Co-Founder | 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.

Founder | V-Day

Eve Ensler, Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and one of the world’s most important activists on behalf of women’s rights, is the author of many plays, including, most famously the extraordinarily influential and impactful The Vagina Monologues, which has been performed all over the globe in 50 or so languages.

Author

Terry Tempest Williams, one of the greatest living authors from the American West, is also a longtime award-winning conservationist and activist, who has taken on, among other issues, nuclear testing, the Iraq War, the neglect of women’s health, and the destruction of nature, especially in her beloved “Red Rock” region of her native Utah and in Alaska.

Founder | V-Day

Eve Ensler, Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and one of the world’s most important activists on behalf of women’s rights, is the author of many plays, including, most famously the extraordinarily influential and impactful The Vagina Monologues, which has been performed all over the globe in 50 or so languages.

Founder | Revolutionary Love Project

Valarie Kaur, born into a family of Sikh farmers who settled in California in 1913, is a seasoned civil rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, which seeks to champion love as a public ethic and wellspring for social action.

Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies | Humboldt State

Cutcha Risling Baldy, Ph.D. (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk), Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Humboldt State and co-founder of the Native Women's Collective, a nonprofit supporting the revitalization of Native American arts and culture, researches Indigenous feminisms, California Indians and decolonization. She is the author of: We Are Dancing For You: Native feminisms and the revitalization of women's coming-of-age.

Certified Clinical Herbalist

Co-Founder | Wisconsin’s Singing Trees Farm Collective

Danielle Hill, a citizen of the federally recognized Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and a student midwife passionate about reinvigorating Indigenous birthing practices, is a co-founder of Wisconsin’s Singing Trees Farm Collective, a women-owned collaborative land restoration project focused on reintroducing pre-colonial crops in the Midwest and land guardianship based on feminist and Indigenous principles.

Founder | Ripple Catalyst Studio

Cecile Lipworth, founder of Ripple Catalyst Studio and host of the weekly feminist radio show, Brave Space, consults with women-led organizations regionally and internationally, harnessing her expertise in movement building, event producing, fundraising, marketing and communications to support their work. Prior to founding Ripple, Cecile was for 15 years the Managing Director of V-Day, the renowned organization founded by Eve Ensler to combat gender-based violence.

Founder | TreeSisters.org

Clare Dubois is the founder of TreeSisters.org, a women's reforestation and culture-change organization dedicated to humanity’s emergence as a “restorer species.” For 23 years she has been facilitating body-based, experiential sessions designed to help participants shift consciousness and experience their interconnectedness with nature, the root of balanced leadership and action.

Psychiatrist

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, a Mill Valley-based psychiatrist, Jungian analyst in private practice and author of 14 influential books, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Formerly a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and board member of the Ms. Foundation and the International Transpersonal Association, she inspired The Millionth Circle Initiative and is a leading advocate for a UN 5th World Conference on Women.

Executive Director | Women's Earth and Climate Action Network International

Osprey Orielle Lake, founder/Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, works with grassroots and Indigenous leaders, policy-makers and scientists to promote climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a clean energy future. Osprey serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, co-directs the DIVEST, INVEST, PROTECT campaign, and authored the award-winning, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. (wecaninternational.org)

Partnerships Manager | International Rivers

Margaret Zhou, the Partnerships Manager for International Rivers, a global grassroots organization working to protect rivers and the communities that depend upon them, coordinates the organization's many diverse partnerships. She was on the organizing committee of the first global Women and Rivers Congress. Previously Margaret served as a communications consultant for several start-ups and non-profits.

National Director | The Butterfly Movement

Brandi Mack, an Oakland, CA-based holistic health educator, massage therapist, and Permaculture designer, has worked in holistic health and ecological sustainability with youth and adults for 16+ years. She is currently National Director of The Butterfly Movement and serves on the boards of: Northern America Permaculture Magazine, Northern California Resilience Network, and Northern California Women in Permaculture.

Founder | The Bodhi Project

Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, former Senior Fellow at The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley, is the founder of The Bodhi Project, which promotes practices at the intersection of Belonging, Organizing, Decolonizing, Health, and Interconnectedness. Sonali previously spent 13 years in government in Portland, OR, and also has 20 years’ experience in dance and music performance and 35 years’ practicing yoga and mindfulness.

Founder | Standing in Our Power

Taij Kumarie Moteelall is a writer, performer, facilitator and coach as well as a highly successful fundraiser for social movements. She founded Standing in Our Power, a national network of women of color leaders committed to holistic transformation, sustainability and wellness for all across the gender spectrum, and co-founded Media Sutra, which seeks to be a vehicle for self-determination and collective liberation for creative entrepreneurs of color.

Founder | Ripple Catalyst Studio

Cecile Lipworth, founder of Ripple Catalyst Studio and host of the weekly feminist radio show, Brave Space, consults with women-led organizations regionally and internationally, harnessing her expertise in movement building, event producing, fundraising, marketing and communications to support their work. Prior to founding Ripple, Cecile was for 15 years the Managing Director of V-Day, the renowned organization founded by Eve Ensler to combat gender-based violence.

Founder | Standing in Our Power

Taij Kumarie Moteelall is a writer, performer, facilitator and coach as well as a highly successful fundraiser for social movements. She founded Standing in Our Power, a national network of women of color leaders committed to holistic transformation, sustainability and wellness for all across the gender spectrum, and co-founded Media Sutra, which seeks to be a vehicle for self-determination and collective liberation for creative entrepreneurs of color.

Co-Founder | Frontline’s to Power

Tianna Arredondo (they/them), of African-American and Mexican ancestry, is co-founder of the Frontline’s to Power (F2P) initiative (affiliated with the Power Shift Network), which works to build a national coalition of environmental justice leaders dedicated to story-based strategy, anti-oppression tactics, and decolonization in daily interactions.

Executive Director | Groundswell Fund

Vanessa Daniel, a former union organizer and longtime social justice activist, is an award-winning innovator in the field of philanthropy. She founded and is Executive Director of Groundswell Fund, the largest funder of the U.S. reproductive justice movement and of Groundswell Action Fund, the largest U.S. institution helping fund women of color-led 501c4 organizations.

Executive Director | Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines

Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Ph.D. (in social anthropology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, is Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She has published twenty books.

Anthropologist | Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Medicines

Emily Sinclair is an anthropologist whose research focuses on the globalization of ayahuasca and its impacts, especially in the Iquitos region of Peru where she was based between 2014 and 2018. She is a member of the Ayahuasca Community Committee of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Medicines, and a leader of the Ayahuasca Community Guide for the Awareness of Sexual Abuse initiative.

Training and Supervision Associate | Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

Sarah Scheld, a Training and Supervision Associate for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Public Benefit Corporation, helps coordinate and develop curriculum for their MDMA Therapy Training Program. She recently collaborated on a Code of Ethics for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy providers. Her work focuses on trauma awareness, somatics, and the ethical use of psychedelic medicines to help heal people, communities, culture and the environment.

Chair of the Board | Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines

Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., is a board-certified licensed clinical psychologist, an Associate Professor in the University of Connecticut's Department of Psychological Sciences, and Clinical Director of the Behavioral Wellness Clinic in Tolland, Connecticut. Her work is focused on improving cultural competence in the delivery of mental health care services and reducing barriers to care. She sits on the Advisory Board of the Chacruna Institute.

Marriage and Family Therapist | Behavioral Wellness Clinic

Sara Reed, MS, MFT, is a Marriage and Family Therapist at the Behavioral Wellness Clinic in Tolland, Connecticut and a Study Therapist for the Psilocybin-assisted Psychotherapy for Major Depression initiative at Yale University. A member of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Advisory Board, Sara also served as a Sub-Investigator and Study Coordinator for MAPS' Phase 2 MDMA Clinical Study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

National Director | The Butterfly Movement

Brandi Mack, an Oakland, CA-based holistic health educator, massage therapist, and Permaculture designer, has worked in holistic health and ecological sustainability with youth and adults for 16+ years. She is currently National Director of The Butterfly Movement and serves on the boards of: Northern America Permaculture Magazine, Northern California Resilience Network, and Northern California Women in Permaculture.

Creator | Planet Protector Academy

Vanessa LeBourdais is the creator of the Planet Protector Academy, an award-winning interactive digital program that trains young kids to be change-agents on environmental issues. Her unique combination of digital arts, comedy, and ”gamification” creates transformative experiences that have activated a million kids in North America and India. Vanessa recently co-led a successful equity initiative in the Nonprofit Happy Hour Facebook group and is an Ashoka Changemaker Fellow.

Artists

Climbing PoeTree (Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman) are award-winning multimedia artists, organizers, educators and a spoken word duo who have independently organized more than 30 tours, taking their work from South Africa to Cuba, the UK to Mexico, and 11,000 miles around the U.S. on a bus running on recycled vegetable oil, presenting alongside powerhouses such as Vandana Shiva, Angela Davis, Alicia Keys, and Alice Walker, in venues ranging from the UN to Harvard to Riker's Island Prison.

Founder | Ripple Catalyst Studio

Cecile Lipworth, founder of Ripple Catalyst Studio and host of the weekly feminist radio show, Brave Space, consults with women-led organizations regionally and internationally, harnessing her expertise in movement building, event producing, fundraising, marketing and communications to support their work. Prior to founding Ripple, Cecile was for 15 years the Managing Director of V-Day, the renowned organization founded by Eve Ensler to combat gender-based violence.

Director | Earth Activist Training

Starhawk, an activist; leading eco-feminist thinker; documentary filmmaker; and permaculture designer, rancher and teacher; directs Earth Activist Training, which teaches a form of regenerative design grounded in both spirit and activism. She is the author of 13 books on earth-based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Empowerment Manual; as well as highly influential novels, including The Fifth Sacred Thing.

Executive Director | Women's Earth and Climate Action Network International

Osprey Orielle Lake, founder/Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, works with grassroots and Indigenous leaders, policy-makers and scientists to promote climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a clean energy future. Osprey serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, co-directs the DIVEST, INVEST, PROTECT campaign, and authored the award-winning, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. (wecaninternational.org)

Articulator of visions, dreams and symbols and spiritual counselor

Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe), a northern New Mexico-based mother of 5, born into the Diné (Navajo) Nation and later adopted by the Lakota Spiritual way of life, is a highly sought after articulator of visions, dreams and symbols and spiritual counselor who speaks and teaches extensively, nationally and internationally.

Author | Gaia Codex

Sarah Drew is the author of the popular eco-feminist novel, Gaia Codex, which describes how blueprints for our future can be informed by some of the deepest wisdom from our past. With a global social media following of 150,000±, Sarah has become a featured speaker at a wide range of venues.

Wildlife Field Biologist

Anne Laudisoit is a Belgian explorer, wildlife field biologist and disease ecologist specializing in tracking emerging and neglected vector-borne zoonotic diseases in a wide range of ecological and social contexts from Tanzania, Madagascar and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Kazakhstan. Since 2015, in partnership with local researchers and villagers, she has been exploring and helping develop conservation plans for previously unstudied, remote, often war-torn regions of DRC’s Ituri province.

Program Director | Coral Reef Alliance

Madhavi Colton, Ph.D., a marine ecologist who has worked around the world, is Program Director of the Coral Reef Alliance, where she oversees an international portfolio of community-driven conservation programs to address threats to reefs and spearheads new scientific research into how ecosystems adapt to climate change. Her main current focus is to build partnerships between academic researchers, non-profit organizations, governments, and local communities to implement durable conservation solutions.

Co-Author & Strategic Advisor | The Global Deal for Nature

Carly Vynne, Ph.D, is an ecologist and conservation strategist who seeks out creative solutions for how we can leave more room for nature in a rapidly changing world. She recently co-authored The Global Deal for Nature, which calls for an ambitious, time-bound set of nature-based targets that must be achieved if we are to solve the climate and extinction crises. Vynne is also the founder and principal consultant at Osprey Insights.

Spokesperson | Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone

Corrina Gould, born and raised in Oakland, CA (territory of Huichuin), is the spokesperson for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone. An activist who has worked to preserve and protect the ancient burial sites of her ancestors in the Bay Area for decades, she also co-founded Indian People Organizing for Change and the Sogorea Te Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women’s community organization.

Renowned Teacher

Pandora Thomas, a leading figure in the application of ecological principles to social design with 25+ years’ experience, currently combines being a caregiver for her mother with her work as a renowned teacher, writer, designer, speaker, and facilitator at several permaculture and ecological design schools and programs nationally and internationally.

Xicana Storyteller

Niria Alicia, born in Oregon to a migrant farm-worker family, is a multi-lingual Xicana storyteller, author, educator, poet, and community organizer. With an academic background in environmental and Latin American studies and non-profit administration, Nira has traveled, studied and worked on social justice projects throughout the Americas and beyond, including with Earthjustice, Our Children’s Trust, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, Honor the Earth, and Greenaction.

Director | Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s Permaculture Program

Kendall Dunnigan, Director of the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s Permaculture Program (whose purpose is to resist the destructive extractive, enclosure economy so communities can retain collective sovereignty, biological and cultural diversity, and regenerative livelihoods), facilitates multi-generational eco-cultural design processes with economically and environmentally marginalized communities in the U.S., Latin America, and Africa.

Co-Director | Women's Earth Alliance’s

Amira Diamond, Co-Director (with Melinda Kramer) of Women's Earth Alliance’s since 2007, has worked to expand WEA’s programs, build the WEA team and create a community of support for its work. Active within the NGO community for over 25 years, she has worked for community health, environmental and food justice, LGBTQ and women’s rights, directing organizations such as Julia Butterfly Hill’s Circle of Life and Democracy Matters.

Founder and Executive Director | Women’s Earth Alliance

Melinda Kramer, founder/Executive Director of the Women’s Earth Alliance, which has equipped thousands of women with technical, entrepreneurial, and leadership skills to work on safe water, energy access, regenerative farming, land rights, and climate protection initiatives around the world, is a passionate advocate for social, environmental and gender justice who has lived and worked around the world.

Head of Curriculum & Director of Indonesia Programs | Women’s Earth Alliance

Sarita Pockell, Head of Curriculum & Director of Indonesia Programs at the Women’s Earth Alliance, is an education-for-sustainability specialist (as well as a musician, playwright, theater director, backyard farmer, mother, diversity/inclusion facilitator with the ADL, garden educator with West County Digs, and on the advisory board of the Urban REAL School). Previously at the Green School in Bali, Sarita has also worked in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and Croatia.

Program Director | Women’s Earth Alliance

Arielle Moinester, Program Director of Women’s Earth Alliance, is an international agricultural development professional and entrepreneur who has worked extensively in Africa and Asia with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and is currently CRS’ Regional Technical Advisor for Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Arielle also co-founded Hands of Mothers, an NGO building women’s micro-enterprises globally and is co-owner of the raw juice company Earthjuice.

Our Secure Future | Director

Sahana Dharmapuri, the Director of Our Secure Future, a program of One Earth Future Foundation, was previously an independent advisor on gender, peace and security issues to many major international organizations including USAID, NATO, The Swedish Armed Forces and the International Peace Institute. She is the author of Women, Peace & Security: 10 Things You Should Know and has published articles and papers widely.

Professor | Cal State Sacramento and UC Davis

Jolynn Shoemaker, JD, a leading expert on gender equity, women’s leadership, peace and security, is a contributing writer for Ms. Magazine and an adjunct professor at Cal State Sacramento and UC Davis. She previously served as Executive Director of Women in International Security and had a long career in government service, including at the State and Defense departments, as well as working with many non-profit research and advocacy organizations.

Councilwoman | Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma

Casey Camp-Horinek, a tribal Councilwoman of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma and Hereditary Drumkeeper of its Womens' Scalp Dance Society, Elder and Matriarch, is also an Emmy award winning actress, author, and an internationally renowned, longtime Native and Human Rights and Environmental Justice activist. She led efforts for the Ponca tribe to adopt a Rights of Nature Statute and pass a moratorium on fracking on its territory, and has traveled and spoken around the world.

Project Director | Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples

Morning Star Gali (Ajumawi band/Pit River Tribe), Project Director of Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples, has researched the disproportionate impact of the criminal justice system on Native Americans, worked as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Pit River Tribe and continues to be a leading organizer and activist advocating for indigenous sovereignty issues, including missing and murdered indigenous women, climate and gender justice, and sacred site protection.

Movement Building Coordinator | Indigenous Environmental Network

Ozawa Bineshi Albert (Yuchi and Annishinaabe), an Oklahoma-based Native Rights and Environmental Justice activist, is a Movement Building Coordinator with the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), currently working on global collaborations to strengthen grassroots feminist movements. A founding board member of IEN and of the Native American Voters Alliance, her previous positions include: Co-Director for the Southwest Organizing Project and Regional Director for the Center for Community Change.

Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator | Indigenous Environmental Network

Simone Senogles wears many hats for the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) as its: Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, Mining Affected Communities Mini-grants Administrator, and Office Manager. She is dedicated to bringing people together across boundaries by building strong connections around food, community, health, and well-being and to revitalizing traditional Indigenous food systems.