is an Indigenous musician, scholar & community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) & European lineages. She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, & the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. 

is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute & is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He is the author of fourteen books, including works on society’s current energy & environmental sustainability crisis. He narrated & wrote"300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 seconds."

is a physician, activist, artist & writer who is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco & the founder and executive director of the Deep Medicine Circle, a worker-directed nonprofit committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, learning & restoration.

is a community organizer, consultant, and storyteller promoting people-powered solutions for the common good. He’s the strategic partnerships director for Shareable.net, executive producer and host of the award-winning documentary and podcast series “The Response.”

has been involved in fighting for social, economic, environmental and racial justice through organizing & campaigning, teaching, writing, speaking and direct action since the late 1980’s.

is the Co-Founder and Director of Innovation of the Trauma Resource Institute and author of the book, Building Resiliency to Trauma, the Trauma and Community Resiliency Models

has helped launch many sustainability initiatives including: The New Road Map Foundation, The Turning Tide Coalition, Sustainable Seattle, The Center for a New American Dream, Transition Whidbey.

served as Maywood’s Mayor in 2007 and worked on many social justice issues. Her work focuses on government transparency, support for working families& environmental justice issues. She is now executive director of One Step A La Vez.

is Chef & founder of The Native American Culinary Association (NACA)  an organization / network that is dedicated to the research, refinement, & development of Native American Cuisine.

is the author of Designing Regenerative Cultures. He works as an educator, consultant, and activist on bioregional regeneration as a strategy for localization and the redesign of the human impact on Earth.

is a founder of the US Solidarity Economy Network. She is currently Co-Director of the Wellspring Cooperative Corporation, which seeks to create an engine for community-based job creation in Springfield, Massachusetts.

works as an international trainer and consultant in the fields of sustainability, social innovations, and community life. She has coordinated and taught Ecovillage Design Education Programmes since 2009. Currently serving as Education and Research Coordinator at the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN).

is the Chief Operating Officer of The Forbes Funds & Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership. She has a proven track record of promoting advocacy causes, securing financial support for organizations, and spearheading community engagement initiatives for government, private, and non-profit sectors. 

dedicates all of his work in all of its aspects to improving the quality of life for working people, people of color and developing other young critical scholars who challenge the systems and structures that create misery in our society for working people. 

and her husband lobbied county legislators to refund Recycling Coordinator in Orange County, NY IN 2016. That same year she started her County’s first Repair Cafe. Today, it enjoys the support of 30 volunteers from 9 different towns and attracts visitors from 13-19 towns in 3 states. 

serves as the Tribal Administrator (CEO) of the Wiyot Tribe, who has stewarded the land in and around Humboldt Bay (Wigi) in Northern California since time immemorial. She is responsible for planning, managing, and directing all the day-to-day operations of the Tribal government. She was active in the historic return of Tuluwat Island, the fight to protect Tsakiyuwit, and serves on the Board of Directors of Cooperation Humboldt.

is local food economist & director of Minneapolis-based Crossroads Resource Center. He is a leading thinker on the role of food in creating robust local and regional economies. Ken’s new book, "Building Community Food Webs" highlights the importance of local network-building as a core part of restoring community-based food systems. Meter has spent the past 50 years writing and working to build equitable communities and food systems.

is the Co-Coordinator of the US Solidarity Economy Network, the Executive Director of Cooperation Humboldt, and serves on the Transition US Collaborative Design Council.  He was the Green Party nominee for President in 2004, and initiated the recall effort that launched the election integrity movement, which led to the discrediting of so-called “Black Box Voting.”

co-founded the Experimental Farm Network (EFN) which works to facilitate collaborative plant breeding and regenerative agriculture research in order to fight global climate change, preserve the natural environment, and ensure food security for humanity into the distant future.

is an economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, and a leading visionary on community economics. He’s Director of Local Economy Programs for Neighborhood Associates Corporation, and an Adjunct Professor at Bard Business School in New York City.  He is also a Senior Researcher for Council Fire and Local Analytics.

is a Cooperative Developer with Cooperation Humboldt, & works as a Business Advisor for the North Coast Small Business Development Center. He has a background in project management, theatre, & education,& extensive experience with non-profits/NGOs. His most important identifiers are a father and partner, a Swede by birth, an immigrant & recent American.

 is a grant writer and Program Administrator at Cooperation Humboldt. Tobin is a founding member of Worker Owned Humboldt, the Community Health Worker Collaborative, the Cooperative Cannabis Economy Group, and the Jardin Santuario community garden with Centro del Pueblo. 

is a facilitator for social change and community resilience. She is a professional in international cooperation for development, sustainable agriculture, holistic education and a trained Permaculture teacher and course facilitator for the Transition Movement. She coordinates Red de Transición (the National Transition Hub in Spain) and the Municipalities in Transition Project.

cofounded in 2008 the first Italian Transition Initiative in Monteveglio (near Bologna). In the same year, he brought together, with another group of national experimenters, Transition Italia, which is now the national hub of the movement. Much of his work focuses now on the involvement of municipalities, businesses, and institutions in the Transition process.

has worked as both a community organizer and environmental educator for the past 30 years. She was introduced to community resilience after learning about the Transition Movement several years ago. Susan went on to help organize Transition Berkeley, co-produce several Permaculture Convergences and then founded the NorCal Resilience Network.

 is a facilitator and active volunteer in the Deep Adaptation Forum.  She facilitates Grief Gratitude and Courage workshops (grieftocourage.org) and other community spaces where people can share and process hard truths. She will be joined by seven other Deep Adaptation facilitators.

has been a volunteer with Deep Adaptation for more than two years. He started as a Moderator for the DA Facebook Group (now with 13,000 members), and currently leads a weekly workshop about Jem Bendell’s “Four Rs.” His specialty is the inner journey occasioned by the realization of collapse. Listen to “stories of love and collapse” on his podcast, Come Together, at https://cometogether.me.

is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food and medicine. She is eternally grateful for the intergenerational knowledge of elders and other knowledge holders, who have shared their understandings of the world with her, and she has dedicated her life to giving back to these peoples and their communities.

is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. His first book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. His second, The Value of Nothing, was a New York Times and international best-seller. He is the co-author with Jason W. Moore of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. His acclaimed latest book, co-authored with Rupa Marya,  is entitled Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice.

is a certified yoga teacher, permaculture designer, and lifelong learner. Her mission is to help people and the planet flourish; to help others live their highest quality of life so they can make their highest contribution and greatest impact on what matters most to them. She is passionate about helping people holistically design and live their best lives and integrate climate action into their lifestyle in a fun, engaging way. Jen is grateful to have been featured in the award-winning documentary, "Coming Home: Natural Living in a Modern World." 

is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico and a longtime practitioner of mindfulness meditation through varying Buddhist traditions. His primary research interests include the utilization of mindfulness-based interventions as a means of promoting resiliency and thriving - specifically for those navigating recovery from problematic substance use. He is also interested in the implementation of these practices within the systems that most impact collective wellbeing.

has been a community organizer for over 30 years. She has been serving as the coordinating director of the North American Marine Alliance. She has helped relationships blossomed between North American Marine Alliance and the National Family Farm Coalition. The two organizations entered into an innovative shared-leadership model on May 1, 2018, putting Niaz in the new role of leading the work of both organizations and further cementing the relationship between land & sea.