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 Sarah Hodgdon
Conservation Director, Sierra Club
As conservation director for Sierra Club, Sarah Hodgdon oversees the organization's national campaigns and programs including the Beyond Coal, Beyond Oil, and Resilient Habitats campaigns. She also manages the organization's federal lobbyists, organizers, lawyers as well as the programs dedicated to partnerships with labor, environmental justice groups, and youth. Finally, she is responsible for the organization's outings programs. Hodgdon was recently part of the team that landed a $50 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies and has been at the helm of the organization's plan to double the size of the staff and activists committed to replacing as much as a third of the nation's coal plants with clean energy by 2020. Prior to joining the Sierra Club, she was executive director of Dogwood Alliance, a North Carolina based forest protection organization from 2000-2006. |
Dolores Huerta Cofounder and first vice president of the United Farm Workers, Dolores Huerta (sometimes referred to as Dolores "Huelga, " Spanish for "strike") is the most prominent Chicana labor leader, Environmental and social justice activist in the United States. For more than 30 years she has dedicated her life to the struggle for justice, dignity, environmental issues and a decent standard of living for all one of the United States' most exploited groups-the men, women, and children who toil in the fields and orchards picking the vegetables and fruits that stock grocery stores. The recipient of countless awards from community service, labor, Hispanic, and women's organizations as well as the subject of corridos (ballads) and murals, the vibrant and charismatic Huerta is a much-admired role model for Mexican American women.
 Osprey Orielle Lake OspreyOrielle Lakeis the Founder/Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus where she works nationally and internationally with grassroots leaders, policy-makers,business people, and scientists to promote resilient communities, foster apost-carbon energy future, while also addressing societal transformation. She is an advisor to International Eco-Cities Framework and Standards Initiative,on the Legislative Assistance Working Group of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature,and has traveled to five continents studying ancient and modern cultures while making presentations at international conferences and universities. She is the Founder/Artist of the International Cheemah Monument Project, creating 18 foot bronze sculpture monuments, where people can ponder a better future for the earth and humanity. Her book, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature (White Cloud Press), wona 2011 Nautilus Book Award.
Greg Wendt Director of Sustainable & Responsible Investing, EP Wealth Advisors Moderator, Capitalism 2.0 / Co-Chair, Community Resource Exchange Greg advises clients who want to align their wealth through investments that reflect their priorities and concerns for a better world. Greg is one of the nation’s leading experts in Sustainable and Responsible Investing. He began his career as a financial advisor in 1991 and worked with Smith Barney, Paine Webber and Prudential Securities prior to joining Enright Premier Wealth Advisors, Inc. in 2002. Greg is frequently profiled or quoted as an expert in the media including "Living with Ed" Television Show on Home and Garden Television, Business Ethics magazine, Daily Variety, Financial Planning magazine and Yogi Times magazine. Greg speaks regularly at conferences on the matters of new paradigms in economics, sustainable and responsible investing, new consciousness around wealth and related matters.
Stacy Malkan is co-founder of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and author of the award-winning book, "Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry.” She is a leading expert on toxic chemicals in beauty products and chemical regulatory policies, and she is frequently interviewed by major media outlets including the New York Times, USA Today and Washington Post. Television appearances include Good Morning America, ABC 7 Chicago, Democracy Now! and ABC’s View from the Bay
Jamie Henn is the Communications and East Asia Director for the international climate campaign 350.org. In 2009, he coordinated media for over 5,200 simultaneous events in more than 180 countries, landing 350.org on front pages and newscasts around the world. CNN called the events “the most widespread day of political action in history.” As East Asia director for 350.org, Jamie coordinated nearly 500 events across East Asia, including over 300 rallies in China. In 2010, 350.org organized a Global Work Party on 10/10/10, with thousands of events planned across the globe where people got to work on climate solutions. Before co-founding 350.org with environmental writer Bill McKibben, Jamie helped lead the Step It Up 2007 campaign. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and co-author of the book Fight Global Warming Now.
 Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action.
I'm Starhawk, author of many works celebrating the Goddess movement and Earth-based, feminist spirituality. I’m a peace, environmental, and global justice activist and trainer, a permaculture designer and teacher, a Pagan and Witch. To see how it all weaves together, follow the many strands of my web."
 Rev.Cecil Williams : Under his leadership, Glide Memorial has become a 10,000-member congregation of all races, ages, genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and religions. It is the largest provider of social services in the city, serving over three thousand meals a day, providing AIDS/HIV screenings, offering adult education programs, and giving assistance to women dealing with homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues
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Alan Tratner is an educator, lecturer, consultant, entrepreneur/innovator who is widely recognized for having conducted nearly 3,700 workshops, area seminars, and conferences, etc. for over thirty-five (35) years across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and even in Moscow, Russia. He has been dubbed the “Minister of Ideas” by the media and has been featured in or appeared on our most popular and business media of our time including: Oprah; CNN; CNN Financial Network- For Entrepreneurs Only Special Program, Wall Street Journal, INC, Business Week, Entrepreneur, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, Family Circle, CNBC, Good Morning America, Business Radio Network, PBS, Making It! (Nationally Syndicated Program on Minority Enterprises- 3 Appearances), America Online Forum, and many hundreds of newspapers, National Public Radio, etc in the United States and overseas. Lielle Arad is the Global Director and Spokesperson of Public Affairs for the International Non-Profit World Helping Organization, FD3. Lielle is involved with FD3 in an original process that is bringing personal and collective world changing workshops and true solutions and balance to our planet. She is involved with the organization, production and the assembling of many serious world helping non-profit, huge, save our planet events. Lielle is also the Chairwoman of the International Advisory Board for ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GROUP (EEG) and is a full time volunteer 100% dedicated to the responsibility aspect of EEG projects. Ms. Arad is a Certified Professional Ontological Coach since 2001, and has professionally and personally coached Non-Profit Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Mothers, Celebrities, Trauma Victims and Adolescents.
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