Rachel Taber is a gung-ho labor rights activist from Seattle. After much consumer-education and campaigning for trade justice in coffee and cocoa, Rachel has moved on to the garment industry where she now organizes with the first-ever living-wage union-made apparel initiative to hit the college-logo market: Alta Gracia apparel. Rachel Taber has been actively involves in the Fair Trade Seattle movement and helped to plan the Northwest Chocolate Festival in 2010.
Amara Tabor-Smith is an Oakland based choreographer/dancer/artivist. She is the former associate artistic director and company member with The Urban Bush Women dance company based in NYC. She is the Artistic Director of Deep Waters Dance Theater; an Oakland, Ca. based dance company founded in 2006 committed to creating work that addresses issues of race, discrimination, spirituality, cultural identity and the environment. Most recently she created an interactive dance theater work titled, Our Daily Bread that celebrates food, the folklore of our food traditions and addresses issues of sustaina ...
Matt Hill and Stephanie Tait cofounded the Run for One Planet Society, an ongoing run endeavour focused on inspiring people to get fit and healthy for themselves, and take action for our planet.
James is the founder and Executive Director of the Movement Strategy Center (MSC), a national intermediary that facilitates progressive movement building through the development of strategic alliances. MSC works to support leaders, organizations and alliances that are committed to building more effective and sustainable movements for justice and equity.Most recently, Taj was the Director of Youth Policy and Development At Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth. Before coming to Coleman, Taj worked as the Western Regional Field Organizer for the Black Student Leadership Network (BSLN) a proje ...
Kiyomi Takahashi is a dedicated and passionate student and teacher of Yoga. A daily practice of yoga and meditation is helping Kiyomi live her life with joy and purpose. She is committed to help others improve their wellbeing, and share the joy of life and practical Yogic tools for real life in her classes, workshops and trainings. With many years of trying to prove herself in a non-stop hectic life of corporate world, Kiyomi lost sense of who she was, until she found yoga. When she became a certified Vinyasa Yoga Teacher, Kiyomi continued studying Yoga Therapy and Prenatal Yoga. She immersed ...
Midori Takata is co-founder of Project Butterfly, an organization founded in 2006, based in Los Angeles, CA. Project Butterfly is dedicated to producing events for consciousness elevation, supporting responsible entrepreneurship and community expansion. Through Project Butterfly, Midori has produced and managed hundreds of events with the intention to cross-pollinate individuals and organizations involved in positive transformation. Midori is also a commercial film production coordinator and the administrator for the Yawanawa Project.
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Amy Talbot is an active water conservationist in Chicago. A native of Austin, Texas where sometimes water can be hard to come by, she understands the value of fresh water. Amy works in Chicago as a developer of water management plans. She is a leader with the Chicago Conservation Corps (C3). You’ll find Amy attending seminars and social events about water, and she is usually dressed with lots of happy colors.
Taleigh Smith coordinates Weatherization & Green Jobs Outreach at the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition where she launched the Bronx Green Jobs Roundtable, and the first Bronx Youth Green Jobs Academy teaching environmental literacy and urban planning at Bronx Community College. In October, 2011, she participated in a research trip to Cuba to study public health and climate change, connecting work retrofitting low-income housing for energy and water efficiency and air quality to policies addressing climate and health around the world. In 2010, she led a delegation of 47 environme ...
US ; Canada Coordinator for the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) GAIA is an international network of communitybased organizations organizing to replace incinerators and landfills with zero waste alternatives. Ananda is also a member of Rising Tide, an international network of climate change activists, and an organizer with the Mobilization for Climate Justice, a network that is coordinating mass direct action and public events across North America in the lead up to the UN Climate talks in Copenhagen and beyond. Since 1986, Ananda has worked with both grassroots groups and I ...
Gregory Tarver, Jr. is an arborist, urban forester, educator, and doctoral candidate in the Nature & Society Geography Program at University of California, Davis. He received a B.S. degree in Natural Resource Conservation from the University of Montana in 1998, and a M.S. in Urban Forestry from Southern University and A & M College in Louisiana in 2005. Most of his research and work focuses on involving youth and young adults in nature based activities and natural science education. He does this by engaging at-risk populations in urban forestry and arboricultural project-based activities uti ...
Woody Tasch is Chairman and President of Slow Money, a 501(c)(3) formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility that support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy. Tasch is chairman emeritus and former CEO of Investors' Circle, a network of angel investors, family offices, social purpose funds and foundations that since 1992 has invested $150 million in 230 early stage sustainability-promoting ventures and venture funds. During much of the 1990s, he was treasurer of the Jes ...
Kat Taylor is active in a variety of social business, public benefit, and philanthropic ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, she focuses on beneficial banking services and food systems through two primary organizations.Kat and her husband, Tom Steyer, are the founding directors of OneCalifornia Bank and Foundation, a triple bottom line Federal Savings Bank in Oakland CA. OneCalifornia Bank lends in lowincome communities to support local economies and job creation. It is also attempting to help low income individuals and households build and protect assets through fair and innova ...
Lisa Taylor, author of Your Farm in the City: An Urban Dweller’s Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals, lives in Seattle, Washington with her partner, son and 3 chickens on their city farm. She is Education Program Manager for Seattle Tilth and spends most days growing and eating plants with children. She is passionate about teaching children and their parents where their food comes from and how to care for living things. For Lisa, eating is the main reason for growing plants. Organic, local food never tasted better.
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Aaron is a Senior at Chicago High School for Agricultural Science (CHSAS). He loves music. Every song he hears is "his song." He goes on great vacations with his parents and makes his teachers wish they were along.
Tamara TaylorBassin founder and CEO of Planet Promotions and greeneventschicago.com. Tamara is an entrepreneur, a social activist, a zealous fundraiser and a proud mother of 3. Celebrating over 20 years in the special events industry, Tamara TaylorBassin has passionately spent much of her career offering green solutions to her clients while promoting and marketing their brands through grassroots field marketing. With passion and wisdom, she has been educating clients, coworkers and friends about the importance of integrating environmentally responsible choices into every aspect of our live ...
An environmentalist since she could talk, TaylorStanley attends the University of Washington, where she has led campaigns addressing waste reduction, climate change and sustainable food.
Tazioli has been the Washington State Coordinator for Breast Cancer Fund since the inception of the state office in May 2004.
Originally from North Carolina, James stepped on stage for the first time at the ripe old age of 14 and never looked back. Having spent most of his theatrical career on stage, James transitioned to choreographer before directing his first full-length musical. James recently appeared in The Shadow Box with Grove Players. In addition to acting, he has directed both in his home state (Godspell, Take Five) and in Chicago, where he adapted and staged Tell Tale Heart and Pandemonium's first and only production of We Interrupt This Program, an original ensemble production focusing on the first 50 ye ...
Carmen Tedesco, media producer in the Bay Area, has been involved with Slow Food for over ten years. He was the initial leader of Slow Food Santa Cruz and moved to become a leader at the Slow Food San Francisco convivium. He has championed the Vertical Garden project at Sanchez Elementary School and has a strong interest in urban agriculture.
Teens Turning Green is a nationalcoalition of passionate and powerful teens educating about safe and healthychoices in our daily lives, schools and communities, advocating for policychange to protect our right to health and working collaboratively to inspireaction and promate change that will sustain our earth. In 2002 it was revealed that Marin County breast cancer rates had risenan alarming 60% in eight years. When asked what was being done, theresponse was there wasnt enough funding to do the necessary studies.Shortly thereafter, Judi Shils formed the Marin Cancer Project(currently known a ...
Luisah Teish is a writer, speaker, teacher, performer, ritual priestess, event planner, space designer, editor, and personal coach. She is the author of several books on African and African American Spiritual Culture and Feminist Myth. They include the women's spirituality classic Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals, Carnival of the Spirit: Seasonal Celebrations and Rites of Passage, Jump Up: Good Times Throughout the Seasons with Celebrations from Around the World, and What Don't Kill Is Fattening Revisited: Twenty Years of Poetry, Prose, and Myth. O ...
Gabriela is Co-anchor of “First Edition” for KMEX-TV, Channel 34, and the number one television station in Spanish in the nation.She joined the program “First Edition” in March of the 2004, after she was a co-anchor of the news program "Telefutura 46" on KFTR-TV, the station’s sister station of Telefutura. Teissier is better recognized by many as the original Co-host of the noon program Telefutura, “Scandal TV.” She is also known for her coverage of all of the Latin Entertainment industry. Teissier began her introduction to the media while she served as host for several news ...
Roger Telschow is founder and president of Ecoprint, an integrated design, printing, and mailing company now in its 30th year. An environmental organizer turned entrepreneur, Roger has been involved in personal, social, and organizational change his whole life. In addition to his commitment to sustainable business, he facilitates personal growth retreats for individuals.
Fran Teplitz serves as the Director of Social Investing & Policy at Green America. Her work focuses on socially responsible investing, including community investing and banking as well as shareholder action.She also manages Green America’s role in coalitions related to sustainable business and economics, climate change, and other policy issues. Fran worked with Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund before joining Green America. Prior to Peace Action, she worked on U.S. policy toward Central America. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Institute for International Peace Studies ...
Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the global conservation organization known for its intense focus on collaboration and getting things done for the benefit of people and nature. A former managing director for Goldman Sachs, where he spent 25 years, Mark brings deep business experience to his role leading the Conservancy, which he joined in 2008. He is a champion of the idea of natural capital—valuing nature for its own sake as well as for the services it provides for people, such as clean air and water, productive soils and a stable climate. Mark is a member of se ...
Danielle Tergis is an award winning strategic marketing and communications expert with a passion and focus on the hospitality, health and wellness lifestyle, green initiatives and sustainable food sectors. As Marketing and PR Manager at the The Liaison Capitol Hill, an Affinia Hotel, and its nationally renowned restaurant Art and Soul, she worked closely with celebrity chef Art Smith to create initiatives to position the restaurant as one of DC’s "must go" destinations. She also developed innovative programs such as the trend setting "Yoga on the Roof" program to incorporate the idea of heal ...
Michael Terpin is the founder of SocialRadius, a full-service social media marketing agency, serving clients in a variety of industries worldwide. SocialRadius did the outreach for recording artist Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” video for the Obama campaign, which won the 2008 Emmy, Global Media and Webby awards, as well as a 2009 Clio Gold Lion. They also did event marketing for Live8, social mobile marketing at LiveEarth, and the Green Inaugural Ball. SocialRadius publishes the popular CES Party Listand CTIA Party List. Michael previously created one of the nation’s earliest Internet-focu ...
Bryant Terry is an eco chef, food justice activist, and author of Vegan Soul Kitchen (VSK): Fresh, Healthy, and Creative AfricanAmerican Cuisine (Da Capo/Perseus March 2009). For the past nine years he has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system and has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity. His interest in cooking, farming, and community health can be traced back to his childhood in Memphis, Tennessee, where his grandparents inspired him to grow, prepare, and appreciate good food. Bryant is currently a fe ...
Tezozomoc fue criado en Los Ángeles. Recibio su título universitario en Ingenería Electronica de California State University Northridge (CSUN) y término la mayor parte del Máster en Lingüística en CSUN. En 2003, Tezozomoc fue elegido a representar los Granjeros del Sur Centro de Los Ángeles en su lucha a preservar la finca urbana mas grande de los Estados Unidos. Su padre, uno de los organizadores originales, se enfermo y Tezozomoc se dedico a mantener el espacio en la finca urbana de su padre. Desde 2003 hasta 2006, Tezozomoc conjunto con los otros granjeros urbanos, lucho a salvar e ...
The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC) is a multicultural group of teens that create original performance art pieces, in collaboration with professional artists, that combine hip-hop, modern, and aerial dance, theater, martial arts, song and rap. The productions are a dynamic, creative forum for the young people to express their fears, hopes and strategies for confronting challenging personal and social issues. The company has performed locally and nationally since 1993 for up to 20,000 audience members annually. The company has been the subject of a documentary film (2000) called ...
Adia Tamar Whitaker is a professional dancer/choreographer from the BayArea. Her current artistic work focuses on NeoFolklore of the AfricanDiaspora. She is dedicated to preserving the past, present and futureof the African presence in the New World.Since2000,Adia and her company Ase Dance Theatre Collective (Brooklyn, NY) havepresented work that links contemporary modern dance, originalvernacular movement, and traditional dance theater from the AfricanDiaspora toconceptual ideas in the human experience. Her belief that all forms ofAfrican drum and dance facilitate a process of spiritual awake ...
Laura Theodore is a television and radio host, vegan chef, sustainable lifestyle blogger,cookbook author, and award-winning jazz singer and actor. She is the proud creator of the “JazzyVegetarian," and author of Jazzy Vegetarian: Lively Vegan Cuisine Made Easy and Delicious. Laura is presently the on-camera host and co-producer of the Jazzy Vegetarian cookingshow on national Public Television, now in it’s second season. Ninety percent of televisionhouseholds across the nation are now able to view broadcasts of Jazzy Vegetarian. In addition, Ms.Theodore hosts the weekly show, "Jazzy Vegeta ...
Theresa is an American tech-professional and the founder of two social enterprises. The first, WORK+SHELTER, is a safe space where women in New Delhi can come to live, work, and make a fair wage. The products the women make are sourced by American companies looking for a fair-trade production unit.
Pandora Thomas is a passionate global citizen who works as an environmental educator, permaculture teacher and curriculum developer. She is a credential multiple subjects’ teacher and studied at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, Teachers College, and Tufts University. Her writing includes a children’s book, various curricula and a greenbuilding manual for youth. She lectures on topics of diversity, social justice, women's leadership, and sustainability. Pandora co-founded Earthseed Consulting LLC, a holistic consulting firm whose work expands the opportu ...
A Chicago transplant from northern Indiana, Cheryl is a graduate of Indiana University (2009, B.A. Journalism, Medieval Studies, & English) and The Second City-Chicago (2011, Comedy Writing for the Stage). She is currently a board member, resident writer, and occasional director for Pandemonium Theatre Group and resident writer for the Chicago-based GEMproductions. She has contributed to the sketch comedy/variety television show "Larry Grochowski Show" and to several online publications as a freelance journalist and copywriter. She is currently adapting her most recent play "Dressing for Our L ...
The oft self-described "scatterbrained business lady", Porsha Thomas is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of eco-chic e-mag, Luri & Wilma. Inspired by her love of vintage fashion and the knowledge gained in her college Environmental Science class, the Mayborn School of Journalism graduate sought to create a go-to source for ladies like herself – fashionphiles interested in sustainable living – and from that, Luri & Wilma was born. What started as a blog outlet for a "going green" girl has morphed into full blown life guide for the women of the sort.
ThomasMüller of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation, also known as Pukatawagan in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. With his roots in the inner city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, he began his work as a community organizer, working with Aboriginal youth.ThomasMüller went on to achieve many accomplishments as a youth leader in the Aboriginal community. Over the years his work has taken him to five continents. He has been on the front lines of stopping industrial society's assault on indigenous peoples lands to extract resources and to dump tox ...
Bay Area sculptor and educator Thompson creates sculpture and interactive and educational site specific installations that address individual and communal survival issues and involve collaboration with other artists on public art projects involving community participation. She teaches ecoart at Laney College and at summer Ecoart Literacy program she founded to inspire the next generation of ecoartists, and serves on the Women Environmental Artists Directory board.
Elizabeth Thompson is the Executive Director of the The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Since 2004 she has developed BFI's leading educational programs including its acclaimed website, high profile public lectures, exhibitions and events, and the Design Science Lab. She has been played an instrumental leadership role in the creation and implementation of BFI's flagship program, The Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Prior to joining BFI, Elizabeth was the founding director of Planetwork, served as director of John Gibson Gallery, New York, and a founding member of the award winning performance group, ...
Born in the beautiful Puyallup Valley of Washington State, Thompson has taken the lessons from her agricultural heritage and is currently the Director of Food Justice Programs at Community to Community Development a womenled, place based, grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities. As director, Thompson coordinates various programs that are committed to social, economic and environmental justice. Working directly with farmworker advocate Rosalinda Guillen and with farmworkers on the ground, Thompson has developed cultural and language appropriate technical assi ...
Bill Thorness is a writer and gardener who has been doing both in Seattle since the mid-1980s. He is the author of Edible Heirlooms: Heritage Vegetables for the Maritime Garden (Mountaineers Books, 2009), and writes about gardening for many regional publications, including The Seattle Times and the PCC Sound Consumer. He has had many roles at Seattle Tilth, serving as board president, publications editor and instructor. He also wrote the bestselling bicycling guidebook, Biking Puget Sound: 50 Rides from Olympia to the San Juans (Mountaineers Books, 2007). He is a member of the Garden Writers A ...
Author of Biodiesel America, Tickell has appeared on numerous talk shows and is recognized as the most engaging and inspirational public speaker in his field. Joshua Tickell is one of the nation's leading experts on alternative fuels. He grew up in Louisiana where members of his family suffered from diseases linked to pollution from oil refineries. He began to look for alternatives to petroleum in college, when he discovered biodiesel while working on a farm in the former East Germany. Fascinated, Tickell started to conduct his own research. He translated documents written by the inventor of t ...
The author of two books on alternative energy, Tickell has worked on environmental issues for over twenty years. His career spans a unique mixture of science, political activism, investigative journalism and filmmaking. Having grown up amongst the oil refineries in Louisiana, Tickell experienced the impacts of dirty oil processing at a young age. After watching his mother suffer from pollution related sickness, Tickell began to search for sustainable, clean energy sources. His directorial debut film, ‘FUEL,’ is the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary that investigates the poss ...
Rebecca Harrell Tickell dedicates herself to the advancement of women and the environment. She is the Co-Director and Producer of the documentary 'The Big Fix' which is an 'Official Selection' of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. She has spent the last year documenting the impacts and root cause of the BP oil spill. While investigating the spill she became ill and was left with permanent damage from exposure to the oil and dispersant in the atmosphere. She produced the 2008 Sundance Award winning documentary FUEL, and is currently in production on two other documentaries. She co-directs the nonp ...
Mike Tidwell is founder and director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to promoting solutions to global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and DC.Tidwell is the author of four previous books, including In the Mountains of Heaven and Amazon Stranger. His work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Reader's Digest, and The Washington Post. He is the recipient of an NEA fellowship and two Lowell Thomas Awards for travel journalism.
Greg Tilford is a well-known expert, author, consultant and teacher in the field of veterinary botanical medicine. He is a charter member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Animal Supplements Council (NASC) and is author of dozens of published articles and five books, including the acclaimed Herbs for Pets – The Natural Way to Enhance your Pet’s Life (Bowtie/Fancy Publications, second ed. 2009). A much sought-after international speaker, Greg has presented his work at numerous professional conferences and universities, including the Colorado State University Teaching ...
Scott is a socially conscious communicator, equal parts publicist, marketer, entrepreneur and writer. He has an insatiable interest in big ideas and the behaviors that drive people,what resonates with them, and how to communicate with them. He has 15-plus years of experience promoting ideas, products and services in various culture-shaping (and sometimes suffocating) worlds. Some years ago, he started applyinghis corporate skills to progressive social issues. He foundedAntidote Collectivein 2004 and has since worked with a range of groups, people, films and books covering the environment ...
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Dorothy J. Tillman is a former Chicago alderman in the 3rd Ward. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented part of the city's South Side in the Chicago City Council. As an Alderman, Tillman was a strong advocate of reparations for slavery. In April 2007, she was defeated in a runoff election by challenger Pat Dowell. Tillman defeated Dowell in 2003. Prior to her career as an alderman, Tillman was active in the civil rights movement, working for Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) as an activist. Tillman has also hosted her own show of WVON.
Tim Jones is coordinator of the Whats the Economy for Anyway? Educational Resource Project.
Kelsey Timmerman is the author of WHERE AM I WEARING? A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes and is in the process of writing his next book: WHERE AM I EATING? out in 2013. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Condé Nast Portfolio and has aired on NPR. He has spent the night in Castle Dracula in Romania, played PlayStation in Kosovo, taught an island village to play baseball in Honduras, and in another life, worked as a SCUBA instructor in Key West, Florida. Whether in print or in person he seeks to connect peo ...
Claire Tinley is a researcher focusing on the food service industry with UNITE HERE Local 1, the labor union that represents about 16,000 hotel, food service, and casino workers throughout Chicago and Northwest Indiana. UNITE HERE represents the food service workers within Chicago institutions such as Wrigley Field, Chicago Public Schools, O’Hare airport, and United Center. Part of Claire’s work is dedicated to Real Food Real Jobs, a project of UNITE HERE, which supports food service workers as they advocate for justice on the job and within our food system. Based in Chicago and an avid ho ...
Graciela Tiscareño-Sato is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, School of Environmental Design. Her global sustainability experience began while leading the Green Enterprise Initiative at Munich, headquartered Siemens Enterprise Networks. She helped enterprises understand the economic and environmental value of collaboration technologies. The author actively mentors students who need education and career roadmaps, which her book provides. Her thought leadership pieces have published in the U.S. and Europe, including: Environmental Leader, Hispanic MBA, Communications News a ...
Tizon works as coordinator of the Helping Hands program for torture survivors for the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International in Washington, DC.
Alberto Tlatoa is a member of the South Central Farmer’s Cooperative. At the age of 18, Alberto entered into social activism at the garden plot his family farmed in South Central Los Angeles was threatened with destruction. Learning of injustice by experiencing it, Alberto made a commitment to his community and family to use his life to work for change and equity among all people. As a high school student, Alberto bridged the gap between primarily Spanish speaking farmers and English speaking volunteers. While a community college student, Alberto also took on a full-time farming/organizing p ...
Trina Tocco, Campaigns Coordinator, began at the International Labor Rights Fund in February 2005 and works on ILRF advocacy campaigns particularly the WalMart campaign. Directly after college, she spent a year organizing with the Service Employees International Union. She has worked for a number of years on sweatshops with various organizations including United Students Against Sweatshops. She also participated in Semester at Sea where she spent a semester touring over 10 countries to complete a trip around the world. She is also active in Musicians Against Sweatshops. Tocco is a 2003 graduat ...
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Micro-farmer turned tech-entrepreneur, Todd is a student of food systems and all things edible. He is the CEO of Every Last Morsel, a social network for Midwest gardeners to share planting tips, excess food and more.
Felicia Marie Tomasko, RN is an Ayurvedic practitioner and editor-in-chief of LA Yoga Magazine She has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching since 1997. It was yoga, and Deepak Chopra’s books that first introduced Felicia to Ayurveda, which she began studying in 1993. Her studies include the practitioner, pancha karma therapist, educator, yoga therapy and Ayurvedic mother and baby care programs at the Rocky Mountain Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda as well as at Alandi Ayurvedic Gurukula, both in Boulder, Colorado. She continues her studies with a number of different teachers and ...
Jenny Ton is the proud daughter of Vietnamese and Chinese immigrants and the Co-Founder of Retrofit Republic, a values-driven fashion styling firm and vintage retailer committed to impeccable style, sustainability efforts, and initiatives that benefit low-income populations, communities of color, and the LGBTQ family. An alumnus of UC Berkeley, Jenny is a dedicated advocate and community leader of women's issues, low income youth of color, and environmental justice. With community organizing roots beginning in her hometown of Baldwin Park, California, Jenny has over 10 years of organizing ex ...
Tonalehquehis a multilayered metaphorical term. It means Those who accompany thesun along its journey. It refers to those who individually andcollectively strive to meet their full potential on earth, and who takethe characteristics of the sun as their goals for personal growth andexistence. Like the Sun itself, we seek to be resplendent, strong,steady, life giving, balanced, humble, virtuous, and creative. CalpulliTonalehqueh also hosts the largest Azteca Mexica New Year Ceremony; Celebration in the nation. Everyone is invited to attend on theweekend of March 1314, 2010 in San Jose, CA @ the ...
Tondre is Cofounder of EcoHouse, a project of Ecology Center 501(c)3, and a model urban ecological home where he conducts public tours and spearheads the first cityapproved, residential constructed wetland graywater system in California. He cofounded workerowned DIG Cooperative, an Oaklandbased design / build firm focused on urban water security issues, conservation education, audits ; retrofits, green job training, rainwater catchment and greywater reuse. Tondre is a certified Permaculture Designer ; Teacher and has over twenty years of experience as a green builder. Most importantly, he is t ...
Born inMendocino County, CaliforniaTonyFernandezwasdestined to work inthe Redwood industry.As afreshman inhigh school he won theCalifornia State Woodworking competitionand decided he would pursue his passion in theindustry.Atage 14 he began working asa garden products assembler at California Leisure Products, a Redwood gazebo manufacturer in Ukiah, Ca and by age 17 he was supervising 15 employees and worked his way up to "lead designer "in the model shop.At age 25he started his own company, Wood Products Unlimited, specializing in manufacturing high- end children's furnitu ...
Elizabeth Topp is a co-Founder & CEO of shiftalliance, an organizational development and management consulting firm specializing in Meaningful Business Model Design and Sustainability for start-ups, social enterprise, and traditional businesses wanting to move toward social enterprise business models. The company’s business model framework and software facilitates planning, design, & implementation of meaningful & social innovation in relationship to all stakeholders including individuals, communities, and the environment. shiftalliance became a certified B corp in 2009 and was re-certified ...
Town has been teaching science at RHS for the past 25 years. Currently Town teaches Advanced Placement Environmental Science and Environmental Design and Sustainability which has a focus on green job skills. Redmond High School has also achieved notoriety for its energy efficiency program
Tykeya Townsend is a junior at CCA Academy and enjoys participating in a variety of school activities.
AndreaTracanzan works for the communication department of Banca Etica (themost important Italian social bank) and he follows the Zoes project(Zoes is an italian social network specialized on environment,alternative economy, sustainable products...). With many other peoplehe follows the organization of Terra Futura.
Shannon Tracey is Local Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited and worked intimately on the Measure T campaign. Through Democracy Unlimited and other local organizations, she focuses on capacitybuilding and empowerment within the environmental and democracy movements. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Education and previously worked for the Sierra Club and Earth Share of California.Shannon has coled numerous workshops, university classes, and volunteer trainings for Democracy Unlimited, the Sierra Club, and other organizations. As Development Manager for Earth Share of California, she re ...
David Tracey is a writer, designer and community ecologist based in Vancouver, Canada. His company, EcoUrbanist, specializes in environmental site design and consultation. A certified arborist, he is executive director of Tree City, a nonprofit group "helping people and trees grow together."His most recent book is "Urban Agriculture: Ideas and Designs for the New Food Revolution." He is also the author of "Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto" and the comedy "The Miracle Tree."
Tree Frog Treks strives to create critical thinkers who will work to save, preserve and maintain our planet's biodiversity by introducing them to live rescued reptiles and amphibians; offering fun, handson science, literacy and art programming; and exploring nature.
Zen Trenholm is a third year student at UC Berkeley studying Cooperative Business Development. He serves as the Treasurer and Project Director for the California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC), a diverse organization of students working to transform their educational institutions and communities into models of sustainability. Concerned with addressing the needs of his local community, he has worked on projects such as his former community college campus's upcoming farmers market and district-wide sustainability plan. Zen was a speaker on the "Building the New Economy through Student L ...
Marcus Trigueros currently serves on Rainbow Grocery's public relations committee and has worked with Rainbow Grocery for over 5 years. A native to San Francisco, Marcus has been grateful to be involved in multiple efforts over the years to improve the lives of city locals. He is currently pursuing a degree in engineering and hopes to complete his studies in 2012.
Yody Gladys Moran Trillo was born in a rural community in the Huancavelica Province in the Andes Mountains of Peru. This region was heavily affected by the armed conflict that lasted from 1980 to 2000. At a young age, Yody and her family moved to the city of Huancavelica to escape the violence that was afflicting the countryside. She met and married her husband when she was 15 and soon after had her first child. Yody and her husband lived, barely scraping by, on his salary for many years. Yody began to knit sweaters, scarves and other items to sell in the local markets to help bring in a littl ...
Heather Trim, Urban Bays and Toxics Program Manager for People For Puget Sound, has more than 20 years of experience in environmental work. In Los Angeles, she worked for the Regional Water Quality Control Board on water quality standards, regulatory permits and pollution assessments of both surface and ground water for Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. She was staff scientist for the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council, focusing on various projects leading to the greening of the rivers, including: water quality, stormwater issues, pollution assessments and habitat renewal. Sh ...
Kamren Curiel Tringale is an online editor with six years of experience and is currently a Digital Media Fellow for Voto Latino—a non-partisan civic engagement organization that's focused on bringing new voices into the political process.Prior to working with Voto Latino, Kamren was the Senior Online Editor at Sí TV (now nuvoTV), where she produced multimedia content for 18 to 35-year-old English-speaking Latinos and curated their social media platforms. Kamren also works as a freelance writer for Remezcla, MTV Iggy, and Brooklyn & Boyle newspaper, where she covers local events, up-and-co ...
Joe Trippi – heralded on the cover of The New Republic as the man who “reinvented campaigning” – is widely recognized as one of America’s leading and most influential political strategists. Born in California, Trippi began his political career working on Edward M. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in 1980. His work in presidential politics continued with the campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt, Howard Dean and, most recently, John Edwards. Trippi has run and consulted on numerous presidential, senate, congressional, gubernatorial and mayoral races. These includ ...
Chicago native LeeAnn Trotter is a reporter at NBC 5. Previously, she hosted “Metromix: The TV Show” on CLTV, and has worked at Fox News Chicago, WUSN-FM, WBBM-AM, and WGN Radio.
Chicago native LeeAnn Trotter is a reporter at NBC 5. Previously, she hosted “Metromix: The TV Show” on CLTV, and has worked at Fox News Chicago, WUSN-FM, WBBM-AM, and WGN Radio.
The music of The Truebudoors is original and beautifully unique - ranging from complex melodic multicultural instrumentals to bilingual vocal tunes with themes of earth-based bliss and love.The instrumentation represents cultures from around the world and includes; cello, sitars, gu zheng, Native American and south American flutes, shruti box, harmonium, 2 string, 6 string and classical guitars.
Tsui is an organic architect, designer and author whose work expresses the built environment as a living organism. He is founding director of Telos Foundation.What happens when nature is your teacher and you fashion a world according to nature's insight, intelligence and genius for design? You get the extraordinary and strikingly original work of Eugene Tsui. Concerned with the rapid destruction of our planet by the consumerdriven, imagepermeated, affluence and growth driven outlook of societies throughout the world, Dr. Tsui is creating an architecture that addresses ageold topics that have b ...
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While completing a master's degree in International Peace and Development, Dagny realized that one of the best opportunities to facilitate greater global cooperation and peace was through the growth of sustainable industries and social responsibility. She focused her thesis on Shaping Globalization through Conscious Consumerism and since has worked to help build the conscious consumerism movement. Formerly as Managing Director of Strategic Global Affairs for New Hope Natural Media and currently as Founder of the Obtainable Grapefruit, an organization that helps both businesses and consumers be ...
Keith Tucker is a social activist, journalist and entrepreneur. He is the visionary force behind the documentary film project "Pursuit of a Green Planet, where HipHop Meets the Green Movement." Pursuit of A Green Planet is the first documentary about Hip Hop culture and its relationship to the Green Movement. In the film Keith Tucker will become a living experiment as he makes the radical transition from your average American diet and lifestyle to one that is truly vegan, organic and green. Starting with a full medical profile of his current health condition, he will work with a team of the be ...
Roger E. Tucker, AIA has been Director of Architecture at Environmental Works since 1997 and was recently names Executive Director. An architect with 30 years of experience, he has extensive expertise on a variety of sustainably designed low-income housing and community facility projects. He was the Project Architect for the West Seattle Community Resource Center and Principal-in-Charge for Kateri Court and Traugott Terrace, the first LEED Certified affordable housing project in the country. Previous green projects include the design of a new childcare center for the Department of Energy and t ...
Eric Tucker is the founding and current Chef – co owner of Millennium Restaurant, one of the nation’s premier fine dining vegan restaurants. Eric is the principal author of The Millennium Cook Book and The Artful Vegan, both Ten Speed Press. A graduate of The Natural Gourmet Cookery School in NYC, his culinary passion has been to elevate vegetable based cuisine to the sublime!! Millennium’s cuisine can be described as a convergence of many ethnic styles with northern California sensibilities and contemporary presentation. Eric is an avid supporter of the local, sustainable agriculture mo ...
Jessica Tully isis the lead field organizer for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation. Her current campaign supports Food Revolution groups nationwide to work with their local schools to permanently eliminate sugary, flavored milk from all school meals this academic year. She isan award-winning artist and organizer working primarily in video and participatory civic practices. Previously, she served as national field director and as a consultant for: Rock the Vote, Take Our Daughters To Work Day,Youth Speaks, SEIU-ULTCW,the Sierra Club, Free Range Studios, Music for America, Air Traffic Control, ...
Educator. Writer. Filmmaker. Advocate. Artist. Parent. Aiesha is a lot of things, but what holds them all together is her passion for stories and histories, particularly those of women from marginalized backgrounds. The granddaughter of a master storyteller, who wove South Carolina low country folktales with scenes from his real life growing up in the pre-Depression era south, Aiesha’s love of true-life tales has led her to work with and learn from institutions such as: The Museum for African Art, The New-York Historical Society, the Queens Library Gallery, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Ach ...
Jody Turner, founder of CultureofFuture.com is a design and culture consultant for country, community and countries seeking innovative and pragmatic changes. Project work centers on influential and future trend spotting, brand evolutions including consumer insight and innovation strategies.Turner regularly speaks to creative and corporate professionals in North America, Asia, South America, and the Middle East on the future of design, consumer lifestyles, technology, new media, future paradigms and ecological influences.CultureofFuture.com is a leading future strategist who cultivates content ...
Turner first encountered community organizing at the age of 14. She began her journey by first attending a YUCA (Youth United for Community Action) membership meeting, and from that point on, she has been able to participate in different aspects of the organization. From youth core member to administrative assistant to board member, and now to program coordinator, Anna has become a wellrounded contributor to YUCA and the East Palo Alto community. As FIRE program coordinator, her focus is coordinating membership recruitment and presenting workshops to different community organizations and schoo ...
Sharlana Turner born in Oakland and raised in Berkeley is one of 7 kids and is a self-proclaimed Granny's baby who grew up loving food like cheese-its and 7-up cake... yum! However, she grew up with high blood pressure which ran in the family. After her Granny Maya Turner died in 2008 of heart disease, Sharlana decided to become an advocate and educate the community about our food system by getting involved with the food justice movement. In her work to address health disparities in her community she co-launched Farm Fresh Catering.
Michele TurnureSalleo is Director of Filmmaker Services at San Francisco Film Society.
Tuttle spent seven years working for the City of Seattle as a planner for the Planning Commission and Seattle Parks, before she decided to build community from the community side of the equation. Tuttle is now helping to launch and coordinate many community groups including Transition Seattle, SCALLOPS (Sustainable Communities ALL Over Puget Sound), Sustainable Wallingford, Spokespeople, and 350 Washington State.
Lynne Twist is the founder of two cuttingedge organizations, the Soul of Money Institute and The Pachamama Alliance, both based in San Francisco. She founded the Institute to lead people to find sufficiency and peace in their relationship with money, a message particularly critical in these challenging financial times.The Soul of Money Institutes work is based on Lynnes awardwinning book The Soul of Money and audio course Unleashing the Soul of Money. These publications offer compelling stories and insights gained from a lifetime of global experience.Twist has been recognized as a worldrenowne ...
Tyrone Barnes New!
Master Chef Tyrone Barnes has over 20 years of professional cooking experience. He earned his Associates Degree in Culinary Arts from Dawson Technological Institute. Chef Barnes brings a variety of cooking experience t the "table" and has a range of knowledge gained from work with Palmer, Inc., Sutton Place Hotel, Sutton Place Thomason and Hotel, Days Inn, just to name a few. When asked what does he enjoy doing most, a big grin and smile appeared on his face, then he answered firmly, cooking! Finally, Chef Barnes' passion is preparing delicious meals for family and friends. As a member of the ...