Arlene Blum, Ph.D., is a biochemist and anti-toxics activist who has taught at Stanford, Wellesley, and U.C. Berkeley, where her research was instrumental in banning several cancer-causing chemicals used as flame retardants and the pesticide DBCP. Sh...

Ellen Bravo, a feminist activist and author who is a leading spokeswoman on working women's issues, was formerly director of 9to5-National Association of Working Women, and is currently a professor of Women's Studies at the University of Wisc...

Charlotte Brody is the executive director of Commonweal, a Bolinas, California based organization that works on health and environmental issues. She was a founder and executive director of the Health Care Without Harm campaign, the organizing directo...

Adrienne Maree Brown is the executive director of the Ruckus Society. Ruckus trains and supports the social justice movement nationally in nonviolent direct action and strategy. Adrienne sits on the boards/advisory committees of several organizations...

Brianna Cayo Cotter is the communications director for the Energy Action Coalition where she helps amplify the voices and stories of the youth climate movement. Before that she was a media maven for Rainforest Action Network and did extensive work or...

Vivian Chang, MA, executive director of the environmental justice group Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), has a background in urban planning and development and 13 years' experience in community organizing and advocacy. A well-known org...

Atema Eclai, director of programs at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, has worked around the world on issues of conflict resolution, negotiation, micro-credit, health, genital mutilation, and education. She has chaired sessions at the U.N...

Eve Ensler (www.vday.org) is an award-winning playwright, performer and activist. She is the author of The Vagina Monologues (translated into 45 languages and performed in more than 112 countries). Eve's other plays include Necessary Targets, Con...

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 Marie Gibbs, a legendary figure in the grassroots environmental justice movement ever since the infamous, historic “Love Canal” episode, is the founder and executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ), which ha...