Sarah Anne Edwards, LCSW, is a PhDecopsychologist and founder of Let’s Live Local, a non-profit organization working to build local resilience and sustainability in the mountain village of Pine Mountain Club, CA. She is one of 20 Transition Initiatives Trainers in the U.S. With husband Paul, Sarah has written 17 books on career and lifestyle change. Their latest book is Middle-Class Lifeboat, Careers and Life Choices for Navigating a Changing Economy.

Sarah co-directs the Pathways to Transition, providing speeches, workshops, consulting, and counseling for individuals and communities on responding to energy-related environmental change and its economic consequences. Her online continuing education programs for helping professionals, offered through the Pine Mountain Institute, focus on the psychological, spiritual, and practical needs of eco-nomic change. She has a rich background of working with a wide variety of private, non-profit and government organizations.

Seanna Ashburn has spent over 30 years in a variety of education contexts – in teaching, curriculum design, research management, and project administration – at both local and national levels. With a Ph.D. in educational psychology, her experience includes coordinating and supporting multiple collaborative work teams in education and community contexts. Beginning in 1993, her study at Genesis Farm of the New Story of the Universe, as told by cultural historian and geologian Thomas Berry and mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme, led her to focus on facilitating collaboration for innovation within the framework of David Bohm’s work on dialogue. She sees developing skills in communication through dialogue – a shared exploration towards greater understanding, connection, and possibility – as key to building and sustaining community, and to moving us collectively beyond our habitual patterns of thinking and behavior, toward reinventing the human to live in alignment with all of life.

Seanna is currently on the staff of Genesis Farm, an ecological learning center in NJ focused on the new cosmology, bioregionalism, and sustainability (www.genesisfarm.org). Genesis Farm was an early innovator in the community-supported agriculture movement, renewable energy, strawbale building construction, and in exploring the New Cosmology.

Tina Clarke has been an advocate, educator, consultant, and director of nonprofit programs since 1985. She was recently a consultant with Bill McKibben's global 350.org initiative and the Sustainability Institute. She has been providing professional training and support for community leaders and campaigns for over 20 years.  In Washington, D.C. she directed national citizen advocacy training programs for faith communities, and directed Greenpeace USA's citizen activist network. She has consulted with over 400 NGOs on organizational development, public outreach, coalition-building, and energy and environmental issues.  In Massachusetts she directed a regional nonprofit assistance center, training leaders in strategic planning, fundraising, and organizational development. As a Campaign Director for Clean Water Action, she initiated and helped lead coalitions on environmental justice, toxins and energy. Tina has an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, a B.A. in urban studies from Macalester College, and is certified for consensus process facilitation and mediation. She is popular speaker on energy and environmental issues, creative frugality, and social change.  She has trained and advised over three dozen Transition Initiatives. Tina lives in a below-zero energy, passive solar-heated, Platiunm LEED, low-toxic "Power House" that she helped design and build. In 2009 the home won the Massachusetts utility company-sponsored competition, the Zero Energy Challenge, and in 2010 won the NESEA award for zero energy buildings.  The house is free of all fossil fuels and wood-burning, and generated 2.5 times more energy than needed in 2009.  www.zeroenergypowerhouse.com.