Green Festival

Nabhan is the author of Coming Home to Eat: the Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods and founder of the Renewing Americas Food Traditions Initiative.

Nancy Nadel is in her third term as an Oakland City Councilmember for District 3. She has been a West Oakland resident for 25 years.Nancy represents the city of Oakland on the National League of Cities. Nancy works extensively on violence prevention and obstacles to employment. She spearheaded the effort to get a measure on the ballot to fund violence prevention and enforcement programs, Measure R, which lost by only 600 votes in March 2004, and she cochaired with Councilmembers Quan and De La Fuente, the revised version, Measure Y, which won the November 2004 election.Nancy's issues are the ...

Consumer advocate, author and lawyer, Nader is a selfdescribed public citizen with more than 40 years at the forefront of progressive movements. Ralph Nader has been cited by The Atlantic as one of the one hundred most influential figures in American history. He has launched three major presidential campaigns, founded more than one hundred civic organizations, and written bestsellers including The Seventeen Traditions, The Good Fight, and the landmark Unsafe at Any Speed.

A faculty member at The Evergreen State College, Nadkarni is a pioneer in forest canopy studies, fostering communication among scientists and the general public worldwide.

Rick Nahmias is Founder/Executive Director of Food Forward, a volunteer powered grassroots group of Angelenos who care about reconnecting to our food system and making change around urban hunger. Food Forward’s mission is to reconnect people with people – through food – by bringing together volunteers and neighbors to share in the gleaning and distributing of locally grown food from private homes and public spaces which is then distributed to local food pantries and organizations serving those in need. Rick is a professional photographer, writer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the fa ...

Qimmah Najeeullah began SAFA Gallery in 2011 while she served as the Director of Development for the Manuel Zapata Olivella Center for Afro-Latino Development in Washington DC and assisted ethnic-minority owned small businesses and non-profits as a development consultant. Qimmah and her husband Muhammad were inspired to build a high-end fair trade, art and accessory company while they briefly lived in Morocco with thier two children. Previously, as Director of Break the Chain Campaign, a Project of The Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, Qimmah managed culturally competent social ...

Nancy Jones is Executive Director of Chicago Fair Trade, a metro-wide organization that works with businesses, faith based organizations, non-profits, universities, and individual activists to expand support for Fair Trade through education, advocacy, and consumer campaigns. Nancy’s experience as a community organizer in Chicago combined with work experience in rural communities in El Salvador informs her approach to building global relationships based on justice and mutual respect. She holds an M.S.W. from the University of Chicago.

Melanie Napoleon is Director of Great Lakes Conservation at Shedd Aquarium. The program strives for a Great Lakes watershed that is healthy, wellunderstood and internationally cherished by raising public awareness of Great Lakes issues, while also providing inspiration and opportunity for action.The program strives for a Great Lakes watershed that is healthy, wellunderstood and internationally cherished by raising public awareness of Great Lakes issues, while also providing inspiration and opportunity for action.Melanie completed her M.S. degree in biology at Northern Illinois University and h ...

Matt Nardella is principal architect of Moss; a Chicago based architectural design studio. Matt is a licensed architect in the state of Illinois and California, he is a member of the AIA, a LEED accredited professional, and has been in practice for over twelve years. In that time he has designed sustainable projects ranging from singlefamily residences, offices, and schools to urban farms, strawbale research centers, and community centers, both in Chicago and Southern California. His work is known for utilizing site orientation, creative use of low tech green building techniques, and sustainab ...

Dominique Nash is a senior at CCA Academy and excels in the visual arts. She would like to pursue a career in criminology.

WalMart Watch Executive Director David Nassar works in coordination with unionized labor to lead a campaign against the expansion of bigbox stores into small communities. He has experience in both domestic and international campaigns as a campaign manager in Pennsylvania and working for the National Democratic Insititue for International Affairs to strengthen democracy in the Middle East.

Kylie Nealis is the associate on the Community Rights program at Global Exchange, assisting communities confronted by harmful corporate activities to pass cutting-edge laws that elevate their rights above corporate interests in addition to recognizing the rights of nature to exist, thrive and evolve. She is particularly interested in this work because she believes that true democracy involves individuals in communities being able to have the ultimate voice in the decisions that affect their lives and surrounding environment, not outside corporations or state actors. Kylie is graduate of the Un ...

Passionate about harnessing the power of the Internet to propel social and environmental progress, Needham manages Green Festival's online voice. Over the last three years, Needham has worked to promote environmental conferences, clean technology groups and sustainable urban development initiatives. Additionally, she has organized social media-driven charity events to raise funds for nonprofits including Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project and Concern Worldwide. She holds a B.A. in Public Relations from East Tennessee State University. As someone who was raised on the shore of the C ...

Neil Chambers has displayed leadership within green building his entire career. In his book Urban Green: Architecture for the Future, he outlines a vision for aligning cities and buildings with nature. He has participated in over 4 million sf of green buildings ranging in size and scale from in the United States, Caribbean, Asia and Europe saving millions of kWh and gallons of water. He has expertise with many LEED rating systems and has completed LEED projects throughout the United States. He is a member of National USGBC, USGBC New York City Chapter, and assisted in founding USGBC Grand St ...

Eric Nelson manages the Cherry Valley Dairy Duvall. He is a King County native and a three generation farmer. In the past, Eric served on the King County Agriculture Commission as a representative of the dairy industry and was its first Chair. He is currently serving as a Commissioner of Drainage District #6 and is also on the King County Agricultural Drainage Assistance Program Advisory Committee. He was recently elected to serve on the King Conservation District’s Board of Supervisors. Eric’s deep experience with, and concern for water issues related to farming make him a valuable contri ...

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 19882003. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines scientific, economic, and social influences on food choice. She is the author of three prizewinning books: Food Politics: How the Food Indust ...

Tsadae Neway is the CoFounder and Director of Marketing for InesscentsAromatic Botanicals, a skin care line that uses organic ingredients, isecologically friendly, fairly traded, familyowned, hand made, cleanand simple. She is a Breema Instructor, an integrative bodyworkpractitioner, a birth keeper, a dancer, and a mother.

Tim Newman of the International Labor Rights Forum will discuss how Fair Trade affects workers in different industries around the world. Learn more about how Fair Trade protects worker rights and where it can fall short. Find out how the labor movement and unions in other countries relate to the Fair Trade movement. Tim Newman is the Campaigns Director at the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF). He works on ILRF's public campaigns to hold corporations accountable for international labor rights abuses, particularly related to child labor, forced labor and trafficking.

Cheryl Newman is deputy chief of mission at Honest Tea, and helps the fastgrowing company maintain its leadership role as a model for missiondriven businesses. Cheryl's favorite Honest Tea selection is Just Green Tea, but the one hot beverage she misses most is Singapore's teh tarik, one of many world teas she enjoyed during twenty years as a global nomad.

Dr. Newman, M.D., N.D., M.S.O.M.Dr. Newman is a cum laude graduate of the State University of New York Downstate Medical College, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1981. Dr. Newman then completed a Residency in Internal Medicine at U.C.L.A. affiliated hospitals, and has been board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine since 1984. After a period of practice, he completed a Pain Fellowship at the Sierra Pain Institute in Reno, Nevada, and has been board certified by the American Board of Pain Medicine since 1997. Dr. Newman is a 1998 graduate ...

Gavin Newsom, 42, is the youngest San Francisco mayor in over a century. Newsom, the son of William and Tessa Newsom, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Santa Clara University on a partial baseball scholarship, graduating in 1989 with a B.A. in political science.After college, Newsom sold orthotics and worked as an assistant at a real estate firm. In 1991, Newsom recruited investors and founded PlumpJack, a wine shop, which he grew into a thriving enterprise of 15 businesses including wineries, restaurants, and hotels.In 1996, Newsom was appointed by San Francisco Mayor Willie ...

Laura Ng oversees external relations as one of the Executive Directors with Traffick Free, an anti-trafficking non-profit. In this role, she builds partnerships with like-minded groups and individuals, sponsors and supporters. Through this role, she has earned the trust and full support of key anti-trafficking advocates to pursue Traffick Free’s current initiatives: raising awareness, invoking advocacy and spreading education to fight human trafficking in the Chicagoland area. Working in these three areas, Traffick Free is fast becoming a major, collaborative player in the anti-trafficking ...

Presently, Mrs. Ngombe is working with the Pratt Institute for Community Development to green and retrofit blocks in the South Bronx as part of Retrofit NYC Block by Block program and NYSERDA’s statewide campaign – Green Jobs Green New York. She is working to connect homeowners, community institutions and businesses to the incentive programs that will simultaneously reduce homeowners’ energy costs and reduce overall energy consumption. From 2005-2010, Mrs. Ngombe served as the lead community organizer for Long Island Organizing Network (LION). There she administered the recruiting pr ...

Nguyen is the Washington Bus's Intern Coordinator, giving him the responsibility of coordinating interns. He showed up as a volunteer on the Bus's first Bus Trip, and never left. Nguyen drew on all the walls in the Bus's original HQ, and was out on the pavement with one of the first stacks of Bus stickers. Nowadays, Nguyen helps to engage other young people across the state by being cool and doing cool stuff with the Bus's allstar team of high school interns.

Uyen Nguyen is an entrepreneur and a mother of two children. As the owner of Isabella Nail Spa, an eco-friendly nail salon in Montclair that uses only non-toxic nail and beauty products, Uyen aims to create a relaxing and healthy nail salon for both her clients and employees. The innovative and eco-friendly spa has been featured and recognizedfor its green products, calming and hygienic environmentthrough multiple media outlets,including:CBS5, Contra Costa Times, The New York Times and more. When Uyen is not exploring ways to improve the spa-going experience for her clients, and promoting ...

Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative At 26 years old, I made the transition from former Climate Justice Corps and Steering Committee member to director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. This transition from young concerned citizen to the helm of EJCC speaks truth to the power behind what we at EJCC see as our core work which is to educate and activate a new generation of Climate Justice activists. I continue to move forward from union rallies and picket lines to Capitol Hill with a strong commitment and passion for organizing, as I did with both workers ...

Jeremy Nichollsis a caseworker and outreach worker for CornerstoneCommunity Outreach. He is originally from New Zealand and has beenworking with homeless people in Chicago since 1997. Working mainlywith homeless men, Jeremy assists them in their efforts toward selfsufficiency, which includes anything from birth certificates, rentalassistance, mental health treatment to housing hundreds of men.

John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Online Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated internationally, quoted in numerous books and mentioned in debates on the floor of Congress.Nichols writes about politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and is associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers.Nichols is a frequent guest on radio and television ...

Tim Nichols is Managing Director of Hub Bay Area. He holds a Masters in Strategic Sustainable Development, for which he wrote a thesis on Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation. Nichols has been working with various projects over the last four years that look at how to bring community together, including project managing the Brixton Pound, a local currency designed to support local economies. He joined the Hub in 2009 in London as a host and made his way to San Francisco in February 2010. He is also an avid ping-pong player.

Knowledgeable on a broad array of sustainabilityrelated topics, Peter consults on and undertakes forwardthinking design projects for a diversity of clients, including government agencies, institutional nonprofits, and diverse businesses. An adept facilitator, he also teaches Foresight's Urban Sustainable Design Studio program and moderates panels at the organization's monthly Green Drinks events.Prior to establishing Foresight, he held positions as an administrator, editor/writer, communications director, designer, and project manager in the corporate and nonprofit sectors. In 1995 he cofounde ...

On January 1, 2002, Nickels became the 51st Mayor of the City of Seattle. He has earned a national reputation for innovative leadership in transportation, public safety, jobs, climate disruption and other challenges facing the City.Under his leadership, City government focused on delivering reliable, highquality basic services, being accountable to the public, and solving problems. This work positioned the City to seize historic opportunities to improve transportation and economic opportunity for all.The Mayor's Priorities:Get Seattle movingKeep our neighborhoods safeCreate jobs and opportunit ...

Nicole Styles currently works as MTA’s Community Outreach Coordinator. As the Community Outreach Coordinator, she manages the Street Team, which goes out into the city and educates the community about HIV/AIDS. There are three different facets of outreach: HIV 101, Community, and Street. HIV 101 gives a basic overview of the causes of HIV and how to prevent its transmission. Community Outreach consists of setting up tables and booths at various health fairs. Street Outreach consists of conducting risk assessments throughout the community and passing out condoms while encouraging people to co ...

As Executive Director of TransAfrica Forum Lee helps further the organizations mission of the emancipation of all African peoples everywhere physically, economically, and socially. Prior to joining TransAfrica Forum, Nicole was the Managing Director of Global Justice. Nicole has also dedicated her time and efforts to human rights in Haiti working with the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux. Action for Africa: Waht You Can DoThe year 2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade. Despite this passage of time, however, the exploitation of the African continent and h ...

Deborah Niemann is a homesteader, writer, and self-sufficiency expert. In 2002, she relocated her family from the suburbs of Chicago to a 32 acre parcel on a creek "in the middle of nowhere". Together, they built their own home and began growing the majority of their own food. Sheep, pigs, cattle, goats, chickens and turkeys supply meat, eggs and dairy products, while an organic garden and orchard provides fruit and vegetables. A highly sought-after speaker and workshop leader, Deborah presents extensively on topics including soapmaking, breadbaking, cheesemaking, composting and homeschooling. ...

California Food and Justice Coalition's executive director Armando Nieto served as C.E.O. of Redefining Progress, managing director at the Center on Race, Poverty; the Environment, and executive director with Eagle Eye Institute inSomerville, Massachusetts, Earth Share of California and theEnvironmental Defense Center. He is president of the Tulare CountyCommunity Water Center and has served on the advisory boards of JustCommunities, the PG;E ClimateSmart External Advisory Group, and theCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy.California Food and Justice Coalition's executive d ...

GoodWeave's independent certification label (formerly RugMark) appears on more than 75 different rug brands, ensuring that no children were involved in making the rug and that children in India and Nepal are receiving an education. Join GoodWeave USA's Executive Director, Nina Smith, for a discussion about strategies for engaging consumers, industry and NGOs to build the market for childlaborfree products to eradicate exploitation on an industrywide basis in less than a decade. Nina Smith is the executive director of GoodWeave USA (formerly RugMark). GoodWeave works to end exploitative child ...

Nivedita chandrappa has a degree in journalism and masters in public relations. As a television Producer at Queens Public Television and an activist, she has dealt with various immigrant issues, during which she has spoken about immigrant women in New York. She produced a television show called "Asian Indian Immigrant Experience" through which she celebrated the diversities and culture of immigrants in this city. She worked with refugee communities to organize them for creating cooperatives and helping them with their actual needs. Many of immigrant stories revolved around alienation and loss ...

I Bonnie Nixon worked for more than a decade directing and implementing a world class social and environmental responsibility program for the largest information technology company in the world. Nixon is largely credited with helping HewlettPackard make the jump to one of the most globally recognized business leaders for sustainability, and served there for twelve years, most recently as director of environmental sustainability and global citizenship. Previously, she owned a consultancy that specialized in multistakeholder approaches to large, pressing environmental and business issues in the ...

IN 1990, Art The Silent Healer was established in Los Angeles by founder Sharyl Noday. Currently in Chicago, we offer to you the following healing modalities. Full Trance Channeling, Spiritual Development Classes, Energy Healing, Mediumship, Clairvoyant Intuitive, Paintings and Mixed Media Artworks. I channel a loving consciousness that refers to themselves as Siria Family. IN the channeling process these Beings of Light speak through me offering insights, awareness and unique perspectives on our lives to assist us in finding our truth, elevating our vibration, creating self empowe ...

Ruth Nolan, M.A, is Professor of English at College of the Desert, where she teaches California desert Indian literature and creative writing. A native of the Mojave Desert and former BLM wildland firefighter, she is also a writer and lecturer whose poetry and prose articles related to the California desert are widely published. She is also editor of No Place for a Puritan: the Literature of California's Deserts (Heyday, 2009). As a writer, she collaborated on a film about Joshua Tree, "Escape to Reality: 24 hrs @ 24 fps," produced the UC Riverside California Museum of Photography (2008). She ...

Jeanne Pinsof Nolan, “The Organic Gardener,” has been growing food for over 20 years. In her current role as project manager for Chicago’s Green City Market, she is responsible for designing and implementing The Edible Gardens, a 5,000 square foot vegetable garden for children at Lincoln Park Zoo. She is also founder of “The Organic Gardener, Ltd,” focusing on helping people to have fun successfully growing organic vegetables. She also works extensively with schools, restaurants and institutions. Her career began with a 1987 apprenticeship in organic vegetable gardening and farming i ...

Noland is a serial social entrepreneur and the founder of the award winning Moontown Foundation, a Seattlearea nonprofit think ; do tank dedicated to accelerating the transformation to a green economy for all. Moontown works to achieve its strategic vision through the development of metropolitanscale energy conservation, energy production and energy management solutions that also serve as green pathways out of poverty. In 2008, Noland cofounded and launched the SWITCH Project, an innovative green career readiness program that provides lowincome urban young adults with the personal, professio ...

Carrie Norton is Founder and CEO of Green Business BASE CAMP, a global entrepreneurial education company serving early stage green business and cleantech entrepreneurs. Her broad expertise in sustainable business and entrepreneurship has evolved as strategic career choices allowed her to appreciate a range of perspectives, starting with her positions at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Garage Technology Ventures and Idealab. Most recently, Norton served early-adopting clients such as Google, Sony, and British Telecom as a senior executive responsible for Market and Pro ...

Anca Novacovici is the founder and president of EcoCoach, Inc., which provides services for businesses and individuals to become more environmentally friendly, energyefficient, and healthy. Clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller businesses and individuals. Anca is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accredited professional and is on the Board of the Green Building Institute.

Joelle Novey is the director of Greater Washington Interfaith Power ;Light, which helps hundreds of local congregations to save energy, gogreen, and respond to climate change (www.gwipl.org). Joelle helps toorganize two of DC's independent Jewish communities, Tikkun LeilShabbat and Minyan Segulah. Joelle is also the coauthor of, Green and JustCelebrations: A Purchasing Guide for Washington's Jewish Families,from Jews United for Justice (JUFJ,) which offers specific suggestionsfor how families can make purchasing choices for weddings and bar andbat mitzvah celebrations in ways that are mindful ...

Baza Novic is a former U.S. Marine, a Permaculture thinker, storyteller and certified Master Gardener based in Los Angeles. For over a decade, Baza has offered consultations to those struggling with integrating life's more challenging experiences. Baza is a multifaceted artist working in many mediums including writing, photography, installations, film and television, including work with NBC, Disney, CBS, VH1 and MTV. He is the co-director of the Evolver Network's Los Angeles chapter, supporting creative transformation through events focused on leading edge art, education and social activism. H ...

Mike Nowak has been sharing green and gardening wisdom in the Chicago area on radio for 15 years–first at WGN and now as host of "The Mike Nowak Show" on WCPT 820AM and 92.5, 92.7 and 99.9 FM. Along with Jennifer Brennan, he is co-host of Dig In Chicago, a new gardening and cooking television show on Comcast/Xfinity Channel 102 Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m. from April 21 through September. Mike’s radio show is a blend of humor, expertise, and passion for gardening and keeping the planet healthy. In addition to talking about gardening, Mike Nowak keeps tabs on conservation, environment a ...

Ronald J. Nowicki is a Landscape Architect with a B.A from Universityof Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. He is also a certified PermacultureDesigner. Ron and his wife Vicki own The Land Office, a design/buildlandscape construction firm In Downers Grove, Illinois. His tag line isLandscape Design and Construction With an Ecological Conscience. Inhis 35 years of work with residential clients, his main focus has beento help families reconnect with the natural world through ecologicallysustainable landscape design. He uses diverse, native and naturalistic plantings which formcommunities that conserve ...

I am an accomplished human and organizational development specialist. I am also a shamanic healer and teacher of spirituality and higher consciousness learning. As a consultant, I focus my gifts and talents on the evolution of human consciousness, in particularly among human service professionals. I'm also dedicated to the evolution of interpersonal landscapes within families, communities, and organizations.For about 20 years I was fortunate to work extensively with economically and socially challenged children, youth, families, communities, and organizations, through a wide variety of job ...

Nudelman, MA, is the director of Program ; Public Policy at the Breast Cancer Fund. Nudelman currently coordinates a federal campaign to ban bisphenol A in food and efforts to secure passage of federal legislation to more strictly regulate the cosmetics industry.

Leslie Nuesca, a Los Angeles native, has regularly practiced yoga since she was a child. In January 2004, Leslie experienced her first Kundalini yoga class and it resonated with her so powerfully that she pursued professional yoga studies in April 2006 and earned her IKYTA teaching certificate from Golden Bridge Yoga. In February 2008, Leslie completed the Khalsa Way Pre-Natal Teacher’s Training Course with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa. In March of 2009, Leslie taught yoga to the Pre-school children at Agape International Spiritual Center. Guided by her experience as a children’s photographer, se ...

Yorman Nunez is currently a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he coordinates the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative. BCDI is a place based initiative that seeks to harness local assets and drive a comprehensive regional economic development strategy that is focused on building wealth, ownership, and business leadership among low- and moderate-income residents of the Bronx while fostering an environmentally just and sustainable regional economy.

Melanie Nutter is the Director of the San Francisco Department of Environment. She helps all San Francisco residents and businesses take an active role in protecting and enhancing the urban environment, produces and publicizes information on sustainable practices, and develops innovative and practical environmental programs for all residents. Nutter served as Deputy District Director for the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, where she advised on issues including the environment, energy, transportation, environmental health, women’s issues, and food policy. Nutter founded an ...