Carl Anthony, a former Executive Director of the Earth Island Institute, is currently Deputy Director of the Community and Resource Department Unit at the Ford Foundation as well as Chair of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development. He has long been one of the nation's most renowned environmental leaders and is one of the seminal founders of the environmental justice movement.

Sarah Crowell (www.destinyarts.org), the Executive Director of the renowned Destiny Arts Center in Oakland, CA, has been empowering youth through dance, theater, violence-prevention and youth leadership classes and workshops in Bay Area schools and community centers since 1990, encouraging youths to find their voices through the arts. She is also a dancer and actress who has performed nationally and internationally and co-directs the “i am! Productions” dance/theater company.

Tzeporah Berman (www.forestethics.org) is the Program Director for ForestEthics, an organization with programs in the United States, Canada and Chile that have protected over 5 million acres of forests in the last five years and have transformed buying patterns of major paper and wood consumers such as Staples and Office Depot. Prior to joining ForestEthics, Ms. Berman worked for seven years with Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Canada, and currently sits on the boards of the Ruckus Society and the Hollyhock Retreat Center and lives on Cortes Island, BC with her husband and their two children.

Spencer B. Beebe (www.ecotrust.org), over the course of his 35 year career, has played a key role in the creation of innovative conservation and development organizations from Alaska to Bolivia, helping pioneer “debt for nature” swaps in tropical rainforest countries, “environmental banking” in the Pacific Northwest and building "Salmon Nation"-a vision of a truly sustainable greater Northwest region. He is founder and President of Ecotrust, a Portland-based organization committed to improving social, economic and environmental conditions from Alaska to California and serves on the boards of ShoreBank Corporation, Ecotrust Canada and Ecotrust Forest Management, Inc.

Maria Elena Durazo, one of the nation's most prominent Hispanic labor leaders, is the President of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union, (H.E.R.E.-Local 11, AFL-CIO) and General Vice-President of H.E.R.E's International Union (U.S. membership of over 250,000). One of 10 children of Mexican immigrant field workers, Maria earned a law degree in 1985 and became the first Latina to head a major union in Southern California. A member of the California Coastal Commission, she was also National Director of the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride, a national mobilization campaign to fix U.S. immigration laws.

Lois Marie Gibbs (www.chej.org), 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 has assisted over 10,000 grassroots groups nationwide with critical organizing and technical assistance. The winner of many awards including the 1990 Goldman Environmental Prize and the 1998 Heinz Award, Lois has spoken around the country and been featured on many of the nation’s most popular television and radio news shows.

Amy Goodman (www.democracynow.org), is the Executive Producer and host of the acclaimed radio program, “Democracy Now!” on Pacifica Radio, and formerly served as news director for WBAI in New York. An intrepid reporter and investigator, she is a recipient of the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Journalism Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Reporting and the George Polk Award. Goodman has reported from many of the world’s “hot spots:” Israel and the occupied territories, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Nigeria and East Timor.

Paul Hawken (www.naturalcapital.org, www.paulhawken.com) has been a trend-setting leader for decades. He was one of the earliest pioneers at the birth of the modern “health food” movement, one of the earliest exponents and exemplars of socially responsible entrepreneurship and a life-long social justice and environmental activist. If all that weren’t enough, Paul has long been one of our most important thinkers on ecology and economics, culture, business, activism and politics, and he has written several of the most groundbreaking and deeply influential books of our time, including The Ecology of Commerce, Natural Capitalism (and the forthcoming Blessed Unrest).

Paul Stamets (www.fungi.com), president of Fungi Perfecti, a mail-order business supplying cultures, equipment and myco-technologies to mushroom cultivators throughout the world, has discovered four new species of mushrooms and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation and in “fungal bioremediation.” He has written six books including Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, The Mushroom Cultivator, Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World, and most recently, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, as well as many articles and scholarly papers. Paul has authored and been awarded several breakthrough patents on fungal pesticide and bioremediation techniques that have great potential to help clean up the environment. He is also a dedicated hiker, conservationist and explorer whose passion is to preserve, protect and clone as many ancestral strains of mushrooms as possible from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.

Thomas Linzey  (www.celdf.org), a Pennsylvania-based activist and attorney, is co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit providing free and affordable legal services to grassroots groups and municipal governments and seeking creative legal strategies for democratic control over corporations, especially in demanding the right of localities to refuse to accept highly polluting industrial agriculture facilities. Linzey has run as an independent for state Attorney General in PA, serves as coordinator of the Franklin County Coalition, is a frequent lecturer to groups and municipal governments across the country and is a resident lecturer for the "Democracy Schools" he helped found-ever more popular and widespread weekend seminars held across the U.S. that seek to provoke critical thinking about the role of corporations and teach strategies to reclaim local “home rule” over key economic decisions that affect communities.

Michael Pollan (www.michaelpollan.com), currently the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and Director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism, has been writing about where the human and natural worlds intersect (food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture) for over 20 years. His books include the award-winning, bestselling, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World; and, most recently, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals,about the ethics and ecology of eating. A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1987, he has received numerous awards, and his articles have appeared in many publications, including Harper’s, Mother Jones and House & Garden.

Sofía Quintero (aka "Black Artemis") (www.blackartemis.com) is a Bronx born writer, activist, educator and comedienne of Puerto Rican-Dominican ancestry. A self-proclaimed "Ivy League homegirl," who earned an MPA from Columbia's prestigious School of International Affairs, she is a long-time activist on a range of issues who has married her activism with storytelling in the critically acclaimed Black Artemis series of novels as well as other works under her own name (including Divas Don't Yield). Sofia also co-founded Chica Luna Productions and Sister/Outsider Entertainment to help produce socially conscious entertainment in many media.

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, one of the earliest pioneers in the mind/body holistic health movement, co-founded the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, which vaulted to national prominence when it was featured in Bill Moyers’ groundbreaking PBS series, “Healing and the Mind.” She has cared for people with cancer and their families for over 30 years. A nationally recognized medical reformer and educator who sees the practice of medicine as a spiritual path, she is currently Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, and is the author of several bestselling books, including: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal and My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging.

Clayton Thomas-Müller (www.ienearth.org) of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for indigenous self-determination and environmental justice. He is the Indigenous Oil Campaign Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network and works across Alaska, Canada and the lower 48 States of the USA with grassroots indigenous communities to defend their human and environmental rights against transnational oil corporations. Clayton has been recognized by the Utne Reader as one of the top 30 under 30 young activists in the United States.

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James Hillman is a Connecticut-based scholar, international lecturer, pioneer psychologist, and the author of more than twenty books, including The Soul's Code, Re-Visioning Psychology, Healing Fiction, The Dream and the Underworld, and Suicide and the Soul. A Jungian analyst and originator of post-Jungian "archetypal psychology," he has held teaching positions at Yale, the University of Chicago, Syracuse and the University of Dallas, where he co-founded the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.