Speaker Directory
Linda Zabors
Linda is the founder of Emerald Blue, an eco-consulting and sustainable strategies practice serving businesses, residents and communities. She has been working with energy for over five years and on sustainability issues since 2009. Emerald Blue also provides Green Irene products and services, has a Green Business Bureau Certification and is a Women Business Enterprise (WBE).
Her background is in planning, strategy, product and program marketing, and project management of technologies and professional services in business to business and consumer markets. Linda enjoys working with innovation ... Read More
Kuros Zahedi
Kuros Zahedi is an artist and a teacher. He is originally from Iran and has lived and traveled extensively in Europe. His chief inspirations are his spirituality, the natural world and a vision of hope for civilization on earth. His work explores consciousness, the human being and its ultimate inseparability with nature.Kuros has worked with nonprofits, educational institutions and governmental organizations to successfully complete community based art projects which tap into peoples souls in order to stir significant and relevant questions about the future of humanity. He believes that a ... Read More
Zak Zaidman
Zak ZaidmanZak is cofounder of Kopali Organics and Conscious Goods Alliance, an ecoshowroom vegetable oilpowered bus tour and marketing campaign for conscious brands, as well as a cofounder of Kopali Communities, developing ultra ecological model farms and communities in Costa Rica. Read More
Yochi Zakai
Yochi Zakai joined Coop America as the Corporate Responsibility Programs Coordinator in July 2007. Prior to that, he was a program assistant for the Sierra Student Coalition and as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan founded Brewing Hope, a line of fair trade coffee marketed to cafes in Ann Arbor. Read More
Miguel Zamora
Miguel Zamora is senior manager of the Coffee Product Supply and LAC Stakeholder Relations for Transfair USA. TransFair USA, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, is one of twenty members of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), and the only thirdparty certifier of fair trade products in the United States. They audit transactions between U.S. companies offering Fair Trade Certified Read More
Deanna Zandt
Deanna Zandt is a media technologist and the author of Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking (Berrett-Koehler, June 2010). She has been described as having a techie’s brain and an organizer’s heart and is a consultant to key progressive media organizations including AlterNet and Jim Hightower’s Hightower Lowdown. She is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Social Media at American University. Zandt specializes in social media, is a leading expert in women and technology, and is a frequent guest on CNN International, BBC Radio, Fox News and more. She has spo ... Read More
Patricia Zarate
Antes de que Patricia Zárate, el Chef de Homegirl Café, se convirtió en un chef, se encontró luchando por la justicia dentro de las comunidades marginadas de Los Ángeles. Pati trabajo en colaboración con los jesuitas, proporcionando el acceso de miembros de la comunidad a los recursos básicos, y la preparación de comidas caseras de rutina para la comunidad local de la Misión Dolores. Al ser testiga del poder de la comunión creado en una mesa de comedor, Pati comenzó a pensar en formas en las que podía ofrecer su pasión por la comida en un nivel más profundo de servicio a la comun ... Read More
Robert Zardeneta
Over the past 16 years, Robert Zardeneta has dedicated himself professionally to serving low income, underserved youths and their families throughout Los Angeles and its surrounding neighborhoods. Currently, Robert serves as the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity, Social Justice, and Action (LA CAUSA) Inc. Under his leadership, LA CAUSA has embarked on an extensive Green the East Side campaign, created a Green College and Career Center which works with the University of California Los Angeles' Center for Community College Partnerships to develop mentorship p ... Read More
Katrina Zavalney
Katrina is a change agent known for coordinating and greening events around the U.S., such as Burning Man where she was the volunteer coordinator and spark for much of their efforts. Katrina holds a Masters in Organization Development and 15 years of experience with events and networking in the environmental field. Katrina worked as the Regional Director for Green Festivals in San Francisco and is skilled in facilitation and training in various capacities, from business infrastructure development to sustainability implementation. Katrina also leads seminars for sustainability integratio ... Read More
Jane Zawadowski
Who knew that Jane Zawadowski's activist career would start with trash in high school and continue with trash in her 30s? She founded her high school's recycling program, manually filling her family's International Harvester Scout with paper, and dumping it in the Pueblo, Colorado downtown recycling facility. As a mother, years later, she concerns herself with proper disposal of poop and pee in Chicagoland's municipal waste systems. Ms. Zawadowski's formal career has spanned the fields of community organizing, criminal justice, and fair trade advocacy. While a resident of the Chicago Austin ne ... Read More
Tomoi Zeimer
Tomoi Zeimer is a Japanese mother, artist, filmmaker and anti-nuclear activist. She lives in Harlem, NY with her baby daughter (born just outside of Fukushima) and husband. Read More
Joe Zekas
Joe Zekas is the founder of YoChicago, a real estate reporting site and platform, as well as a former real estate developer and attorney. Read More
Meryl Zendarski
Meryl Zendarski is an attorney who has experience working on conflict resolution, constitutional reform, and development in Liberia, Burma, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Niger. Most recently, Meryl earned Masters of Arts in International Affairs from American University, School of International Service, where she specialized in international politics. For the past two years she has worked as a Consultant focusing on resource sovereignty in the Congo, and she is currently Chairman of the Board for the Maroantsetra Area Development Association (Madagascar) and a board member of ... Read More
Jeff Zimmerman
Jeff Zimmerman has practiced environmental law for 38 years, first with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Land & Natural Resources Division, later with major companies, and currently in private practice (since 1990). Representing clients in renewable fuels, environmental land use regulation, contaminated site remediation and water law, he currently represents conservancy organizations in the ongoing debate over the environmental risks related to unconventional natural gas development. Read More
Ryan Zinn
Ryan Zinn is the Fair World Project Campaign Director. Ryan has worked in the food justice movement since 1996 at home and abroad. His work has taken him throughout Latin American while working for the Center for International Law, Friends of the Earth-Paraguay, Global Exchange and the Organic Consumers Association. Read More
Nancy Zook
Nancy Zook, Art Instructor, has been with CCA Academy for four years teaching classes and workshops ranging from Sculpture to B&W Photography and Mural Art. She has over 16 years experience working with youth in the field of art. Read More
Gary Zukav
For years, Gary Zukav has conveyed the most complex insights in language all can understand. Over and over, he challenges us to see the depth of our potential in the world and act on that awareness. He is the author of four consecutive New York Times Bestsellers.In 1979, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, plumbed the depths of quantum physics and relativity, winning The American Book Award for Science. In 1989, The Seat of the Soul led the way to seeing the alignment of the personality and the soul as the fulfillment of life and captured the imagination of millions, bec ... Read More
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