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Allison Quaid is the Chief Eco-Catalyst of Creative Eco-Catalysts and Executive Director of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities.  She has worked with over 500 businesses, local governments and non-profit organizations to successfully green their operations.  Areas include energy efficiency, renewable energy, environmentally-responsible procurement, green building, sustainable transportation, greenhouse gas emission inventories and climate action plans, waste management, and natural resource conservation.  Allison believes in making systematic progress towards sustainability, so she developed the Sustainability Inventory, an innovative tool for assessing community resources. She conducted Inventories in 10 cities, managing extensive data research, analysis and inter-departmental team building. Policy and programmatic changes in municipalities occurred as a result of the process. She also developed and executed communication strategies (print, audio, case studies, internet, media, workshops, summits) for promoting energy conservation among companies, organizations and governmental agencies in California while at Flex Your Power.  Allison also designs and installs outdoor public art which builds environmental stewardship, art, and community in San Francisco.

Amber L. Mayes is an organization development consultant and coach with 10 years of experience facilitating the learning and growth of organizations and individuals. She specializes in diversity consulting and training, professional and life coaching, strategic direction setting, and team development. Her passion is creating environments where individuals and organizations can optimize their potential and performance.

As a complement to her consulting work, Amber has taught Organization Behavior as an adjunct professor at Bentley College and Managing Cross Cultural Communication at Northeastern University. She is also currently an active member of The NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences where she is involved in researching, presenting, and facilitating sessions relating to current issues in organization development.

Within her research and academic pursuits, Amber has particular interest and expertise in issues pertaining to multiracial identity, inter-racial relationships and cross-cultural communication. Her approach to this work has been called "exceptionally insightful and effective in bridging differences between people". Through experiential coaching and training models, Amber facilitates the individual awareness and skill development necessary for effective leadership in today's diverse world.

Amber holds an M.S. in Organization Development from The American University/NTL Institute and a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard University.

Belma González provides cultural- and assets-based coaching for diverse nonprofit leaders and activists and technical assistance to social justice organizations.  She is a certified coach through the Coaches Training Institute and works with diverse clients all over the US on leadership enhancement, change management, transitions and work/life balance.  A founding member of Prism Coaching, a coaches of color consortium, Belma is committed to utilizing the assets of race, class and culture in her coaching practice.

Belma coaches grantees of the French American Charitable Trust, the AEPOCH Fund, the Horizons Foundation’s Rickey Williams Leader Fellowships, LeaderSpring Fellows, San Francisco Department of Children Youth and Families Roots Fellows and Haas Jr. Fund’s Flexible Leadership Awardees.

Belma has over twenty-five years of experience working in the nonprofit sector.  Belma worked with Center for Collaborative Planning’s Women’s Health Leadership, a leadership development program with over 350 grassroots primarily women of color participants.  Prior to WHL, Belma worked at Women’s Needs Center, a free clinic serving low-income, uninsured women.  She began at WNC as a volunteer and remained nineteen years serving in various staff capacities, including Executive Director.

Corrina Steward is the founding principal of EcoResource Consulting and Coaching.  She a personal coach to environmental and sustainability professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders.  As a coach, she combines personal foundation work with life purpose visioning and strategizing.  Her coaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that personal power and integrity can change the world from the inside out.  As a consultant, Ms. Steward provides strategic advice, research and program development services. 

Ms. Steward brings nearly 10 years experience in the sustainable development field to her coaching and consulting.  She is a respected expert in the areas of bioenergy, climate change and the food system, human rights and the environment, tropical forestry management, agribusiness, sustainable livelihoods and environmental markets.  She has published academic and popular press articles on agribusiness, globalization and biofuels. Ms. Steward was a feature presenter for the United Nations Development Program’s Experts Workshop on Biodiversity Marketing and the Commission on Sustainable Development-16 Meeting.  She was a facilitator for Nyéléni: Forum for Food Sovereignty 2007 in Selingue, Mali.   

Corrina is a graduate of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.  She is a Coach U graduate and a member of the International Coach Federation. 

Dave Room is a principal of Energy Preparedness, a consultancy that works with municipalities and companies to increase their level of preparedness for escalating oil prices and supply disruptions. Dave is the founding board member and steering committee member of Bay Localize, a social benefit organization focused on building the capacity for localizing energy, food, and water in the Bay Area. He is currently the coordinator of the Local Clean Energy Alliance. Dave was recently a member of the Oil Independent Oakland task force and is working on a number of projects involving energy and localization, including educating presidential candidates about peak oil through the Hubbert Tribute. His blog is Stardust Localizing.

Jamie Does is an Associate with Jackson Hole Group bringing a unique combination of skills and understanding, which he uses with clients to increase individual, group, and organizational effectiveness. With fifteen years of professional experience in management and training, and as a lifelong practicing artist, Jamie brings the powerful blend of left and right brain thinking that has become so critical to navigating today’s increasingly complex business challenges.

As a coach to management teams, Jamie works with clients to improve their performance, effectiveness and capability, with an emphasis on building trust and authenticity. As a meeting facilitator, Jamie moves groups and teams toward results with an approach grounded in participatory decision making and the building of sustainable agreements. In both coach and facilitator roles, clients depend on Jamie for his articulate advice, logical options and calmness in the face of problems.

Creativity and the synthesis of wholes define the power of Jamie’s work as a graphic facilitator and designer. Using an innovative visual process to help people see the ‘big picture’, Jamie helps business leaders achieve rapid results in strategy, vision, and roadmap workshops. Taking advantage of how pictures create a common visual language, Jamie’s work increases understanding and accelerates change. Jamie is certified in a range of facilitation and coaching tools, including Community at Work’s Facilitation and Participatory Decision Making, the Lominger, Ltd. Leadership Architect Suite, and the 5 Dynamics Coaching 1 to 1 tool. Jamie has also completed Rockwood Leadership’s training on The Art of Leadership, focused on creating lasting organizational and social change, and Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Authentic Leadership workshop.

Katherine Steele is a permaculture activist, designer and educator. She facilitates workshops on natural building and permaculture and is the founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, CA.

Kevin Bayuk started as an artist and filmmaker, explored an eight year meander as a technology entrepreneur (in an attempt to fund films) and has now graduated into a life as an activated advocate for ecotopian living. Currently he leverages his skills and relationships to develop organizations and projects that regenerate healthy ecosystems and socially just environments. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Urban Alliance for Sustainability, Daily Acts and BayLocalize. Kevin also facilitates permaculture trainings and shares his skills in organic gardening and composting in playshops and community workshops.

MacArthur Antigua is the founder/principal of Massive Creativity, an organization that facilitates spaces and experiences to cultivate the artistry and genius of individuals, organizations and communities. This is achieved through three avenues: facilitating organizational development, providing life coaching for individual change agents.

Currently, MacArthur is the project director of Turning The Tide, a joint initiative between the Alliance for Children and Families and Public Allies that is developing a national campaign to recruit and retain diverse talented young adults to work in nonprofit human services.

Prior to founding Massive Creativity, MacArthur completed a four-year term as the Program Director for Public Allies Chicago, an AmeriCorps program committed to advancing diverse young leaders to strengthen communities, non-profits and civic participation.  He was also a faculty associate of the National Service Leadership Institute.  He is also an alumnus of the Public Allies Chicago/AmeriCorps Apprenticeship Program (1997).  He is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Communication Studies.

Mac lives by the credo, “Having fun doing serious things.”  He also enjoys to “play”, either as a fan or as a participant – this is evident in his passion for Chicago sports teams, or as a performer and teacher of longform improvisational theater.  He resides in Saint Paul, MN with his wife Paru, and two daughters Leela and Meera.

Mikaela Seligman is an experienced teacher, facilitator, strategist and leadership coach committed to working with people who want to make valuable contributions to confronting tough problems. She co-founded The OCL Group in 2006 to engage creative approaches to developing leadership; build practices of coaching in organizations; and strengthen knowledge sharing within and across organizations. She currently teaches Leadership in George Mason University’s executive program on Organizational Development and Knowledge Management and serves a client base that includes international and domestic nonprofits, foundations and the public sector. In her earlier career, she served as a Charter Corps Member with Teach for America in Brooklyn, New York, and served on a small team that founded an innovative elementary school in the same community.   Following her work in schools, she was a Program Officer in the early years of AmeriCorps, served as Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer for the largest coordinator of volunteer services in the Greater Washington region, and was Senior Advisor for Education to Washington DC Mayor Tony Williams.   She now lives in San Francisco, California.
 
Mikaela has a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where she focused on Leadership and served as a Teaching Fellow with Dr. Ronald Heifetz.  She also has a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University.    Her undergraduate degree in Journalism from Boston University prepared her well for a lifetime of inquiry.

Milano Harden is principal and president of The Genius Group, Inc. He has extensive training in leadership and organizational development, nonprofit management & strategy, cultural diversity and inclusion, and community health improvement. The Genius Group, Inc. (TGG) provides organization strategy and grantmaking design support to private foundations; technical assistance and capacity building support to the grantees of foundation-funded initiatives; and solutions in strategic planning, financial management, diversity & inclusion.  TGG works with leaders of all kinds with an emphasis on philanthropic/nonprofit leaders working on social change and community building themes.

“The sum total of who I am---forged in New Bern, North Carolina and Prince George’s County, Maryland, has had a tremendous impact on how I view the world through both rural and urban eyes. My sense of justice, community, and integrity has developed a common thread throughout my life that translates to my ability to be a broker of information and a coach. More recently, I have come to see myself as an “Organizational Belayer” or “one who secures the rope, enabling the climber (individuals and organizations) to ascend safely to new heights”.  This means I help communities and organizations unveil the assets that already exist, but might not be fully utilized. Liberation theologian Howard Thurman, said that "there is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself and if you cannot hear it, you will all of life be on the ends of strings that someone else pulls”.  I believe that communities are rich with a genuineness of self that is often not acknowledged, understood, or respected by those outside of that community who are called upon to direct resources intended to makes these communities more economically viable and sustainable. It is important that the narrative that is born out of rural communities not only be grounded in the authentic and unique complexities of each community, but that it also has the ability to influence and direct a collective vision for more viable and healthy futures. My greatest joy comes from living in Durham with my wonderful husband Michael and my amazing son Che.”

Omisade Burney-Scott has a career spanning higher education, non-profit leadership, philanthropy and organizational coaching. She is the Founder and Principal of Ananse Consulting which provides organizational capacity building, coaching, program design, philanthropic leadership development, and board development. Currently, she is the Director of Constituent Relations for the Southern Rural Development Initiative (SRDI), building and developing stronger relationships with current and new community partners as well as a more intentional comprehensive delivery of SRDI services.  Prior to work with Ananse and SRDI, she was a Program Director with both the Warner Foundation, a small private family foundation in North Carolina and Public Allies North Carolina, a national AmeriCorps leadership program.

Omisade has been a participant in the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond Undoing Racism workshop, VISIONS, Inc. multicultural training, and the YWCA’s Race Study Circles which has inspired work in addressing issues of difference, power, and privilege individually as well as part of a collective effort. Her belief in the interconnectedness of spirituality and activism and the mighty and righteous work of indigenous leaders tethered to local communities and small organizations is reflected in current volunteer board involvement with both stone circles (NC) and the Fund for Southern Communities (ATL).

Omisade is a 1989 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Communication Studies and an alumnus of both the 1999-2001 class of the Wildacres Leadership Initiative William C. Friday Fellows for Human Relations and the 2003 Southeastern Council on Foundation’s Hull Leadership Fellow.

Raquel Gutiérrez is a private consultant specializing in masterful facilitation, leadership development, and transformation of organizational culture. For over twenty years she has dedicated herself to working with individuals and organizations that have the courage to improve their quality of life and better serve others.

Gutiérrez purposefully uses a cross-discipline approach based in the core values of personal transformation, continual learning, daily practice, and wellness. Among her peers, she is recognized for freely sharing resources, building relationships between groups unfamiliar to one another, involving trusted and resourceful associates, and challenging people to explore possibilities outside their routine paradigms. Gutiérrez's strong technical background, practical management experience, outstanding communication skills, and love of learning have helped her develop innovative and resourceful approaches to her work so that people she serves may live meaningful, balanced, and fulfilled lives.

Gutiérrez, the fourth daughter of Gustavo and Raquel Consuelo Gutierrez, was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona. She is a graduate of Arizona State University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in 1988. In 1994, Gutiérrez moved to Washington D.C. where she attained a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University. Her master's thesis focused on the role of myths and traditions in Chicano culture. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Antioch University’s Leadership and Change Program, where her dissertation explores the alignment between the values, beliefs, and practices of social justice workers.

Rona Zollinger is the founder and teacher of the Environmental Studies Academy (ESA) at Briones School of Independent Study in Martinez, CA. The ESA is a integrated Place-Based Learning alternative for high school students in the Martinez Unified School District, whose focus is partnership and transformative education, service learning and stewardship, ecological restoration and the regeneration of a positive school culture.  She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah in Sociology and received her California teaching credential from San Diego State University in Social and Health Science.  She received an MA in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is currently completing her PhD in Transformative Learning and Change.  She is a trained mediator and specializes in examining human ecological learning environments for health and sustainability.  She is also a proud mother of a teenage daughter.

Sara Ellis Conant is a consultant with Deloitte Consulting and specializes in training, communications, change management, building a sustainable business, and core values identification and implementation.  Her research on values-based business can be found in Lahaska Publishing’s Building an Extraordinary Business.  Previously, Sara ran a boutique consulting company, Ellis Group, which offered strategy consulting and executive coaching to assist clients to improve their effectiveness through values-based operations. Her clients ranged from Fortune 500 companies to social-purpose entrepreneurs.  Before starting Ellis Group, Sara served as Development Director for RSF Social Finance.  Sara is now a Board Member for RSF Social Finance and is founder and Board Member of Young Women Social Entrepreneurs.  Sara has an MBA and a BA in Organizational Sociology and Economics from Stanford University.  Sara also has advanced training as a Falling Awake Life Coach.  She lives with her husband, Rob Conant, in the Oakland hills.

Dig In Advisors are trusted mentors and colleagues who help guide Dig In’s work through providing strategic advising, recommending projects and resources, and creating a constellation of accomplished professionals who reflect diverse fields and a range of approaches to sustainability and social change.

Adam D. Rogoff is an environmental attorney based in Massachusetts. His practice focuses largely on the redevelopment of environmentally distressed properties known as Brownfields and Green Building. Adam is committed to sustainability and community building in his work and civic life. He is the chair of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOI), which provides a year-long fellowship of community organizing training for young Jewish adults working for justice and social change. In his own neighborhood he also sits on the Board of Directors of the Roslindale Village Main Street.

Arlene Rodriguez directs the environment program for The San Francisco Foundation. The program aims to promote environmentally sustainable practices by addressing urban and natural environmental issues that focus on ecosystems protection, climate change, equitable growth and development, the reduction of toxins, and advancing environmental health and justice for the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms. Rodriguez has extensive experience in organizational development, program planning, community development, and the environmental field. She served as senior program officer for the environment at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, was the director of community programs and founding director of the Crissy Field Environmental Center with Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and served as urban program director for the Western Region of The Trust for Public Land. She currently serves on the board of directors for numerous organizations: she is president of the board of trustees for the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities; and serves on the boards of The Health and Environmental Funders Network; and Courtney Foundation. In the past, Ms. Rodriguez served on the boards of the San Francisco Education Fund and the Marine Mammal Center, and acted as a commissioner for the City and County of San Francisco Department on the Environment. Ms. Rodriguez has a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois. She also holds a Bachelors of Science in Landscape Horticulture and Masters in Landscape Architecture, with a minor in Urban Planning, from North Carolina State University.

Brian Dunn is the Founder and President of Aquillian Investments, Inc., an NASD securities firm that provides private placement services in venture capital, private equity, real estate, and commodities.  Aquillian specializes in diversified portfolios of venture funds that profitably address important societal challenges through better business design, tapping some of the world’s largest and fastest growing markets, such as Energy, Water, Micro-Finance, Forestry, Natural Foods, and Information Communication Technologies. 

Mr. Dunn previously served as the Director of Investors’ Circle, one of the nation’s oldest and largest angel investor groups.  In this capacity, he had full responsibility for the daily operations of the company, and also evaluated hundreds of early stage investment opportunities.

Caryn Ginsberg is a principal at Priority Ventures Group and has over 20 years experience helping organizations get better results through strategy and marketing. Her clients have ranged from small nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies. She serves on the board of directors of the Institute for Humane Education, an organization dedicated to creating a more sustainable, compassionate world. Caryn has taught courses in marketing strategy and management in Johns Hopkins University’s MBA program. 

Christopher Peck is one of three owners of Natural Investments LLC, sharing responsibilities with Hal Brill and Michael Kramer. Christopher has a long experience with natural investing, beginning as an investor in Working Assets mutual funds in 1987 while still in college. He began as an investment advisor in 1998 running his own firm, Holistic Solutions, teaching classes in holistic financial planning and advising clients on all areas of sustainable personal finance. Christopher has taught finance in the Green MBA program at New College in Santa Rosa, CA and since 2003 has taught a business planning class called Sustainable Local Enterprises with John Stayton, the founder of the Green MBA program. He holds the Accredited Asset Management Specialist designation from the College of Financial Planning.

Courtney Bourns is the Director of Programs at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. She oversees the development and implementation of programs as the organization continues to expand its work facilitating change in grantmaker practices that support nonprofit results.

Courtney brings to GEO over twelve years of experience leading and facilitating positive change through collaborative engagement of stakeholders.  She has worked with community groups, nonprofit organizations and foundation-nonprofit collaboratives committed to social change.  She has led training, facilitation and consulting initiatives in organizational development, strategic planning, and leadership development. Prior to joining GEO, Courtney served as the Director of Organizational Development and Training with Conservation International where she worked with CI’s management teams around the world in order to enhance the organization’s overall effectiveness. She also spent six years as a Senior Associate at the Interaction Institute for Social Change in Cambridge, MA, where she served in the lead consulting role on GEO’s Change Agent project.  Courtney holds a bachelors degree in International Relations with a focus on International Mediation and Negotiation from Brown University and a master’s degree in Theology and Ethics from Union Theological Seminary.

Deborah Meehan is the founder and an integral part of the leadership team of the Leadership Learning Community (LLC). The LLC strengthens the practice of leadership development by linking the inquiry, practice and resources of those committed to developing social justice leadership. The LLC is a growing and dynamic learning community of more than 1000 leadership development practitioners, scholars and researchers. LLC if founded on the principles of a gift economy, a spirit of generosity and a shared commitment to collaborative learning and work. In l991 Deborah received a Kellogg National Leadership fellowship. She served as a consultant for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation building an alumni association for the 700 leadership alumni of the Kellogg program. Deborah has also conducted leadership program evaluations and has produced leadership scans, literature reviews and made program recommendations on behalf of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation, The California Endowment, the Echoing Green Foundation, the S.H. Cowell Foundation, the Lucille and David Packard Foundation, the The Northwest Area Foundation, The Blandin Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Deborah is a longtime community activist, proud Oaklander and devoted mother of two very amazing young women.

Erline Belton is Chairwoman and CEO of Belton’s Crossing, LLC a real estate development corporation and the CEO and Founder of the Lyceum Group, an organizational development-consulting firm. The mission of The Lyceum Group is to influence societal and workplace re-thinking and strategy development for individuals and work teams in their places of work. Her life’s work is to be of service to others in their search for truth using effective principle and strategies that support positive business results and individual personal growth. Her focus is in US and international markets. Her most recent international assignments were in South Africa, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe. She has spent 25 years as a senior corporate executive in the high technology and in the insurance industry, and eight years in higher education. Prior to the creation of The Lyceum Group, she was a senior executive holding the position of Senior Vice President of human resources, being a partner of a $650 million dollar business team at Digital Equipment Corporation, and being responsible for, health services, employee relations, personnel policy, corporate law, and corporate communications in 31 countries.

As a consultant, Ms. Belton’s expertise is in business strategy development, organization development, human resources, executive and life coaching. Her work and life experiences give her a unique combination of business strategy and organization development theory and practice. Her focus is on senior executive performance and life coaching that leads to a focus on intentional creation of legacy supported by clarified values and principles as the foundation of their leadership. She also focuses on large scale systems change effort. Her current interest is in the area of creating legacy thru leadership. In her works she explores the relationship to building values-based systems in corporations, non-profits, government agencies and world communities based on truth-telling, compassion, and intellect.

She has held multiple teaching appointments at the University of Massachusetts, Tufts University, Wheelock College, and Harvard University. She has worked for the Harvard Center for Social Policy and Change in research and evaluation of early childhood intervention and head start. She has served as an adjunct professor and was a senior fellow at Tufts University. She currently sits on a range of non-profit and corporate Boards of Directors. Ms. Belton is also active as a national and international speaker, recently appearing at UNESCO - Paris, France; Harvard Business School; The American Red Cross; First Chicago National Bank; Ford Motor Company Engineering Conference; US Department of Currency; Simmons Graduate School of Management; and The White House. Topics include creating leadership to build inclusive organizations, organizational development, transformation, diversity, human resource strategies, AIDS in the workplace strategies, and truth telling for organization healing. She is also a certified Reiki practitioner.

Julian Agyeman is associate professor and chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University. He is an academic with trans- and post- disciplinary interests who started as an ecologist and bio-geographer, who now works in environmental and sustainability policy and planning as an environmental social scientist in the emerging field of urban political ecology.

He was born and educated in Britain where his studies in both science and social science background framed his perspectives, research and scholarship. He has taught geography in a high school in Carlisle, England, and environmental policy at London South Bank University, and at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He has served as an environmental education and policy adviser at Notting Dale Urban Studies Centre in London, and in local government in the inner London Boroughs of Lambeth and Islington. He co-founded in 1988, and chaired until 1994, of the Black Environment Network (BEN), the first environmental justice-based organization of its kind in Britain. In 1996, Agyeman co-founded and is co-editor of Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA) in the same year. Between 1992 and 1997, he ran his own consulting firm which specialized in communicating environmental and sustainable solutions to local governments, not-for-profit organizations and businesses. In January 1998, he and his wife Lynn left Britain for the USA and now live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

You can learn more about Julian’s background, research interests and publications by clicking on his name above.

Kathia Castro Laszlo, Ph.D. is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Syntony Quest, an educational, research and consulting organization that empowers businesses and communities to work and learn in ways that embody social and environmental integrity, with offices in San Francisco and Monterrey, Mexico. Kathia is a Faculty member at the Presidio School of Management where she teaches strategy and leadership in their MBA in Sustainable Management and serves as Co-Director of Research. She is a doctoral advisor and professor of courses on systems thinking, evolutionary consciousness, and sustainability at Saybrook Graduate School and Co-Chairs the Special Integration Group on Evolutionary Development for the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), of which she is past Vice-President and Board Member. She is author of the forthcoming book Education and Beyond: An introduction to the design of Evolutionary Learning Community and has published in the areas of evolutionary development, knowledge management, future trends in education, learning technologies, and systems thinking and its application to social and environmental issues. In 1996, Kathia came to San Francisco, as a Fulbright Scholar from Mexico, to do her doctoral studies under the mentorship of Bela H. Banathy at Saybrook Graduate School in the area of Human Science with emphasis on social and institutional change. She was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award in systems science for her work on evolutionary learning communities, is holder of a Masters Degree in Education with specialization in Cognitive Development, and of a B.A. in the field of Marketing. She is the life partner of Alexander Laszlo and the proud mother of 8 year-old Kahlia.




Kim Stokely has spent the last 20 years as a non-profit leader coaching emerging non-profits and community groups as they formed, developed, and took action.  She is founder and Executive Director of Earthwater (Formerly Adopt-A-Watershed) a non-profit that has been operating since 1988.  In her work, Kim has personally experienced the challenges of being a non-profit leader.  She has turned her work toward nurturing other non-profit leaders in their professional and personal lives so that they can bring the gifts of leadership to whole-hearted service for others and the world.  As a Courage and Renewal facilitator, Kim hopes to provide leaders with the opportunity to renew their spirits, reconnection who they are with what they do. 

Miles Smith is a non-profit, social enterprise, and philanthropic professional. His background includes fundraising, sales and marketing, leadership coaching, philanthropic advising, family philanthropy, and non-profit board leadership.

Miles earned his MBA from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management in Arizona and did his coaching training at the Coaches Training Institute and Falling Awake's Life Coaching Program.

In the nonprofit sector, Miles’ experience is focused on fundraising and leadership coaching. Miles has 10 plus years of sales, marketing, training, and strategy experience in the for-profit sector. In the philanthropic world, Miles has 15 plus years experience as an individual donor, a family foundation trustee, and philanthropic advisor.

He has developed a strong knowledge of social change philanthropy and successful donor engagement strategies. Miles presents on a national level promoting family and community-based philanthropy and restorative justice initiatives. Recent speaking engagements include the Advisors in Philanthropy Conference, the Council on Foundation’s Community Foundation and Family Foundation Conferences, and the National Network of Grantmakers conference.

Miles lives in San Rafael, CA with his partner Sara and their son, Jasper. He enjoys swimming, biking, dancing, meditation, movies, BBQs, camping, skiing, traveling, close friends and family, and both the mountains and the ocean.

Molly D. Anderson is a consultant on the interface of science and policy for social justice, ecological integrity and sustainable food systems. She manages a project at the Henry A. Wallace Center of Winrock International designed to establish indicators of sustainable food systems. She also works with International Partners for Sustainable Agriculture as a writer and researcher, in preparation for the next review/policy cycle of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, which will focus in part on global progress in agriculture and rural development. She is a Coordinating Lead Author on the North America/Europe section of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (www.agassessment.org), and contributes to a meta-assessment of the treatment of food security in recent international environmental assessments with the Global Environmental Change & Food Security project (www.gecafs.org). She was Research Coordinator with the Farm & Food Policy Project (www.farmandfoodproject.org) and developed issue briefs and background papers on current policy needs.

Molly was employed by Oxfam America 2002-2005 as Senior Program Officer and then Interim Director of the US Regional Office. Prior to Oxfam, Molly was at Tufts University for 14 years as a professor, administrator, partnership builder, and researcher. She co-founded and for five years directed the Agriculture, Food and Environment Graduate Degree Program in the School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts. She was a Faculty Fellow in the University College of Citizenship & Public Service, and a national Food & Society Policy Fellow 2002-2004. She was appointed a Senior Wallace Fellow at the Henry A. Wallace Center in 2007.

Molly serves on the Governing Board of the Community Food Security Coalition and the Advisory Board of the Henry A. Wallace Chair in Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. She is also on the Editorial Boards of Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems and the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition.