Van Jones

Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. Senior fellow at the Center For American Progress, best-selling author, and former green jobs advisor in the Obama White House.

Lynn Manning

Lynn Manning is a man in motion.  He’s an award winning poet, playwright, actor, and former World Champion of blind judo.

He has had upwards of a dozen plays produced.  His autobiographical, solo play, WEIGHTS, received three NAACP Theater awards in 2001, including Best actor for Lynn.  He has since performed WEIGHTS from London to Off Broadway, and from Edinburgh to The Adelaide Fringe.  An audio CD version, WEIGHTS(ONE BLIND MAN’S JOURNEY) was released by Bridge Multimedia in 2005.

Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader, ecofeminist, activist and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books including Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace (South End Press, 2005), Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin’s Press, 1989)