Bioneers Presenters: Independent And Alternative Media

Katy Chevigny

Katy Chevigny, the director of Election Day, is an award-winning filmmaker who runs the non-profit Arts Engine, a leading independent media organization, and its production arm, Big Mouth Films. She is best known for Deadline, an investigation into I...

Leila Conners

Leila Conners is a writer, filmmaker and founder and president of Tree Media Group (and the upcoming online network Tree Channel), whose mission is to use media to support and sustain civil society. Most recently Leila co-directed and produced the fe...

Peggy Duvette

Peggy Duvette, director of the Natural Capital Institute (NCI) and WiserEarth, is an advocate for the growing need for online community building in the nonprofit sector. Since 2002, she has been managing NCI and WiserEarth.org, an online platform tha...

Beth and George Gage

Beth and George Gage are award-winning filmmakers of both fictional features and most recently critically-acclaimed documentaries, including Fire On The Mountain, The Story of the Men of the 10th Mountain Division, Troubled Waters, Water: A Clear Sol...

Richard Graves

Richard Graves is a climate activist, social entrepreneur, and online journalist. He founded Fired Up Media to help youth leaders from around the world tell their stories in the fight against global warming and for a more just and sustainable world. ...

Jay Harris

Jay Harris is the publisher of Mother Jones, the investigative reporting magazine, and its sister website MotherJones.com. He is the president of the Foundation for National Progress, the public interest nonprofit that publishes Mother Jones. He is a...

Jeremy Kagan

Jeremy Kagan is an internationally recognized, award-winning (including an Emmy) director/writer/producer of feature films and television whose credits include the 10-part TV series - the ACLU Freedom Files, and the feature films: Heroes, The Big Fix...

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the highly influential, bestselling books: No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies and, most recently, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She w...

Annie Leonard

Annie Leonard has worked on global environmental health, sustainable production and consumption issues for 20 years. Ann has also worked with GAIA, Health Care without Harm, Essential Information, and Greenpeace International; has traveled to over 30...

Deborah Lindsay

Deborah Lindsay is the host of the radio program, Tomorrow Matters on Sand City, CA's KRXA 540 AM, the first "green certified" radio station in the Central Coast region. She is also a "sustainability coach" and national public speaker, encouragin...