2017 Speakers
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Douglas Reil
Douglas Reil is a Bay Area publishing industry veteran, local food organizer, and a media consultant specializing in sustainability, cannabis, and regenerative culture. His thirty-year career in publishing includes serving as the publisher and executive director at the nonprofit publisher North Atlantic Books, working with authors such as Martin Prechtel, …
Dr. Kevin Danaher
Dr. Kevin Danaher is a Co-Founder of Global Exchange, FairTradeUSA, the Green Festivals, the Environmental Service Learning Initiative, and the Green Guardians. He has played a major role in Global Exchange’s 28-year record of merging social enterprise with human rights activism. His 1983 PhD in sociology from the University of …
Dustin Thomas
Big hair, big smiles, and a whole lot of love- Wild-hearted globe-trotter Dustin Thomas is making waves from America to Australia with his infectious blend of beat-box/soul-folk. Armed with his voice, a guitar, and universal anthems of love and war; this young singer-songwriter continues to inspire hearts around the world …
Emerald Figueroa
Emerald was unable to use hormonal birth control after being removed by her doctor 11 years ago because of serious side effects. In the midst of a 5 year apprenticeship studying nutrition she was encouraged by her teacher to solve the problem of what Emerald termed “incomplete non-hormonal pregnancy prevention …
EvOak Owl
I’ve been involved in the healing arts and my own path of awakening for over 10 years. Honing my gifts as a highly attuned empath, counselor, energy healer, conscious communicator, ritual facilitator and tantric priestess. I facilitate self care rituals and medicine journeys as well as offer guidance to men …
Ferananda Ibarra
[image_frame align=”left” height=”300″ width=”300″ prettyphoto=”false”][/image_frame] Ferananda is internationally recognized in collective intelligence and the next paradigm economics. The center of her work is social systems design very focused on Wisdom-Driven Organizations and Communities of purpose, place and practice. Ferananda designs experiences and facilitates processes in Europe, Mexico and the US …
Gayanee KyGa DeSilva
After experiencing a profound Kundalini (Spiritual) Awakening in 1996 Gayanee went through an intense spiritual journey exploring ancient spiritual traditions as well as learning under modern non-dual teachers. With many expanded states of consciousness rapidly revealing within along with spiritual gifts yet unable to integrate the this expansion in to …
Heather Dunbar
Heather Dunbar is a cannabis health educator with over a decade of experience in the cannabis industry, including cultivation, sales, edible production, and education. Heather has also worked extensively in the natural products industry, leading product development and community outreach for several pioneering businesses and spent several years managing massage …
Jada Imani Carter
Jada Imani is a licensed Kingian Nonviolence practitioner and a trained facilitator of Youth Speaks writing workshops. She has facilitated workshops in several high schools across the Bay Area and beyond. In May of 2017, Jada completed an intensive course at a tantric yoga school in Thailand. She has paired …
Jangee Westphal
Jangee Westphal, spokesperson for the Humanitree Movement. Permaculturist, gardener, videographer, nature guide. Helped found Planting Earth Activation, a free garden give away grouo. Jangee has spent his life supporting various causes and believes in the awakening of Humanity. He is now devoting full-time energy to the Humanitree Movement which was …
Jasmine Fuego
Jasmine Fuego is a Bay Area based performance artist and social permaculture community organizer. In 2014, Fuego co-founded the Permaculture Action Tour with musician, The Polish Ambassador, which catalyzed hands-on, earth based projects and “action days” for thousands of people in 44 cities from San Francisco to New York City …
Jeff Clearwater
Jeff has been a leader in whole systems regenerative design for over 40 years with a special passion for intentional community, ecovillage design and applied new paradigm economics. Jeff has played a major role in the sustainable and regenerative communities movement – having co-founded the Ecovillage Network of the Americas …
Jessica Bates
Jessica Bates Is a transplant from Washington D.C. who has been establishing her roots here in the Bay Area for the last 15 years. Jessica has been gardening for over 20 years, run multiple gardening education programs, co-founded the Berkeley Ashby community garden, worked with multiple Bay Area landscapers, and is a certified permaculture …
Jihan McDonald
Jihan has received the Alpha Delta Leadership Award and a Changemaker Fellowship Award for their work in developing Allies for Life for people to learn pro-active interpersonal allyship. Jihan has worked with people ages 8-80 on learning skills, tools, and capacities for assertiveness, empathy, self-realization, spiritual grounding and social change …
Joe Anderson
Joseph Anderson works with supporting community scale agriculture education. He graduated from The Evergreen State College with a degree in Sustainable Development, and has been working in sustainable land management for 3 years. He got his Permaculture Design Certificate from PRI Jordan with Geoff Lawton, and currently works with Seattle …
John Roulac
John W. Roulac is the founder and CEO of Nutiva, the world’s leading organic superfoods brand of hemp, coconut, chia, and red palm. John founded Nutiva in 1999 with a mission to nourish people and planet. In 2002 Nutiva along with the HIA, Dr Bronners and Nature Path sued the …
John Valenzuela
John Valenzuela is a gardener, consultant and educator specializing in fruit tree care and productive perennial polycultures, by way of Cornucopia Food Forest Gardens. He is active with the California Rare Fruit Growers, volunteering as Orchard and Fruit Tree Nursery Manager at the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden College …
Jon Young
Jon Young is a nature connection mentor, naturalist, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, workshop leader, consultant, sought after public speaker and storyteller. As a leader in the field of nature-based community building over 30 years, Jon’s research into the impact and significance of nature on human intelligence and development has influenced …
Jul Bystrova
Jul has been an activist, healing practitioner, teacher and community organizer. She has been active in the Transition movement, especially in regards to “Inner Resilience”. She is currently working on her latest book about the “wild mind” and a nonprofit organization called Era of Care. Stalking the Wild Mind …
Karmendra Rossy
Karmendra Rossy is owner of Nucleus Design, an ecological landscape design/build company, located in West Sonoma County that is committed to creating natural systems for the benefit of all life. Designing for Water – Tools and Techniques …
Katie Stone
Katie Stone has been a passionate cannabis and drug policy reform activist since her youth, and is currently a board member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. She is a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Publisher of Sensi Magazine, San Francisco. Katie focused her Masters Thesis …
Keith Tucker
Keith Tucker – Founder of Hip Hop is Green Health Activist, Film Maker, Radio Host, Journalist and Speaker Keith Tucker has been a committed community activist and businessman for over 20 years. He has worked hundreds of businesses, youth groups and community organizations throughout the years. He has worked with many …
Kelly Elizabeth Ortega
Kelly Elizabeth Ortega is currently planting seeds with intention in the spaces she is honored to step into as an Earth Warrior, Yoga Guide, Ritual Maker and Creative Curator. She gives thanks to her ancestors from the lands of El Salvador and Mexico, the native people of the land she …
Lawrence Nussbaum
Lawrence Nussbaum is a life long sustainability advocate who has spent over two decades working with mission-driven companies to create meaningful impact through innovative sustainability initiatives and cause-based marketing and communications. Lawrence was a leader in the development of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for the wood products industry, built out the regional Salmon-Safe certification program for watershed friendly …
Leah Grant
Leah Grant is Co-Founder of Delphi Southern Nevada and Delphi Village’s Chief Marketing Officer. She owned a marketing consulting firm in San Francisco and an event production company in Los Angeles. She owns and runs an international consulting, coaching and training firm that focuses on business growth, innovation, collaborative teaming …
Lesley Moore
Lesley Moore is a writer, educator, organizer, and artist with fund and organizational development expertise who seeks to apply permaculture principles to its own sustainability and adoption. She works with individuals, groups and organizations to design, structure and resource regenerative right thrivelihoods and use of the flow of philanthropy and …
Lindsay Dailey
Lindsay is passionate about connecting people to nature and brings her broad experience in curriculum development, program management, and ecological restoration to her current position as co-Founder of The Oak Granary, and Director of the Wildlands Program at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center. As former Executive Director of the …
Lydia Violet Harutoonian
Lydia Violet Harutoonian, M.A, has a Masters in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from CIIS. She has studied closely with deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 8 years, learning how we can metabolize our pain for the world into profound communion with our human and more-than-human …
Madhu Anziani
Madhu Anziani is a sound healer extraordinaire who learned from the first-hand experience of being paralyzed as a quadriplegic and used sound and energy healing to completely recover. He has also studied Jazz and World Music and went on to be certified in Sound, Voice, and Music Healing at CIIS …
Margie Bushman & Wes Roe
Margie Bushman & Wes Roe are co-founders of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, an educational non-profit founded in 2000 that has sponsored hundreds of workshops and events about permaculture and sustainability to Santa Barbara region. Margie was also the Program Coordinator for the Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability …
Douglas Reil
Douglas Reil is a Bay Area publishing industry veteran, local food organizer, and a media consultant specializing in sustainability, cannabis, and regenerative culture. His thirty-year career in publishing includes serving as the publisher and executive director at the nonprofit publisher North Atlantic Books, working with authors such as Martin Prechtel, …
Dr. Kevin Danaher
Dr. Kevin Danaher is a Co-Founder of Global Exchange, FairTradeUSA, the Green Festivals, the Environmental Service Learning Initiative, and the Green Guardians. He has played a major role in Global Exchange’s 28-year record of merging social enterprise with human rights activism. His 1983 PhD in sociology from the University of …
Dustin Thomas
Big hair, big smiles, and a whole lot of love- Wild-hearted globe-trotter Dustin Thomas is making waves from America to Australia with his infectious blend of beat-box/soul-folk. Armed with his voice, a guitar, and universal anthems of love and war; this young singer-songwriter continues to inspire hearts around the world …
Emerald Figueroa
Emerald was unable to use hormonal birth control after being removed by her doctor 11 years ago because of serious side effects. In the midst of a 5 year apprenticeship studying nutrition she was encouraged by her teacher to solve the problem of what Emerald termed “incomplete non-hormonal pregnancy prevention …
EvOak Owl
I’ve been involved in the healing arts and my own path of awakening for over 10 years. Honing my gifts as a highly attuned empath, counselor, energy healer, conscious communicator, ritual facilitator and tantric priestess. I facilitate self care rituals and medicine journeys as well as offer guidance to men …
Ferananda Ibarra
[image_frame align=”left” height=”300″ width=”300″ prettyphoto=”false”][/image_frame] Ferananda is internationally recognized in collective intelligence and the next paradigm economics. The center of her work is social systems design very focused on Wisdom-Driven Organizations and Communities of purpose, place and practice. Ferananda designs experiences and facilitates processes in Europe, Mexico and the US …
Gayanee KyGa DeSilva
After experiencing a profound Kundalini (Spiritual) Awakening in 1996 Gayanee went through an intense spiritual journey exploring ancient spiritual traditions as well as learning under modern non-dual teachers. With many expanded states of consciousness rapidly revealing within along with spiritual gifts yet unable to integrate the this expansion in to …
Heather Dunbar
Heather Dunbar is a cannabis health educator with over a decade of experience in the cannabis industry, including cultivation, sales, edible production, and education. Heather has also worked extensively in the natural products industry, leading product development and community outreach for several pioneering businesses and spent several years managing massage …
Jada Imani Carter
Jada Imani is a licensed Kingian Nonviolence practitioner and a trained facilitator of Youth Speaks writing workshops. She has facilitated workshops in several high schools across the Bay Area and beyond. In May of 2017, Jada completed an intensive course at a tantric yoga school in Thailand. She has paired …
Jangee Westphal
Jangee Westphal, spokesperson for the Humanitree Movement. Permaculturist, gardener, videographer, nature guide. Helped found Planting Earth Activation, a free garden give away grouo. Jangee has spent his life supporting various causes and believes in the awakening of Humanity. He is now devoting full-time energy to the Humanitree Movement which was …
Jasmine Fuego
Jasmine Fuego is a Bay Area based performance artist and social permaculture community organizer. In 2014, Fuego co-founded the Permaculture Action Tour with musician, The Polish Ambassador, which catalyzed hands-on, earth based projects and “action days” for thousands of people in 44 cities from San Francisco to New York City …
Jeff Clearwater
Jeff has been a leader in whole systems regenerative design for over 40 years with a special passion for intentional community, ecovillage design and applied new paradigm economics. Jeff has played a major role in the sustainable and regenerative communities movement – having co-founded the Ecovillage Network of the Americas …
Jessica Bates
Jessica Bates Is a transplant from Washington D.C. who has been establishing her roots here in the Bay Area for the last 15 years. Jessica has been gardening for over 20 years, run multiple gardening education programs, co-founded the Berkeley Ashby community garden, worked with multiple Bay Area landscapers, and is a certified permaculture …
Jihan McDonald
Jihan has received the Alpha Delta Leadership Award and a Changemaker Fellowship Award for their work in developing Allies for Life for people to learn pro-active interpersonal allyship. Jihan has worked with people ages 8-80 on learning skills, tools, and capacities for assertiveness, empathy, self-realization, spiritual grounding and social change …
Joe Anderson
Joseph Anderson works with supporting community scale agriculture education. He graduated from The Evergreen State College with a degree in Sustainable Development, and has been working in sustainable land management for 3 years. He got his Permaculture Design Certificate from PRI Jordan with Geoff Lawton, and currently works with Seattle …
John Roulac
John W. Roulac is the founder and CEO of Nutiva, the world’s leading organic superfoods brand of hemp, coconut, chia, and red palm. John founded Nutiva in 1999 with a mission to nourish people and planet. In 2002 Nutiva along with the HIA, Dr Bronners and Nature Path sued the …
John Valenzuela
John Valenzuela is a gardener, consultant and educator specializing in fruit tree care and productive perennial polycultures, by way of Cornucopia Food Forest Gardens. He is active with the California Rare Fruit Growers, volunteering as Orchard and Fruit Tree Nursery Manager at the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden College …
Jon Young
Jon Young is a nature connection mentor, naturalist, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, workshop leader, consultant, sought after public speaker and storyteller. As a leader in the field of nature-based community building over 30 years, Jon’s research into the impact and significance of nature on human intelligence and development has influenced …
Jul Bystrova
Jul has been an activist, healing practitioner, teacher and community organizer. She has been active in the Transition movement, especially in regards to “Inner Resilience”. She is currently working on her latest book about the “wild mind” and a nonprofit organization called Era of Care. Stalking the Wild Mind …
Karmendra Rossy
Karmendra Rossy is owner of Nucleus Design, an ecological landscape design/build company, located in West Sonoma County that is committed to creating natural systems for the benefit of all life. Designing for Water – Tools and Techniques …
Katie Stone
Katie Stone has been a passionate cannabis and drug policy reform activist since her youth, and is currently a board member of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. She is a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Publisher of Sensi Magazine, San Francisco. Katie focused her Masters Thesis …
Keith Tucker
Keith Tucker – Founder of Hip Hop is Green Health Activist, Film Maker, Radio Host, Journalist and Speaker Keith Tucker has been a committed community activist and businessman for over 20 years. He has worked hundreds of businesses, youth groups and community organizations throughout the years. He has worked with many …
Kelly Elizabeth Ortega
Kelly Elizabeth Ortega is currently planting seeds with intention in the spaces she is honored to step into as an Earth Warrior, Yoga Guide, Ritual Maker and Creative Curator. She gives thanks to her ancestors from the lands of El Salvador and Mexico, the native people of the land she …
Lawrence Nussbaum
Lawrence Nussbaum is a life long sustainability advocate who has spent over two decades working with mission-driven companies to create meaningful impact through innovative sustainability initiatives and cause-based marketing and communications. Lawrence was a leader in the development of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for the wood products industry, built out the regional Salmon-Safe certification program for watershed friendly …
Leah Grant
Leah Grant is Co-Founder of Delphi Southern Nevada and Delphi Village’s Chief Marketing Officer. She owned a marketing consulting firm in San Francisco and an event production company in Los Angeles. She owns and runs an international consulting, coaching and training firm that focuses on business growth, innovation, collaborative teaming …
Lesley Moore
Lesley Moore is a writer, educator, organizer, and artist with fund and organizational development expertise who seeks to apply permaculture principles to its own sustainability and adoption. She works with individuals, groups and organizations to design, structure and resource regenerative right thrivelihoods and use of the flow of philanthropy and …
Lindsay Dailey
Lindsay is passionate about connecting people to nature and brings her broad experience in curriculum development, program management, and ecological restoration to her current position as co-Founder of The Oak Granary, and Director of the Wildlands Program at the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center. As former Executive Director of the …
Lydia Violet Harutoonian
Lydia Violet Harutoonian, M.A, has a Masters in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from CIIS. She has studied closely with deep ecology elder and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy for the past 8 years, learning how we can metabolize our pain for the world into profound communion with our human and more-than-human …
Madhu Anziani
Madhu Anziani is a sound healer extraordinaire who learned from the first-hand experience of being paralyzed as a quadriplegic and used sound and energy healing to completely recover. He has also studied Jazz and World Music and went on to be certified in Sound, Voice, and Music Healing at CIIS …
Margie Bushman & Wes Roe
Margie Bushman & Wes Roe are co-founders of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, an educational non-profit founded in 2000 that has sponsored hundreds of workshops and events about permaculture and sustainability to Santa Barbara region. Margie was also the Program Coordinator for the Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability …
