Emergency Room and Pediatric RN

Sandra Adler Killen, an Emergency Room and Pediatric RN and Internationally Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), has, since 2009, dedicated her career to supporting underserved communities in the U.S. and internationally, with projects spanning Mexico, Syria, and Lebanon. In 2024, she deployed to Gaza as a trauma RN, providing frontline care for mass casualties with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and recently completed her third deployment with GINA—the Gaza Infant Nutritional Alliance—where she focused on pediatric care, lactation support, and capacity-building initiatives. Sandra is also part of an international telehealth lactation consultant team offering remote care and guidance to thousands of mothers and babies in Gaza.

Faculty Member and Clinician | University of Florida

Dr. Cindy Nelly, DNP, APRN, CNM, is a faculty member and clinician at the University of Florida and a global health consultant with 25+ years’ experience delivering care and building health systems in austere environments affected by conflict, natural disasters, and large-scale displacement. Her work spans over 15 countries and focuses on emergency clinical care, workforce training, and operational leadership. Most recently, she has supported frontline health services in Gaza, strengthening emergency, maternal, and women’s health capacity while partnering with local and international teams to sustain care under extreme constraints.

Founder and Executive Director | Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services

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Deputy Director | City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts and Culture

Elsa Menendez is the Deputy Director of the City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts and Culture and a core trainer with Sonderworx/DAC for the Albuquerque Community Safety Department, where she trains behavioral health first responders in conflict management, communication, and inclusive leadership practices. With 40+ years in international theatre, Elsa has worked as a writer, director, producer and performer, including as Artistic Director of Tricklock Company and Producer of the Revolutions International Theatre Festival. A certified life coach, she co-founded Women Leading Change and serves on the board of Biomimicry for Social Innovation. Elsa previously worked for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. She is currently studying Polyvagal Theory and is a core member of the Eco-Performance Institute, exploring the intersections of art, ecology, and embodied learning.

Managing Director | Nutrient Density Initiative

Mary Purdy, MS, RDN, an integrative eco-dietitian, working at the intersection of sustainable food systems and climate and human health, spent 13+ years in clinical practice, taught for 8 years at Bastyr University in Seattle, and is currently Managing Director of the Nutrient Density Initiative that works to connect the dots between soil health and nutrient-rich food. Also on the adjunct faculty at The Culinary Institute of America's Master’s Program in Sustainable Food Systems, she speaks widely on nutrition, sustainability and regenerative agriculture. With 130+ podcast episodes and two books under her belt, Mary is a leading voice on how to foster resilient, just, and healthy food systems.

Restorative Food Systems Director | Bioneers

Arty Mangan, Director of the Bioneers Restorative Food Systems program, worked as farm worker and local food entrepreneur. He has also worked with Indigenous farmers growing traditional crops and with Black farmers developing ecological agricultural trainings. His current focus is on the intersection of climate and regenerative agriculture. Mangan is a former board president of the Ecological Farming Association.

Executive Director | Bionutrient Food Association

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Interfaith Minister, Educator, Activist and Author

Liza J. Rankow, Ph.D., an interfaith minister, educator, activist, and author whose lifework centers the deep healing that is essential to personal and social transformation, has been a spiritual counselor and teacher for more than three decades, working with individual clients, facilitating healing retreats, and offering classes and workshops in a variety of community and academic settings. Her new book is Soul Medicine for a Fractured World: Healing, Justice, and the Path of Wholeness.

Justice, Equality and Public Health Activist

Reena Szczepanski has spent her career working for justice, equality, and public health, starting in her teenage years doing work/study as a caregiver for babies affected by HIV/AIDS and eventually managing the New Mexico Department of Health’s Hepatitis Program. She later became Executive Director of Emerge New Mexico, a statewide organization dedicated to training women to run for office and led the Drug Policy Alliance New Mexico to many legislative victories, including the state’s medical cannabis law, substance abuse treatment, and criminal justice reform. Reena then served as the Chief of Staff to Speaker Brian Egolf, and in 2022 was herself elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives and was elected House Majority Leader by her colleagues. She is the first Asian American elected to legislative leadership in the history of New Mexico.

Award-Winning Author and Naturalist

Terry Tempest Williams, a writer, educator, and environmental activist known for her lyrical and impassioned prose, is the author of over twenty creative nonfiction books including the environmental literature classic, Refuge – An Unnatural History of Family and Place, and: The Open Space of Democracy, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, When Women Were Birds, and Erosion – Essays of Undoing. Her most recent book is the The Glorians – Visitations from the Holy Ordinary (spring ’26). A Recipient of Guggenheim and Lannan literary fellowships, Ms. Williams’ work has appeared widely, including in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Progressive, and Orion, and has been translated worldwide. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School.

Co-Founder and Chief Relationship Strategist | Bioneers

Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and its Chief Relationship Strategist is also co-founder of Women Bridging Worlds and Connecting Women Leading Change. She co-edited the anthology book, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and most recently wrote Nature, Culture & The Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership. An award-winning social entrepreneur, Nina teaches and speaks internationally, and previously served as President of Seeds of Change and Director of Strategic Marketing for Odwalla.

Buddhist Retreat Teacher | Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Erin Selover, a residential Buddhist retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California, somatic trauma therapist, and Rites of Passage guide currently living at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, is also: co-founder of the Celtic Wheel Sangha; a member of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery’s Buddhist Working Group to Protect Oak Flat; and board member of the cooperative nonprofit, Nourishing Futures.

Community Organizer, Researcher and Mindfulness Teacher

Limei Kat Chen, a Bay-Area-based queer Chinese diasporic community organizer, researcher, and mindfulness teacher who draws from several lineages (including the Plum Village tradition, Tantric Buddhism, Daoism, and Earth-based teachings), is active in the Buddhist Coalition for Oak Flat in solidarity with the Apache groups fighting to protect that sacred site and also organizes in the Bay Area with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and 18 Million Rising, working to support survivors of violence and to use art and music as healing medicines.

Lead Pastor | First Mennonite Church of San Francisco

Sheri Hostetler, Lead Pastor at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco since 2000 and one of the founders of what is now called Inclusive Mennonite Pastors, a coalition of pastoral leaders seeking LGBTQ+ justice in the church, is co-founder of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, which calls on Christian and Christian-descended people to address the extinction, enslavement, and extraction done on Indigenous lands. Co-author of So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis (2023) and co-host of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast, Sheri is also a spiritual director, a permaculturist descended from long lines of Amish-Mennonite farmers, and a poet whose work has appeared in A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry and Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems.

Executive Director | Ecology Center

Martin Bourque, the Executive Director of the Ecology Center in Berkeley since 2000, has led that cutting-edge non-profit to become a high-impact engine for change locally, regionally and nationally, helping move progressive agendas in such domains as transparency in plastic recycling, pollution reduction, food and farming, access and equity, consumerism, and zero waste.

Community Engagement Program Director | Ecology Center

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Founder and Executive Director | Regenerative Earth

Jennifer Menke, founder and Executive Director of Regenerative Earth and co-founder of Sacred Contract, is: a lecturer for the University of Colorado's Masters of Environment program; guest lecturer at the University of International Cooperation (UCI); and a facilitator for the Bio-leadership Fellowship. She has throughout her career used systems-mapping, facilitation, and strategic design to help local communities, Indigenous tribes, governments, foundations, businesses, and organizations develop and implement collaborative strategies to meet conservation targets, give rights to nature, enhance community wellbeing, and stimulate regenerative economies.

Co-Founder | Center for Ethical Land Transition

Cassandra Ferrera, a co-founder (in 2021) of the non-profit Center for Ethical Land Transition dedicated to the “land justice” movement, i.e., the process of achieving repair, healing and justice rooted in sacred relationship with land, previously had 22 years’ experience as a real estate agent and consultant supporting groups in cooperative stewardship and land decommodification. She is a resident of the Landwell Community in Northern California.

Operations and Reunion Program Co-Director | Center for Ethical Land Transition

Abi Huff is the Operations and Reunion Program Co-Director at the Center for Ethical Land Transition whose purpose is to support Black, Indigenous, and diasporic communities with pro-bono, solidarity-based land transition facilitation.

Senior Legal Counsel | Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights

Thomas Linzey, Senior Legal Counsel for the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, widely recognized as the founder of the contemporary community rights movement, drafted the very first “rights of nature” law in the world (in Pennsylvania in 2006), and consulted on the very first rights of nature constitutional provisions (in Ecuador). Linzey co-founded the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, sits on the Board of Advisors of the New Earth Foundation and is the author of several books, including: Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community and On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability. Linzey’s work has been featured widely, including in leading publications including the NY Times, Mother Jones and the Nation magazine.

Founder | Mosaiceye Collective

Chetna Mehta, a granddaughter of Indian and South African diasporas, is a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, and “creativity doula” who seeks to weave somatic healing, decolonial/ecological frameworks, and expressive arts into a liberatory practice. The founder of Mosaiceye Collective, which provides resources, programs and spaces where women and non-binary changemakers can play, transform, and engage in expansive collaboration, Chetna is the author and illustrator of the Cultivating Compassion in Times of Fascism Coloring Book.

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Professor of Transformative Studies | California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)

Jeanine M. Canty, Ph.D., Professor of Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) whose teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change, is author of: Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet; and editor of and a contributor to the collections: Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises.

Associate Professor | California Institute of Integral Studies

Sara H. Salazar, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, a Xicana scholar and educator whose transdisciplinary work is centered on decolonial theory and praxis, feminist philosophy, and critical pedagogies, conducts research on: Chicana spirituality, art, and activism; radical mothering practices; Indigenous food systems; and Restorative Justice.

President | One Fair Wage

Saru Jayaraman (JD, Yale, MPP Harvard), an academic at UC Berkeley and a renowned labor activist, is President of One Fair Wage, which organizes to raise wages and end sub-minimum wages nationwide. She has won numerous awards for her activism, including being named: one of CNN’s “Top10 Visionary Women,” a White House Champion of Change, a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner, and a San Francisco Chronicle ‘Visionary of the Year.’ Saru, who is interviewed and cited frequently in major media outlets, is author of: Behind the Kitchen Door; Forked: A New Standard for American Dining; and One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America.

Buddhist Retreat Teacher | Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Erin Selover, a residential Buddhist retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California, somatic trauma therapist, and Rites of Passage guide currently living at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, is also: co-founder of the Celtic Wheel Sangha; a member of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery’s Buddhist Working Group to Protect Oak Flat; and board member of the cooperative nonprofit, Nourishing Futures.

Community Organizer, Researcher and Mindfulness Teacher

Limei Kat Chen, a Bay-Area-based queer Chinese diasporic community organizer, researcher, and mindfulness teacher who draws from several lineages (including the Plum Village tradition, Tantric Buddhism, Daoism, and Earth-based teachings), is active in the Buddhist Coalition for Oak Flat in solidarity with the Apache groups fighting to protect that sacred site and also organizes in the Bay Area with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and 18 Million Rising, working to support survivors of violence and to use art and music as healing medicines.

Lead Pastor | First Mennonite Church of San Francisco

Sheri Hostetler, Lead Pastor at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco since 2000 and one of the founders of what is now called Inclusive Mennonite Pastors, a coalition of pastoral leaders seeking LGBTQ+ justice in the church, is co-founder of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, which calls on Christian and Christian-descended people to address the extinction, enslavement, and extraction done on Indigenous lands. Co-author of So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis (2023) and co-host of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast, Sheri is also a spiritual director, a permaculturist descended from long lines of Amish-Mennonite farmers, and a poet whose work has appeared in A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry and Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems.

Bestselling Author and NY Times Magazine Writer

Ferris Jabr, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of the bestselling Becoming Earth, which reviewers have described as an “infectiously poetic” “masterwork” that “earns its place alongside the best of today’s essential popular science books.” Ferris has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Scientific American and has received fellowships and grants from Yale, MIT, UC Berkeley, the Pulitzer Center, and the Whiting Foundation. His work has been anthologized in four editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

Project Lead | Mother Tree Project and Program

Suzanne Simard, Ph.D., is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and leads the Mother Tree Project and Program. Her research—showing that forests are cooperative, connected networks—has revolutionized forest ecology. Her TED Talk has reached millions, and her bestselling book Finding the Mother Tree continues to capture global interest. Named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2024, she champions regenerative forestry rooted in Indigenous knowledge.

Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy | Georgetown University

Michele Bratcher Goodwin, an acclaimed bioethicist, constitutional law scholar, and prolific author, is credited with helping to establish and shape the field of health law. Currently the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and the Co-Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown, Goodwin’s previous positions include: Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy as well as teaching at Harvard’s Law and Medical schools. Dr. Goodwin, who directed the first ABA accredited health law program in the nation and established the first law center focused on race and bioethics, has won slews of prestigious awards for her scholarship, and her writing has appeared in many of the country’s leading academic law reviews. She is the author/editor of six books, including: Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood.

Professor of Law and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair | UC College of the Law

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Assistant Professor of Law | UC Irvine School of Law

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Author, Advocate, Consultant and Educator

Anna Malaika Tubbs, Ph.D., a bestselling author and leading multidisciplinary expert on race, gender, and equity, translates her academic knowledge into clear and engaging stories that have been widely published in major magazines and newspapers. She is the author of: The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of MLK Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation (2021) and Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us (2025). Anna is also a frequent speaker whose TED Talk has been viewed some 2 million times.

Associate Instructor | Dharma College

Carl Pilcher, Ph.D., retired from a decades-long career in space science, holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry, the latter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.P.A. in International Relations from Princeton. He was on the astronomy faculty of the University of Hawaii for a dozen years before becoming a NASA administrator for almost 3 decades. His professional arc took him from planetary science to serving as Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Carl also began studying ancient teachings in 2015 with a Hindu teacher and joined the Dharma College community as a student in late 2021. Central to his interests are integrating ancient wisdom, particularly of non-dualism, with a modern scientific world view.

Deputy Director | City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts and Culture

Elsa Menendez is the Deputy Director of the City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts and Culture and a core trainer with Sonderworx/DAC for the Albuquerque Community Safety Department, where she trains behavioral health first responders in conflict management, communication, and inclusive leadership practices. With 40+ years in international theatre, Elsa has worked as a writer, director, producer and performer, including as Artistic Director of Tricklock Company and Producer of the Revolutions International Theatre Festival. A certified life coach, she co-founded Women Leading Change and serves on the board of Biomimicry for Social Innovation. Elsa previously worked for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and the National Hispanic Cultural Center. She is currently studying Polyvagal Theory and is a core member of the Eco-Performance Institute, exploring the intersections of art, ecology, and embodied learning.

Primatologist, Botanist, Social Anthropologist, and Conservation Activist

Elodie Freymann, Ph.D., a primatologist, botanist, social anthropologist, filmmaker, scientific illustrator, and conservation activist, recently attracted global attention with her groundbreaking research on how wild chimpanzees in Uganda's Budongo Forest self-medicate with medicinal plants and how that use overlaps with local traditional healers’ pharmacopeias. She is now following up that research with the first systematic study of non-human self-medication in the Peruvian Amazon. Much of Elodie’s work blends the worlds of science and art to document how people interact and co-exist with the flora and fauna around them and how anthropogenic disturbances are disrupting these symbiotic relationships. She has received several awards for her work and is a Fellow at both The Explorers Club and The Linnean Society.

Musician and Composer

Garth Stevenson, a highly accomplished double bassist and composer especially known for creating music in direct communion with the natural world, traveled to Antarctica with the legendary biologist Dr. Roger Payne in 2010 to study whale communication and was able to imitate those calls on his double bass, attracting a dozen sei whales to their icebreaker. He has continued that work, most recently during a 2025 trip to Baja, Mexico to play for humpback whales, an extraordinary episode that was captured on film by National Geographic director Andy Mann.

Senior Producer | Bioneers

J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers Senior Producer, affiliated with Bioneers since 1990, is a Brooklyn, NYC-based consultant, conference producer, copy-editor and writer. A former Program Director at the New York Open Center and a senior review team member for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge from 2010 to 2017, he has authored or edited several books, including Political Ecosystems, Delusions of Normality, Visionary Plant Consciousness, and, most recently, Animal Encounters.

Senior Research Specialist | Pacific Institute

Morgan Shimabuku, Senior Research Specialist at the Pacific Institute where she focuses on water equity and access, climate resilience, and water-related violent conflict, has had a long career spanning the non-profit, for-profit, and government sectors, but all focused on water resources, environmental science, and water conservation and efficiency. In her current role she engages in data analysis and synthesis, technical and non-technical writing, stakeholder engagement and listening, and solution-oriented framing of results.

President and CEO | We the People of Detroit

Monica Lewis-Patrick, President/CEO of We the People of Detroit, is an educator, entrepreneur, scholar, and human rights activist especially renowned for her tireless activism for safe, affordable water. A member of: the National Water Affordability Table, All About Water/Freshwater Future Subcommittee, PolicyLink’s Water Equity and Climate Resilience Caucus (WECR), End Water Poverty, and the Governance Board for Healing Our Waters/Great Lakes Coalition (HOW), Lewis-Patrick also co-chairs the Water Committee on the Michigan Advisory Council on Environmental Justice.

Chief Research and Program Officer | Pacific Institute

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Assistant Professor | Stanford University

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Leading Indigenous Rights Advocate and Attorney

Samantha Skenandore, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation who previously served as a Tribal Attorney for the Ho-Chunk Nation’s Department of Justice and clerked for the United States Department of Justice, Indian Resources Section, is a founding partner of Skenandore Wilson LLP with 20+ years’ multi-jurisdictional legal experience working with tribal governments and enterprises to build governmental and economic infrastructures across Indian Country. She works in a wide range of legal domains, including: tribal and corporate governance, business transactions, economic development, real estate, cultural resources, water rights, labor issues, and representing clients before members of Congress, congressional committees and federal agencies. Samantha has also been integral to the Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program, helping develop a toolkit to help frame legal considerations for tribal nations to consider adoption of “Rights of Nature" laws.

Chief | Rappahannock Tribe

Chief Anne Richardson, Chief of the Rappahannock Tribe since 1998, is a 4th generation chief in her family and the first woman to lead a tribe in Virginia since the 1700s. She has a long legacy of community leadership and service and has been instrumental in building her people’s institutions and infrastructure, including working tirelessly to purchase some of the tribe’s ancestral lands along the river that bears their name, developing a “Master Plan for the Return to the River,” a groundbreaking sovereignty and conservation initiative. Among her many achievements Chief Richardson founded the Indigenous Conservation Council for the Chesapeake Bay and serves or has served on a number of state, regional and federal advisory committees and boards.

Tribal Chairman | Klamath Tribes

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Co-Founder | United We Dream

Cristina Jiménez Moreta, who came to the U.S. from Ecuador in 1998 and grew up undocumented in Queens, New York, is an award-winning community organizer, bestselling author, and leading social justice activist. Co-founder and former Executive Director of  United We Dream (UWD), the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the country, she has led multiple national and local campaigns for immigrant justice, including playing a leadership role in the campaign to win and implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA). A distinguished lecturer at the City University of New York, Jiménez was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and named one of Time 100’s most influential people. She is the author of a bestselling debut memoir Dreaming of Home (2025).

Founder and Executive Director | Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA)

Guerline M. Jozef, a globally recognized, award-winning human rights advocate, strategist, and thought leader, is the founder and Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), the only Black-led, women-led, Haitian-American-led organization serving migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border, and co-founder of the Black Immigrants Bail Fund and the Cameroon Advocacy Network. Jozef, whose work has been featured in many leading publications and news outlets, has testified before the UN, the U.S. Congress, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Director | Equity Research Institute at USC

Manuel Pastor, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, currently directs the Equity Research Institute at USC. The inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change at USC, Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities. He has won countless awards for his scholarship and advocacy and is the author or co-author of many books, including: Just Growth; Solidarity Economics; and, most recently (with Chris Benner), Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future.

Executive Director | Chinese Progressive Association

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Buddhist Retreat Teacher | Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Erin Selover, a residential Buddhist retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California, somatic trauma therapist, and Rites of Passage guide currently living at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, is also: co-founder of the Celtic Wheel Sangha; a member of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery’s Buddhist Working Group to Protect Oak Flat; and board member of the cooperative nonprofit, Nourishing Futures.

Community Organizer, Researcher and Mindfulness Teacher

Limei Kat Chen, a Bay-Area-based queer Chinese diasporic community organizer, researcher, and mindfulness teacher who draws from several lineages (including the Plum Village tradition, Tantric Buddhism, Daoism, and Earth-based teachings), is active in the Buddhist Coalition for Oak Flat in solidarity with the Apache groups fighting to protect that sacred site and also organizes in the Bay Area with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and 18 Million Rising, working to support survivors of violence and to use art and music as healing medicines.

Lead Pastor | First Mennonite Church of San Francisco

Sheri Hostetler, Lead Pastor at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco since 2000 and one of the founders of what is now called Inclusive Mennonite Pastors, a coalition of pastoral leaders seeking LGBTQ+ justice in the church, is co-founder of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, which calls on Christian and Christian-descended people to address the extinction, enslavement, and extraction done on Indigenous lands. Co-author of So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis (2023) and co-host of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast, Sheri is also a spiritual director, a permaculturist descended from long lines of Amish-Mennonite farmers, and a poet whose work has appeared in A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry and Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems.

Activist, Academic, Artist, Therapist, Dancer and Teacher

Amber Elizabeth Gray, Ph.D., is a widely traveled, highly experienced human rights psychotherapist, innovative movement artist, board certified dance/movement therapist, master trainer and educator, Continuum teacher, and public health professional with a decades-long track record working on social justice. An innovator in the use of somatic psychology and movement–based therapies with survivors of trauma, torture, war, and human rights abuses in a number of nations, she also draws from eco-psychology, contemplative psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, EMDR, somatic experiencing, and narrative exposure therapy in her clinical work and is the originator of the Poto Mitan Trauma & Resiliency Framework.

Executive Director | Home Planet Fund

Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, of indigenous Pamiri ancestry from Khorog, Tajikistan, is the Inaugural Executive Director of Home Planet Fund. Previously a political appointee in the Biden-Harris Administration who spent five years with the Aga Khan Development Network and eight years responding to conflict and climate crises, she is a transformational conflict expert, focused on civil war, environment and resource conflicts. Dilafruz has also served on the board of her alma mater, the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University and led the Climate Change Working Group for Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS).

Co-Founder | Daughters for Earth

Zainab Salbi, a humanitarian, author, and media host who has dedicated her life to women’s rights and global freedom, is co-founder of Daughters for Earth, a philanthropic fund and a movement focused on supporting, celebrating, and mobilizing women to protect and restore our Earth. At age 23, she founded Women for Women International, which helped more than 460,000 women survivors of war rebuild their lives. Honored with the TIME100 Impact Award, she has been recognized by Oprah Winfrey, People, and Harper’s Bazaar for her groundbreaking leadership on behalf of women worldwide.

Founder and Executive Director | Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network

Osprey Orielle Lake, the founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. Osprey, who sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Free Non-Proliferation Treaty, is the author of The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.

Founder | Kahakulei Institute

Kevin John Fong, founder of the Kahakulei Institute (whose mission is to “weave people and possibilities to cultivate communities of belonging”), is the author of The Five Elements: An East Asian Approach to Achieve Organizational Health, Professional Growth, and Personal Well-Being. He has lectured about and taught the “Five Elements” approach to problem-solving to hundreds of organizations and thousands of people from Silicon Valley to rural Mississippi, from primary schools in New Mexico to the White House.

Founder | Permaculture Artisans

Erik Ohlsen, a master of regenerative design, internationally-recognized Permaculture teacher, landscape contractor, award-winning author, farmer, herbalist, and practitioner of Nordic folk traditions, has founded numerous organizations that regenerate ecosystems, including his award-winning landscape design and contracting firm, Permaculture Artisans, established in 2006. Erik has committed decades to repairing ecosystems and connecting people with the land throughout the globe, designing and implementing hundreds of regenerated landscapes and farms, growing food and capturing millions of gallons of water per year.

Restorative Food Systems Director | Bioneers

Arty Mangan, Director of the Bioneers Restorative Food Systems program, worked as farm worker and local food entrepreneur. He has also worked with Indigenous farmers growing traditional crops and with Black farmers developing ecological agricultural trainings. His current focus is on the intersection of climate and regenerative agriculture. Mangan is a former board president of the Ecological Farming Association.

Executive Director | Science and Environmental Health Network

Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, which, since 1998 has been the leading proponent in the U.S. of the Precautionary Principle as a basis for environmental and public health policy, was formerly an archeologist but, horrified at the destruction of the lands in which she was working, went to law school and became an activist to protect ecosystems and future generations. A co-convener of the historic 1998 Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle and the Women’s Congresses for Future Generations held in 2012, 2014, and 2026, Carolyn co-edited Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy (2006) and Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle (1999).

Science and Environmental Health Network | Science Director

Ted Schettler MD, MPH, the Science Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, who has a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and a master’s degree in public health from Harvard, is the author of: The Ecology of Breast Cancer and the co-author of several books, including: Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment; In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, and: Environmental Threats to Health Aging. He has also published many articles in peer-reviewed journals and has served on advisory committees of the U.S. EPA and the National Academy of Sciences.

Senior Scientist | Science and Environmental Health Network

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Senior Attorney | Earthjustice

Sharmeen Morrison, J.D., a Senior Attorney with Earthjustice’s Biodiversity Defense Program, which engages in national litigation to confront the major drivers of biodiversity loss, has litigated cases to protect greater sage-grouse from oil and gas drilling in Wyoming, manatees from nutrient pollution in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon, golden-cheeked warblers from urban sprawl in Texas Hill Country, and insect pollinators from pesticide overuse nationwide.

Managing Director, Lands, Nature | NRDC

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Medical Director | Integrative Medical Clinic of Santa Rosa

Bob Dozor, M.D., Medical Director of the Integrative Medical Clinic of Santa Rosa and the Nyingma Senior Retreat Center at Ratna Ling, holds a B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Chicago and an M.D. from UC, San Francisco. He has been a student of Buddhism since the 1960s and a dedicated student of Venerable Tarthang Tulku since 1972.

Buddhist Retreat Teacher | Spirit Rock Meditation Center

Erin Selover, a residential Buddhist retreat teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California, somatic trauma therapist, and Rites of Passage guide currently living at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, is also: co-founder of the Celtic Wheel Sangha; a member of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery’s Buddhist Working Group to Protect Oak Flat; and board member of the cooperative nonprofit, Nourishing Futures.

Community Organizer, Researcher and Mindfulness Teacher

Limei Kat Chen, a Bay-Area-based queer Chinese diasporic community organizer, researcher, and mindfulness teacher who draws from several lineages (including the Plum Village tradition, Tantric Buddhism, Daoism, and Earth-based teachings), is active in the Buddhist Coalition for Oak Flat in solidarity with the Apache groups fighting to protect that sacred site and also organizes in the Bay Area with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity and 18 Million Rising, working to support survivors of violence and to use art and music as healing medicines.

Lead Pastor | First Mennonite Church of San Francisco

Sheri Hostetler, Lead Pastor at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco since 2000 and one of the founders of what is now called Inclusive Mennonite Pastors, a coalition of pastoral leaders seeking LGBTQ+ justice in the church, is co-founder of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery, which calls on Christian and Christian-descended people to address the extinction, enslavement, and extraction done on Indigenous lands. Co-author of So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis (2023) and co-host of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast, Sheri is also a spiritual director, a permaculturist descended from long lines of Amish-Mennonite farmers, and a poet whose work has appeared in A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry and Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems.