Mike is an experienced global sustainability and innovation thought leader specializing in innovation, biomimicry, design for environment and scenario analysis. His wide-ranging expertise includes: sustainable design, social entrepreneurship, strategic corporate philanthropy, supply chain community outreach, local community engagement, employee...
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Justin Maxson is the Executive Director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, a 66-year old foundation that seeks to move people and places out of poverty in the South. The Foundation supports organizations and networks that work across race, ethnic, economic...
Lorie Loeb works at the intersection of design, technology and society. Her work focuses on presenting information in ways that create an emotional connection to data in order to increase impact and motivate people to change behavior. Lorie is...
Maker, scholar, Dana Meadows Fellow. Sarah writes and creates content—prints, photography, films—about food, culture, women, and migrants. She is a former Asian American Writers Workshop fellow and Visiting Scholar at The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. A two-time Fulbright scholar,...
Virginia had an illustrious career in the conservation field. After serving on various planning commissions around New England and as a policy analyst, writer and editor for the VT Agency of Natural Resources, Virginia began her 20-year career with the...
Marcelo’s life is dedicated to questioning pre-determined structures and practices of our current culture, finding out and engaging in experiences that provide a new way of living and then sharing this experience with a larger audience, that would otherwise...
Danielle Hirsch worked for three years in Mexico, Paraguay and Kenya during and after her studies in Economics. In 1995 she started working as an international consultant, working for governments and international agencies in Central and South Asia, Latin...
Over the last 29 years, Michaelyn has worked at the intersection of sustainable development, agriculture & trade, delivering cutting edge solutions for transformative change. Along her professional path, she has served as a Peace Corps volunteer, an organic farmer...
Newey founded the School of Changemakers to build support for people working for change in Thailand, in 2017, after a decade working with Ashoka. The School of Changemakers now runs a social incubator program to support the launch of innovative...
Jerry is President of the Meadowlark Institute, based in Minnesota. Meadowlark is committed to developing individual and collective capacity to be responsive during times of rapid change, to be comfortable with uncertainty, to hold multiple points of view simultaneously,...