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Aqeela Sherrills traded retaliation for reconciliation and helped broker peace between the Bloods and Crips.
"I think there has to be a movement in this country, and it's a movement that has to come from the people."
"As a culture, we look at conflict as negative, and it's not. It's unresolved conflict that actually leads to violence. One of the things we do well is listen. I know how to build coalitions, and I know how to be a team player. "
Melissa Bradley-Burns: I think there is a lack of understanding on what it means to go green and the potential of a green economy. It is not just a place where you can spend money. It is also an opportunity to earn money.
It is important to know that almost anything can be “greened,” so regardless of the business you are in, there are environmentally sound practices that can be integrated into your daily work.
David Johnston, founder and President of What’s Working, Inc. is one of the pioneers of the sustainability movement in the US. For the last 30 years he has been working to transform the building industry to become greener and more sustainable.
David has been doing training in the building industry for 30 years. Skilled as a communicator, teacher and trainer, David is able to communicate with people from a variety of professional and non-professional backgrounds and inspire them to build and live green.
Paul specializes in organizational development, and staff training. He consults widely for businesses, governments, non-profit groups and philanthropists.
Since 2003, Paul has worked closely with Hunter Lovins, co-teaching "Principles of Sustainable Business Management," "Implementing Sustainable Business Practices," and "Effective Management, Communication and Action" at Presidio School of Management, the first fully accredited M.B.A. program in Sustainable Management.
As part of her commitment to ongoing community service, in 1992 Beth launched and continues to manage the Insight Garden Program at San Quentin Prison -- a rehabilitative gardening program designed to re-connect men to themselves as well as develop a larger understanding of their connection to and impact on the world around them, so they become productive members of society. She believes that nature teaches us all we need to know to create a healthier, more sustainable world.
Born in China, Lily emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s to attend the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate school of Fine Arts. A successful painter and professor at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, Lily traveled to Beijing in 1989 to show her work at the Central Institute of Fine Art. There, she witnessed the tragic events of Tianamen Square.
"When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth."
Born into the farm worker movement, Julie Chavez Rodriguez learned at an early age the importance of civil rights and understood well the plight of working people. As a result, throughout her life, she has taken an active role in advocating for social justice for all people.
Julie is the granddaughter of United Farm Worker's leader and activist, Cesar Chavez.
“We’re being surrounded by violence, that’s why I think that it is very important that we continue teaching young people about Chávez’ non-violence legacy,..he knew that non-violence was more powerful than violence. He knew that violence could only attract more violence. He knew that we could find better answers.”
Bill Steen is from Tucson, Arizona and has a background in community development and photography.
Athena Swentzell Steen is from Santa Fe, New Mexico and comes from an artistic family background of Native American potters, sculptors and educators.
"We explore ways of living that connect us to others and the natural world. We seek to balance the wisdom and skills of the past with those things which have value today."
"We integrate into daily life, traditions that bring enjoyment such as building and baking in wood-fired ovens, cooking with native foods or hosting multi-cultural exchanges and informal musical gatherings."
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Anne Rogers, the President and Founder of Restorative Solutions is a nationally recognized leader, consultant and trainer in the restorative community justice movement. She is the acting Director of the Jefferson County Community Restorative Justice Program, providing restorative practices within criminal justice, schools, law enforcement, probation and communities. Anne has facilitated dialogues and circles in a number of high profile cases of severe violence.
Dan has operated Blue Horizon Construction a construction company based in Arizona, and Hawaii for over twenty years, working on multiple green residential development projects. Dan has been a board member of the Compton Foundation for over 15 years, through which he has assisted in the design and funding of many similar programs. In each endeavor, Dan has gained a reputation for quality and integrity. He is currently working on alternate building material projects produced in the United States, Brazil, Europe and Singapore.
Michael Meade teaches us “to sing over.” He encourages us to see study and education as a spiritual practice, that “educare means to lead the spirit out.”
“Nature is the breath of spirit,” he says, “and when one finds one’s inner nature, one finds theconnection, the umbilical cord to Nature.”
Netra Halperin holds a Master’s degree in psychology, with an emphasis on Child and Family therapy. She has worked as a psychologist with youth at risk of suicide in a Cree First Nation’s tribe in Canada; and for Maui Youth and Family Services, Aloha House and Women Helping Women on Maui. She studied east/west psychology in India, where she worked in the Osho School of Mysticism.
Netra consulted and owned small businesses in the construction, development, real estate and tourism industries.
In the last couple of years, - seeing that many social issues can be resolved by changing policy at a governmental level, she ran for Maui County Council in 2008 and then worked as an aid for a State Representative during the Hawaii 2009 session. She stays involved in politics and is presently a community advocate in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, where she plans to run for State House Representative in 2010.
Netra is a consultant for Clean and Green Jobs Hawaii.