Bioneers Presenters
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Social and scientific innovators with breakthrough solutions
The Bioneers Conference is a leading-edge forum presenting breakthrough solutions for people and planet. Social and scientific innovators focus on solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity. The Bioneers Conference and the Bioneers Radio Series bring you inspiring speakers from the world over.
Rose Aguilar
Rose Aguilar, a San Francisco-based print and radio journalist, activist, and writer, is the host of the daily call-in show Your Call on KALW 91.7 FM.
Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative, an organization developing sustainable wealth democratizing approaches to local and system-wide change.
Kenny Ausubel
Kenny Ausubel (www.bioneers.org), the CEO and founder of Bioneers, is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, social entrepreneur and author whose books include The Bioneers: Declarations of Interdependence; and When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies.
Rachel Barge
Rachel Barge is a young (25), Berkeley, CA-based social entrepreneur passionate about employing enterprise-based solutions to solve the world's most pressing environmental problems.
Monika Bauerlein
Monika Bauerlein is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the San Francisco-based Mother Jones (aka Mojo), a 32-year-old investigative magazine widely recognized as one of the most respected, influential progressive publications in the country.
Georgie Benardete
Georgie Benardete, MSFS, grew up in Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Puerto Rico and has lived in Washington DC, New York, Istanbul, and London. A former young banker at JP Morgan.
Kirk Bergstrom
Kirk Bergstrom, founder and President of WorldLink, has led the organization's media, education, and civic engagement programs for more than 20 years.
Lauren Bon
Lauren Bon is the founder of the Metabolic Studio, where she practices at the intersection of art and philanthropy.
Michael Brune
Mike Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, will describe how one of the biggest, oldest and most influential grassroots environmental groups in the nation is working to end coal in the U.S. within a decade, without question the most successful such work in the country.
Markese W. Bryant
Markese W. Bryant is a recent graduate in African American Studies from Morehouse College and a leading activist for clean energy, green jobs and energy efficiency.
