Bioneers 2025 Conference

Gillian Goddard

Founder | The Chocolate Rebellion

chocolaterebellion.com

Gillian Goddard

Gillian Goddard, a community organizer and chocolate-maker, founded the Alliance of Rural Communities, a non-profit focused on “circular economy” principles, regenerative farming, and sustainable rural livelihood creation, in 2014. In 2021, she founded the Cross Atlantic Chocolate Collective, which unites farming communities from Africa, the Caribbean, North America, the UK and Europe. Goddard’s work seeks not only to enhance the wellbeing of rural populations, but to explore complex issues around power, decolonization and emancipation in grassroots, commercial, and academic spaces.



Panel Presentations:

Chocolate Rebellion: Creating a Global Value Chain Based on Economic Justice 

March 27th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

The Delicious Allure of Chocolate: A Chocolate Tasting

March 27th | 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm