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.
Suzanne Vetillart
Is a trained architect who spent the last 10 years working in Asia. She recently moved back to her hometown of Seattle, WA with her husband and four young children. Her vision is to connect the opposing worlds of marketing and retail in the Western world with the supply chains and manufacturing process behind our fashion goods in Asia in order to improve support and respect for the manufacturing process.
Mike Strode
Mike Strode is a writer, cyclist, IT consultant, and collaborative social economist residing in southeast Chicago whose community engagement work has included ride leadership with the Chicago chapter of Red, Bike & Green; editorial and archival oversight for Fultonia; and co-facilitation of Art Is Bonfire. His current practice draws on all of these experiences to interrogate the intersection of timebanking, social economy and community resiliency. His grounding philosophy is mycelium, collaborative agility, empathic individualization, and all things human glue. He is founder and Exchange Coordinator of the Kola Nut Collaborative, a time-based skills and service trading platform which seeks to advance conversation on timebanking, community currency design, and social economy in Chicago. The Kola Nut Collaborative maintains a robust web presence with articles, programming, and research on myriad aspects of social economy at www.kolanutcollab.org.
Jamese Kwele
Jamese is the first Director of Food Equity at Ecotrust. In this capacity, she oversees the organization's farm to institution initiatives while guiding the development of partnerships and new bodies of work at the intersections of food & land justice, soil regeneration, and climate resilience. She also serves as an Advisory Board member for the National Farm to School Network and on the Board of Directors for the Black Food Sovereingty Coalition. Originally from California, Jamese spent twenty years living and working in the greater Philadelphia area before returning West with her husband and two children in March 2019
Parker Reposa
Parker is an eco-entrepreneur focused on regenerative and socially restorative solutions to the current environmental crisis. Parker studied Regenerative Business and Biomimetic Design at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in New York City. His studies allowed him to use mission-driven, stakeholder-focused business as a vehicle for positive social and environmental change.
Parker is now the CEO and Founder of Grounded Upcycling, a social venture geared towards recirculating spent organic waste streams through the development of upcycled products and processing methods. Through his work, he aims to reframe society’s “throw away culture” by presenting the business case of circular, close-loop economies and help transition New York City and other cities towards its zero waste goals by 2030. While he wears many hats at Grounded, his main responsibilities include business development, fundraising, and strategy as it pertains to the mission, vision, and culture of the company.
JD Kath
I love collaborating and learning from individuals with very different skill sets and backgrounds. I am always trying to develop a worldview outside my comfort zone to push and examine my own belief systems.
I am trained as a Wealth Advisor and I love to use my background in that field to tackle wealth inequality in the US. My partner and I are social entrepreneurs with a focus on real estate and businesses that are designed to fuel the regenerative economy.
Proud father of 2 with another nugget on the way.
Wendy Blackwell-Moore
Wendy is the founder/owner of Pine Pitch Consulting, a business focused on empowering businesses to act as a force for good in the world. Wendy leverages her 20+ years of business experience to help leaders and businesses approach strategy and execution through a new lens, one that values all stakeholders (employees, customers, communities and the environment) not just shareholders. Wendy focuses on innovative business strategies that lead with integrity, transparency and accountability. Her mantra is “walk the talk” and understands change is linked directly to action. Wendy lives in Portland with her wife Liz and children Cece and Jude.
Dani Preisler
Daniella Preisler, Latina, single mom of an 18-year old amazing girl, brings extensive experience as a cooperative development consultant, coach, trainer, and board member for the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. She is in the process of launching her second cooperative business, MAPU Cooperative Development Consultants, which provides consulting services to the Latinx community through educational programs and tools for start-up and existing co-ops. In addition, Daniella has served as a consultant for Prospera and the Sustainable Economies Law Center, developing and facilitating various workshops. Daniella augments her co-op experience with 11 years of work as a legal aid and seven years as an office manager in Santiago, Chile.
Raye Winch
Raye Winch is an organizer with the Tucson Cooperative Network (TCN), a low-income, immigrant, and people of color (POC) led collective that works alongside larger institutions to advance community self-determination through cooperative business development. They work for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona's Water Harvesting Program, a program focused on supporting people with low-incomes to learn both the business and technical skills of of launching small businesses committed to high quality, low cost water harvesting installations. Raye is committed to building community climate resiliency and community self-determination.
Samuel González
Samuel González has spent their life finding ways to reconcile the intersecting identities that reside within. Bringing art, coaching, creative strategies, healing practices, and digital wizardry to their work, Samuel is helping transform how people do business. They have been able to create transformational spaces in many areas, including higher education, the nonprofit sector, corporate environments, etc. Decades of experience inform the work along with passion and empathy.
Samuel majored in the Performing Arts at Vanguard University. Samuel still pursues artistic adventures, fusing that creativity into working with people through personal coaching as well as with people as they work within organizations. Organizational development, strategic planning, training (train the trainer), and facilitation are areas of expertise for Samuel.
Sound healing and dream work are two of the healing modalities in Samuel’s tool kit. They are also a certified compassion fatigue specialist, bringing a trauma informed approach to their work. Because of their background in art (music, writing, photography, painting), Samuel also uses the creation of art as a form of healing.
Mauricio Nuñez Oporto
Mauricio is deeply motivated by the opportunity to improve our collective stewardship of socio-ecological systems. He consistently pursue and fully engage himself is responsible, pragmatic, and incremental ways to convene and explore potential to complex questions based on regenerative practice and living systems thinking. He works catalyzing landscape initiatives and capital for ecological restoration and human well being. Enabling collaboratives for multi-stakeholder partnerships to increase efficiency, impact, and scale up a series of community-led restoration initiatives.
His burning question is how to develop an advanced landscape development hypotheses that ignite regenerative development at the bioregional scale? With this in mind, he is designing a landscape investment fund that will ensure that restoration is financially attractive while supporting rural livelihoods and wellbeing.
He loves surfing, camping and farming.
Maria Nakae
I'm a movement builder, communications strategist, resource mobilizer and funder organizer who has spent my career working in and with social justice movements to advance racial, gender and economic justice. I currently serve as the Senior Engagement Director at Justice Funders, a nonprofit organization that works with foundations to re-imagine and practice a new approach to philanthropy that redistributes wealth, democratizes power and shifts economic control to communities in a way that is truly regenerative for people and the planet. I'm also a member of the Hella Heart Oakland Giving Circle, a drummer with BoomShake Music, and mama of two rambunctious girls.
Melissa Kelii
My vocation is to seed creative discovery in a way that awakens the designer so that we, together, co-create thriving social ecosystems. My vocation is my guide as a mother, artist, friend, daughter and business owner. I discovered my vocation while completing my Master’s in Organization Leadership, an Organization Systems Renewal program through Bainbridge Graduate Institute. The experience was the catalyst to my continual journey to engage my vocation in all aspects of my life with intention, passion and authenticity.
Kyle Lawson
Kyle is a design prototyper, and entrepreneur. He is actively working on Soil Centric, a nonprofit aggregating resources to help new folks enter the regenerative agriculture space, and Tenth Floor Studio, a multidisciplinary creative group focusing on conceptual art installations and appropriate product design.
Ethan Mauch
A New Jersey native, Ethan is an alumni of his local community college and of McGill University in Montreal, where he studied Industrial Labour Relations. While at McGill, Ethan took a deep interest in cooperatives, labor movements, and the welfare state.
Since graduating from university, Ethan has continued to work with CYCLEffect Regenerative Ventures, a multi-stakeholder venture fund that invests in the regenerative and circular economy. Additionally, he works with New Profit, a nonprofit leader in social impact investment and systems change.
In his spare time Ethan loves ceramics, painting, homebrewing, and Marvin Gaye.
Reza Shahcheraghi
Reza designs new business strategies and implementation plans for various types of organizations and facilitates the creation of the new mindsets, skills, and environments needed to execute these strategies. He has 15 years of experience in the private and social sectors as an entrepreneur and consultant.
Reza holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and a BS in management from the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia.