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...

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...

Janine Benyus is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Her company, the Biomimicry Guild, helps clients such as HOK Architects, Interface, Herman-Miller, Kohler, and Seventh ...

Cheryl Charles, Ph.D., an innovator, entrepreneur, educator, author, and organizational executive, is president and CEO of the Children and Nature Network, co-founded with Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Natu...

Claire Hope Cummings is an environmental journalist, lawyer, and author of Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Claire’s work focuses on how food and farming reconnects us to each other and the places where we live. She has...

Roxanne "Roxie" Leigh Dickinson, 20, born and raised in the Salinas-Monterey area, is a California Native American from the federally unrecognized Costanoan tribe. A passionate lover of the sea and coast, she has been a sea guide at Camp Sea Lab of C...

Rick Doblin is the founder (in 1986) and president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a non-profit psychedelic and medical marijuana pharmaceutical company. His dissertation in Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy ...

Erica Fernandez, 18, was born and raised in Michoacán, Mexico until age ten. She has since been recognized as a remarkable young environmental activist in Oxnard, California. Initially motivated to fight air pollution because of her asthma, she help...

Ohki Siminé Forest, of Canadian Mohawk descent, is a vision-holder who has lived in Chiapas, Mexico since 1985, collaborating with the indigenous Maya people in their resistance to extermination through her non-profit organization, Red Wind Councils...

Lois Ellen Frank is a Santa Fe, New Mexico based Native American foods historian, chef, James Beard Award winning author, and photographer who has spent over 20 years documenting the foods and life-ways of Native American communities throughout the S...