Bioneers Presenters

Aaron Ezra Ableman

Aaron Ezra Ableman is a performer, activist, and avid traveler who has been involved in: putting on musical theatre shows for a wide range of audiences, from tribal reservations to children's hospitals; tree planting projects in orphanages in Ind...

Laura Allen

Laura Allen has degrees in environmental science and education, and is a co-founder of the Greywater Guerrillas and co-editor of the anthology Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground. Her favorite activities are building greywater systems, ...

J. Marty Anderies

J. Marty Anderies, Ph.D, an assistant professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, is also affiliated with the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, the Global Institute of Sustainability, and t...

Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson is the most successful visionary "green business" leader in America, founder and chairman of the environmentally groundbreaking company, Interface Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet and a leading producer of com...

Jeannette Armstrong

Jeannette Armstrong, a member of the Okanagan Syilx Nation, is a Canadian author and artist and executive director of the En'owkin Centre (the culture, language and arts education institution of the Okanagan Nation) as well as an assistant profes...

Audubon Expedition Institute

Audubon Expedition Institute at Lesley University fosters ecological awareness and personal and societal transformation through immersion in a variety of environments and cultures, critical reflection, and experiential learning communities. For more ...

Kelsang Aukatsang

Kelsang Aukatsang is a project director at the Tibetan Community Center of Northern California, which seeks to empower Tibetan-Americans of all ages to thrive in the U.S. while promoting the continuity and development of Tibetan social, cultural, and...

Larry Bain

Larry Bain, a leading San Francisco restaurateur, is an outspoken advocate for social responsibility in the restaurant industry. He served on Mayor Newsome’s transition team and on the San Francisco’s interagency task force on healthy food procur...

Debi Barker

Debi Barker, co-director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), co-authored Invisible Government—The World Trade Organization: Global Government For The New Millennium and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possib...

Jo Ann Baumgartner

Jo Ann Baumgartner is the director of the Wild Farm Alliance (WFA), whose mission is to promote a healthy, viable agriculture that protects and restores wild nature, i.e. ecologically managed farms that gracefully meld into landscapes and help suppor...