I am an African Arab from Morocco currently living in Atlanta, GA. I am an artist with digital skills in web development, videography, photography, and graphics and analog skills in painting, drawing, storymaking, and taking my imagination seriously. I am currently listening to Aziza Brahim, entertaining myself by reading Akata Witch series, and trying to learn how to align my spirit and values with my world through adrienne maree brown's books and podcasts.
Cindy J Lin
Cindy J Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of HOVE Social Good Intelligence. We are a mission-to-action lifestyle company working to connect people to purchasing with purpose by building meaningful data stories to show our positive social and environmental impact. Our purpose is to enrich people's lives with well researched information and social good alternatives that inspire people to become a collective force for good. Cindy J achieved her childhood dream of working at the US Environmental Protection Agency. She spent 19 years at the US EPA engaged in international and national water protection projects, water quality standards development, polluted waters regulation, and sweeping environmental policy changes. This includes serving as the the US Regional Expert on the Clean Water Act, Applied Climate Change National Workgroup and as the Water Adviser at the US Embassy in Beijing, China. Dr. Lin is an avid ecologist, environmental scientist and engineer by training. She received her doctorate (D.ENV.) in Environmental Science and Engineering, M.S. in Environmental Chemistry, and B.S. in Biology, all from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Brianna Mahoney
Currently shifting my career from a background in Early Stage go to market strategies toward a more plant-focused environment. Inspired by the #GrowFoodNotLawns momentum I am working on building my gardening skills, obtaining my PDC and whatever else I can do to learn about the world of food and regenerative systems. I'd like to merge both fields of tech and growing food in a consumer-based learning application. Stay tuned...
Alexa Levy
Alexa Levy is an educator, public school teacher, community organizer, and artist. She has worked with youth as a facilitator of rich learning - from teaching Kindergarten in Public Schools in NYC to Kindergarten in the forest in California to a Permaculture and Restorative Justice program at a Middle School in Oakland - growing food, creating regenerative systems, and curating events around art and social justice. Alexa is a core member, organizer, and educator with the Permaculture Action Network, an organization that mobilizes thousands of people to take direct action on regenerative projects by collaborating with performing artists and cultural events. This work regenerates ecosystems and catalyzes movement for a just transition by partnering with a diversity of projects and groups forging pathways to collective liberation.
Gustavo Alcantar
Gustavo Alcantar is a creative being and peaceful warrior, living life artfully outside of the box. He is an EcoDesigner (Graphic Design & Permaculture), splitting time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Mexico's Pacific coast (Nayarit). He graduated from Cal-Poly SLO design program, and besides operating a one-man design studio, he has also created a Hemp clothing brand (Swirlspace), an urban Sustainability non-profit (UAS), and is currently building an Eco-Art Bed & Breakfast in Mexico. This latest project ties together many of his skills, experiences and dreams to create a special experiential opportunity for ecologically-minded travelers and artists.
Hiroko Kurihara
Eco-preneur committed to tackling the 2nd most polluting industry in the world: textiles.
After running a high-end wool blanket company and a ‘sustainable’ sewn goods business incubator, technology and timing will launch InnoFabrix in 2020, a textiles re-manufacturing and fiber re-generation and innovation company. My experience with the non-profit, for-benefit, and government sectors has led me to only pursue a worker-owned B-Corp, tracking true costs and measuring deep impact. My community artivist work pushes for policies to preserve and grow Oakland’s authentic culture. Geographic journey: Germany, Japan, Los Angeles, NJ, RI, Austria and 31 years of rooting in Oakland.
Jesper Nørgaard Reumert
With an original background from forestry, I have been working with regional development for more than 15 years. My current dayjob is to support hospitals in transition towards eg. more preventive healthcare and building public-private cooperations for innovation. Spare time is spend on volunteer work and community boards within village and rural sustainable development. I have two kids aged 10 and 13 and live with them and their mother. I have for several years puzzled with various ideas for social ventures and spend (too little) time on developing these - all of them are related to either bio-based materials or place/community development.
Miki’ala Catalfano
Moving beyond cynicism towards connectedness, I am an artist and designer learning how to create a meaningful, engaged ecobusiness that fits the needs of the place where I live, with an eye on throwing a rope to other like-minded people who would also like to be free from the yoke of conventional workplace hierarchy.
Cesar Aguirre
Cesar Aguirre is a Partner at AERO Collective, a young Architecture office in the heart of Downtown Inglewood. After graduating from the USC Architecture school, he decided to stay in Los Angeles to participate in the city's energy and growth. His main design focus and passion is in designing housing. Having worked on Affordable, Market rate and student housing, has sparked on interest in trying to understand why we let the market dictate Housing construction.
Cynthia Ibarra
As a strong proponent of locally based and community led solutions, Cynthia supports programs at the intersection of environmental justice and community development. She centers equity, inclusion and diversity in all her work- leading outreach efforts, building partnership with local stakeholders, developing systems and streamlining processes, and fostering transformational change within organizational structures.
She currently works as the Clean Mobility Coordinator at GRID Alternatives, Bay Area with the mission to provide more equitable access to low-carbon and low-cost transportation options. A resident of South San Francisco, she lives with her partner and is a proud ‘tia’ (aunt) of four niblings.
Justin Hitchcock
Justin strives to align his values with his career. He started his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer, followed by 8 years in the nonprofit sector. He most recently served as the Executive Director for GRID Alternatives. In his spare time, he enjoys surfing, rock climbing, and playing bass. He enjoys traveling and is fluent in Spanish.
Renae A. Badruzzaman
I’m a public health practitioner passionate about systems change at the root of social and health inequities. My skills in analysis, collaboration, and adaptive learning led me to a decade of cross-sector work in academia, non-profit, health, community development, and finance sectors.
My intention is to support healing and wellness practices that acknowledge the cultural traumas experienced by BIPOC, people with disabilities, and other marginalized communities - and work to repair the wounds from legacies of violence and oppression.
I'm a compassion fatigue specialist and hold a Master of Public Health, National Leader Fellowships in Disabilities, and Bachelors in Psychology and Human Development. I cherish being active, doing yoga, reading, and spending time with my loved ones.
Rachel Isreeli
Rachel is a Brooklynite, cooperative developer and facilitator, and beginner food grower and herbalist. Rachel has been organizing for over a dozen years at the intersection of gender, labor and sexuality, including around sex work, gender-based violence, LGBTQ homelessness, and immigrant-led worker cooperatives. For over 5 years, Rachel has been been cultivating workplace democracy and anti-capitalist leadership at the Center for Family Life’s Cooperative Development Program, through direct work with coops and training community organizations to develop coops in their communities. Currently, Rachel is a consultant as well as a cooperative developer at RiseBoro Community Partnership, where they are organizing worker cooperatives as part of the Central Brooklyn Food Democracy Project, a black-led food sovereignty project. Rachel serves on the board of the NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives.
Luis Gonzalez Imbert
Bilingual English/Spanish professional with over 10 years of experience delivering smooth transitions, product launches, and systemic corporate change in complex business environments. Passionate about working with people—building relationships, fostering self-sufficiency, guiding the implementation process, and supporting teams to succeed and sustain changes.
Clément Morandière
Born in the west coast of France , I always feel connected to the sea, I spend lot of times in the Ocean witch I’m passionate about . This lead me in the watersports industry after managing fews stores. I moved to Bangkok to work with a B Corp certified Starboard, as international sales manager. I traveled the world to develop the brand and a new sport called Stand Up Paddle boarding. This was inspiration everyday, I reallocated to Europe in 2017 to redevelop the brand in Southern Europe. The purpose driven aspect was gone. In 2019 my father passed away and I decided to shift and create my own project with my girlfriend. This project is dedicated to him, our goal is to inspire people and help them to make a transition in a more eco friendly lifestyle. We use business as a force for good !
Tracey Osborne
Tracey Osborne is Associate Professor in the Management of Complex Systems Department at the University of California, Merced. Her research focuses on the social and political economic dimensions of climate change mitigation in tropical forests and the role of Indigenous Peoples. She also studies climate finance, environmental governance, and climate justice. She has extensive field experience in Mexico and the Amazon (Peru, Ecuador and Guyana). She also directs the Climate Alliance Mapping Project, a collaborative effort between academics, environmental non-governmental organizations, and Indigenous organizations working for a socially-just response to climate change through research, maps and digital stories.
Felicia Ceballos-Marroquin
Founder #BulkFoodTruck & Spiffy Rebel ✨ Systems Thinker dedicated to building a just and regenerative economy ✨ Leslie Knope is my Spirit Animal
Corinne Sereni
I am a barber , a natural skin care formulator, and founder of El Mercado a artisan and a cultural market . I aim to create a new economy centering on the needs of the most marginalized and the environment. Through my work I aim to build networks of communication and support cross borders .
Mark Justin Llorente
I'm a data scientist and former materials researcher primarily focused on sustainability and the larger political and ecological work required to transform our economy and relationships into ones that can cultivate life on this planet rather than extract maximum power from it. I have taught data science at Galvanize but am currently pursuing work with ecologically and social justice committed investment organizations to create tools for analyzing and communicating our shared resilience, dependencies, and vulnerabilities and thus increase our focus on making decisions for the whole rather than for competing private interests.
Kate "Sassy" Sassoon
Kate “Sassy" Sassoon has spent the last decade building her passion for efficient, effective and equitable communication into a thriving consultancy which offers facilitation, training, and organizational design to innovative organizations. She has developed transformative communication and decision making structures for countless organizations, and is known for her inspiring, irreverent, and unexpectedly empowering processes. She holds two degrees from UC Berkeley (one in Ecological Sustainability and another in Theatre & Performance) - and if she learned one thing from that time it’s the surprising power of cross-fertilization. She currently brings these skills and mindset to Singularity University in Silicon Valley.