Fariba Fuller

"It's been a journey from Iran to Europe to the States and now beyond (I hope). So much to say and nothing to say...I have had multiple careers - entertainment, medical, psychological, design, organizational transformation and I have multiple degrees. Not sure any of it applies any more.

I have journeyed the world and also taken the journey inward . The one thing I think I know is that we survive because of the kindness of others. The one thing that I want to give what is left of my life force to is emergence fanned by the winds love and kindness. "

Debbie Dekleva

Debbie Dekleva focuses on market based conservation of monarch habitat through the development of consumer goods. Debbie is well versed in all aspects of production, product development, and sales of products made with milkweed materials, the sole food source of monarch caterpillars.

Identifying and using the natural, renewable resource of milkweed in products creates more demand and in turn, more monarch habitat. By working with natural systems, we restore soil health, promote biodiversity, improve water quality and capture carbon within the production model.

Debbie identifies partners, creates prototypes and launches environmentally positive milkweed products while providing social and economic benefit to communities.

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Rachel Plattus

Rachel Berliner Plattus is from New Haven, CT and currently lives in Boston, MA. She is Co-Creator of Beautiful Solutions, a storytelling and popular education project supporting people to imagine and create community-controlled solutions to the problems they face. Rachel also works with a national network of women religious and millennials through Nuns and Nones, and with Jewish organizers and spiritual leaders through Taproot. She is a graphic artist, a street medic, and a trainer with PeoplesHub. She likes to explore how to make meaning and support healing on big paper, in the dance studio, in the kitchen, in wild places, and in spaces that bring us into conversation, connection, and collective action with one another.

Maxime Paul

Maxime is an autodidactic polymath and cross-domain problem-solver focused on creating sustainable, equitable, and generative solutions. He possesses a wide range of skills and experiences that include technology development and business design as well as interdependent city planning and community engagement. Currently he is the Head of Mobility and Digital Innovation with MHP Americas and CEO/Co-Founder of a SportsTech startup, CMDSense, his fourth venture. He is currently developing a holistic, systems-driven, generative community development framework for disinvested urban and suburban neighborhoods. Maxime holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Rice University in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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Sara Johnstone

Sara is a recovering tech consultant that became disillusioned with the sharing economy and business as usual a few years ago. She was introduced to the “new paradigm” through her work with the startup NuMundo, a global network of impact centers (eco-villages, intentional communities, permaculture farms, social projects and retreat centers). She is currently working with CYCLEffect, a multi-stakeholder hybrid Venture Capital Cooperative Fund. CYCLEffect prioritize investments in companies that focus on restoring the planet’s biological and social systems to a healthy state. Sara is also a member of the GENNA (Global Eco-village Network North America) alliance which believes communities of practice, place, and purpose offer essential solutions to many of the world’s pressing social and ecological crises . Sara is currently honing in on expanding her knowledge in regenerative agriculture, impact investing, sustainable fibers and permaculture. She is committed to being apart of projects that focus on regenerative solutions, specifically with climate change.

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Ansley Roberts

Ansley Roberts, a Charleston, South Carolina native, majored in international relations at American University, where she became fascinated with the areas for growth and sustainable change within our food system. After graduating, she dedicated her career to working towards more sustainable, and just food systems for everyone. Her past work includes working within localized food systems on diversified, direct-market farms, farmer and consumer education efforts, and community healing farms such as CooperRiis and the Homeless Garden Project. Ansley is taking her next step, joining her family business, Anson Mills to assist with their efforts to preserve genetic diversity and support sustainable grain systems for farmers and consumers.