire grassroots activists, communities and other and galvanize our society into action. environmental change-makers can now vividly The Ceibo Alliance Leadership show what’s at stake, and envision solutions Team: in ways that can change hearts and minds, EMERGILDO CRIOLLO, HERNAN while guiding wiser decision-making to pro- PAYAGUAJE, ALICIA SALAZAR tect and restore our vast, fragile planet. AND NEMONTE NENQUIMO JUSTIN WINTERS Guardians of the Forest on the One Earth: Envisioning a Future Frontlines in the Amazon where Humanity and Nature Introduction by Cara Romero, Coexist and Thrive Bioneers Indigeneity Program Director Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, In response to catastrophic assaults on their Bioneers CEO and founder lands and cultures by corporate industrial civi- With contributions from scientists and part- lization, the First Peoples of the Amazon have ners around the world, One Earth, an initiative formed unprecedented alliances to protect of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF), lands and peoples. These four extraordinary

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Indigenous leaders, who help guide the Ceibo Youth Leadership Keynote: Alliance of several ancestral peoples of Ecua- EDNA CHAVEZ dor’s northern Amazon, have traveled far from We Are The Future: Youth Power & their homes to share their stories of resistance Community Activism and solutions. They will offer guiding wisdom This inspiring 18-year old activist from South from their elders to show what’s at stake for Central Los Angeles, who has lost many friends their rainforest territories, what it means to and family member to gun violence, was a key the future of our planet, and what we can all participant in the March for Our Lives event do as allies to protect the Amazon, its First and has become a leading gun control advo- Peoples and life on Earth. cate and voter registration organizer.

A performance by Oakland’s own GAR ALPEROVITZ incomparably dynamic and uplifting Why We Need A Next System DESTINY ARTS YOUTH Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, PERFORMANCE COMPANY Bioneers CEO and founder As ecological and economic justice move- Third Annual Biomimicry Global ments hit the same hard limits of possibility, Design Challenge Ray of Hope Prize being realistic in our time in history means get- This annual competition was founded by the ting serious about what might have formerly Ray C. Anderson Foundation and the Bio- been seen as impossible: actually replacing mimicry Institute to stimulate biomimetic our broken corporate capitalist system. Gar solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges. Alperovitz, co-founder of the Democracy The winner of the prize, focused this year on Collaborative and co-chair of its Next Sys- climate change solutions, will be announced tem Project, will show how we can begin to and awarded on Bioneers’ main stage. build together for the systemic change we need to save both democracy and the planet. KEVIN POWELL As a political economist, author, former leg- Re-defining Manhood: A Message islative director in the House and Senate, to Men, to Boys, to Us All nonprofit innovator and scholar, Gar will share Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder breakthrough models for community-based In this brutally honest and provocative talk, political-economic development and new Kevin Powell offers his own life journey to institutions of community wealth ownership. illustrate how we can transform our concepts He’ll highlight local, state and national pol- of manhood. Raised by a single mother in the icy approaches to community stability in the inner city, Kevin’s rites of passage were typical era of globalization that really work and can of many heterosexual males: sports, violence, spread widely. and viewing women and girls as mother figures or sexual objects, and nothing more. This view of women and girls exploded when, in his SATURDAY LUNCHTIME early 20s, he pushed a girlfriend into a bath- 1:15-2:30pm room door during an argument. Decades later, Singing Circle with Noe Venable thanks to years of therapy, study, healing, and Digging Deep, Rising Strong: a commitment to growth and change, Kevin Songs for the Great Turning has become a solution-oriented writer, activ- From the Civil Rights Movement to South ist and speaker seeking to re-define manhood Africa to 1960s folk and rock, music has long around nonviolence, peace, love, healthy been a powerful force for change. In this work- self-expression, and as an ally to women and shop with accomplished singer-songwriter people of all gender identities. and gifted music educator Noe Venable, we’ll learn songs from a wide variety of cultures and times that can help bring us back

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into right alignment with: spirit; our own deep a diverse, world-class circle of scientists, selves; the Earth; and each other. Everyone thought leaders, and social influencers, One (at any level of musical ability or any age) wel- Earth paints a global vision for an abundant come: Come connect, have a great time, and and thriving planet. Imagine a not-so-distant leave uplifted and renewed, equipped with future: Earth is a thriving wilderness dotted powerful new songs to help you through life’s by green cities with clean air, fresh water, and struggles. healthy food for all; Indigenous peoples are Location: Community of Mentors the stewards of vast forests and grasslands; regenerative farming has restored the world’s Lunch with an Elder soils; the world’s oceans are once again brim- Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the ming with life; and governments now fully Indigenous Environmental Network, will share understand there is no GDP without a healthy, Indigenous principles for a Just Transition balanced biosphere. Justin Winters, LDF’s to a clean, sustainable economy and prac- Executive Director, hosts a panel of visionary tical, grassroots ways to affirm and restore change-makers who will show how a clear Indigenous life-ways as we transition from vision of what’s possible can make this Eden a destructive, fossil fuel based economy to 2.0 a reality. self-determined Indigenous futures. This will Location: Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium be an informal and interactive event inviting dialogue and Q&A with the audience. How to Build an Alternative to Location: Indigenous Forum Our Current System Drawing on the experience of organizers SolutionCraft Ecological Education working across the country to create the Booth & Demonstrations institutions of the next system, this panel, Come learn about a host of appropriate tech- hosted by Gar Alperovitz, co-founder of the nologies and creative ecological solutions, Democracy Collaborative and co-chair of its from solar cooking to wood-efficient rocket Next System Project, will explore the connec- stoves to natural building methods and zero- tions between environmental action and the waste systems. SolutionCraft seeks to inspire democratic economy. How can local efforts at the building and use of simple ecological solu- different scales—the workplace, the commu- tions that are accessible to all! nity, the city, state, and beyond—be knitted Location: SolutionCraft booth together into a powerful movement to build towards a truly systemic national and global Trashion Show! (1:50pm) alternative? With: Kali Akuno, co-founder Truckee High’s Envirolution Club, led by Missy and Co-Director, Cooperation Jackson (Jack- Mohler, steals the show every year, turning son, Mississippi); Niki Okuk, founder of Rco trash into high fashion with a serious environ- Tires, one of California’s largest sustainabil- mental message. ity enterprises; Aaron Tanaka, Director of Location: Central Lawn the Center for Economic Democracy; Ellen Brown, founder of the Public Banking Insti- tute, author of Web of Debt and The Public Bank SATURDAY AFTERNOON Solution. SESSIONS, 2:45-4:15pm Location: Showcase Theater

One Earth: Envisioning Eden 2.0 Somatics, Trauma Healing and in 2050 Social Change What is the world we want to see in 2050 Staci K. Haines, the founder of “Generative and how do we manifest it? That is the ques- Somatics,” has integrated her extensive expe- tion posed by One Earth, a visionary new rience in both transforming individual and initiative from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foun- social trauma and in grassroots movements dation (LDF). Developed in partnership with

14 PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SATURDAY into uniquely powerful work that has proven Revkin, Strategic Adviser for Environmental to be incredibly helpful to a wide range of and Science Journalism at the National Geo- social justice activists, many of whom have graphic Society. Hosted by Jeremy Kagan, been deeply hurt by oppression or violence. award-winning director/producer, USC film Leaders from cutting-edge groups, including professor, founder of the Change-Making Prentis Hemphill of Black Organizing for Media Lab, former Artistic Director at the Sun- Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), Raquel Lavina dance Institute. from the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Location: Manzanita Room will share how they have been able to successfully integrate embodied transformation into Evolutionary Plant Breeding: their social change work. Breeding Crops for Climate Change Location: Sausalito Room In the face of an increasingly unstable climate and the continued collapse of global Building Community: An Interactive agricultural biodiversity, the Occidental Arts Biomimicry Workshop and Ecology Center (OAEC) has engaged Biomimicry is a design science and philos- in a project involving mixing and planting ophy that draws inspiration from nature. In together over 2,000 varieties of bread-wheat this session with leading Certified Biomimicry from all over the world in a process called Professionals, we’ll discover nature’s strate- “Evolutionary Plant Breeding.” The goals of gies through interactive, hands-on exercises; this ambitious project are to: create unique, approaches that can inspire us to collaborate, place-adapted, resilient mixtures of our most learn, share, influence, and self-organize in important food crops; increase agricultural new ways. Working in teams, we will explore biodiversity; put seed-breeding back into the how those strategies and lessons can be hands of farmers and gardeners; and generate applied to help us generate naturally sustain- a seed supply that can thrive in a changing able communities. With: Peggy H. Chu, MS, climate. With: Mark Schapiro, investigative AIA, LEED AP, Architect; Rachel MW Hahs, environmental journalist, lecturer at UC Berke- MS ENV SP, Sustainability Professional; Diana ley’s School of Journalism, author of Seeds of Hammer, MPH, MS, Life Scientist, Biomimicry Resistance; Cooper Freeman, OAEC’s Program Collaborative. Manager; Leonard Diggs, Manager of SRJC Location: Larkspur Room Shone Farm, a 365-acre self-sustaining college farm. Hosted by Arty Mangan, Director of Making Media with Impact: Telling Bioneers’ Restorative Food Systems Program. True Stories to Change the World Location: Santa Rosa Room Despite the ever growing tsunami of TV shows, films, books, podcasts, blogs/vlogs, Joven Noble con Palabra: A Healing etc. being loosed on the world daily, it is still Cultural Rites of Passage Model for possible to create work that has a profound Adolescent Males of Color impact, sometimes even a game-changing Co-sponsored by the National Compadres influence, on public opinion, if one knows Network how to penetrate to the core of an issue and The National Compadres Network has devel- to communicate that essence by highlight- oped a powerfully effective Cultural Rites of ing compelling real-life stories. Some of our Passage model—Joven Noble con Palabra, a nation’s most exemplary, effective engaged curriculum for boys and men of color based media-makers share their experiences and on the transformational healing philosophy— tips. With: Ellen Schneider, Director/Founder La Cultura Cura. The program provides youth of Active Voice; Amy Korngiebel, Director of with a safe place to discuss their personal Distribution for the progressive documentary experiences and with positive adult male company, Brave New Films, and an Emmy and mentors who can show them how to main- Peabody award-winning producer; Andrew tain healthy connections with other people.

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In this interactive session for those working Executive Director of Beats, Rhymes and with at-risk youth who may want to incorpo- Life—a leading group in the emerging field of rate aspects of this model, we will explore: the Hip Hop Therapy. particular issues and traumas boys and men Location: Youth Unity Center of color face and how these impact their lives and behaviors; and how to use evidence-based All About Chocolate practical tools to connect with and help these In this thrilling outdoor workshop, passionate young men heal their wounds and thrive. chocolate-maker extraordinaire Jonas Ket- With: Ariel Jimenez, Program Coordinator, terle of Firefly Chocolate will share his deep National Compadres Network; Ysenia Sep- knowledge of cacao (gained in part from ulveda, Training and Technical Assistant working with Indigenous Maya farmers). He Specialist, National Compadres Network. covers its origins, rituals and myths, regional Location: Interactive & Experiential Tent varieties, processing techniques, cultural/ economic/social realities, culinary uses, and Indigenous Forum. Native People’s health-promoting and mind-expanding prop- “Just Transition” to Clean Energy erties. He will also lead us in a “hands-on” With immense untapped resources on their demonstration of ancestral stone ground lands, First Peoples are at the razor’s edge chocolate-making, which we’ll get to sample of development of both clean and dirty (a once-in-a-lifetime experience!). energy, and they are also the first to experi- Location: Hands-On Workshop Space ence the effects of climate change. Learn how Indigenous Peoples are leading the way Walking Transformation: How to in a “just transition” from a fossil fuel to a Radiate Peace with Every Step clean power economy, as we explore innova- Russell and Suki Munsell have forty years’ tive approaches guided by traditional values. experience in a wide range of mind-body Leaders from rural and urban Indigenous modalities, movement disciplines, and communities will share practical strategies somatic therapies. Join them in this outdoor they have used to move away from fossil fuel workshop as they share their Dynamic Vitality dependence. Moderated by Eriel Deranger Method, a unique full-body experience for all (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) Executive ages and fitness levels. You’ll learn Dynamic Director of Indigenous Climate Action, and Walking, a biomechanically based method to featuring AlexAnna Salmon (Yup’ik) Village create balance between your mind, body and Council President Igiugig and Pebble Advisory intention. Embody a more vibrant, graceful Committee, Bristol Bay Native Corporation; presence as you move through your life. and Melina Laboucan Massimo (Lubicon Location: Meet at Bioneers Info Booth near the Cree First Nation), David Suzuki Foundation Central Lawn Research Fellow. Location: Indigenous Forum Radical Environmental Activism: Finding Beauty in the Broken Youth Leadership. Beats, Rhymes, Places/World Café and Life Workshop Trebbe Johnson’s global initiative, Radical In this interactive workshop, youth will learn Joy for Hard Times, is based on the idea that how to express themselves through hip-hop making beauty can be an act of resistance. while developing skills in critical thinking, Every year people all over the planet go to pro-social expression, conflict resolution and “wounded” places they love and listen deeply positive peer relationship-building. Partici- to the land and to one another before leav- pants will also have the opportunity to record ing behind a gift of beauty. Join us to explore their songs and spoken word pieces on site. practices and attitudes that can help us With: Rob Jackson, Oakland-based commu- make sense of the pain and wounding we nity leader, educator, hip-hop artist, founder/ see in the world and begin to move toward

16 PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SATURDAY radical healing, together. With: Polly Howells, environment. With: Rebecca Moore, founder ReclaimingOurLives.org; Trebbe Johnson, of Google Earth Outreach and Google Engine; RadicalJoyForHardTimes.org. Hosted by: Amy David Kroodsma, Research Director at Global Lenzo, weDialogue & The World Cafe Commu- Fishing Watch; Madhusudan Mysore, Ph.D, nity Foundation. who manages the India-based Nature Con- Location: World Café servation Foundation; and Eric Dinerstein, Director of WildTech and the Biodiversity and Drawdown Marin Wildlife Solutions Program at RESOLVE, for- Drawdown Marin is a community-wide mer Chief Scientist at the World Wildlife Fund. campaign to dramatically and systemically Hosted by Andrew Revkin, Strategic Adviser reduce our own greenhouse gas emissions, for Environmental and Science Journalism at doing our part locally to slow the impacts the National Geographic Society, one of the of global climate change by becoming a nation’s most experienced environmental and “fossil-free” county. Come meet engaged scientific reporters and authors. community members and learn how we can Location: Showcase Theater all—residents, businesses, organizations, and municipalities—work together to contribute Healing and Recovering to this effort. There will be a presentation Sacred Manhood followed by breakout groups. With: repre- As serial examples of abuses by men in posi- sentatives from Sustainable Marin, Resilient tions of power reveal, much more is needed Neighborhoods, Marin Clean Energy, and to address the issues of true equality between others. the genders and a society safe for all its Location: Tiburon Room members to bring forth their greatest gifts, whatever their gender identities. To reach Community of Mentors that goal requires a profound cultural shift Community of Mentors offers youth the in our current concepts of manhood. Men opportunity to be in small group mentor- of all ages and ethnicities will need to boldly ing sessions with Bioneers presenters. The explore, heal, and embrace new and ancient presenters will share their life experience in models of masculinity that reflect a strength an interactive dialogue with youth who are rooted in loving compassion and wisdom seeking guidance on their path to activism. rather than aggression or violence. Join us With activist/musician Kyle Lemle, founder of for a conversation as three men who grew up Thrive Choir. Facilitated by Lauren Dalberth challenged by prevalent ideals of masculinity Hage and Dave Hage of Weaving Earth. to later grow into voices for sacred manhood Location: Community of Mentors share their experiences. Hosted by Bioneers’ co-founder Nina Simons. With: Kevin Pow- ell, writer, activist, co-founder of BK Nation, SATURDAY AFTERNOON acclaimed author of 13 books, including his SESSIONS, 4:30-6:00pm autobiography, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood; Jerry Tello, author From the Ground to the Cloud: of Healing the Wounded Male Spirit, co-founder New Solutions and Mapping Tools of the National Compadres Network, who has Digital maps, when they are well designed 40+ years’ experience working on transforma- and used ethically, hold the power to help tional healing with inner city boys and men bring context to complex environmental and and war veterans; Zachary Draves, student humanitarian issues and to move the needle activist, domestic violence community edu- on some of our most pressing challenges. cator, Chair of the Subcommittee on Race in Come learn about leading-edge tools and College Athletics. platforms that are bringing together technol- Location: Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium ogy, data and human networks to mobilize faster and more effective stewardship of our

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One Word: “Plastics” us train our visionary muscles as we imagine The pace, scale and impact of plastic pollution life 100 years from now to visualize how we have exploded. Half of all plastic ever created humans can adapt to the intense challenges has come into existence in the past decade. The we are facing, and evolve in positive ways on impacts on ocean life, human health and the a changing planet. We’ll collaborate to cre- entire biosphere are vast and growing. Solu- ate sci-fi plots and scenarios that speculate tions need to be surfaced, rapidly researched about how a growing solutionary resistance and scaled. Join representatives from three of will be able to address the social and environ- the world’s leading groups actively engaged mental problems confronting us and create a in mounting a response equal to the size of world we would all want to live in. As Climbing the challenge. With: Conrad MacKerron, PoeTree says, “Art is our Weapon, Our Medi- Senior Vice President of As You Sow; Shilpi cine, Our Voice, Our Vision.” Chhotray, Senior Communications Officer for Location: Larkspur Room the global #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement. Hosted by Anna Cummins, co-founder and Bits, Bots, & Our Biome: Global Strategy Director of 5 Gyres. Technology and Tech Power Location: Manzanita Room Technology shapes how we live and how we understand ourselves as humans, but who is What We Can Learn from South holding the reins? Some leading tech-savvy Africa’s Legendary White Lions activists wrestle with how technology and the Some especially charismatic animals have tech sector are radically re-shaping the distri- often been viewed as archetypally important bution of power and life on our planet. They’ll or linked to prophetic teachings by Indig- explore strategies and structural and cultural enous cultures. This is true of the White interventions we can use to try to leverage and Bison among some tribes on the Great Plains, hold accountable the power of technology, British Columbia’s “Spirit Bear” and South so it can actually serve the common good. Africa’s White Lions. World renowned con- Hosted by Lindley Mease co-founder/Co-Di- servationist Linda Tucker and leading lion rector of Blue Heart, which organizes tech ecologist Jason Turner, who together created millennial donors to give to frontline organi- the Global White Lion Protection Trust, will zations. With: Richard Stallman, founder/ explain how this rare species has helped bring President of the Free Software Foundation, together cutting-edge modern ecology with author of Free Software, Free Society; Malkia Indigenous ancestral wisdom to help heal eco- A. Cyril, founder/Executive Director of the systems and divides of race, tribe, gender and Center for Media Justice, co-founder, Media culture, reaching to the very origin of human- Action Grassroots Network; Gopal Dayaneni, kind’s contract with Earth. They’ll also share longtime activist, currently on the boards of what these extraordinary creatures can teach the ETC Group, The Ruckus Society and the us about our own capacity for leadership. Center for Story-based Strategy. Location: Sausalito Room Location: Santa Rosa Room

Visionary Science Fiction: Embodied Restoration: Rebalancing An Imagination Training for the Sacred Masculine and Feminine Activists with Climbing PoeTree Clare DuBois, founder of TreeSisters, leads “All organizing is science fiction. We are cre- a powerful journey into the embodied expe- ating a world we have never seen.”- Adrienne rience of human wholeness. We will delve Maree Brown. Can poetry, storytelling, and into an archetypal exploration of our own progressive science fiction help us re-write the inner sacred geometry and become part of future we are heading into? This interactive a collective rebalancing designed to acti- workshop with the renowned poets, artists, vate our innate, instinctual intelligence. educators, activists and dazzling spoken-word Discover a felt relationship to the feminine performing duo Climbing PoeTree will help

18 PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SATURDAY and masculine archetypes within you – it’s Community of Mentors truly transformative. Community of Mentors offers youth the Location: Interactive & Experiential Tent opportunity to be in small group mentoring sessions with Bioneers presenters. The pre- Indigenous Forum. Beyond senters will share their life experience in an Sovereignty: New Solutions interactive dialogue with youth who are seek- for Self-Determination ing guidance on their path to activism. With Despite its widespread use in Indian country, artist and educator brontë velez of Planting the concept of “sovereignty” is often mis- Justice. Facilitated by Lauren Dalberth Hage understood and misused. Derived from 16th and Dave Hage of Weaving Earth. Century political theory, sovereignty has, in Location: Community of Mentors the context of Native American peoples in the U.S., come to mean the right of federally recognized tribes to self-govern as nations within SATURDAY NIGHT FILMS the broader entity of the United States. In with FILMMAKERS this provocative workshop, Native community leaders and scholars will explore how 7:00-10:30pm tribes might begin to go beyond conventional Location: Showcase Theater applications of sovereignty to include food sovereignty beyond farming, economic sov- 7:00pm - Symbiotic Earth: How ereignty beyond gaming, and environmental Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and sovereignty beyond current legal systems. started a scientific revolution With: Suzan Shown Harjo; (Cheyenne/Hodul- We’ll show excerpts from this dazzling new gee Muscogee), activist/policy maker; invited feature-length documentary by director John guest Carletta Tilousi, (Havasupai), Tribal Feldman. The film beautifully paints a portrait Council Member. Moderated by Michael of the incredibly influential late scientist and Johnson (Arikara/Hidatsa/Ojibwe), Assistant teacher, Lynn Margulis, who seeded a monu- Director of Development at Native American mental paradigm shift in biology that affects Rights Fund. how we look at ourselves, evolution and our Location: Indigenous Forum planet - from the Gaia Hypothesis to bacteria as the origin of all species (“it’s all relatives”). Youth Leadership. Poetry Slam Introduction by Director John Feldman. Share your original work and catch “epic rip- ples” of inspiration from young poets at this 8:20pm - Walk on the Mountain spoken-word open forum hosted by Jada Walk on the Mountain, directed by Will Gregg Imani of Tau Vison and Youth Speaks. and Eddie Mostert, highlights the work of Location: Youth Unity Center Junior Walk, a dedicated, passionate activist in West Virginia who has dedicated his life Permaculture Meetup: Cross to exposing the ravages caused by the coal Pollination, Collaboration and industry and has spoken at Bioneers. Integration California has one of the most active per- 8:50pm - Water Warriors maculture communities in the world. Come Water Warriors is a new short film by Michael connect with permies and projects, continue Premo about a successful community upris- the conversation from permaculture sessions ing! When a Texas energy company began at the conference and learn exciting news searching for natural gas in New Brunswick, from the Northern CA Permaculture Conver- Canada, Indigenous and white families united gence this month. With: David Shaw, Santa to drive out the company in a campaign to Cruz Permaculture & UCSC Common Ground protect their water and way of life. Center; and special guests TBA. Location: World Café

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9:30pm - The Fuller Challenge The Fuller Challenge (a film by Whirlwind Cre- ative, Inc. produced in partnership with the Arnow Family Fund) explores the impact and legacy of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a groundbreaking prize competition that, in its ten-year trajectory (until 2017) was widely recognized as “socially responsible design’s highest award.” Many of the Challenge’s win- ners and finalists featured in the film, including John Todd, Bren Smith, Jason McClennan and Jody Holmes, have spoken here at Bioneers over the years, and a Bioneers project, Dream- ing New Mexico, was the Challenge runner-up in 2009. Introduction by Elizabeth Thompson and J.P. Harpignies. Patrisse Cullors – Author, Artist, Organizer

10:10pm - Open Source Stories: The Science of Collective Discovery Alperovitz; Ecuador’s Ceibo Alliance leaders: This story of how citizen scientists are mak- Emergildo Criollo, Hernan Payaguaje, Ali- ing groundbreaking discoveries using open cia Salazar, Nemonte Nenquimo and their hardware in their own backyards celebrates ally and partner, Mitch Anderson, founder how community, grassroots creativity and a of Amazon Frontlines; Kevin Powell; Edna free exchange of ideas can help citizens par- Chavez. Separate admission: $90. ticipate in scientific research, protect their Location: Ballroom, Embassy Suites environments and fight for their rights.

9:30pm - midnight SATURDAY NIGHT Saturday Night Dance Party— 6:30pm with multiple DJs! Seed Exchange From 9:35pm-10pm Aaron Ableman will play Seeds are our future. Share open-pollinated songs from his new Alive and Awake project, seeds to help conserve the living botanical combining hip-hop, reggae and spoken word treasure of biodiversity. Hosted by these expert storytelling. And from 10pm to midnight the seed savers: Occidental Arts and Ecology legendary B-side Brujas, an all-women DJ col- Center, Tesuque Pueblo Tribal Farm, Rich- lective dedicated to nurturing a more inclusive mond Grows Seed Lending Library, and The nightlife community, rock the house. Also: Living Seed Company. Tarot readings and face painting! Location: Exhibit Hall Location: Exhibit Hall

7:30pm Bioneers Awards Dinner Join Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons, Joshua Fouts and the Bioneers community of leadership for a rousing celebration and mythic meal (designed by Chef Scott LaCrosse with food provided by conscious companies supplying fresh, local, sustainably grown produce) to honor these true Bioneers heroes and sher- oes: Patrisse Cullors; Jacqueline Garcel; Gar

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 and innovative financing. Because small farmers still produce 80% of the world’s food, their KEYNOTES AND survival is crucial to mitigating the effects of climate change, protecting biodiversity and PERFORMANCES 9am–1pm preserving social stability in many countries. Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium Alex will show how Sistema Biobolsa’s unique scaleable approach addresses climate change, Drumming by Deb Lane and Afia food security, and poverty around the world Walking Tree by engaging “smallholders.” Welcome by Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons and Joshua Fouts PATRISSE CULLORS Women of the Movement Opening Remarks by Joshua Fouts, for Black Lives Bioneers Executive Director Introduction by Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, founder of The Bodhi Project, former Senior Fellow with ASHTON APPLEWHITE HIFIS Berkeley We Are All Aging, Patrisse Cullors, a performance artist and So Let’s End Ageism award-winning organizer from Los Angeles, is Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder one of the most effective and influential move- What’s a surefire way to make activism more ment builders of our era. She was a key figure effective? Make it intergenerational. What’s in the fight to force the creation of the first the biggest obstacle? An ageist culture that civilian oversight commission of LA’s Sheriff’s pits old against young and bombards us with Department, but is most widely known as one messages that wrinkles are tragic and old of the three original co-founders of Black Lives people useless. Aging is not a problem to be Matter and for her recent, best-selling book, “fixed” or a disease to be “cured.” It’s a natural When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Mat- lifelong process that unites us all, and a world ter Memoir. She will explore: the contributions that’s better to grow old in is better for every- women have made to the movement for Black one. Debunking myth after myth about late lives historically and in the present; the institu- life, author and activist Ashton Applewhite tional racism that still permeates our society, passionately urges us to come together at all causing mass incarceration and high rates of ages - and dismantle ageism in the process. maternal mortality in African American communities; and the diverse ways women have ALEX EATON been criminalized and have fought back to Tribe of the New Flame: change the course of history. Smallholder Farmers as Climate Change and Food Security Leaders INTRINSIC: A Performance by CLIMBING POETREE Introduction by JP Harpignies, These two Brooklyn-based poets-artists-ac- Bioneers Senior Producer tivists-educators-musicians-performers may Alex Eaton, co-founder of Sistema Biobolsa, be the most brilliant socially engaged spo- will share how this groundbreaking social ken word duo in the known universe. They’ll business is creating a movement toward perform material from their recent kickass regenerative agricultural practices among album, Intrinsic. small farmers in Latin America, East Africa and India. He’ll illustrate how small farmers around Youth Leadership Keynote: the world can work together to increase global CHARLIE JIANG food production, while turning their farms, Climate Change Activism and a homes and soils into carbon sinks by using New American Dream waste-to-energy technology, capacity building Climate change, racism, and rising inequality

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threaten our communities. Charlie Jiang, a son techniques from the heart of the hogan that of immigrants and a leading SustainUS youth help mend the broken heart of the Western delegate to the 2017 United Nations climate world. negotiations, will offer a vision of active hope, arguing that out of the compounding crises Closing Remarks by Kenny Ausubel, Nina we face, we have a singular opportunity to Simons, Joshua Fouts mend the wounds of our past and usher in a Closing Performance by Oakland’s own brighter future. Thrive Choir ELIZABETH DWOSKIN Live Suicides, Russian Meddling, SUNDAY LUNCHTIME #Parkland: What We’ve Learned About Tech Giants in The Last Year SESSION, 1:15-2:30pm Introduction by Joshua Fouts, Indigenous Forum. IBEX Puppetry Bioneers Executive Director Presents: Performances of: Elizabeth Dwoskin, the Washington Post’s Sil- Harmonious Migrations and icon Valley correspondent, is that paper’s eyes Lhamo Trung Trung and ears in the world of tech. For the past six Join Heather Henson, Jason Gullo Mull- years, she has covered the rise of data-hungry ins (South Eastern Cherokee) and Tsering technology companies, online conspiracies, Choedron (Tibetan) for two educational and Russian meddling on social media. She puppetry performances centered on the inter- was part of the team that broke over a dozen connectivity among endangered Whooping stories on Russian operatives’ use of Facebook, and Black Neck Cranes and the environments Twitter, and Google to influence the 2016 and Indigenous communities through which presidential election. She’ll shine a light on our they migrate. After the performances, join the growing awareness of the dark side of Silicon creators for a conversation about how they’ve Valley, and how that awareness is reshaping approached creating and performing these public policy, our understanding of democracy, traditional and contemporary stories. and the way tech is used and built. Location: Indigenous Forum

LYLA JUNE Nihimá Nahasdzáán: SUNDAY AFTERNOON Healing Women and Nature SESSIONS, 2:45-4:15pm Through a Diné (Navajo) Lens Bridging ‘ism’ Schisms: Introduction by Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder Reaching Out Across Divides Lyla June — poet, musician, anthropologist, Our race, faith, gender, orientation, age and educator, public speaker and community ability often shape where we live, whom we organizer of Diné, Cheyenne and European know, the resources to which we have access, lineages — has inspired audiences around and how people perceive us. The stories we the world with a message of personal, col- tell ourselves about our similarities and dif- lective and ecological healing. Drawing from ferences shape our life choices, and, far too her studies in Human Ecology and the tradi- often, different “isms” are used to divide us. tional ancestral Diné worldview with which How can we use our differences to make us she grew up, she’ll explore the links between all stronger? What strategies can we use to environmental destruction and “rape culture” build bridges and work together for positive and how we can heal and transform ourselves change? The future of our society depends and our society. Lyla will delve into how the on how we address those questions. Hosted healing of women can unleash the healing of by: Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, founder of The men and how we have to heal humanity to Bodhi Project and former Senior Fellow with heal the Earth. She’ll share paradigm-shifting HIFIS Berkeley. With: Ashton Applewhite,

22 PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SUNDAY author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Global New Thought. With: Masami Saionji, Ageism; Lyla June, Native American poet, Japanese spiritual leader and peace activ- musician, anthropologist, educator and com- ist; Izumi Masukawa, Ph.D. in Nutrition and munity organizer; Sarah Crowell, Artistic Bio-electronics; Lynne Twist, co-founder of Director of Destiny Arts Center. Pachamama Alliance. Location: Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium Location: Santa Rosa Room

The Perils and Promise of Tech: Revisioning Education with Eco- Elizabeth Dwoskin in conversation Literacy and Social Justice in Mind with Bioneers Executive Director Legendary educator David Orr says that all edu- Joshua Fouts cation is environmental education by what it We are living in an age of dizzying techno- includes or excludes. If we’re to surmount the logical change, especially in the domains of daunting challenges facing us and build a thriv- electronic communications, artificial intel- ing “green,” fairer and more compassionate ligence (AI), robotics, data collection and civilization, transforming how we educate our genetics. The admittedly remarkable new youth may well be the single most important capacities provided by tech were initially task facing us. Luckily, there are at all levels heralded with utopian predictions of their of the educational system a growing number transformative effects, but we have increas- of heartening, inspiring initiatives working to ingly been seeing their much darker aspects incorporate ecological literacy, sustainability, – their critical role in the erosion of individ- justice and equity in both curricula and in the ual privacy and democracy, the heightening governance of pedagogic institutions. With: of social atomization and alienation, and the Cynthia Selin, Associate Professor at ASU’s vulnerability of all our major systems to School of Sustainability; Shakti Butler, founder cyberattack have become ever more glaringly and President of World Trust. Hosted by Karen obvious. Few people are better equipped Cowe, CEO of Ten Strands, which works to to help us make sense of what to make of teach environmental literacy to all California these rapidly evolving crises than Elizabeth K12 students. Dwoskin, the Washington Post’s Silicon Location: Manzanita Room Valley correspondent, one of the nation’s premiere reporters on the world of tech. She will Farmacology: be interviewed by Bioneers Executive Director Soil, Health and Medicine Joshua Fouts. Daphne Miller, MD, had long suspected that Location: Sausalito Room human wellbeing and how our food is produced are intimately linked. She visited and stud- Soul of WoMen: Restoring Harmony ied seven innovative family farms around the and Balance Between the Feminine country on a quest to discover the hidden con- and Masculine nections between how we grow our food and In a world so divided and intensely polarized, our health, and she published her findings inFar - how can we restore balance between the macology: Total Health from the Ground Up (also feminine and masculine energies within each the basis for the award-winning documentary In of us and in our society? How can we return Search of Balance). Joining Daphne to discuss to wholeness and give full expression to our how farming techniques from seed choice to soil innate potential, in service to humanity and management have a direct impact on our health the whole web of life? Visionary women lead- will be: Timothy J. LaSalle, Ph.D., co-founder ers from East and West share their insights and Co-Director of the Regenerative Agricul- and experiences in an interactive panel that ture Initiative at CSU Chico (and first CEO of will include meditation, sound and other the Rodale Institute); Josh Whiton, a highly sacred practices. Hosted by Barbara Fields, successful eco-tech entrepreneur whose most Executive Director of The Association for recent project is MakeSoil.org. Hosted by Arty

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Mangan, Director of Bioneers’ Restorative Indigenous Forum. Food Systems Program. How to Be A Good Ally Location: Showcase Theater White “ally-ship” with Indigenous Peoples is confusing to the point that we don’t know Spiritual Ecology and if we should even use the word “ally” any- Sacred Rebellion more. Through open and honest dialogue The science of the environmental crisis is between Indigenous and non-Indigenous now obvious and widely known, but suffi- partners, this workshop provides a pathway cient mass collective action to change our for building successful cross-cultural collabo- civilization’s catastrophic trajectory has not rations in: philanthropic giving, environmental coalesced. What’s preventing it? Could it be campaigns, and the advancement of Indige- a deeper, unspoken spiritual crisis of values? nous rights. For non-Indigenous attendees, Four intergenerational visionaries will share this workshop will explore the relationship how they draw from their faiths to work between ally-ship with Indigenous groups toward transforming worldviews and healing and one’s own “re-indigenization.” For Indig- systemic injustices. Hosted by Kyle Lemle, enous people, this workshop offers practical Spiritual Ecology Fellow, U.S. People’s Del- guidelines to help you manage collaborations, egate to the UN Climate Talks. With: Niria coalitions and alliances with outsiders. Intro- Alicia, Honor the Earth Fellow, Organizer, Run duced by Cara Romero and Kenny Ausubel. 4 Salmon; Wendy Johnson, Buddhist medita- Moderated by Alexis Bunten. With: Clayton tion teacher, master organic gardener; Dekila Thomas-Muller, Stop-it-at-the-Source Cam- Chungyalpa, founder WWF Sacred Earth; paigner of 350.org; May Boeve, Executive brontë velez, educator with Planting Justice Director, 350.org; Mitch Anderson, founder and Creative Director of Lead to Life. and Executive Director of Amazon Frontlines; Location: Larkspur Room Hernan Payaguaje (Seikopai) Executive Direc- tor of the Ceibo Alliance; Edgar Villanueva, Navigating Emergence: Chair of Native Americans in Philanthropy; Perspectives and Practices for Hilary Giovale, a 9th generation American set- Responding in Real Time tler and philanthropist committed to healing While planning remains important, in our historical divides. increasingly fast-paced complex world we Location: Indigenous Forum need to grow our abilities to embrace emergence, serendipity and synchronicity. In this Youth Leadership. Truthworker experiential workshop led by Kate Suther- Theatre Company: Artists As land, a highly experienced community and Activists organizational change expert, author of We Come join Samara Gaev, founder and Artistic Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Our Collective Director of Truthworker Theatre Company, Genius, we’ll learn three cutting-edge practices in a dynamic, interactive workshop that will to cultivate and leverage the power of our draw from the multiplicity of narratives that intuition and intention to deepen our ability live within the participants. We’ll be guided in to “see” systemically: Adaptive Cycles, Chaor- using embodiment and visionary storytelling dic Design, and Conscious Co-creation. We’ll to unpack issues of trauma, healing, power, leave this workshop equipped with a starter privilege, social justice, and inequity in our kit of highly effective, potent, in-the-moment communities. Drawing from a Theatre of the practices we can draw upon to both better Oppressed pedagogy, we’ll creatively col- navigate the world’s chaos and to gain greater laborate to conceive of new possibilities for clarity about our life’s purpose. testimony, empathy building and radical sys- Location: Interactive & Experiential Tent tems change. There will also be a performance by members of the Truthworker company of a few excerpts of their provocative tril- ogy depicting the prison industrial complex

24 PROGRAM SCHEDULE • SUNDAY through the lens of a dozen youth impacted youth the opportunity to be in small group by mass incarceration. mentoring sessions with Bioneers presenters. Location: Youth Unity Center The presenters will share their life experience in an interactive dialogue with youth who are Natural Building & Ecological seeking guidance on their path to activism. Design Principles—Build a Teeny With Erin Axelrod, partner/worker-owner at Tiny House! LIFT Economy. Facilitated by Lauren Dalberth A critical ecological design principle is to start Hage and Dave Hage of Weaving Earth. small-scale and work up. In this session we Location: Community of Mentors will have the opportunity to design and build our own teeny tiny house and learn all about natural building and ecological design princi- SUNDAY AFTERNOON ples along the way. We will discuss different SESSIONS, 4:30-6:00pm earthen building techniques, passive solar Lessons from the Oil Fields, design, living roofs, rainwater catchment, and Wisdom from the Forest more, all the while getting our hands dirty in this interactive workshop! With ecological edu- Co-sponsored by Amazon Frontlines and the cator and natural builder Brennan Blazer Bird. Ceibo Alliance Location: Hands-On Workshop Space The territory of the Amazon’s Indigenous peoples is some of the most biodiverse (and Creating Tomorrow Together: most threatened) rainforest on our planet. Systems Change & the Next What does Indigenous stewardship of the Economy/World Café Amazon look like in the 21st century? What Our fundamental systems of governance and are the risks, threats and opportunities? Come economics are changing, and the seeds of hear from a team working on the frontlines the next systems are emerging. What does of community-led resistance to predatory that look like in your community, work, and resource extraction. They’ll illustrate current life? How are we nourishing those seeds of approaches to on-the-ground action in the possibility and growing this movement for Amazon, the risk of losing the ancestral knowl- a just transition regionally, nationally and edge of native Amazonians, the opportunities globally? Come to an engaging World Café and pitfalls of global solidarity, and what this conversation about what we have learned all means for conservation movements world- this weekend, what unique contributions we wide. Hosted by Mitch Anderson, founder are making, and how we can support one and Executive Director of Amazon Frontlines. another in taking the next steps towards right With: Nemonte Nenquimo (Waorani) founde- livelihoods, new economies, and a system ing member of the Ceibo Alliance; Hernan that benefits all life. With: Gar Alperovitz, Payaguaje (Seikopai) Executive Director of the Democracy Collaborative & Next Systems the Ceibo Alliance; Luke Weiss, Coordinator Project. Hosted by: David Shaw, Santa Cruz of the Cultural Recovery and Territorial Map- Permaculture & UCSC Common Ground Cen- ping programs at Amazon Frontlines; Brian ter; Amy Lenzo, weDialogue & The World Parker, Legal Rights Defenders Program Coor- Cafe Community Foundation and Della Dun- dinator at Amazon Frontlines. can, “deep economist” and co-producer of Location: Larkspur Room the Upstream Podcast. Location: World Café Innovative Enterprise: “Greening” Agriculture and Boosting Farmers’ Community of Mentors Livelihoods Bioneers is inherently a community of men- Thriving, dynamic organic and agro-ecological tors; people eager to learn, share, explore and movements have been growing rapidly around create together. Community of Mentors offers the world to present real alternatives to industrial agriculture’s catastrophic harms. These

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visionary leaders of cutting-edge, mission- Indigenous Forum. driven enterprises working in the U.S. and Exploring “Blood Memory” globally share their strategies for succeeding “Blood memory” is the idea that we carry at spreading ecologically sound agricultural ancient memories in our DNA, genetic con- practices while boosting farming families’ nections to the teachings of our ancestors, incomes and wellbeing. With: Alex Eaton, and that these memories can be awakened. co-founder, Sistema Biobolsa; Theresa This workshop explores different dimensions Marquez, Mission Ambassador at Organic Val- of this controversial concept, including such ley; Kyle Garner, CEO of Organic India USA; questions as: Does everyone have “blood Ken Lee, co-founder/co-owner of Lotus Foods. memory”? What relationship does “blood Moderated by Erin Axelrod, partner/worker- memory” have to the concept of “re-indige- owner at LIFT Economy. nizing”? And, how can the concept of blood Location: Showcase Theater memory be used to heal from trauma and connect people to their responsibility to place? Transforming Philanthropy: Moving Moderated by Alexis Bunten (Aleut) Bioneers from Charity to Redistribution Indigeneity Program Manager. With: Anita Produced in collaboration with Resource Gener- Sanchez (Aztec) author and consultant; Ilar- ation, which organizes young people with wealth ion Merculieff (Aleut); Josephine Mandamin and class privilege in the U.S. to become trans- (Anishinabe) Mother Earth Water Walkers; formative leaders working towards the equitable Jade Begay (Diné) Indigenous Rising Media distribution of wealth, land and power. and Blood Memory VR. Location: Indigenous Forum We are living in an age of massive wealth inequality. The 8 richest people in the world (all Women, Let Your Voice Lead men) own as much wealth as the poorest half The world you long for needs you to let your of the global population. Most philanthropy in voice lead. Speak and sing your truths. Declare the U.S. is a symptom of this wealth inequal- your vision. Be a rousing voice for the voiceless ity and does not address its root causes. This in the face of injustice. Come join the surge of panel features leaders who are seeking to: shift women growing our connected voices into underlying power dynamics; practice philan- instruments of life-revering pathways forward thropy as redistribution; and work across class in this dynamic, interactive/participatory session and racial divides to move money to frontline with Rachel Bagby, former member of Bobby poor and working class-led organizations McFerrin’s “Voicestra,” author of Divine Daugh- fighting for racial and economic justice. This ters: Liberating the Power and Passion of Women’s is a cross-class panel, including speakers who Voices; and Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers. have experienced poverty, and this deep and Location: Interactive & Experiential Tent transformational conversation will include voices from impacted and impactors. With Youth Leadership. Quinton Sankofa, co-owner, Sirius Creativity; Closure and Reflection “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, journalist, poet, educator, Youth have the opportunity to close out the co–founder of POOR Magazine; Rajiv Khanna, Bioneers Conference in a meaningful way. It’s Director of Philanthropic Partnerships, Thou- a moment to process emotions, questions, sand Currents; Iimay Ho, Executive Director, ideas and inspirations that have arisen over Resource Generation. Moderated by Arianne the course of the weekend, and to be better Shaffer, Director of the Indie Philanthropy equipped to bring back what they’ve learned Initiative. to their communities and social networks. Location: Sausalito Room Facilitated by Maya Carlson, Bioneers Youth Leadership Program Coordinator. Location: Youth Unity Center

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PRESENTED BY: NEXUS GLOBAL, CYCLE EFFECT AND TRIBALIZE SPONSORED BY: ABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION AND IN-KIND SPONSORS: GUAYAKI, SPICE PHARM, AND POLLIMA.

Location: Dome on the grounds 1:30 - 2:30pm: Permaculture for Disaster Recovery Hosted by Hannah Apricot Eckberg of FRIDAY 10/19 the Abundant Earth Foundation; panelists tba. 12:00 - 1:00pm: Future Casting 3:00 - 4:00pm: Making Soil Together How can we continue to evolve technologically, How to rebuild soils and communities with Josh but remain grounded in the natural world? Whiton, MakeSoil.org and Ryland Engelhart, With: Jennifer Gresham, NEXUS Seattle; Kiss The Ground / Cafe Gratitude. Nathan Walworth, NEXUS Lab on Futurism. 4:30 - 5:30pm: Free to Be Me - The LBGT+ 1:30 - 2:30pm: To Hemp or Not to Hemp? Movement Join a heart-filled discussion about the How many sectors (healthcare? construction? fash- beauties and challenges of being queer in environ- ion? food? etc.?) Will hemp impact as it becomes mental and social change movements. Hosted by increasingly legal? With: Christina Hollenbeck, Abundant Earth Foundation. Hemp/Equal Justice activist; Miranda Clendening, C3 Initiatives; Chris Lindstrom, moderator. 6:00 - 7:30pm: Re:DOME Reception Queer Ecologies! An LGBTQ Mixer. Gather in a 3:00 - 4:00pm: Relatedness: The Work of safe space to celebrate identity within the context the Tamera Community (and beyond) of our diverse and symbiotic work for justice and We’ll explore how some leading-edge communities sustainability. Hosted by the Eco-Queer Project. around the world are offering models of a saner, more sustainable culture. With: Julia Maryanska, Re/Culture Media; Lucian Tarnowski, Civana; Kate SUNDAY 10/21 Bunney, Walking Water. 12:00 - 1:00pm: Organic Governance 4:30 - 5:30pm: Toward a Regenerative How do we bring our broken democracy back to the Civilization Drawing from the recent Tribalize people? With: Jenny Johnson, Digital Director of Summit and Tribalize Mastermind events, we’ll represent.us; Aubrey Streit Krug, Ph.D. of the land explore how we can scale our best practices to institute; Ryland Engelhart, Kiss The Ground/Cafe make a significant impact on the planet at this time Gratitude; Paul Cooper, Transformation Agency. of existential risk. With: Yeshua Adonai, Systemic 1:30 - 2:30pm: Regenerative Community Innovation; Ian Michael Herbert, development con- Living With: Cassandra Ferrera, Chief Community sultant; Brad Nye, moderator, founder, Tribalize. Officer, Green Key Real Estate; Stephen Brooks, 6:00 - 7:30pm: Re:DOME Reception founder, Punta Mona Center for Regenerative Refreshments, cool tunes, elevated mingling, with Design; Michael Gosney, Managing Director, optional intentional networking/speed dating exer- Techne’ Verde. Moderated by Brad Nye, founder, cises. Hosted by Abundant Earth Foundation. Tribalize. 3:00 - 4:00pm: The B Corp Movement: From SATURDAY 10/20 Local to Global Come hear how B Lab is serving a global movement of people using business as 10:00am -12:00pm: The Anastasia a force for good. With: Ben Anderson, B Lab US/ Phenomenon The Anastasia books have spread Canada; Olivia Kronemeyer, Guayaki; others TBA. from a small corner of Russia to the entire world without any marketing. Why? With: Gabriel Lopez, 4:30 - 5:30pm: Regenerative Cannabis Anastasia USA; Wesley Wittkamper, NEXUS Agriculture How can California build a unique, Global. healthy cannabis supply chain based on small farmers, biological diversity, organics, permaculture, 12:00 - 1:00pm: Natural Time etc., and avoid the pitfalls of industrial agriculture? What can we do to live outside “linear” time? With: Zach Carson, FlowKana; Justin Calvino, With: Ruben Llanas, 13-months 28-days.info; The Mendocino Appellations Project; Christina Wesley Wittkamper, NEXUS Global. Hollenbeck, Hemp/Equal justice activist.

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Bringing Indigenous perspectives to global conversations BIONEERS’ INDIGENEITY PROGRAM shares Indigenous approaches to solving the earth’s most pressing environmental and social issues. The annual TEK Workshop and Indigenous Forum are sovereign spaces dedicated to indigenous programming at the annual Bioneers Conference. Indigenous speakers offer uniquely valuable perspectives promoting the conservation of biocultural diversity, the protection of Native lands, and indigenous human rights. The educational outreach between cultures is Native-advised and hon- ors the intellectual property and cultural privacy of Native Peoples while creating an invitational format to bridge indigenous knowledge and contemporary issues with a mainstream audience. The Bioneers Indigeneity Program warmly welcomes all people from different backgrounds, ages and walks of life to join our Indigeneity programming as relatives, friends, and allies.

INDIGENEITY PROGRAM AT-A-GLANCE Indigenous Forum (IF)

Veterans Memorial Auditorium (VMA) © REPUBLIC OF LIGHT THURSDAY 10/18: 9:00-5:00 pm: TEK Workshop: Abalone & Seaweed: Our Original Instructions for Harvesting the Ocean. (off-site) McNears Beach. FRIDAY 10/19: 9:18 am: Opening Ceremony with Vincent Medina (VMA) 12:00 pm: Beyond the Headdress with Jayden Lim (VMA) INDIGENOUS FORUM: THEME, WATER IS LIFE 1:00 pm: Native Youth Digital Storytelling Showcase, bring your lunch (IF) 2:45 pm: Abalone Wars: Indigenous Voices from the Coastal Frontlines (IF) 4:30 pm: Mni Wiconi: We Are Here to Protect Our Rivers (IF) SATURDAY 10/20: 10:15 am: Guardians of the Forest with The Ceibo Alliance. (VMA) INDIGENOUS FORUM: THEME, INDIGENOUS SOLUTIONS 1:00 pm: Lunch with Elder Tom Goldtooth, Q & A, bring your lunch (IF) 2:45 pm: Natives Just Transition to Clean Energy (IF) 4:30 pm: Beyond Sovereignty: Towards Self-Determination (IF) SUNDAY 10/21: 12:12 pm: Nihimá Nahasdzáán: Healing Women & Nature with Lyla June (VMA) INDIGENOUS FORUM: THEME, RE-INDIGENIZATION 1:00 pm: IBEX Puppetry: The Interconnectivity of Cranes, bring your lunch (IF) 2:45 pm: How To Be a Good Ally (IF) 4:30 pm: Exploring Blood Memory (IF) You can also visit our Indigenous friends and partners working towards social justice, environmental protection, education, and cultural awareness in booths and tables outside the Indigenous Forum.

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For anyone interested in participating in engaged, interactive and embodied forums. These sessions are designed to help us cultivate cultural competencies, increase our relational intelligence and help us see blind spots that often come with privilege as we seek to co-create a fully inclusive, regenerative and equitable world. Some of the sessions are intended to help us bridge differences and seed respectful collaborations; some offer insights into gender issues; some draw from the power of art to ignite change. All embody the principle so central to Bioneers of learning from nature how to heal nature (including our human nature), and each program seeks to cultivate leadership from the inside out, integrating body, heart, mind and spirit.

FRIDAY 10/19

2:45-4:15 PHOTOS: REPUBLIC OF LIGHT • Engaging Our Differences: Practice & Presence facilitated by the Center for Whole Communities (in the tent on the island) • Earth Connection Herb Walk with Kami McBride (meet at Bioneers Information Booth) • Growing Our Evolved Self: Dissolving Like a Caterpil- lar, Evolving Like a Butterfly with Polly Howells and Trebbe Johnson (meet at the Hands-on Workshop Space) 4:30-6:00 • Art, Power & Social Change with Samara Gaev and friends (in the tent on the island) SATURDAY 10/20 2:45-4:15 • Joven Noble con Palabra: A Healing Cultural Rites of Passage Model for Adolescent Males of Color with Ariel Jimenez and Ysenia Sepulveda (in the tent on the island) • Radical Environmental Activism: Finding Beauty in the Broken Places/World Café with Polly Howells, Trebbe Johnson, and host Amy Lenzo (World Café) 4:30-6:00 • Embodied Restoration: Rebalancing the Sacred Mas- culine and Feminine with Clare DuBois (in the tent on the island) SUNDAY 10/21 2:45-4:15 • Navigating Emergence: Perspectives and Practices for Responding in Real Time with Kate Sutherland (in the tent on the island) 4:30-6:00 • Women, Let Your Voice Lead with Rachel Bagby and Nina Simons (in the tent on the island) Related Book Signings at the REAL Books Store in the Exhibit Hall: SATURDAY 6:15pm—Moonrise: The Power of Women (and Men) Leading from the Heart, edited by Nina Simons and Anneke Campbell SUNDAY 4:30pm—We Can Do This: 10 Tools to Unleash Our Collective Genius by Kate Sutherland

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Thanks to the investment of the Bioneers community, our YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM has become a significant incubator for the next generation of visionary leaders. The cross-pollination that happens when youth gather to listen and learn from one another can be deeply transformative and has the potential to radically shape our future to be more inclusive, regenerative and compassionate. In addition to the Youth Leadership keynotes and afternoon sessions on restorative justice, hip hop, gender, storytelling and a poetry slam, which are listed in the main program schedule, the YLP offers the following:

COMMUNITY MANDALA—Join Aaron Ableman of Pacha’s Pajamas and Erika Minkowsky in creating a community art piece. Friday at 1:45pm | Location: Outside the Youth Unity Center COMMUNITY OF MENTORS SESSIONS—Bioneers presenters and youth engage in small group reciprocal mentoring sessions and interactive council dialogues for meaningful exchange. See schedule for times and presenter/mentor names. Friday-Sunday during workshop slots | Location: Community of Mentors YOUTH OF COLOR CAUCUS—What is the role of youth of color in environmental and social movements? The Youth of Color Caucus is a safe space and open forum where youth of color have an opportunity to sit, listen to one another and share the real issues that come with holding their identities in social and environmental movements as well as in the world at large. Facilitated by Brandi Mack. Friday at 9:30am | Location: Outside the Youth Unity Center TRASHION SHOW—Truckee High School’s Envirolution Club graces the fashion runway with designs made from recycled materials to highlight the waste of a throw-away culture. Saturday 1:50pm | Location: Central Lawn LGBTQ TALKING CIRCLE—Gather together in a space dedicated to speaking our truths and holding each other’s intersectionalities sacred, as we discuss and work through queer identities in social and environmental movements. Open discussion held by Maya Carlson. Saturday 9:30am | Location: Youth Unity Center SINGING TREE INTERACTIVE MURAL PROJECT with Laurie Marshall and youth artists. Open all weekend | Location: Outside on the Conference Grounds MEDIA CENTER with Synergia Learning Ventures. Youth produce video and audio inter- views on site. Open all weekend | Location: Youth Unity Center FILM: From Clenched Fist to Compassion, A short documentary about how Samara Gaev’s youth theater company, Truthworker, is interacting with convicted murderer Jarvis Masters, a Buddhist author, and how that relationship informs their theater work and their lives. Friday 8:35pm | Location: Showcase Theater

Other ways to make your tax-deductible gift to the Bioneers Youth Scholarship Fund: http://bit.ly/BioYouth2018

30 THINGS TO SEE AND DO

NOTE: MOST OF THESE ACTIVITIES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Change-Makers Fair Seed Exchange Explore our “village” of nonprofits and Trade open-pollinated, heirloom, traditional socially conscious companies dedicated to and organic seeds. Saturday: 6:30pm creating a better world, today! Note: This year most of our exhibitors will be indoors, in World Café the Exhibit Hall. (see page 38) Offering a series of participant-driven conversations about how we can collaborate to Art Installations shape the future by synergizing the unique curated by Polina Smith (see page 35) gifts of all generations. (see schedule pages for descriptions and speakers) Caroline Casey Unleashes her dazzling, unequaled cosmic/ Drawdown Marin comic activist storytelling skills— Sustainable Marin, Resilient Neighbor- Friday night, 9pm hoods, Marin Clean Energy, and others invite county residents to discuss how to make Tiny House Village Marin “fossil free.” Come explore livable structures made from Saturday at 2:45pm (see page 17) sustainable materials. Saturday Night Performers and Music Dance Party (see page 35) 9pm to Midnight, Exhibit Hall

Hands-On Outdoor Earth Connection Workshops Herb Walk (see daily schedule for times and With Kami McBride descriptions) Friday 2:45 (see page 8)

Silkscreening Fundraiser Growing Our Evolved Self with OXDX Outdoor session with Polly Howells and OXDX owner, designer, and artist Jared Trebbe Johnson Friday 2:45 (see page 8) Yazzie (Diné - Navajo) creates artwork that increases awareness of Native issues and Trashion Show! shows the beauty of Native culture. Join Truckee High’s Envirolution Club steals the OXDX and silkscreen a t-shirt or bring your show every year, turning trash into high fash- own cotton fabric for $30. ion with a serious environmental message. Friday through Sunday from 12pm to 6pm Saturday, lunchtime, Central Lawn (see page 37) Singing Circle NEXUS Lab Sessions With Noe Venable In The Dome Saturday 1:15pm—2:30pm (see page 13) Stimulating presentations, dynamic discus- sions and gatherings from the cutting edge, Yoga at Bioneers (see page 35) every afternoon (see page 27)

Films and Filmakers Powerful social-issue films introduced by visionary filmmakers (see page 34)

31 REALREALBOOKS BOOKS BOOKSIGNINGBOOKSIGNING SCHEDULESCHEDULE

FIND OUT ABOUT A NEW BOOK by a keynote speaker or session presenter that you can’t wait to get? Check here for book signings all weekend long, located in the REAL Books store in the Exhibit Hall. Take a look at the REAL Books poster for any additional signings.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19

4:30 pm 6:15 pm ANNEKE CAMPBELL MAY BOEVE We the People: Stories from the Fight Global Warming Now Community Rights Movement in ERIK DAVIS the US The Visionary State: A Journey Through MONICA GAGLIANO California’s Spiritual Landscape Thus Spoke the Plant ANNIE LEONARD ILARION MERCULIEFF The Story of Stuff Wisdom Keeper JASON MARK MICHAEL POLLAN Satellites in the High Country How to Change Your Mind DONIGA MARKEGARD VICTORIA SWEET Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild Slow Medicine: The Way to NICHOLAS POWERS Healing The Ground Below Zero SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20

1:30 pm 6:15 pm J.P. HARPIGNIES ERIC DINERSTEIN Visionary Plant Consciousness What Elephants Know DAY SCHILDKRET SUZAN HARJO Morning Altars Nation to Nation MELISSA NELSON 4:30 pm Original Instructions KALI AKUNO KEVIN POWELL Jackson Rising My Mother, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, GAR ALPEROVITZ And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man What Then Must We Do? ANDREW REVKIN TREBBE JOHNSON Weather: An Illustrated History Radical Joy for Hard Times NINA SIMONS MARK SCHAPIRO Moonrise: The Power of Women Seeds of Resistance: The Fight Leading from the Heart to Save Our Food Supply LINDA TUCKER Saving the White Lions SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21

4:30 pm LYNNE TWIST The Soul of Money: Transforming Your ASHTON APPLEWHITE Relationship With Money and Life This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism EDGAR VILLANUEVA Decolonizing Wealth DAPHNE MILLER Farmacology: Total Health from the pm Ground Up 6:15 TINY GRAY-GARCIA MASAMI SAIONJI Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up You Are the Universe Homeless in America KATE SUTHERLAND ANITA SANCHEZ We Can Do This: 10 Tools to Unleash The Four Sacred Gifts Our Collective Genius 32 BIOMIMICRY DESIGN AWARD © IMAGES COURTESY BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE

ASKING, “HOW WOULD NATURE DO IT?” HAS BEEN A GUIDING QUESTION for Bioneers since our founding. It’s been thrilling to watch the emergence of the field of Bio- mimicry over the past three decades. Our vision moving forward is to help seed biomimicry and biomimetic thinking as the default position for design, industry, economy and culture.

Bioneers, in partnership with the Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, is honored to be hosting the third annual Awards Ceremony for the world’s premiere biomimicry design prize, the $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Foundation Ray of Hope™ Prize.

On Saturday morning, multiple prizes will be awarded to finalist teams in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, a worldwide design competition that crowdsources nature-inspired solutions to the world’s most pressing issues. Stop by the Biomimicry Institute booth to see design models from all finalists and keep your eyes and ears open for biomimetic thinking and problem solving seeded throughout the conference programming. We’re pleased to be partnering with the Biomimicry Institute on this Global Design Challenge and additional projects moving forward. Stay tuned for more!

What is Biomimicry? © IMAGES COURTESY BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emu- lating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes and policies—new ways of living—that are well- adapted to life on Earth over the long haul.

33 FILMS AT BIONEERS 2018

STARTS at 7:00pm, FRIDAY and SATURDAY Location: Showcase Theater Screenings with introductions from the filmmakers.

SATURDAY 7pm Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis started a Scientific Revolution Excerpts from John Feldman’s new documentary about Lynn Margulis, the late genius who seeded a monumental paradigm shift in biology; introduced by John Feldman. FRIDAY 7pm Changing of the Gods Two episodes-in-progress from the forthcoming film series produced, written and co-directed by Bioneers founder Kenny Ausubel—a visionary exploration of cycles of revolution and social transformation across history based on “Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View” by Richard Tarnas; introduced by Kenny Ausubel.

8:35pm From Clenched Fist to Compassion From Clenched Fist to Compassion is a short documentary about Samara Gaev’s youth theater company Truthworker; introduced by Samara 8:20pm Walk on the Mountain

Gaev. Bioneers Conference presents Walk on the Mountain, directed by Will Gregg and Eddie Mostert, highlights the work of Junior Walk who has dedicated his life to exposing the ravages caused by the coal industry.

8:50pm Water Warriors A new short film by Michael Premo about a successful community uprising in New Brunswick, Canada, in which Indigenous and white families united to drive out an energy company to protect their water.

9:30pm The Fuller Challenge

ARTWORK BY SHANNON KUGUENKO SHANNON KUGUENKO BY ARTWORK This brand new film explores the impact and legacy of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, widely recognized as “socially responsible design’s high- October 19 • 9 pm est award.” Introduced by Elizabeth Thompson 9pm Award-Winning 2018 Short and J.P. Harpignies. Films from the Wild and Scenic Film Festival 10:10pm Open Source Stories: Some of this year’s best short films from our The Science of Collective Discovery friends and allies at the Wild and Scenic Film Fes- The story of how citizen scientists are making tival; introduced by Theresa Huck of the Wild and groundbreaking discoveries using open hardware Scenic Film Festival. For more information: www. in their own backyards. wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/2018-award-winning- films-announced/

34 ART, PERFORMANCES AND YOGA

We are excited to showcase an incredible array of artists inspired by biomimicry, ecology, social justice and community resilience (full list of participating artists at: conference.bioneers.org/art-bioneers-conference)

piece that allows us to offer our responses to © JOSUÉ RIVAS environmental and social challenges. Kelsi Anderson and Andres Amador’s Zen Playground (in the Exhibit Hall) is an interactive installation that allows participants to experience the joy of spontaneous creativity. Scheduled guided sessions: every day, Fri-Sun, 2:00-2:30pm and 4:00-4:30pm This year we are also featuring a series of Live Lunch Hour performer Shea Freedom Painters who will be lighting up the conference grounds! Watch them in action throughout the ART weekend and make a bid on their piece in the Nature Dreamweaver (aka Nate Hogen), who final auction. has traveled the world building natural art instal- PERFORMANCES lation sanctuaries that “facilitate the perception Caroline Casey, the one and only “Chief Trick- of a dream reality, manifesting heaven on earth ster” at Coyote Network News, who has been and bringing communities together” has built enrapturing audiences at Bioneers for 20 years, an original “nest” on the Bioneers grounds. presents Democratic Animism Now! Saturday Minoosh Zomorodinia, an Iranian artist living night, 9pm in the Exhibit Hall in the U.S., brings an interactive installation that Lunch Hour Music: Join us on the lawn invites us to reflect on what it means to be an for beautiful and rejuvenating music by a immigrant and a citizen living in connection to wide variety of artists. Fri-Sun, 1:00-2:30 the environment. (full schedule at: conference.bioneers.org/ Lucien Dante’s “Gargoyles” are larger-than- art-bioneers-conference#music) life beings made from wool, hair, wood, metal, Trashion Show on Saturday 2:00-2:30 (on the paint, clay and natural materials. lawn) Truckee High’s Envirolution Club’s annual Day Schildkret will create a ‘Morning Altar’ fashion show extravaganza! —a beautiful mandala made from found, natural Crescent Moon Theater presents Julia’s Trav- materials—live onsite on Friday afternoon; els on Friday at 6:15pm in the Youth Tent—vibrant and he will also sign his books on Saturday at dance, theater, music, circus arts and spirited 1:30pm at the Bookstore. storytelling. Scott Froschauer re-imagines Department of World-renowned IBEX Puppetry presents Transportation street signs in his “The Word on Harmonious Migrations, Sunday 1pm in the The Street” series. Indigenous Forum. Lucila Assumpção brings the “Pilgrim’s Dance Party, Saturday, 9:30-midnight, Exhibit Backpack,” an interactive piece that dis- Hall; with legendary all-women DJ collective, plays one-of-a-kind books and objects for soul the B-side Brujas; musical storyteller Aaron nourishment. Sat & Sun 1:30pm on the lawn. Ableman; live face painting, etc. Lindsay Carron leads us in a participatory art YOGA with Laurel van den Cline 7:30am project that speaks to the current state of Pacific Saturday and daily at 1:30pm on the Island Coast salmon, helping us see clearly their dire Give your body what it needs and put your mind condition but also helping us envision together a at ease with yoga. This 50-minute class includes far healthier healthy future for this species. yoga postures, breath work, visualization, ele- WEAD (Women’s Environmental Artist ments of flow, and surrender. Leave class feeling Directory) artists, perennial Bioneers stalwarts, energized, present, ready to better absorb and showcase artwork with a theme of reciprocity retain your Bioneers journey. with the natural world as well as an interactive

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STAGE ART © JASON ORDAZ This year’s art on the main stage was conceived of and painted by Native American artist Daniel McCoy Jr., born of Muscogee Creek and Citizen Band Potawatomi ancestry in Oklahoma. McCoy, a graduate of the prestigious Institute of Ameri- can Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, was a commercial artist as a teenager, painting everything from TV backdrops to billboards to signs and vehicles. He has since built a career as a visual storyteller painting monumental works that illustrate Creek history and modern life with the psychedelic flare of the San Francisco poster artists of the 60s (such as Rick Griffin and R. Crumb). He has developed a distinctive style and his work has been widely exhibited in Native Museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, the Daniel McCoy, Stage Artist Red Cloud Heritage Center, and The Five Civilized Tribes Museum. The stunning works McCoy has created especially for Bioneers are brilliantly hand-painted lightweight wooden sculptures depicting a wide range of animals that include land, air and water species that have symbiotic relationships to each other. McCoy enjoyed creating these one-of-a- kind sculptures that can be easily taken home and enjoyed as both fine art and as memories of the 2018 Bioneers conference.

SILENT AUCTION You can bid on these beautiful pieces in our Silent Auction in front of the Bioneers store. Come make a bid so you can take one of these beautiful painted animals back to your home or organization’s office! The proceeds are equally split between the artist and Bioneers, a wonder- ful investment in two worthy causes. The Silent Auction opens on Friday at 12 p.m. and closes on Sunday at 4:30 p.m.

36 BIONEERS LIMITED EDITION T-SHIRT Bioneers and OXDX Limited Edition t-shirt Design and Silkscreening Fundraiser Event

Bioneers is proud to announce our partnership with Jared Yazzie of OXDX, a Native American clothing design company, to design a limited edition T-shirt to commemorate the 2018 Annual Bioneers Conference. The Mission of OXDX clothing is “to preserve culture by passing on stories through art, fashion, and creative content. To be socially conscious, constantly connected to our community, and ambitious as hell.”

The T-Shirt Design depicts a Ramaytush Ohlone figure in traditional feather and shell regalia, flanked by California Indian basket designs, with San Francisco behind her, and the Pacific Ocean under her. The color scheme represents red ochre, char- coal, and white ceremonial body paints. Her heart is represented by Turtle Island, and surrounded by California native blue bell flowers and hummingbirds, who brought fire and light to the Ohlone creation story, and are a symbol of luck and hope. Her earrings showcase the OXDX logo, and, as a coastal person, she stands on the embrace of the Bioneers logo. By wearing this design, you are acknowledging and honoring San Francisco as the ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, the only living descendants of the original Indigenous peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula. The Bioneers Limited Edition T-shirt is available for purchase at the Bioneers Store in the Exhibit Hall for $50.

JARED YAZZIE has been a Bioneer since 2015, he has spoken in the Indigenous Forum and has presented as a mentor to youth attending the Bioneers Conference; and has hosted silkscreening with you during the conference. Join OXDX as Jared will be offering silk-screened original designs with youth and for general attendees at his booth on the conference grounds, throughout the weekend from 12-6 pm. You can purchase a T-shirt for $30 (supplies limited), or bring your own light colored cotton fabric scarf, or t-shirt to silkscreen for the same price. Note that this is a fundraiser, a portion of the proceeds will support Bioneers programs.

37 CHANGE-MAKERS FAIR

Come connect with organizations, nonprofit and for-profit, focused on building community and promoting sustainability, justice and a resilient world. You’ll find the Change-Makers Fair in the Exhibit Hall. It will open at noon on all three days of the conference, October 19-21, and is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

ALTER ECO HEALING HANDS RAINBOW BLISS alterecofoods.com alcochanshealinghands.com BOTANICALS rbbotanicals.com AMPCOIL/ CATHERINE HERBS AMERICA ABBY RISCH herbs-america.com RIDE-UM-GEORGE ampcoil.com rideumgeorge.com HOMEBIOGAS BEE HUNTER WINE homebiogas.com SIERRA CLUB beehunterwine.com sierraclub.org HYDROS LIFE BHOGA hydroslife.com SOLUTIONCRAFT bhoga.com solutioncraft.org MERIDIAN UNIVERSITY BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE meridianuniversity.edu STEPPING STONES PROJECT biomimicry.org steppingstonesproject.org MIT PRESS CONSERVATION CORPS mitpress.mit.edu SUN FIRST SOLAR ccnorthbay.org sunfirstsolar.com MULTIPLE THREADS DASH HEMP multiplethreads.org SYNERGY dashhemp.com synergyclothing.com NO ENEMY ENVIRONMENTAL noenemy.org TAMALPA INSTITUTE PROTECTION IN THE tamalpa.org CARRIBEAN (EPIC) NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS epicislands.org northatlanticbooks.com TRIAD OF HEALTH triadofhealth.net FOR THE WILD NUMI TEA forthewild.world numitea.com VITAL HEMP vitalhemp.com GORGEOUS GODDESSWEAR ORGANIC INDIA gorgeousgoddesswear.com organicindiausa.com WEAVING EARTH weavingearth.com GREEN CENTURY CAPITAL PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT pachamama.org WESTERN INSTITUTE Greencentury.com FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH PIXIE HONEY wisr.edu GREENHEART pixiehoneyco.com WILD AND SCENIC INTERNATIONAL PM PRESS greenheart.org FILM FESTIVAL pmpress.org wildandscenicfilm HARVEST & MILL PROGRESSIVE ASSET festival.org harvestandmill.com MANAGEMENT pamboston.com

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CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY (CCNB) Since 2000, CCNB has provided invaluable recycling and composting services at Bioneers. Nationally recognized as a leader in youth service, CCNB’s extensive job training, educational, community service and civic engagement programs help young people gain knowledge, values and skills to become exem¬plary environmental stewards. Corps members help reduce fire and flood hazards, build and maintain trails, restore wildlife habitat, collect recyclables, grow organic food, offer environmental education to school children, and provide recycling services for small and large-scale special events in Marin and Sonoma Counties. (conservationcorpsnorthbay.org)

SUSTAINABILITY IN THE KITCHEN Thanks to the commitment of Executive Chef Scott LaCrosse, the Embassy Suites kitchen recy- cles, composts and uses as much local and organic food as possible for our events. As we enjoy the bounty of such mindful efforts we remain aware of food waste and hunger. Even in affluent Marin County, there are some 50,000 food insecure people, so Bioneers works with ExtraFood. org to distribute all the appropriate unused food to those in critical need. ExtraFood.org aims to radically shift the way food and people are valued in our society. ExtraFood.org has delivered over 315,286 pounds of food to 60 nonprofits, also preventing thousands of pounds of meth- ane from entering the atmosphere.

RANDOM ACTS OF FLOWERS will be picking up the florals and reusing them.

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Aaron Ableman, an award- Gar Alperovitz, Ph.D., winning musician, artist, President of the National Center entrepreneur and author who has for Economic and Security studied with indigenous elders, Alternatives, co-founder of the Oxford scholars and notable Democracy Collaborative and spiritual leaders, has worked with many luminaries, co-chair of the Next System Project, has had a including: Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Michael Franti, distinguished career as a historian, political Cypress Hill, Raffi, Joan Baez, Nahko Bear, and economist, professor, scholar, activist, policy Vandana Shiva, amongst many others, and has expert, and government official. The author of produced a wide range of award-winning many critically acclaimed books, including on educational entertainment programs for children atomic diplomacy, his articles are widely published and youth. (aaronableman.com) in leading news outlets, and he has frequently testi- fied before Congress. (garalperovitz.com) Kali Akuno, co-founder and Co-Director of Cooperation Mitch Anderson, founder and Jackson, served as the Director of Executive Director of Amazon Special Projects in the administra- Frontlines, has spent the past 15 tion of the late, renowned years supporting the struggles of progressive Jackson, Mississippi Mayor, Chokwe indigenous peoples across the Lumumba, focusing on the development of Americas. In 2011 he moved to Ecuador to work on eco-friendly and human rights-enhancing policies in clean water projects with Indigenous communities the city. Kali also previously served as the living downriver from contaminating oil operations, Co-Director of the U.S. Human Rights Network and leading him to help support the creation of the as Executive Director of the Peoples’ Hurricane Ceibo Alliance, an indigenous movement for land, Relief Fund (PHRF). (cooperationjackson.org) life, and cultural survival in the western Amazon. (amazonfrontlines.org) Niria Alicia, born in Oregon to a migrant farm-worker family, is a Ashton Applewhite, an multi-lingual Xicana storyteller, internationally recognized expert author, educator, poet, and on ageism and a leading community organizer. With an spokesperson for a movement to academic background in environmental and Latin mobilize against discrimination American studies and non-profit administration, on the basis of age, is the author of This Chair Rocks: Nira has traveled, studied and worked on social A Manifesto Against Ageism. She also blogs justice projects throughout the Americas and at ThisChairRocks.com and runs the Yo, Is This beyond, including with Earthjustice, Our Children’s Ageist? website. Applewhite speaks widely at a wide Trust, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, Honor the range of venues that have included the TED main Earth, and Greenaction. stage and the United Nations. (thischairrocks.com)

Tere Almaguer, Environmental Kenny Ausubel, CEO and Justice Organizer for PODER founder (in 1990) of Bioneers, is (which organizes Latino an award-winning social immigrant families and youth to entrepreneur, journalist, author create locally-based, community- and filmmaker. Co-founder and led, and environmentally just solutions to problems first CEO of the organic seed company, Seeds of in San Francisco’s southeast neighborhoods) for 15 Change, his film (and companion book)Hoxsey: years, previously coordinated the Youth Leadership When Healing Becomes a Crime helped influence Program in San Francisco. Tere also works with national alternative medicine policy. He has edited the Urban Campesinx Program/Hummingbird Farm, several books and written four, including, most a public space for healthy food, herbal healing recently, Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization traditions, job training, and community empower- in the Age of Nature. (bioneers.org) ment. (podersf.org) Erin Axelrod is a partner/ worker-owner at LIFT Economy, which specializes in accelerating the spread of climate-beneficial

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businesses through such initiatives as the May Boeve is the Executive Regenerative Agriculture Investor Network (RAIN), Director of 350.org, an the Force for Good Fund and the Restorative Ocean international climate change Economies Field-Building Initiative. Erin also lives campaign whose creative and works on a grass-fed beef and land restoration communications, organizing and project, Freestone Ranch, just outside Petaluma, mass mobilizations strive to generate the sense of CA. (lifteconomy.com) urgency required to tackle the climate crisis. Previously, May cofounded the Step It Up 2007 Rachel Bagby, an award- campaign, and prior to that was active in the winning vocal and social healing campus climate movement while a student at artist with a Stanford law degree Middlebury College. She is co-author of Fight Global in social change, has mentored Warming Now. (350.org) women leaders and thousands of audience members world-wide to unleash their Cat Brooks, an “artivist,” voices as instruments of transformation. She is mother, community leader and the bestselling author of Daughterhood and Divine co-founder of the Anti Police-Ter- Daughters: Liberating the Power and Passion of ror Project, whose mission is to Women’s Voices. (rachelbagby.com) rapidly respond to and eradicate state violence in communities of color, is the Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, Executive Director of the Justice Teams Network, a former Senior Fellow at The Haas California statewide project that supports Institute for a Fair and Inclusive organizations working to radically transform the Society at UC Berkeley, is the way communities of color are policed through founder of The Bodhi Project, organizing, communications and policy. which promotes practices at the intersection of (justiceteams.org) Belonging, Organizing, Decolonizing, Health, and Interconnectedness. Sonali previously spent 13 Stephen Brooks, a Costa Rican years in government in Portland, OR, and also has resident since 1995, is one of the 20 years’ experience in dance and music perfor- key organizers of the renowned mance and 35 years’ practicing yoga and annual Envision Festival held in mindfulness. (haasinstitute.berkeley.edu) that country. He is also the founder of: Punta Mona Center of Regenerative Jade Begay (Diné and Tesuque Design & Botanical Studies; and La Ecovilla, a Pueblo), a multimedia artist, is the 45-acre, thriving community featuring state-of-the Communications and Digital art ecological technologies, inhabited by 44 Director of the Indigenous families from 25 countries, including 45 children in Environmental Network (IEN) and the community’s school. (envisionfestival.com, Senior Producer at IEN’s Indigenous Rising Media puntamona.org) project. Prior to IEN, Jade was a Multimedia Producer with 350.org and a Justice and Sustain- Ellen Brown, an attorney and ability Communications Fellow with Resource leading public banking advocate, Media. (ienearth.org) founder of the Public Banking Institute and Senior Fellow of the Brennan Blazer Bird, Garden Democracy Collaborative, is the and Sustainability Educator at author of hundreds of articles and 12+ books, Alta Vista School in San Francisco, including the best-selling Web of Debt, The Public is an ecological educator and Bank Solution and the upcoming Banking on the natural builder who has led a People. She also co-hosts the “It’s Our Money” diverse array of artistic and ecological projects radio program on PRN.FM. (ellenbrown.com, around the world. He founded the Peace On publicbankinginstitute.org) Earthbench Movement (POEM), which seeks to inspire youth to transform plastic waste into art, Alexis Bunten, Ph.D., (Aleut/ and is currently working on starting a mobile Yup’ik), Program Manager for ecological learning kitchen classroom. Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program, (earthbench.org, solutioncraft.org) has been a researcher, media-maker, manager, consultant,

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and curriculum developer for organizations Allegory poster project of the Beehive Design including the Sealaska Heritage Institute, Alaska Collective, a global arts activist collective that Native Heritage Center, and the FrameWorks translates movement stories into pen-and-ink fable Institute. She has published widely about murals. (beehivecollective.org) Indigenous and environmental issues, and is the author of So, how long have you been Native?: Life as Anneke Campbell has worked an Alaska Native Tour Guide. (bioneers.org) as a midwife, nurse, yoga teacher, English professor, poet and Marti Burbeck, director of scriptwriter. She recently communications at her local co-authored (with Thomas church for the past 18 years, is Linzey) We The People: Stories from the Community the co-driving force (with her Rights Movement in the U.S. and co-edited (with Nina husband Tom) of Burh Becc at Simons) Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from Beacon Springs, only the second Living Building the Heart and co-produced with her husband Jeremy Challenge certified “Living Building” in the world Kagan the dramatic feature film,Shot , which she when completed in 2017. The house is connected also scripted. to a permaculture farm and will serve as an educational forum in sustainable building and Maya Carlson, the new farming as well as the Burbecks’ dwelling. coordinator/facilitator of (beaconsprings.org) Bioneers’ Youth Leadership Program, has an academic Tom Burbeck, principal of a background in International software firm serving publishers Affairs and Anthropology and has worked in worldwide, drew from his lifelong environmental education, regenerative agriculture, love of architecture to co-develop youth mentorship, community organizing, and (with his wife Marti) Burh Becc at social entrepreneurship. Prior to Bioneers, Maya Beacon Springs, only the second Living Building worked as an organizer for the California Trade Challenge certified “Living Building” in the world Justice Coalition, an alliance of labor, environmen- when completed in 2017. The house is connected tal and human rights groups advocating for more to a permaculture farm and will serve as an equitable trade agreements. (bioneers.org) educational forum in sustainable building and farming as well as the Burbecks’ dwelling. Caroline W Casey, “Chief (beaconsprings.org) Trickster” at Coyote Network News (the “mythological news Shakti Butler, Ph.D., an service”) and renowned “weaver educator, filmmaker, lecturer, of context” for the immensely facilitator and trainer is the popular Visionary Activist Show on Pacifica founder and President of World Network radio for the past 23 years, has been a Trust Educational Services, Inc., presenter/performer at Bioneers for 20 years and an educational non-profit that produces films, speaks at a wide range of gatherings nationally and curricula, workshops and programs intended to be globally. She is the author of: Making the Gods Work catalysts for institutional, structural and cultural for You. (coyotenetworknews.com) change. Shakti has produced several documentaries, including: The Way Home; Mirrors of Privilege: Mohamad A. Chakaki, a Senior Making Whiteness Visible; Cracking the Codes: The Fellow at both the Center for System of Racial Inequity, and, most recently, Heal- Whole Communities and the ing Justice. (world-trust.org) Environmental Leadership Program and a co-founder of the Orion Camero, a queer visual DC Green Muslims Network, has worked with the storytelling educator, coalition- Peace Corps in Central Africa, the U.N. in Syria, and builder and community organizer, numerous environmental planning and community works at the nexus of social, development projects in the U.S. and in the Middle ecological, and economic issues East. (wholecommunities.org) to advance intersectional justice. A Filipinx two-spirit with roots in California’s Central Valley, Orion is one of the stewards of the California

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Edna Chavez, an 18-year old and 11,000 miles around the U.S. on a bus running activist from South Central Los on recycled vegetable oil, presenting alongside Angeles and an entering freshman powerhouses such as Vandana Shiva, Angela Davis, at Cal State LA, has lost many Alicia Keys, and Alice Walker, in venues ranging friends and family member to gun from the UN to Harvard to Riker’s Island Prison. violence. She was a key participant in the March for (www.climbingpoetree.com) Our Lives event and has become a leading gun control advocate and student voter registration Karen Cowe, MBA, the CEO of organizer. Ten Strands, a San Francis- co-based nonprofit dedicated to Shilpi Chhotray is the Senior bringing environmental literacy to Communications Officer for the all of California’s 6.2 million K–12 Break Free From Plastic global students, is also Project Director of its Environmen- movement. Prior to joining Break tal Literacy Steering Committee. An Free From Plastic, Shilpi worked education-industry executive with 25+ years’ at Mission Blue/Sylvia Earle Alliance building public experience, she was formerly President/CEO at Key support for global networks of marine protected Curriculum Press. (tenstrands.org) areas. She’s also the founder of Samudra Skin & Sea, a plant-based skincare line featuring wild Emergildo Criollo, a member harvested, local seaweed. (breakfreeformplastic.org) of the Kofán nation whose people and family suffered horrific Peggy Chu, a San Francis- tragedy as a result of the Texaco co-based licensed architect and oil company’s devastation of their Biomimicry Professional ancestral lands, co-founded the Ceibo Alliance specializing in sustainable design, along with members of three other indigenous is a dynamic advocate for and nations. Currently Treasurer of the alliance, workshop leader in Biomimicry practices, as well as Emergildo is working tirelessly to build a united a green building certification consultant and indigenous movement for cultural survival and university researcher in the life cycle analysis of territorial protection in the western Amazon. building construction methods. Peggy’s architec- (amazonfrontlines.org/who/partners/) tural work includes integrating green building practices into international projects throughout Patrisse Cullors, a Los Angeles the Asia Pacific region. native artist, organizer and scholar who, in 2013, co-founded Dekila Chungyalpa, Associate #BlackLivesMatter, which has Research Scientist at the Yale grown into an international School of Forestry and Environ- organization with dozens of chapters fighting mental Studies (and McCluskey anti-Black racism, has won many awards including Fellowship awardee) is an The Sydney Peace Prize Award (2017) and Black influential environmental leader and pioneer in Woman of the Year Award (2015) from The bridging the worlds of religion and conservation. National Congress of Black Women. She recently Born in Sikkim, Dekila has over 15 years’ produced a series of theatrical pieces: Power: From experience in conservation work, starting in her the Mouths of the Occupied. (patrissecullors.com) own Himalayan region, then launching the World Wildlife Fund’s Sacred Earth initiative, which seeks Anna Cummins, co-founder and to create faith-based environmental stewardship Global Strategy Director of the 5 across the world. (environment.yale.edu) Gyres Institute, a non-profit dedicated to ending plastic Climbing PoeTree (Alixa Garcia pollution, has 20+ years’ and Naima Penniman) are experience in environmental activism, including in: award-winning multimedia artists, marine conservation, coastal watershed manage- organizers, educators and a ment, community relations, and bilingual spoken word duo who have sustainability education. Her “Synthetic Sea, independently organized 30 tours, taking their Synthetic Me” TEDx talk has been viewed and work from South Africa to Cuba, the UK to Mexico, shared by thousands. (5gyres.org)

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Carrie “Cc” Sage Curley, climate justice organization. Deranger, who raised and residing in San Carlos/ previously spent 6 years building-up the highly Peridot, Arizona, is an artist successful international Indigenous Tar Sands specializing in live painting, campaign, has become widely known as one of the murals, and commissioned work. world’s most effective organizers and coalition She is also an arts educator and workshop leader builders to defend Indigenous people’s rights focused on mentoring young people as well as an locally, nationally and globally. activist in the effort to save the sacred “Apache (indigenousclimateaction.com) Stronghold” at Oak Flat from desecration at the hands of the mining industry. The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company Malkia A. Cyril, founder/ (DAYPC), a program of Destiny Executive Director of the Center Arts Center, an Oakland-based for Media Justice and co-founder violence prevention/arts of the Media Action Grassroots education nonprofit, is a multicultural group of Network, is one of few leaders of teens that creates original performance art color in the movement for digital rights and combining hip-hop, dance, theater, martial arts, freedom, as well as a leader in the Black Lives song, and rap. The company has performed locally Matter Network. Cyril is also a prolific writer and and nationally since 1993 and has been the subject public speaker on issues ranging from net of two documentary films. DAYPC’s artistic neutrality to the communication rights of directors are Sarah Crowell & Rashidi Omari. prisoners. (centerformediajustice.org) (destinyarts.org)

Erik Davis, Ph.D., a San Leonard Diggs manages SRJC Francisco-based author, Shone Farm, a 365-acre award-winning journalist and self-sustaining college farm that independent scholar, has written has annual and perennial crops, a for scores of publications, journals, winery, livestock and a mixed and academic volumes. His books include: species forest. Leonard has been farming diversified Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica; organic and sustainable crops, including heirloom Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of grains, in northern California for 30+ years and has Information, and The Visionary State: A Journey also volunteered on numerous agricultural Through California’s Spiritual Landscape. Erik also committees and boards and has taught a wide explores the “cultures of consciousness” on his range of agricultural classes. (shonefarm. weekly podcast, Expanding Mind. (techgnosis.com) santarosa.edu)

Gopal Dayaneni, a dedicated Abigail Dillen, an attorney, Vice activist since the 1980s with President of Litigation for Climate experience in a wide range of & Energy at Earthjustice, the U.S’s movements and struggles, original and largest nonprofit currently serves on the planning environmental law organization, committee of Movement Generation’s Justice and leads its litigation and legal advocacy efforts to Ecology Project; is a trainer with The Ruckus achieve the shift from fossil fuels to 100% clean Society; and serves on the boards of: The Center energy. Formerly Managing Attorney of Earthjus- for Story-based Strategy, The Working World, ETC- tice’s coal program, she has litigated many high group.org, and Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. profile, precedent-setting cases. (earthjustice.org) (movementgeneration.org) Eric Dinerstein studied rhinos Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, and tigers in Nepal and fruit bats a Denesuline Indigenous activist, in Costa Rica during his 25 years member of the Athabasca as Chief Scientist at the World Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) of Wildlife Fund. Currently Director Alberta, Canada, is Executive of WildTech and the Biodiversity and Wildlife Director and co-founder of Indigenous Climate Solutions Program at RESOLVE and Senior Science Action (ICA), Canada’s premier Indigenous-led Advisor to the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Leonard also works in Africa on poaching prevention

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projects and is the author of the middle-grade Post as Silicon Valley Correspondent, becoming the novel, What Elephants Know. (resolv.org) paper’s eyes and ears in the region and in the wider world of tech. (washingtonpost.com) Zachary Draves, a student at Illinois’ Aurora University and a Alexander Eaton, the Mexico Domestic Violence Community City-based co-founder of Sistema. Educator in suburban Chicago, is bio, a social business addressing a community activist involved climate change, food security, with several local groups, including: Indivisible and poverty around the world by Aurora, the Aurora Immigration Liberation Alliance, providing technology development, training, and and the Aurora Human Rights Commission. He also financing of sustainable waste-to-resources chairs the Subcommittee on Race in College infrastructure for small farmers, is an Ashoka Athletics and blogs for the National Association of Fellow and a Switzer Environmental Leadership Social Workers in Sports website. Fellow who holds degrees in journalism and environmental engineering. (sistemabiobolsa.com) Kristy Drutman, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, is currently a Tom Elliott, an early advocate of California Digital Campaigner sustainable agriculture and with 350.org. A mixed race organic farming practices on his Filipina American and environmen- Montana cattle ranch, is also a tal activist passionate about increasing diversity green building pioneer, having and inclusion in the movement, she co-founded the co-built (with his former wife) the first residence in Students of Color Environmental Collective at UC the world to achieve full certification under the Berkeley and created her own podcast and media Living Building Challenge. He has been involved in series, Brown Girl Green. (350.org) the effort to understand and encourage sustainable and regenerative community practices for over Clare Dubois is the founder of thirty years. (desertrainhouse.com) TreeSisters.org, a women’s reforestation and culture-change John Feldman, the Director of organization dedicated to Symbiotic Earth (portions of which humanity’s emergence as a are being screened at Bioneers “restorer species.” For 22 years she has been this year), is a critically acclaimed facilitating body-based, experiential sessions filmmaker whose career spans designed to help participants shift consciousness 40+ years and a wide range of genres. An avid and experience their interconnectedness with naturalist, he met Lynn Margulis when he was nature, the root of balanced leadership and action. making EVO: Ten Questions Everyone Should Ask (treesisters.org) about Evolution. His many award-winning films include: Who the Hell is Bobby Roos?; Dead Funny; Della Duncan, an economist and Alligator Eyes. (hummingbirdfilms.com) committed to using that discipline to support individuals, Barbara Fields, Ph.D., is organizations, and communities Executive Director of The seeking to transition to a more Association for Global New sustainable and just world, is a partner of the Thought. Co-founder and Project Eurasia Learning Institute, a Gross National Director of The Gandhi King Happiness trainer, a lecturer at the Economics for Seasons for Peace and Nonviolence, the Synthesis Transition Masters program at Schumacher Dialogues I, II, and III with His Holiness the Dalai College, and the host of the Upstream Podcast. Lama, and omni-local initiatives for the Har- (elihw.org, upstreampodcast.org) vard-based Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East, she previously served as Program Director for Elizabeth Dwoskin has been the Parliament of the World’s Religions. (agnt.org) reporting from Silicon Valley since 2013. She was the Wall Street Joshua Sheridan Fouts, Journal’s first full-time beat reporter Bioneers Executive Director, is a covering big data and artificial globally recognized media inno- intelligence. In 2016, she joined The Washington vator and social entrepreneur

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known for his visionary work facilitating meaningful Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, understanding between cultures. With a background CEO of the Latino Community in anthropology, Joshua has worked with peoples of Foundation (LCF), has, at LCF, Malaysia, Africa, and the Amazon, governments and helped create one of the largest universities in over 20 countries, and innovators and networks of civically engaged engaged citizens worldwide. (bioneers.org) Latino philanthropists in the country, led highly effective Latino voter engagement campaigns and Cooper Freeman, Program collaborated with Google to launch the first Latino Manager at the Occidental Arts Non-Profit Accelerator. Previously Vice President of and Ecology Center (OAEC), the New York State Health Foundation, Jacqueline studied Environmental History at has served on many boards and currently co-chairs UC Santa Barbara, Agro-ecology the National Latino Funds Alliance. (latinocf.org) with Vandana Shiva in India, and Permaculture Design at OAEC. His recent projects include Kyle Garner is CEO of Organic co-leading the passage of a California law legalizing India USA, a leading mission-driv- seed exchanges, working with the largest peasant en manufacturer of herb-based movement in Haiti on seed sovereignty, and wellness teas and functional leading the Evolutionary Wheat Breeding Project at herbal supplements that is a OAEC. (oaec.org) certified B Corporation dedicated to Fair Trade practices and the highest ethical standards. He Danielle Fugere J.D. is formerly served as CEO of New Chapter, Inc., the President and Chief Counsel of As first supplement brand to achieve full line You Sow, the nation’s leading non-GMO project verification, leading it in its non-profit organization seeking successful effort to achieve B Corp certification. “to harness shareholder power to (organicindiausa.com) create lasting change that benefits people, planet, and profit.” Danielle was previously Executive Jodie Geddes, the Community Director of the Environmental Law Foundation and Organizing Coordinator at before that Western Regional Program Director for Restorative Justice for Oakland Friends of the Earth. (asyousow.org) Youth, uses techniques drawn from speculative fiction, theatre, Samara Gaev, founder/Director and other arts to encourage storytelling and action of Truthworker Theatre Company planning for systems-change among youth. She is and Senior Fellow in Program also the Project Coordinator for the Truth-Telling Design and Facilitation for Center Racial Healing and Reparations Mapping Initiative, for Whole Communities, is a New which seeks to create a Truth and Reconciliation York-based activist, educator, facilitator, and process to address violence against African performer whose work has taken her to many Americans. (rjoyoakland.org) countries and around the U.S. using performance as a tool for cross-cultural healing, social change, Hilary Giovale is a 9th and to challenge constructions of power and generation American settler of privilege. (truthworker.com) Scots-Irish and Scandinavian descent whose work is shaped by Monica Gagliano, a pioneer in her relationships with Indigenous the new field of Plant Bioacous- people and worldviews and who is committed to tics, is a Research Associate healing historical divides. A mother, dancer, writer, Professor in Evolutionary Ecology filmmaker and philanthropist, she lives rooted in and a Research Affiliate at the family and community at the base of a mountain Sydney Environment Institute at the University of sacred to 13 tribes on the land now known as Sydney. The author of numerous groundbreaking Flagstaff, Arizona. (bellyroles.com) scientific articles on animal and plant behavior and evolutionary ecology, she co-edited The Green Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Executive Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal and authored the Director of the Minnesota-head- upcoming: Thus Spoke the Plant: Remarkable quartered Indigenous Encounters at the Frontier where Scientific Insight and Environmental Network, a social Plant Wisdom Meet. (monicagagliano.com) change activist for 36+ years,

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globally recognized as an environmental and genius and personal relationship to creativity via a climate justice leader, works with Indigenous deep connection to the earth. (weavingearth.com) communities around the world to help them defend their rights and has launched a campaign to Lauren Dalberth Hage, apply traditional Indigenous knowledge to help co-founder/Director of the humanity make the transition from an extractive, Weaving Earth Center for destructive economy to a sustainable, “living Relational Education, is a economy.” (ienearth.org, indigenousrising.org) designer, facilitator, wilderness guide and consultant who leads a variety of adult, Lisa Gray-Garcia (aka “Tiny”), teen and family programs that weave together at one time un-housed and deep nature connection, community resilience, incarcerated, is a journalist, poet, permaculture, and social justice. Lauren also works educator and co–founder of: with communities to support the honoring of life POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE; transitions, with a special focus on the reclamation Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool; the Deecolonize of a healthy cultural relationship to menstruation. Academy; and a number of other projects. (weavingearth.com) Co-editor of A Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution, she is the author of Criminal of Poverty: Rachel Hahs is a Certified Growing Up Homeless in America as well as 200+ Biomimicry Professional focused stories and blogs on racism, poverty, and incarcer- on driving life-centered, ation. (poormagazine.org, lisatinygraygarcia.com) economically sound, sustainable design solutions in strategy, Teo Grossman, Senior Director innovation and systems. Building on 13 years’ of Programs and Research at experience in sustainability consulting for public Bioneers, previously worked on a and private sector clients, she consults, researches range of projects from federal and writes about how Biomimicry can result in range management to state-level disruptive innovations with cascading system assessments of long-range planning to applied impacts that will accelerate our transition to a research on topics including climate change sustainable future. (rachelhahs.com) adaptation, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and ecological networks. A Doris Duke Conservation Staci K. Haines, founder Fellow during graduate school, Teo holds an MS in of “Generative Somatics” and a Environmental Science & Management from national leader in bringing UC-Santa Barbara. (bioneers.org) transformative practice to serve social and environmental justice Nick Guroff, the Deputy movements, has integrated her extensive Director of Communications and experience in Somatics, social movements, and Foundation Relations at the NGO, transforming individual and social trauma into Corporate Accountability, began uniquely powerful work. She is the author of his advocacy work as a Field Orga- Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual nizer for Green Corps, a Field Manager with Trauma and numerous articles. (strozziinstitute.com) MoveOn PAC, and as the California organizer for the National Environmental Trust (NET), where he Diana Hammer, whose life effectively advocated for the passage of landmark mission is to help create resilient children’s environmental health protections. He has communities, locally attuned and a background in Radio/TV/Film, Slavic Languages well adapted to their place, serves and Journalism. (corporateaccountability.org) on Arizona State University’s Biomimicry Center Advisory Board, and is an EPA Dave Hage, co-founder of the Life Scientist working with tribal governments, Weaving Earth Center for including on a major dam removal and river Relational Education (WE) helps restoration project. Also active in her hometown in lead the center’s 9-month Montana, she serves on her city’s Conservation immersion program and various Committee. (biomimicrycollaborative.org) other programs for adults and teens, as well as providing group and individual mentoring. He is passionate about helping others find their unique

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Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, is a & Hodulgee Muscogee), President facilitator and teacher working at the convergence of The Morning Star Institute and of healing, individual and collective transformation, columnist for Indian Country community empowerment, and political organiz- Today, is a globally renowned, ing. (prentishemphill.com) multi award-winning (including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian Iimay Ho, Executive Director of honor) poet, writer, lecturer, curator, activist, and Resource Generation (which policy advocate who, since the 1960s, has worked “organizes young people with tirelessly to help Native Peoples protect sacred wealth and class privilege in the places, recover a million+ acres of land and defend U.S. to become transformative their sovereignty and cultures. leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power”), was previously Jay Harman, an entrepreneur Director of Operations and Finance at The who has developed a number of Management Center. Active in the Washington, DC successful companies, is queer Asian American community, Ilmay helped President and CEO of Pax organize the region’s first grassroots queer Asian Scientific. Earlier in his career he American giving circle. (resourcegeneration.org) founded and led ERG Australia Ltd, which he took to a highly successful IPO. Harman, who has Dean Hoaglin, a descendant of extensive experience in technology licensing and is the Hukuiko band of Coast the author of numerous patents, is the author of Miwoks of Marin County and the The Shark’s Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Big Valley Band of Pomos of Lake Inspiring Innovation. (paxscientific.com, theshark- County on his maternal side and spaintbrush.com) Mendocino Wailakis and Yukis on his paternal side, trained in traditional teachings and practices by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Senior family elders from a young age, is currently a Producer, affiliated with Bioneers private consultant working to share the benefits of since 1990, is a Brooklyn, Indigenous cultural restoration. NYC-based consultant, conference producer, copy-editor and Polly Howells, a former board writer. A former Program Director at the New York chair of Bioneers, is a facilitator Open Center and a senior review team member for for the Pachamama Alliance’s the Buckminster Fuller Challenge from 2010 to “Awakening the Dreamer 2017, he has authored or edited several books, symposium” and is a core including Political Ecosystems, Delusions of Normality, member of Woodstock NY Transition. She trained Visionary Plant Consciousness, and, most recently, for ten years with Jungian Analyst Marion Animal Encounters. Woodman and she co-leads a five-day yearly retreat for women called “Reclaiming Our Lives, Reclaim- Trathen Heckman, founder/ ing Our Earth.” She is currently on the board of Director of the NGO, Daily Acts Radical Joy for Hard Times. (reclaimingourlives.com) (dedicated to “helping people and groups reclaim the power of their Theresa Huck, the On-Tour actions to regenerate self, nature Sales Manager of the Wild and and community”), serves on the boards of Scenic Film Festival (WSFF), is a Transition U.S. and the California Water Efficiency social entrepreneur who Partnership and is on the advisory board of the combines her passion for the Norcal Community Resilience Network. Trathen environment with extensive experience in sales, lives in the Petaluma River Watershed where he business management and public relations. A grows food and medicine. (dailyacts.org) number of the WSFF’s 2018 winning short films are being shown at Bioneers this year. (wildandsce- Prentis Hemphill, formerly the nicfilmfestival.org) Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter and currently a teacher of Somatics with the groups Generative Somatics and

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Jada Imani, an Oakland, worked for the last decade in the Native nonprofit CA-based workshop facilitator, sector, engaging key stakeholders in philanthropy MC, and founder of the Tatu in Indian Country and beyond. (narf.org) Vision movement, is dedicated to helping co-create regenerative Trebbe Johnson, founder/ communities through her performing, event Director of Radical Joy for Hard production and hosting, healing practice, and Times, a global network devoted coalition-building with communities of poets, to finding beauty in wounded Hip-Hop aficionados, entrepreneurs and Permacul- places, leads workshops and ture practitioners. (facebook.com/TatuVision/) wilderness trips worldwide devoted to the discovery of wisdom and insight in nature. She is Rob Jackson, an Oakland-based the author of: Radical Joy for Hard Times, 101 Ways community leader, educator, and to Make Guerrilla Beauty, and The World Is a Waiting hip-hop artist with 20 years’ Lover. (radicaljoyforhardtimes.org) experience working in the social service field, is founder and Wendy Johnson, a Zen Executive Director of Beats, Rhymes and Life, Buddhist meditation and organic which pioneered one of the first hip hop therapy agriculture practitioner and programs for at-risk youth. He speaks regularly at teacher for 40+ years, co-founded conferences and offers trainings and workshops the organic farming program at about best practices developed by Beats, Rhymes Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, advised the now and Life. (brl-inc.org) renowned Edible Schoolyard Project, and was a founding instructor of the College of Marin’s Charlie Jiang, a U.S. policy Organic Farm and Gardening Project. The writer of analyst at the Environmental a multiple award-winning gardening column in Defense Fund (EDF) who Tricycle Magazine since 1995, Wendy is the author advocates for just climate of Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate. (gardeningatthe- solutions at the state and federal dragonsgate.com) level, was a key SustainUS youth delegate to the 2017 U.N. climate negotiations. Charlie organizes Lyla June is a poet, musician, locally for climate justice in Washington, DC with anthropologist, educator, public 350 DC and received a 2017 Brower Youth Award speaker and community organizer for co-leading a #NoDAPL divestment campaign in of Diné, Cheyenne and European DC. (edf.org) lineages who has addressed audiences across the globe with a message of Ariel Jimenez, born in Mexico personal, collective and ecological healing. She but raised in East San Jose, was blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, able to overcome many barriers to graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the graduate from San Jose State traditional worldview she grew up with to inform with a double major in Psychology her perspectives and solutions. (dreamwarriors.co) and Sociology in 2013. Ariel currently serves as the Network and Program Coordinator for the National Jeremy Kagan, an award- Compadres Network, bringing culturally relevant winning, internationally services to marginalized young and adult men in recognized director, writer, and historically disenfranchised but promising producer of feature films and communities. (nationalcompadresnetwork.org) television, is a tenured professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and runs its Michael Johnson is the Change Making Media Lab. Jeremy has directed 12 Colorado-based Assistant Director features including his most recent, Shot. His past of Development at the Native films include: Heroes, The Big Fix, The Chosen and The American Rights Fund, a Journey of Natty Gann. Jeremy’s many awards non-profit that uses existing laws include the Humanitas Award and an Emmy. and treaties to ensure that governments live up to (cmml-usc.org) their legal obligations. A citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota, Michael has

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Elizabeth and Paul Kaiser David Kroodsma, the Research jointly operate Singing Frogs Farm Director at Global Fishing Watch, in Sebastopol, CA. They drew manages collaborations with 11 from their background in tropical institutions to use big data and agro-forestry, natural resource machine learning to answer management and public health in West Africa, critical questions about marine biology, economics, Central America and Northern California, to and policy. David also spent three years of his life develop Singing Frogs Farm’s innovative, traveling by bicycle and described his journey in his multi-award winning intensive, no-till, ecological award-winning 2014 book, The Bicycle Diaries: My management system, a highly successful model 21,000-mile ride for the climate. they are now teaching locally and internationally. (globalfishingwatch.org) (singingfrogsfarm.com) Melina Laboucan-Massimo Jonas Ketterle, after a (Lubicon Cree), a Fellow at the life-changing encounter with David Suzuki Foundation and chocolate making in Oaxaca, vocal advocate for Indigenous founded the bean-to-bar dark rights and environmental justice chocolate company Firefly for 15+ years, was formerly a Climate and Energy Chocolate in 2014 to inspire awe and wonder Campaigner with Greenpeace Canada and the through cacao. Previously an “Imagineer” at Indigenous Environmental Network. Melina also Greenlight Planet and engineering lead at Fenix works on the issue of murdered and missing Indige- International who provided affordable solar energy nous women in Canada and serves on the board or to rural customers, Jonas has extensive back- steering committee of: 350.org; Indigenous grounds in Mechanical Engineering (Stanford), Climate Action; Energy Futures Lab, and Seeding Permaculture (Regenerative Design Institute) and Sovereignty. (lubiconsolar.ca) eco-villages and co-housing. (fireflychocolate.com) Osprey Orielle Lake, founder/ Rajiv Khanna is the Director of Executive Director of the Philanthropic Partnerships at Women’s Earth and Climate Thousand Currents, a social Action Network International, justice-oriented non-profit that works with grassroots and funds grassroots groups led by Indigenous leaders, policy-makers and scientists to women, youth, and Indigenous peoples in the promote climate justice, resilient communities, and Global South. His many responsibilities include: a just transition to a clean energy future. Osprey strategy development and execution, resource serves on the Executive Committee of the Global mobilization, building solidarity-based learning Alliance for the Rights of Nature, co-directs the partnerships with grassroots groups in the Global Divest/Invest/Protect Campaign and authored the South, and overseeing donor engagement. award-winning, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting (thousandcurrents.org) Culture with Nature. (wecaninternational.org)

Amy Korngiebel, the Director Deb Lane has been playing the of Distribution for the progressive drums for most of her life. documentary company, Brave Formerly a member of the Santa New Films, has 10+ years’ Cruz World Beat Band, Pele Juju, experience in television and has she performs with artists produced Emmy and Peabody award-winning throughout the Bay Area and beyond. In addition documentaries and talk shows for a variety of to her musical endeavors, Deb is a leader in networks, including ABC, Discovery, and National water-use efficiency and works as a Water Geographic. Amy also has a background in Resources Analyst. international development, including work at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and John Lanier is the Executive with UCP Wheels for Humanity. (bravenewfilms.org) Director of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, a private family foundation created and funded by its namesake, the late environ-

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mental champion and founder of Interface, Inc. also serves as a SustainUS Youth Delegate and was Through his work with the Foundation, John carries a People’s Delegate to the UN Climate Talks. his grandfather’s legacy forward, seeking to create (leadtolife.org) a healthier, more environmentally sustainable world for Tomorrow’s Child. (raycandersonfoundation.org) Amy Lenzo seeks to foster conscious online engagement in Timothy J. LaSalle, Ph.D., ways that connect us with co-founder and Co-Director of the ourselves, each other, and the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative natural world in her work with at CSU Chico and Professor weDialogue and the World Cafe. She has served as Emeritus at California Polytechnic Director of Learning Programs and Community University, was formerly President/CEO of the Steward for the World Cafe Community Foundation California Agriculture Leadership Program. His past since 2004. (wedialogue.com; theworldcafe.com) positions included: first CEO of the Rodale Institute; Executive Director of the Allan Savory Annie Leonard, a longtime Center for Holistic Management; and Research dedicated activist, is the Coordinator for the Howard Buffett Foundation in Executive Director of Greenpeace Africa, focusing on soils and food security. USA, which uses research, (csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/aginitiative/) communication, non-violent direct action and people-power to advance Raquel Lavina, Deputy Director environmental solutions. She is also the world-re- of the National Domestic nowned creator of The Story of Stuff, the highly Worker’s Alliance (“the nation’s influential web-film exposing the massive hidden leading voice for dignity and costs of our consumer-driven culture that has fairness for the millions of generated 40 million+ views in 200+ countries, one domestic workers in the U.S.”), has 25+ years’ of the most viral online environmental-themed organizing experience, including as: a specialist in films to-date. (greenpeace.org) youth organizing; Deputy Director of Social Justice Leadership at the Ella Baker Center for Human Jayden Lim (Pomo), a high Rights; a teacher of generative somatics and a school senior skilled in GIS board member of the Generative Somatics software, business planning, and organization. (domesticworkers.org) Pomo language documentation (and also a DJ since age 11!), Kenneth Lee, co-founder/ serves as a Tribal Youth Ambassador (TYA) for the co-owner Lotus Foods, Inc., a California Indian Museum and Cultural Center. natural foods company that Jayden spoke at the Obama White House ceremony pioneered the introduction of honoring the TYA program and is currently working heirloom, organic and specialty to make California switch Columbus Day to Indige- rice varietals to U.S. consumers, has developed nous Peoples Day. (cimcc.org) extensive personal and capacity-building relationships with the company’s suppliers Waniya Locke, of Ahtna Dene, throughout the world. He is a founding member of Dakota, Lakota and Anishinaabe the Whole Grain Council, a member of Social ancestry, is a LLEAP Student from Venture Network and participated in the 2008 Sitting Bull College and the Clinton Global Initiative’s poverty alleviation track. University of South Dakota. A (lotusfoods.com) mother of three who currently resides on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, she has been a Kyle Lemle, founder and practicing Doula for two years and has been studying Co-Director of the Oakland-based the Lakota language, Lakotiyapi, for 8 years. musical ensemble, Thrive Choir, is a community forester, musician Brandi Mack, an Oakland, and Environmental Justice CA-based holistic health educator, organizer. He also co-founded LeadtoLife.org, massage therapist, and which transforms guns into shovels used in Permaculture designer, has ceremonial tree plantings at sites impacted by worked in holistic health and violence in Oakland, Atlanta and other cities. Kyle ecological sustainability with youth and adults for

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15+ years. She is currently National Director of The Line and Exploring Wild Law: The Philosophy of Earth Butterfly Movement and serves on the boards of: Jurisprudence. (celdf.org) Northern America Permaculture Magazine, Northern California Resilience Network, and Jason Mark, the Editor-in-Chief Northern California Women in Permaculture. of Sierra (the national magazine (brandimack.com, thebutterflymovement.com) of the Sierra Club), has written for many leading publications Conrad MacKerron, Senior including: The NY Times, The Vice President at As You Sow, a Nation, and ScientificAmerican.com, and is author of non-profit promoting corporate the book, Satellites in the High Country: Searching for social responsibility, has 10+ the Wild in the Age of Man. Jason also co-founded San years’ experience managing share- Francisco’s largest urban farm. (sierramagazine.org) holder advocacy initiatives on social and environmental issues, including: sustainable Doniga Markegard, author of packaging, electronic waste recycling, and supply Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom chain labor practices. Formerly Director of Social of the Wild, has extensive Research at Piper Jaffray Philanthropic & Social backgrounds in wildlife tracking, Investment Consulting, he is the author of: Business wilderness survival and Permacul- in the Rainforests: Corporations, Deforestation and ture. She is a leading “regenerative rancher” who, Sustainability. (asyousow.org) with her husband and children, owns and manages Markegard Family Grass-Fed LLC, which leases over Grandmother Josephine 10,000 acres of Bay Area lands, using practices Mandamin (Wikwemikong/ that build soil, sequester carbon, capture and Anishinaabe), Commissioner of purify water, enhance wildlife habitat, and the Women’s Water Commission revitalize communities. (markegardfamily.com) for the Anishinabek Nation, has 30+ years’ experience fighting for her people’s Theresa Marquez, a passionate rights. One of the founders of the Great Lakes advocate for organic food and Mother Earth Water Walk, she has, since 2003, farming since 1978, a pioneer of walked around the five Great Lakes with her the natural foods movement, supporters to raise awareness of the critical state served 17 years as Organic Valley of the region’s waters. (motherearthwaterwalk.com) Cooperative’s Chief Marketing Executive, 5 years as its Mission Executive, and recently became its Arty Mangan, Bioneers’ Mission Ambassador. A host of the Rootstock Radio Restorative Food Systems podcast, Theresa continually advocates for good Director, joined Bioneers in 1998 food and farming excellence. (organicvalley.coop) as Project Manager for the Restorative Development Rupa Marya, M.D., Associate Initiative. A former board president of the Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Ecological Farming Association and member of the Faculty Director of the Do No Santa Cruz GE Subcommittee that banned GE Harm Coalition and a leading crops, Arty has worked with farmers and figure at the intersection of agriculture since 1978, first as a partner in Live medicine and social justice, investigates the health Juice and later with Odwalla, where he was in effects of police violence on communities through charge of fruit sourcing. (bioneers.org) The Justice Study and is helping set up the Mni Wiconi free community clinic under Lakota Mari Margil, Associate Director leadership at Standing Rock. She is also the leader of the Community Environmental of the internationally touring band, Rupa and the Legal Defense Fund, leads the April Fishes. (donoharmcoalition.org) organization’s International Center for the Rights of Nature. Izumi Masukawa, Ph.D., a She assisted Ecuador in drafting Rights of Nature native of Japan with a doctorate constitutional provisions and works today in Nepal, in nutrition and bio-electronics India, Colombia and other countries to advance the from Michigan State, was Rights of Nature. She has contributed to several formerly Director of the American books, including: The Public Health or the Bottom Micro Cluster Lab, where she researched unique

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methods of water treatment, such as electromag- Trevino (Rumsen Ohlone) co-founded Mak-‘amham, netic resonance. Currently focused on studying the an organization and restaurant focused on reviving mysteries of sounds, she has authored several and strengthening traditional Ohlone foods and books including Life Tuning. sharing them back with their communities. Vincent was born and continues to live in his family’s Leah Mata Fragua (yak tittyu indigenous tribal area of Halkin (Southern Oakland/ tittyu Northern Chumash) is a San Leandro/San Lorenzo). (makamham.com) consultant, artist, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Ilarion Merculieff, who served American Indian Arts. Her work is his people, the Bering Sea’s Unan- focused on projects that aim to give greater voice gan (Aleut), and other indigenous and visibility to her tribal community and that seek peoples locally, nationally, and to find creative ways to sustain traditional arts. internationally in a wide range of (iaia.edu) major leadership capacities for 40+ years, is currently President of Seven Generations Kami McBride, author of The Consulting and of the Global Center for Indigenous Herbal Kitchen, has taught Leadership and Lifeways. Ilarion recently chaired experiential herbal programs the indigenous knowledge sessions at the Global focused on sustainable wellness Summit of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change. practices and revitalizing our (gcill.org/larry-merculieff) relationship with the plant world for over 25 years. Her popular online courses empower people to use Natalie Metz, Assistant herbal medicine in their daily lives for home Professor of Integrative Health wellness care. (livingawareness.com) Studies at CIIS’ School of Professional Psychology and Ginny McGinn, Executive Health, is a Naturopathic Doctor Director of the Vermont-based in practice in Oakland. With a diverse background Center for Whole Communities, in many disciplines including botanical medicine, has decades of experience midwifery, philosophy and medicinal chemistry, she building transformative is widely regarded as a leading figure in the field of partnerships across lines of power and privilege Naturopathy. and facilitates and consults on organizational change around the country. Ginny, who has been Daphne Miller, MD, a family described as a “radical change midwife,” was physician and Associate Clinical previously President of Bioneers, and before that a Professor at UCSF, has been an District Marketing Manager for Odwalla Juice Co. in internationally renowned pioneer the early days of that firm. (wholecommunities.org) in studying the connections between food production, ecology and health for Lindley Mease coordinates 15 years. Founder of WholefamilyMD, San the Grassroots Climate Solutions Francisco’s first integrative primary care practice, Fund at Thousand Currents, she serves as an advisor and/or board member to a mobilizing funders to collabora- number of non-profits and is the author of many tively give to climate justice articles and two books, including, most recently, movements in the Global South and also the highly influentialFarmacology: Total Health from co-founded and co-directs Blue Heart, an the Ground Up. (drdaphne.com) organization that organizes tech millennial donors to give to frontline organizations in the U.S. Prior Erika Minkowsky, a certified to Blue Heart, Lindley was a Senior Research doula, chef and herbalist who Analyst at Stanford University’s Woods Institute apprenticed with top sustainabili- for the Environment. (blueheartaction.org) ty-oriented chefs as well as renowned healers in the Jewish Vincent Medina is an enrolled and Mexican folk traditions and indigenous member of the Muwekma Ohlone medicine teachers in Latin America, has committed Tribe, where he also serves as a her life to the healing and empowerment of Councilman representing his mothers and families. She also has 10+ years’ family’s lineage. Vincent and Louis experience as a labor organizer.

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Rebecca Moore, the multiple Nemonte is also passionately engaged in the award-winning Director of Google struggle to uplift Indigenous women across the Earth, leads the development of Amazon. (alianzaceibo.org) Google Earth Engine, a cloud technology platform that puts an Cristi Nozawa, Executive unprecedented amount of satellite data online Director of Samdhana Institute enabling scientists to conduct global-scale (an “An Asian Center for Social monitoring of the earth’s environment. Rebecca and Environmental Renewal” also conceived and leads the Google Earth working in Indonesia, the Outreach program, which supports nonprofits, Philippines and Mekong region), has had extensive educators and Indigenous communities in applying experience working with governments and mapping tools to the world’s most pressing international organizations on conservation and problems in environmental conservation, human protected areas, including as Regional Director of rights and cultural preservation. (google.com) BirdLife International in Asia for 9 years and Regional Vice Chair of IUCN’s World Commission Russell Munsell, co-founder of on Protected Areas for 10+ years. (samdhana.org) the Dynamic Vitality Method, has had a 40+ year career training Terry Odendahl, Ph.D., human capacities in a wide range President/CEO of the Global of disciplines, including teaching Greengrants Fund, has worked for Mathematics at Humboldt State and creating a 40+ years to bridge the natural number of Stress Management, Accelerated and human worlds. Her previous Learning and Performance Optimization programs. jobs have included: helming the National Network He continues to coach medically referred clients in of Grantmakers; Program Officer at the Wyss his Dynamic T’ai Chi and Qigong, Swimming, and Foundation; and teaching Anthropology at Walking trainings. (dynamicvitality.com) Georgetown, UC San Diego, and Yale. She is the co-author of four books on philanthropy and Suki Munsell, Ph.D., co-founder co-founded the Institute for Women’s Policy of the Dynamic Vitality Method (a Research and the Institute for Collaborative blend of sports science, somatic Change. (greengrants.org) awareness and Asian internal arts), began her career in 1974 Niki Okuk, MBA, is the founder under the guidance of her mentor Anna Halprin of Rco Tires, which has recycled (still going strong at 98). Suki has been teaching more than 300 million pounds of dance, fitness, biomechanics, and her unique rubber, diverting 70 million Dynamic Walking program (detailed in Prevention’s gallons of oil from landfills, Complete Book of Walking), to people of all ages for making it one of California’s largest sustainability decades. (dynamicvitality.com) plants (it’s also one of its most progressive firms in its hiring and management practices). Okuk Madhusudan Mysore, Ph.D., a previously worked in Joseph Stiglitz’s office and in scientist and conservation activist finance in Korea and Singapore. (rcotires.com) who has 20+ years’ experience studying interactions between Brian Parker, an attorney, is the people and large wild animals in Legal Rights Defenders Program southern India, manages the Nature Conservation Coordinator at Amazon Foundation, a nonprofit that strives for knowl- Frontlines. He has had the edge-based, socially-responsible nature privilege of participating in a num- conservation across India. (ncf-india.org) ber of Indigenous communities’ struggles for their rights as well as working with members of the Nemonte Nenquimo, raised in Ceibo Alliance to design a comprehensive legal the traditional Waorani communi- training program for indigenous youth with the ty of Nemonpare in Ecuador, is goal of empowering Amazonian communities to one of the founding members of use legal channels to defend their rights. the indigenous organization Ceibo (amazonfrontlines.org) Alliance, which works to defend Indigenous people’s lands and rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon region.

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Hernan Payaguaje, from the to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street and Theater of Siekopai community of San Pablo War. His recent pieces on psychedelics, race, cultur- on the Aguarico River, comes from al diversity and global festival culture have drawn a long lineage of healers. One of wide interest. (nickpowerswriter.wordpress.com) the first of his people to attend university, he is a founding member and Executive Vanessa Raditz, MPH, a queer Director of the pan-tribal frontline Indigenous group, farmer, environmental educator, the Ceibo Alliance, fighting to prevent the ravages and culture-shifter with an of extractive industries in the Amazon and for academic background in Indigenous people’s land rights and cultural survival. Environmental Health Sciences, is (amazonfrontlines.org/who/partners/) dedicated to transformative youth programming that supports community healing, opens access to land Estrella D. Santiago Pérez, and resources, and fosters a thriving local culture and J.D., is the Environmental Affairs economy based on human and ecological resilience. Manager for the Corporación del Vanessa co-founded the Queer Ecojustice Project Proyecto ENLACE del Caño Martín collective, which educates and organizes at the Peña, a groundbreaking urban intersection of ecological justice and queer liberation. land trust project, which has organized a large, (queerecoproject.wixsite.com/qollective) hitherto disenfranchised “informal” settlement in a polluted section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, into an Hillary Renick, an enrolled exemplary self-governing entity working to clean its member of the Sherwood Valley environment and develop a vibrant, resilient, socially Band of Pomo as well as a just, sustainable community. (martinpena.org) descendant of the Hopland Shanel, Noyo River and Ft. Michael Pollan, a contributing McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone indigenous communi- writer to The New York Times ties, was raised in a traditional subsistence family in Magazine since 1987, Professor of Mendocino County. She has worked in land-air-wa- Journalism at UC Berkeley’s ter-cultural resource-sacred site advocacy for 20+ Graduate School of Journalism years and has witnessed first hand changing ocean and Director of the Knight Program in Science and conditions creating a scarcity of traditional foods. Environmental Journalism, is one of the nation’s most influential writers and scientific and environmental Andrew Revkin, one of investigative journalists. His many award-winning, America’s most honored best-selling books include: The Botany of Desire; The journalists and authors focused Omnivore’s Dilemma; In Defense of Food; and most on environmental and human recently, How to Change Your Mind. sustainability, with 30+ years in (michaelpollan.com) the field (much of it at the New York Times), recently became Strategic Adviser for Environmental and Kevin Powell, a leading figure in Science Journalism at the National Geographic Society. the movement to redefine One of the first reporters to cover climate change, manhood and in contemporary starting in the 1980s, Revkin is also a performing American political, cultural and songwriter/musician (and longtime accompanist of literary life as well as in the hip-hop Pete Seeger). (nationalgeographic.org) arena, is the product of a single mother, absent father and severe poverty in his youth. In spite of Coreal Riday-White, J.D., the those challenges he has become an acclaimed, Community Engagement prolific writer, authoring 13 books, including his Manager for Our Children’s Trust autobiography, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s (OCT), a non-profit dedicated to Journey into Manhood. (kevinpowell.net) “leading the game-changing, youth-driven, global climate recovery campaign Nicholas Powers, Ph.D. is a to secure the legal right to a stable climate and poet, journalist, and Associate healthy atmosphere,” manages OCT’s partnerships Professor of English at the State and mobilization efforts in the lead-up to its University of New York, Old upcoming landmark climate trial against the Trump Westbury. He is the author of The administration—Juliana vs U.S. (ourchildrenstrust.org) Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans

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Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), she works to develop programs to defend Program Director of the Bioneers indigenous territories in the northwestern Amazon Indigenous Knowledge Program, and to motivate other women to become previously served her Mo- protagonists in resistance movements. (amazon- jave-based tribe in several frontlines.org/who/partners/) capacities, including as: first Executive Director at the Chemehuevi Cultural Center, a member of the AlexAnna Salmon, of Yup’ik tribal council, and Chair of the Chemehuevi and Aleut ancestry, from Igiugig, Education Board and Chemeuevi Headstart Policy Alaska, is an influential young Council. Cara is also a highly accomplished Indigenous leader and President photographer/artist. (bioneers.org/pages/ of the Igiugig Village Council (as indigeneity-program) well as the mother of six children). With an academic background in Native American Studies, A-dae Romero-Briones Anthropology and Rural Development, AlexAnna has (Cochiti/Kiowa), born and raised been a trailblazer on initiatives to develop renewable in Cochiti Pueblo, NM, is Director energy projects in her region and to revitalize the of Programs for the Native Food Yup’ik language and culture. (igiugig.com) and Agriculture Initiative of the First Nations Development Institute. Formerly Anita Sanchez, Ph.D., an Director of Community Development for Pulama Indigenous and Latina author, Lana’I, she is an expert in food safety and the trainer, and speaker who is protection of tribal traditional foods. A former passionate about visionary Fulbright Scholar with a law doctorate, Ms. leadership, indigenous wisdom, Romero-Briones sits on several boards, including the and the empowerment of women, works on a wide National Organic Standards Board. (firstnations.org) range of cultural transformation, diversity and inclusion projects. Anita, who serves on the boards Denny Royal draws on his of Bioneers and of the Pachamama Alliance, is also extensive, wide-ranging the internationally bestselling author of The Four background in healthcare, Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times. wellness, government, travel, (anita-sanchez.com) financial services, branding and education, as well as design and technology as Quinton Sankofa is the Principal at Minneapolis-based Azul Seven, a design co-owner of Sirius Creativity, an consultancy that seeks to combine human-cen- Oakland based firm “committed tered design and Biomimicry to solve business to providing affordable consulting challenges. (azulseven.com) services to organizations that want to improve their capacity to more effectively Masami Saionji, a native of pursue their missions.” Originally from Cleveland, Japan and a descendant of the Ohio, where he had to navigate the challenges of Royal Ryukyu Family of Okinawa, racism and poverty, Quinton has an extensive is Chairperson of the Goi Peace background in urban and regional planning, Foundation and the World Peace community organizing and development, strategic Prayer Society. An international lecturer, author planning, and fundraising. (siriuscreativity.com) and activist who promotes peace awareness and spiritual development, she initiated Soul of Mark Schapiro, an award-win- WoMen, a global movement to activate feminine ning environmental and wisdom and values for a more balanced world. investigative journalist, is the (goipeace.or.jp) author of several books, including the about-to-be-released, Seeds of Alicia Salazar, born on the Resistance: The Fight For Our Food Supply, which Putumayo River on the Ecuador/ discusses the seeds humanity will need to cope Colombia border, in the ancestral with climate disruption. Mark is also a correspon- territory of her people, the Siona, dent for the Food and Environmental Reporting emerged as a leader in her tribe’s Network (FERN) and a Lecturer at the UC Berkeley resistance to the predations of oil companies. She Graduate School of Journalism. (thefern.org) is the Ceibo Alliance’s General Coordinator, where

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Ellen Schneider is the Director much needed diversity and creativity to the field of Active Voice Lab, which helps and transforming its power dynamics), is also funders, media makers, Communications Director at Kindle Project (an advocates, and other leaders use “outside-the-box grant-making organization”). story to advance social change. In Arianne is also a performing storyteller and 2001, she founded Active Voice, one of the first storytelling teacher and workshop leader. teams that used media to put human faces on (indiephilanthropy.org) complex social and policy issues. Ellen was formerly Executive Producer of the documentary TV series, David Shaw, a permaculture P.O.V. (activevoice.net) and whole systems designer, facilitator, and educator, founded Kate Sears, the Supervisor Santa Cruz Permaculture, and the representing southern Marin on UCSC Right Livelihood College, a the Marin County Board of partnership with the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” He Supervisors, also chairs the board supports communities locally and globally to of Marin Clean Energy, Califor- transform their shared future through strategic nia’s first Community Choice Aggregation program. dialogue and collective action. (santacruzpermacul- Kate has energetically sought to implement ture.com, ucsc.edu/commonground) innovative, collaborative action to address climate change and sea level rise. Prior to elective service, Nina Simons, co-founder of she was an attorney in private practice and with Bioneers and its Chief Relation- the California Attorney General’s Office, prosecut- ship Strategist is also co-founder ing fraudulent financial conduct. (marincounty.org) of Women Bridging Worlds and Connecting Women Leading Cynthia Selin, Ph.D., an Change. She co-edited the anthology book, Associate Professor at the School Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the for the Future of Innovation in Heart, and her next book, Nature, Culture & The Society and the School of Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership will be Sustainability at Arizona State published this fall. An award-winning social University, and an Associate Fellow at the entrepreneur, Nina teaches and speaks internation- University of Oxford, is an interdisciplinary social ally, and previously served as President of Seeds of scientist and scenario practitioner specializing in Change and Director of Strategic Marketing for grappling with alternative futures in order to Odwalla. (ninasimons.com) stimulate improved strategic capacities and foresight to promote more desirable human Caleen Sisk is the spiritual futures. (cynthiaselin.com) leader and Tribal Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, who Ysenia Sepulveda, born and practice their traditional culture raised in Hayward, CA, in a in their territory along the tight-knit, working-class family, McCloud River in Northern California. A leading graduated from San Jose State in advocate for salmon restoration and healthy, 2015 and has become an undammed watersheds, Caleen has become an experienced circle keeper in Joven Noble and internationally renowned activist for Indigenous Xinachtli teaching circles in San Jose. She is a and other oppressed people’s rights, including as a Training and Technical Assistant Specialist with the regular speaker at the UN’s Permanent Forum on National Compadres Network, where her Indigenous Issues. (www.winnememwintu.us) responsibilities include supporting curriculum trainings nationally and providing technical Daniel L. Skaff, MBA, assistance for trained facilitators. (nationalcompa- co-founder and Managing Partner dresnetwork.org) of Radicle Impact Partners, a socially responsible venture fund, Arianne Shaffer, the Toronto- also serves as Vice Chairman of based Director of the Indie Beneficial State Bancorp, a triple-bottom-line Philanthropy Initiative (which enterprise dedicated to building prosperity while seeks a radical shift to philan- enhancing social justice, environmental resilience thropy’s status quo by adding and economic sustainability. A former Co-Chief

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Executive Officer of both Beneficial State and Jerry Tello, of Mexican, Texan Albina Community banks, Daniel sits on many and Coahuiltecan ancestry, raised corporate and civic organization boards and has in South Central Los Angeles, has had a long, prestigious business career in the U.S. worked for 40+ years as a leading and internationally. (radicleimpact.com) expert in transformational healing for men and boys of color; racial justice; peaceful Richard Stallman, a ground- community mobilization; and providing domestic breaking software developer and violence awareness, healing and support services renowned, pioneering software to war veterans and their spouses. He currently freedom activist and advocate, works with the Sacred Circles Center in Whittier, worked at the Artificial Intelli- California and is a member of its performance gence Lab at MIT from 1971 to 1984, where he group. (jerrytello.com) initiated the GNU operating system and then left MIT to launch the Free Software Movement. He is Clayton Thomas-Müller the founder and President of the Free Software (Mathias Colomb Cree/aka Foundation and is the author of Free Software, Free Pukatawagan), currently the ‘Stop Society and Free as in Freedom. (gnu.org) it at the Source’ campaigner with 350.org, is an award-winning Kate Sutherland, a founding Winnipeg, Canada-based Indigenous Rights/ faculty member and executive Climate Justice activist and media producer with coach for Simon Fraser University’s 16+ years’ experience organizing in hundreds of Social Innovation Certificate and First Nations across North America against the THNK School of Creative fossil fuel industry and leading delegations to Leadership and SFU’s Certificate in Evaluation for major UN and other international conclaves. Social Change and Transformational Learning, has Clayton also serves on many boards, including for: 25 years’ experience as a consultant in community Black Mesa Water Coalition, Indigenous Climate and organizational change and is the author of, Action, and Bioneers. (350.org) most recently, We Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Our Collective Genius. (sfu.ca) Elizabeth Thompson, a Brooklyn, NY-based a consultant Victoria Sweet, M.D., Ph.D., to a range of sustainable design Associate Clinical Professor of initiatives, was the Executive Medicine at UCSF and a Director of The Buckminster Fuller prize-winning medical historian, Institute (BFI) from 2004 to 2016 and founding has practiced medicine at Laguna Director of the highly influential Buckminster Fuller Honda Hospital in San Francisco for 20+ years and Challenge (“socially responsible design’s highest is the author of God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and award”) until 2017. During her tenure at BFI she led a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine and, most the development of several world-class exhibitions recently, of the widely acclaimed Slow Medicine: honoring Fuller’s work and launched several inter- A Way to Healing. (ucsf.edu) nationally renowned design education programs.

Aaron Tanaka, founder and The Thrive Choir, an Director of the Boston-based Oakland-based singing group Center for Economic Democracy, affiliated with Thrive East Bay, a is a community organizer, purpose-driven community grant-maker, impact investor, focused on personal and social and a founding organizer of the Boston Ujima transformation, is composed of a diverse group of Project, which brings together neighbors, workers, vocalists, artists, activists, educators, healers, and business owners and investors to create a new community organizers directed by musicians community-controlled regional economy. He is an Austin Willacy and Kyle Lemle. They have Echoing Green and BALLE Fellow, and co-chair of performed their original fusion of gospel, soul and the national New Economy Coalition and the folk in a wide range of settings, including: marches, Asian American Resource Workshop. (economic- conferences and festivals across California. democracy.us) (thriveeastbay.org/thrivechoir/)

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Carletta Tilousi, a member of region of the Amazon as well as on global social the Havasupai Tribal Council for transformation. The Alliance seeks to help bring the past 14 years, is a lifelong forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually advocate for the protection of the fulfilling, socially just global society through projects Grand Canyon and for social and such as its Awakening the Dreamer Symposium environmental justice for her tribe and other and the UP to US Pathway. (pachamama.org) Indigenous people of the Canyon. She has participated in many major international forums and Lynne Twist is a social activist, currently serves as President of Red Rock fundraiser, author and consultant Foundation, Inc., a non-profit focused on educational who has dedicated herself to and environmental issues affecting tribes. alleviating poverty and hunger and supporting social justice and Al Tozer, Education and Living environmental sustainability. Co-founder of the Building Challenge Director at the Pachamama Alliance whose mission is to empower International Living Future Indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to Institute, has 20+ years’ preserve their lands and culture, she is the author sustainable architectural design of the best-selling book, The Soul of Money: and urban planning experience. He founded Tozer Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life. Design, one of the Northwest’s leading sustainable (soulofmoney.org) architectural design firms in 1995 and was lead designer for “Desert Rain,” the first Living Building Thomas Van Dyck, CIMA®, a Certified (the world’s most rigorous building Managing Director/Financial standard) residence on Earth. (living-future.org) Advisor with the SRI Wealth Management Group at RBC Linda Tucker, a South Wealth Management, has been a Africa-based, world-renowned, leader in socially responsible investing for 30+ award-winning conservationist, years. He consults on $2.4 billion in institutional founder of the Global White Lion and individual client assets, incorporating Protection Trust and the Linda environmental, social and governance factors in Tucker Foundation, has dedicated her life to the investment decisions. Tom also founded the protection of critically endangered white lions, shareholder advocacy As You Sow Foundation in among the world’s most targeted trophy animals. 1992 and is active in the “Divest/Invest” She has spoken at venues around the world and is movement. (rbc.com, asyousow.org) the author of Mystery of the White Lions, Saving the White Lions and LionHearted Leadership: The 13 Laws. brontë velez is a “black-latinx” (whitelions.org) multimedia artist, currently working as an educator and Jason A. Turner, MSc, a South media designer for Planting Africa-based leading lion ecologist Justice, an Oakland-based with over three decades’ non-profit committed to food sovereignty, experience in wildlife conserva- economic justice, and prison abolition. brontë tion management and research, is seeks to counteract oppression through acts of Director of Ecology for the Global White Lion radical imagination, including as Creative Director Protection Trust, which he established with Linda of the “Lead to Life” process in which weapons are Tucker in 2002. He is Chairman of the Wilderness transformed into shovels used in ceremonial tree Security and Anti-poaching Forum, and his many and garden plantings at sites impacted by violence. professional affiliations include the University of (leadtolife.org, plantingjustice.org) Pretoria, Antwerp University, and the Smithsonian Institute. (whitelions.org) Noe Venable, a singer-songwriter, music educator and “spiritual Bill Twist is a co-founder and the activist,” has released six adult CEO of the Pachamama Alliance, and six children’s albums and which works on rainforest toured nationally. She teaches preservation and Indigenous people of all ages and all levels, including with her peoples’ rights in the headwaters nature-inspired Meadowlark Music Class for young children. Noe also founded: Sylvan Hearth

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Playgroup; the outdoor parent-child program for Josh Whiton is an innovative Golden Bridges School (San Francisco’s first urban eco-tech entrepreneur whose farm school); and the intergenerational women’s many projects include founding Mothersong Chorus. (noevenable.com) the award-winning transit-tech company TransLoc (recently Edgar Villanueva (Lumbee), a acquired by Ford); co-founding one of the first nationally recognized expert on urban farms in the southeastern U.S., and most social justice philanthropy, recently creating MakeSoil.org, which matches currently serves as Chair of Native people who make compost at home with neighbors Americans in Philanthropy and as willing to contribute their food scraps and waste, Vice President of the Schott Foundation for Public thereby diverting millions of tons of food waste Education in New York City. He is the author of a from landfills. (makesoil.org) new book, Decolonizing Wealth, which offers alternatives to the dynamics of colonization in the Edward Willie, a true native of philanthropic and social finance sectors. (decolo- California (of Pomo, Wintu, Paiute, nizingwealth.com) and Wailaki ancestry), is a native ecologist with 40 years’ experience Afia Walking Tree,a renowned teaching Traditional Ecological multi-instrumental percussionist, Knowledge (TEK), Herbalism, Permaculture, and performer, educator, earth ancient skills to people of all ages. Also an artist practitioner, NGO administrator, (drawing, painting, and sculpture), he has in recent and longtime activist focused on years been a core organizer of the annual Buckeye transformative cultural healing across ethnic and Gathering, a gathering in support of ancestral skills generational lines using drumming as her main and village building. (buckeyegathering.net) tool, is founder of the Drum Mobile, a portable drum-arts learning laboratory that makes Justin Winters, Executive accessible the power of African drumming and Director of the Leonardo DiCaprio Permaculture to communities of color internation- Foundation (dedicated to ally. (afiawalkingtree.com) ensuring the long-term health and wellbeing of all Earth’s inhabi- Luke Weiss combines his tants by building climate resiliency, protecting experience living in the Amazon wildlife and restoring balance to ecosystems and with the Secoya people for 20+ communities), has successfully built LDF’s global years with a Masters’ degree from grantmaking program, awarding over $80 million the Yale School of Forestry and to over 200 projects in 50 countries. She also Environmental Studies to coordinate the Cultural serves on the boards of several organizations, Recovery and Territorial Mapping programs at including: Amazon Frontlines and The Solutions Amazon Frontlines. He and his family reside along Project. (www.leonardodicaprio.org) the banks of the Aguarico River where he hunts, grows crops, and enjoys drinking yoco. (amazon- Sigrid Wright, CEO of the frontlines.org) Community Environmental Council, a California solu- Jacob White Horse (yak tittyu tions-based nonprofit, is also a tittyu Northern Chumash/Rosebud Commissioner for the Santa Sioux), a student in environmen- Barbara County Commission for Women, serves on tal studies at United Tribes the steering committee of the Central Coast College in North Dakota, is Climate Collaborative and the Central Coast currently an intern with the UC Davis Marine Climate Justice Network, guides the Santa Barbara Biology Lab working on abalone management, the County Food Action Plan, and is a member of the first Native American and tribal college student national Carbon Farming Innovation Network. accepted into this program. Jacob’s interest in (cecsb.org) marine biology stems from his tribe’s long relationship with the ocean and its resources.

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DREAMING THE FUTURE: REIMAGINING CIVILIZATION IN THE AGE OF NATURE By Kenny Ausubel, Foreword by David W. Orr In this award-winning collection of essays, Ausubel helps us reimagine our future and our connection to nature and each other. He illuminates the big ideas, meta-trends and game-changing innovations led by some of the world’s greatest thinkers and doers to create a world where people take their cues from nature, and address justice, equity, diversity, democracy and peace.

MOONRISE: THE POWER OF WOMEN LEADING FROM THE HEART Edited by Nina Simons and Anneke Campbell, Foreword by Terry Tempest Williams This kaleidoscopic anthology explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women in over 30 essays from eminent women trailblazers, and a few good men. They depict how they cultivate their “feminine” strengths to reinvent leadership to prioritize community, collaboration, the environment, and the common good. Contributors include Alice Walker, Jean Shinoda Bolen and Eve Ensler.

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NATURE’S OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS: THE TRUE BIOTECHNOLOGIES Edited by Kenny Ausubel with J.P. Harpignies, Foreword by Paul Hawken This landmark book shows how we can emulate and adapt nature’s operating instructions to the benefit of all life. It illustrates “true biotechnologies” such as biomimicry, indigenous land management and ecologically intelligent design, with a Who’s Who of contributors including Paul Hawken, Janine Benyus, David Suzuki, Michael Pollan and Amory Lovins.

ECOLOGICAL LITERACY: EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD Edited by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow, Preface by Fritjof Capra The concept of “ecological literacy” advanced by this book’s editors from the Center for Ecoliteracy extends “toward a deeper transformation of the substance, process and scope of education at all levels.” Contribu- tors include Fritjof Capra, Wendell Berry, David W. Orr, Alice Waters and Donella Meadows. An invaluable resource for parents and educators.

ECOLOGICAL MEDICINE: HEALING THE EARTH, HEALING OURSELVES Edited by Kenny Ausubel with J.P. Harpignies, Foreword by Dr. Andrew Weil This pathfinding collection illuminates how human and environmental health are inseparable, spawning an emerging movement called Ecological Medicine. Leading health visionaries contributing include Dr. Andrew Weil, Michael Lerner, Carolyn Raffensperger and Jeanne Achterberg.

ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS: INDIGENOUS TEACHINGS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Edited by Melissa K. Nelson This treasure trove illuminates the indigenous wisdom and knowledge con- tained in Traditional Ecological Knowledge, the “Original Instructions” for how to live on Earth and with each other, and contemporary perspectives on a spectrum of global and indigenous issues. Contributors include Chief Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, Winona LaDuke and John Trudell.

VISIONARY PLANT CONSCIOUSNESS: THE SHAMANIC TEACH- INGS OF THE PLANT WORLD Edited by J.P. Harpignies Visionary Plant Consciousness explores how plant consciousness affects the human condition. Twenty-three leading explorers show how these plants may help us access the profound intelligence in nature – the “mind of nature” – that we must learn to understand in order to transform our ecologically destructive way of life. Contributors include Terence McKenna, Dr. Andrew Weil, Wade Davis, Michael Pollan, Alex Grey and Jeremy Narby.

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