Featured Speakers for San Francisco Spring 2010
Speaker Archive
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Speaker Profiles
 Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University
Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of
both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society,
teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school
change, and teaching and the modern predicament.
A graduate of
the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education,
Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers
has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education,
the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially
intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is vice-president
of the curriculum division of the American E ...
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Damali Ayo Keynote Presentation  Ayo is one of our culture's most creative thinkers on issues of race relations. She is the creator of The National Day of Panhandling for Reparations and rent-a-negro.com. Author of How to Rent a Negro, and the forthcoming Obamistan! Land Without Racism: Your Guide to the New America, Ayo has been teaching practical steps to end racism at venues across the U.S. for more than fifteen years.
"I have seen that change starts with people, relationships and courage. This fuels my passion for connecting people with resources and information to help them be all they can be," states Ayo.
An avid gardener and herbalist, Ayo strives to live a life in harmony with principles of sustainability. She practices yoga regularly and incorporates yoga ph ...
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 A human rights and social justice supporter and activist for more than 20 years, Benjamin is coeditor of Stop the Next War Now and cofounder of Global Exchange, Green Festival coproducer.
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 MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of many awards, Brown is founder and president of Earth Policy Institute, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and author or coauthor of 50 books.
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 Rickie Byars Beckwith, Music and Arts Director for Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, composes and performs moving, melodic music "to inspire deep feeling in the heart and to bring joy to the earth." She has produced six CDs that are favorites to thousands. Her most recent project, Supreme Inspiration, was produced by her daughter, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and led to her first music video, Alle-Alleluia.Rickie's extensive body of work inspires spiritual communities around the world. "Spirit encourages me to be a voice of inspiration and to bring 'water to a dry land,'" she said. Described as an "intuitive channel of healing music," Rickie has performed at five sessions with His Holiness the Dalai Lama -- twice in ...
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 Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind body medicine, Deepak Chopra, continues to transform our understanding of the meaning of health. Through his creation of The Chopra Center for Well Being in California in 1996, Chopra established a formal vehicle for the expansion of his healing approach using the integration of the best of western medicine with natural healing traditions, in both conventional and complementary healing arts.
Chopra's work is changing the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellness.
Chopra is known as the prolific author of over 50 books, more than 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles which have been translated into 35 languages with over 20 millio ...
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 Cyril is the founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, CA, a national media strategy and action center building a powerful grassroots movement for racial and economic justice through media change. Key projects include the Media Justice Movement-Building Initiative, the Justice Communications Initiative, as well as training and tools to help grassroots organizers and leaders become better strategic storytellers and media activists.
Cyril’s history as a media and movement strategist is informed by her organizing and communications work at We Interrupt This Message and the Applied Research Center, the Community Organizing Team, Youth Together, and the Youth Force Coalition in the SF Bay Area.
As a queer, ...
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Chuck D Keynote Presentation  As leader and co-founder of legendary rap group Public Enemy, Chuck D redefined rap music and hip hop culture. His lyrics addressed weighty issues about race, rage and inequality with a jolting combination of intelligence and eloquence never seen before. At the close of 1999, The New York Times named Public Enemy’s music to their list of the “25 Most Significant Albums of the Last Century” and in May 2005 The US government’s Library of Congress included Fear of a Black Planet in a list of 50 recordings worthy of preserving in the National Recording Registry. The numbers that reflect their extraordinary career are staggering: The band has embarked on over 60 tours, performing over 1500 concerts to fans in 58 countries. Three albums are cer ...
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Davey D Keynote Presentation  Davey D is a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay, media and community activist. Originally from the Bronx, Davey D's been down with Hip Hop since since 1977 where he started out as an emcee for two crews TDK [Total Def Krew] out of Co-op City and the Avengers out of the Marble Hill Section of the Bronx. he moved from New York to Cali to attend college. He's a graduate of UC Berekely
Davey Dis the current host of Hard Knock Radio a syndicated daily afternoon show that focuses on Hip Hop culture and politics. The show originates on KPFA 94.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area and is heard in Seattle, Atlanta, Portland and Fresno. HKR has been on the air since 1999 and was recently cited as best on air show by the East-Bay Express with Dave ...
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Tom DeWolf Keynote Presentation  Presenting with Belvie Rooks.
DeWolf was born and raised in Pomona, California. In 1972, he moved to Eugene, Oregon to attend college. He graduated in 1978 with degrees from both Northwest Christian College and the University of Oregon.
DeWolf served on the Oregon Arts Commission for nine years and as a local elected official for eleven. His years of public service focused on the arts, literacy, children’s issues, and restorative justice.
In 2001, DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. Senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, curried favor with Presi ...
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 Dohrn, activist, academic and child advocate, is director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of the Northwestern University School Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic. Dohrn was a national leader of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and the Weather Underground, and was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List for over a decade.
She is coauthor, with Bill Ayers, of Race Course: Against White Supremacy and coeditor of Sing A Battle Song: Documents of the Weather Underground, and wrote the introduction to Letters from Young Activists. She is an author and coeditor of two books: “A Century of Juvenile Justice” (2002) and “Resisting Zero Tolerance: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers and Students” (2001) and the ...
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 Barbara Ehrenreich's articles, reviews and essays have been widely published. She received the Sydney Hillman Award for Journalism and a Brill's Content "Honorable Mention" (1999) for a chapter of her book, "Nickel and Dimed," (Owl Books, 2002) which appeared in Harper's in January 1999. A second essay entitled "Maid to Order," which grew out of her research for this book, was also published in Harper's (2000).
Ms. Ehrenreich is the author of "Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War" (Metropolitan, 1997) and a collection of essays entitled "The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed" (Random House Inc., 1990). She also wrote "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class" (Pantheon Books, ...
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 Riane Eisler is an eminent social scientist, attorney, keynote speaker, and social activist best known as author of the international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 22 languages, including most European languages and Chinese, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, and Japanese.
Her newest book, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics, hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking,” by Peter Senge as “desperately needed “ and by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary,” proposes a new approach to economics that gives visibility and value to the most essential human work: the work of caring for people and planet.
Her other books include the ...
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 Chair of the Board of Death Penalty Focus, Farrell is also spokesperson for Concern America, an international refugee aid and development organization, Co-Chair Emeritus of the California Committee of Human Rights Watch and, occasionally, a Good Will Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Known to millions as “B.J. Hunnicutt” of television’s historic “M*A*S*H” and from NBC-TV’s “Providence,” he is also the producer of Universal Pictures’ hit “Patch Adams,”
A refugee aid and human rights activist for 30 years, Farrell first traveled to the Thai/Cambodian border in 1980. In the following decade he took part in aid missions and human rights delegations to El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras; after one such trip h ...
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 An author and broadcaster for more than 20 years, Flanders is the host of GRIT TV, the new news and culture discussion program online, on satellite and on cable TV. GRIT TV can also be seen on theNation.org.
Flanders is the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics Back from the Politicians (The Penguin Press, 2007) and The New York Times bestseller BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an exposé of women in George W. Bush's cabinet.
As part of the original line-up on Air America Radio, Flanders hosted The Laura Flanders Show and RadioNation. She also launched the award-winning YOUR CALL on public radio KALW in San Francisco, and was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, FAIR, ...
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 Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 800 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press.
Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is also one of the the first recipients, along with Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald, of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named fo ...
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 Govero lost her mom when she was seven and never knew her dad. At once this little girl turned adult and was in charge of the little family nucleus of her little brother and blind grandmother. She had to drop out of school and beg for work, getting a bowl of peanuts a day.
At the age of 12, she learned how to farm mushrooms on leaves, cut grass, water hyacinth, pulp and dead tree branches, converting biomass into food. Govero appeared to have golden fingers and had the chance assist her adoptive mom in the tissue culture lab learning how to propagate mushrooms.
Equipped with field experience and the science, Govero simplified mushroom farming for villagers, in general, and girls at risk in particular. She is spearheading the p ...
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 Hartmann, who started in radio in 1968, is also is an internationally known speaker on culture and communications, an author, and an innovator in the fields of psychiatry, ecology, and economics. The co-founder (with his wife, Louise) of The New England Salem Children’s Village (1978) and The Hunter School (1997), he has led national innovations in the areas of residential treatment for abused children and private/public education for learning-disabled children.
Hartmann is the four-time Project Censored Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of nineteen books currently in print in over a dozen languages on five continents. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed and a ...
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 Richard Heinberg is a senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and is the author of eight books on ecological issues, including Peak Oil. He is the author of eight books, including The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003) and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006), and Peak Everything (2008).
Heinberg advocates a planned descent down the depletion curves of oil and draws attention to the links between 9/11 and peak oil.
Heinberg lives in Santa Rosa, California. He is a member of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. He is also an accomplished violinist and an ...
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 A geologist turned brewpub pioneer who had never run for political office, Hickenlooper was elected Mayor of Denver in 2003 and reelected in 2007. In April 2005, less than two years into his first term, Time Magazine named the political newcomer one of the top five “big-city” mayors in America.
Both Hickenlooper and Denver continue to gain national recognition for innovative approaches to sustainability, transit, arts and culture, ending homelessness, economic development, regionalism, and of course hosting the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Hickenlooper brings creative leadership and innovative thinking to Denver’s City Hall, drawing on his diverse background as an exploration geologist, real estate developer and restaurateur. ...
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 National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the forthcoming book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.
Hightower is a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreading the message of pro ...
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Van Jones Keynote Presentation  Van Jones is the founder and president of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California. He recently started the group Green For All (greenforall.org), which is focused on bringing green-collar jobs into lower-income communities. Headquartered in San Francisco, EBC is a national organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system. Born in rural west Tennessee in 1968, Van is a 1990 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Martin and a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School. Click here to see Van speak at the San Francisco Green Festival.
Van is a steadfast opponent of policies that result in the over-imprisonment and unlawful abuse of marginalized peoples in the United States. He is helpi ...
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 Hervé Kempf was born in 1957 in Amiens, north of Paris, in France.
After studies in economics, history, and political science, he became a
journalist. Since 1988 he has specialized in environmental and
ecological reporting. He created the environmental magazine Reporterre,
and has written for scientific and economic newspapers. He has worked
with Le Monde, the most influential French newspaper, since 1998, where
he is the Environmental Editor and covers ecological topics, notably
climate change and biodiversity. Le Monde now has an entire section
devoted to environment and science. Traveling worldwide for his
reporting, Kempf makes his home in Paris.
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 Korten is the author, most recently, of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (2009) and The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (2006). His previous books include the international best-seller When Corporations Rule the World and The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism.
Korten is cofounder and board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes YES! A Journal of Positive Futures; co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, founded in late 2008 with the Institute for Policy Studies; founder and president of the People-Centered Development Forum; a founding associate of the International Forum on Globalization; a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); ...
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 Madeleine M. Kunin was the first woman governor of Vermont, and served as the Deputy Secretary of Education and Ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. She is the author of Living a Political Life and Pearls, Politics and Power, and is currently a Marsh Scholar Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. She lectures on history and women's studies. She also serves as president of the board of the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), a nongovernmental organization that she founded in 1991. Ms. Kunin lives in Burlington, Vermont.
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