[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/photo1.jpg[/image_frame] Amber is a philosopher-inventor-ecogeek with a passion for ethical finance and a mission to create a thriving future for everyone. She has nearly 15 years of experience in sustainability…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/unnamed2.jpg[/image_frame] Alison Wood is a mother, student, community herbalist and devoteé of the wild. She is passionate about sustainable, off-the-grid community healthcare where we are empowered to tend our (and…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Tara-head-shot-purple.png[/image_frame] Tara Marchant, Emerald Cities Oakland Director, brings eight years of experience in energy efficiency policy and workforce development, including five years at EC Oakland. She has received her Permaculture…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_5683.jpg[/image_frame] Loved internationally for her infectious capacity to initiate joy-fueled transformation, Samantha Sweetwater is an educator, sacred activist, wisdom leader, artist and culture coder. As the creator of a global…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/unnamed-2.jpg[/image_frame] Alli Chagi-Starr is a creative change maker, alliance builder and cultural organizer. She is the Director of ArtiVISTA Productions and Consulting, where she works with national and community leaders…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1432675685419.jpeg[/image_frame] Gavin Raders is a co-founder and Executive Director of Planting Justice, a social justice activist, and a permacuture demonstrator/teacher. He dedicates his time to practicing permaculture wherever he can,…
Andrew Langford is the co-president Of Gaia University. Andrew is an unusualist, a possibilist and a lover of small-scale living associated with large-scale thinking. In the early 1970’s, influenced in part by the book…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/haleh.jpg[/image_frame] Haleh Zandi is a co-founder and the Educational Director of Planting Justice. Her approach towards the food justice movement particularly draws connections between the United States dependence upon fossil…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/photo-e1442455934373.jpg[/image_frame] Susan is co-producer of the Building Resilience Communities Convergence. She has worked as both a community organizer and environmental educator for the past 25 years. She is proud to…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Rachel-Kaplan1.jpg[/image_frame] Rachel Kaplan is a permacuture educator, somatic healer, political agitator, and mother. She works in the lineages of generative somatics, the Regenerative Design Institute, Contact Improv and radical street…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Unknown-1.jpeg[/image_frame] Jan Spencer took his PDC in 1991 in Austin, Texas. He moved to Eugene in 1992. From the start in 2000, Jan intended to transform his quarter acre suburban…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Gerardo.jpg[/image_frame] Gerardo works as a permaculture consultant and educator through Mexico and Latin America. For the last 5 years he has been a member of the Wixarika Research Center, a…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Delia-e1443749256629.jpg[/image_frame] Conceived in Pennsylvania, born in California, Delia Carroll is a hardy pioneer species deeply rooted in the soil of Bay Area counterculture. She has a degree in the art…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Kellen-Watson-Bio-Photo.jpg[/image_frame] Kellen works with Daily Acts and municipal governments to bring permaculture ideas to the world at large, using local water conservation initiatives as a funding source and a framework.…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/AyshaMassell.jpg[/image_frame] Aysha Massell, MS in Environmental Engineering, is co-founder of Drought Smart, a worker-owned cooperative focusing on affordable water reuse and harvesting systems for residents and businesses throughout the Bay…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mateo.jpg[/image_frame] Alfonso Jaramillo is co-founder of Drought Smart, a Bay Area rainwater catchment and greywater re-use systems worker-owned cooperative. Alfonso has a diverse background that includes a B.A. in Development…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ChoQoshAuhHoOh.jpg[/image_frame] ChoQosh Auh’Ho’Oh was named by the Seneca and Chumash elders. She is herself an elder of Coastal Native Indian descent. She is a giver of spiritual tools, divine and…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/11150236_10206803933525484_94523102715552836_n.jpg[/image_frame] Joshua Chambers is passionate about permaculture. After years of self-study, he completed a PDC in 2010 and has since then done three workshops with Sepp Holzer. He helped to…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MelanieSt.James_Bio_Pic.jpg[/image_frame] Recently returned from medicine exploration in Zimbabwe, Melanie St. James was first inspired in 1999 by the culturally rich animist tribe in Senegal West Africa to use their rich…
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Judy_Hoaglund.jpg[/image_frame] Judy Hoaglund has studied and practiced shamanic arts with indigenous teachers in North, Central and South America for more than 25 years. In 2001 she began an extensive apprenticeship…