Marissa Ashkar
Marissa Ashkar is from The People of Color Sustainable Housing Network (POCSHN) is a resource network for people of color interested in building intentional, healthy, and affordable housing communities in the San Francisco Bay…
Andre Luis Jaeger Soares
Andre is a Permaculture Designer/Teacher and natural builder. In 1994 Andre took his first PDC and internship with Bill Mollison in Australia. He is the founder of the Permaculture Institute of Central Queensland and…
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…
Maurine
Maurine has spent over a decade studying methods of experiencing, merging with and applying Five Elements Knowledge to healing individuals and the world. She studied with a brilliant East Indian Master, Sri Kaleshwar, for…
Nik Bertulis
Nik Bertulis wants to reinstate abundance for all life via empowering humanity’s intrinsic regenerative potential. He studied permaculture with Bill Mollison and is a certified permaculture teacher, wildlands firefighter and emergency medical technician with…
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…
Stephanie Maldonado
Stephanie graduated with her Bachelors in Liberal Studies from San Francisco State University where she studied Holistic Health, Urban Development, and Environmental Sciences. She is an environmental activist, a guerrilla gardner, free-lance herbalist, permaculturalist,…
Catherine Nkolo Lebongo
Catherine Nkolo Lebongo is a teacher, creative, and activist who is fascinated by how design and social enterprise have the power to elevate everything—from products, to systems, to spaces. As an international, multicultural, woman…
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…
Margo Dunlap
Margo Dunlap is the newest team member at The Fearless Heart and BayNVC, supporting Development and Partnerships. She is an advocate, maker, mother, and passionate learner oriented towards leadership and service. She has worked…
Sāmi Brothers : Madhu & Alex
The Sāmi Brothers are a ceremonial and musical duo, trained in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of cross-cultural shamanism, regularly holding community ceremonies in the Bay Area. They have multiple CD's out and are full…
Steven Knopp
Steven Knopp is a renowned Wilderness survival skills educator , a preparedness , and permaculture consultant and long term self sufficient off-grid homesteader, and a maker of educational videos on these and other related…
Susan Silber
Susan Silber: Susan was introduced to community resilience after learning about the Transition Movement and co-founded the Berkeley Transition Initiative five years ago. Susan was co-producer of the Building Resilience Communities Convergence in both 2013 and…
Desirae Harp
Desirae Harp is a member of the Mishewal Wappo tribe from the central coast of California, and she is a descendant of the Diné Nation from the Southwest. She is a singer/songwriter, cultural bearer/activist,…
Chaz Peling
“Chaz Peling founded and runs SolSolutions, focused on personal empowerment and education around solar, energy use, and efficient designs in homes, farms and communities. He has been involved in community building, environmental and social…
Matthew Nelson
Matthew Nelson is a movement artist, activist, educator, researcher, therapist, and entrepreneur. Particularly in love with the act of dancing, Matthew experiences movement as a way of aligning energy with form. Eternally curious, Matthew…
Anja Robinson
Anja Robinson is founder and lead herbalist of Mana Medicinals. She is a Clinical Herbalist, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Holistic Nutrition Consultant, wildcrafter, farmer, and maker of small batch, seasonal botanical medicines. Anja believes that…
Rachel Hinds
Rachel is a Holistic Doula trained by Pacific Rim College in BC Canada. She sees birth as an initiation for the birthing person, the baby, and the community supporting the process. Rachel is passionate…
Ariel Ollivier
Ariel Ollivier is a Sacred Feminine Leader of Ceremony and Ritual. Facilitating Circles and Gatherings for Women to have a Sanctuary, where they feel safe, seen, and supported. She is an intuitive healer and…
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…