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Chicago 2009
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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British newspaper The Observer. His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasancelabor unions and consumer advocacy groups. Notably, he has claimed to have uncovered evidence that Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief Clay Roberts, along with the ChoicePoint corporation, rigged the ballots during the US Presidential Election of 2000 and again in 2004 when, he argued, the problems and machinations from 2000 continued, and that challenger John Kerry actually would have won if not for disproportional "spoilage" of Democratic votes.
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 Perkins, a former economic hit man, is a founder and board member of Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to creating stable, sustainable and peaceful worlds. He has lectured and taught at universities on four continents including Harvard, Wharton and Princeton, and is a champion of environmental and social causes.
Perkins’s Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller lists and has been published in more than 30 languages, details the clandestine operations that created the world’s first truly global empire. His book The Secret History of the American Empire provides a compassionate plan for crafting a world that future generations will be prou ...
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 Professor Stuart Pimm holds one of Duke University’s most prestigious chairs (The Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology). He is an outstanding ecologist and the world’s leading conservation scientist.
Pimm’s publications are extraordinarily influential. He is one of the most quoted ecologists. In the last decade, has Pimm published more than 100 papers, of which a quarter were in Nature, Science, and PNAS. Two of his four books have appeared since 1991. The Balance of Nature? Ecological issues in the conservation of species and communities. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 434 pp. And 2001. The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth. McGraw Hill, New York. (1982) Food Webs, has been re-issued (2003) by Univ ...
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 In business since 1980, Stamets runs Fungi Perfecti®, a family-owned, environmentally friendly company specializing in gourmet and medicinal mushrooms to improve the health of the planet and its people. Fungi Perfecti® is Certified Organic by the Washington State Department of Agriculture and is a leader in a new wave of technologies harnessing the inherent power of mushrooms and fungal mycelium worldwide.
Stamets has published 6 books, including Mycelium Running, a book of mycological rescue for healing habitats and increasing sustainability using low-tech techniques for restoration of damaged ecosystems. He has received several environmental awards, and recently has been awarded a breakthrough patent for replacing chemical pestici ...
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 One of America’s most influential chefs, Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California restaurant Chez Panisse. Credited for helping change the food landscape in America, Chez Panisse was named best restaurant in the U.S. by Gourmet magazine in 2001.
Waters has championed sustainable farms and ranches for more than three decades, and brought her vision to public schools through the Chez Panisse Foundation (www.chezpanissefoundation.org). The Foundation operates The Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, where students plant, harvest and prepare fresh food as part of the academic curriculum.
Waters is the founder of the Yale Sustainable F ...
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Rafat belongs to a family of 6 members who live behind the Union Carbide factory. Her mother was exposed to the gas in 1984, after which they moved to their new house in Gupta Nagar, only to discover that their water was laced with the same poisons that killed thousands of people in Bhopal.
Now having nowhere to go, Rafat and her family continue to live in the area and consume poisoned water daily. She and her sister Yasmin were the youngest members of the team of 50 survivors who walked from Bhopal to Delhi to meet the prime minister in 2008.
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Alper studied biochemistry at the University of Illinois in Champaign IL. He spent 20 years selling technology productsworldwide in the security sector. His extensive international businessexperience and travel, combined with an understanding of the science of human consciousness, gives him a unique insight into American culture.
Currently Alper is a consultant on issues of sustainability and green marketing with a focus on green restaurant design andoperation. He is the acting business manager and director of marketing for The Balanced Kitchen restaurant on the north side of Chicago.
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An Environmental Law and Policy Center Clean Car organizer, Armstrong educates and activates the public about fuel-efficient cars, and lobbies members of Congress on the Clean Cars Act.
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 Bartels, founder and owner of GreenWeaver Inc., is a powerful advocate and educator for appropriate building technologies using high performance, low impact, and local materials. She works to empower people and communities to effectively address energy efficiency, energy security, affordable housing, indoor air quality, green jobs, and restoration of local economies.
Bartels is an experienced builder with over 15 years experience in the sustainable and natural building field. She designed and built the first code approved straw bale home in Western Colorado and went on to serve as project manager for efforts like the Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork, a renowned campus of over 22,000 using passive solar straw bale structures.
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 In 2003, Marisol volunteered with Little Village
Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) to map and inventory the toxins found
within 150 blocks of her predominantly Mexican-American community, Little
Village in Chicago. Marisol was enraged to discover that in Little Village more
than 60,000 youth in a two-mile radius of the Fisk and Crawford Coal Power
Plants are forced to breathe air that violates EPA standards. She was inspired
to act, she said, "in order to shut down these coal power plants, build more
parks, and clean up the toxics. We must organize more people to stand up and
fight." Her first step was launching the youth branch of LVEJO — Youth Activists
Organizing as Today's Leaders, YAOTL. Based on the data M ...
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 Cameron is the co-owner and operator of Uncommon Ground in Wrigleyville andUncommon Ground on Devon in Edgewater.
Uncommon Ground has been operating for 18 years as a community-based restaurant that is committed tosupporting local farmers and purchasing as locally and sustainably as possible,giving guests a high quality dining experience at a relatively affordableprice.
Cameron's commitment to the Green movement is manifest in the new location on Devon, which supports Chicago's first certified Organic Roof Top Farm, producing a wide range of vegetables from Sheep Nose Peppers to Black Prince tomatoes, as well as honey from 2 beehives. The farm sits on a 2500 square foot deck of recycled compositematerial, includes 28 cedar and stee ...
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 Cantave is a ten-year veteran of The Bay Area's art, nonprofit, environmental justice and activism. He currently works as a climate change educator for the Alliance for Climate Education where he presents at high schools throughout the Bay Area educating and inspiring youth to take action against global warming.
As a local artist, Cantave has served as a vanguard for conscious expression and cultural diversity with his group FIYAWATA in which he continues to spread a message of spiritual liberation and self awareness. His passion for empowering young people to reach their greatest potential is unrelenting and serves as an inspiration to both his personal and professional colleagues.
Cantave hold ...
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Carlson is the environmental program manager in the CEO’s Office at Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the nation’s third largest school district. Her position was created in May 2007 to help make Chicago one of our most environmentally friendly cities.
Carlson is currently working to implement CPS’s Environmental Action Plan. She has worked on transportation, climate change and energy policy in Seattle and Chicago, and has a master's in public administration.
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 Coffee, LEED AP, is director of project development, research and policy for Chicago’s Department of Environment. Currently, she is collaborating on the administration and implementation of Chicago’s Climate Action Plan, an unprecedented effort that is establishing the direction and priority for environmental actions across the city and the region. As director, she has developed and stewarded the City’s water conservation, water quality, stormwater management, Great Lakes, bird, and aquatic invasive species policy. Recent initiatives include the Chicago Stormwater Management Ordinance, The Chicago Conservation Corps, The Chicago Invasive Species Ordinance and the Chicago Bird Agenda.
Coffee completed her master's degree in urban plannin ...
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 Principal Coleman came to St. Monica School in 2003 after serving as a junior high teacher in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Under his leadership, the school began extensive research into the environmental/green school concept. In 2006, St. Monica teachers authored the first draft of the SEEDS (Student Environmental Education & Development Studies) curriculum. This educational initiative led to an eventual partnership with the Chicago Botanic Garden and with St. Monica School's being awarded academy status in 2007. Coleman holds two Master’s Degrees from Dominican University (2004) and Roosevelt University (2000) respectively. As an undergraduate, he received a Bachelor’s Degree from Illinois Wesleyan University. Ray’s background in educa ...
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Anne Comeau is
a founding member Edgewater Community Council’s Environmental Planning
team. She has been Co-Chair of Edgewater
Beautiful and a Director of the Edgewater Community Council since 2007. She has participated in the North Shore Earth
Day program committees from 2007 through 2009.
She is a retired account executive for Large Group clients of a national
Life and Health Benefits corporation.
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Sue
Cubberly started Rain Garden Network in 2003. The
company’s goal is to educate people about the issues of polluted runoff and talk
to them about the things they can do, on their property and in their lives to
reduce or eliminate it.
Over the last 6 years Sue has spoken with thousands of people at
public exhibits, speaking engagements and personal consulting visits. The
website, www.RainGardenNetwork.com
provides a continuing opportunity to speak about the everyday things we can do
to protect our water quality.
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 Danaher is a cofounder of Global Exchange, the noted human rights organization based in San Francisco, executive coproducer of Green Festival, executive director of the Global Citizen Center and author of Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power among others.
Danaher has appeared on television and radio shows around the country. He has published articles in the The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The International Herald Tribune, Harvard Educational Review, The Nation, The Progressive and many others. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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 Community educator, entrepreneur, and health care
professional, Stephanie Davies, revels in the wisdom of the red wiggler
composting worm. As Urban Worm Girl,
she educates the urban community about the ease and benefits of recycling
kitchen waste by composting with worms.
In 2008 Stephanie developed, Urban Worm Girl to spread the word
about vermiculture, to reduce landfill waste and to promote the return of
nutrients to the earth. Since its’
beginning, Urban Worm Girl’s mission has been to remind each of us of
the interconnectedness of all beings, and guide us towards a more responsible
and mindful way of life. Stephanie’s
growing team of educators provides simple supplies and hands on assistance with
set ...
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