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Friday,
June 8th:
Shadia Fayne Wood is the founder and Co-Coordinator
of Project
Survival Media, a global youth journalism network reporting
on climate change issues. She became an advocate for justice and
the environment at an early age. When she was just seven years
old, she got involved in a campaign to address the cancer cluster
in her community that was caused by nuclear waste. Though young,
she was driven to spearhead what would become a successful eight-year
campaign to pass state legislation to refinance the Superfund
Program in New York State. The bill passed into law in 2003 and
in recognition of her efforts, she received the prestigious Yoshiyama
Award from the Hitachi Foundation and the Brower Youth Award from
the Earth Island Institute. After graduating high school, Shadia
worked for the Environmental Justice & Climate Change Initiative
as the youngest Campaign Coordinator in the Energy Action Coalition.
She was featured in the 2007 Green Issue of Vanity Fair and is
a recipient of Elle Magazine’s 2008 Green Awards. She is
also a freelance photographer having been published in The New
Yorker, MSNBC, LA Times Blog, and the Boston Globe. She has managed
media teams for all national summits on climate change Power Shift
‘07, ‘09, and ’11, the UN Climate Negotiations
in ‘08, ‘09, and '11, and for the two week Tar Sands
Action.
Sunday,
June 10th:
The
Greenpeace USA Recon Team:
Robert Black, Senior Team Leader and Senior Manager,
Greenpeace USA
4 years in the Marine Corps, a Masters of Science in Psychology,
and single father of 7 children. He has seen the worst that man
can do to itself, and now wishes to spend the rest of his life
making sure mankind will the best it can do to itself. Bobby is
also an established writer, and has an anti-war screenplay up
for review and sale with several movie studios.
Evan Spiler,
Team Leader and Manager, Greenpeace USA
Photographer, and traveler of the world. Evan has taken many pictures
to reflect the world, at its best and worst. Evan is being groomed
to be the next Greenpeace International photographer, where Greenpeace
is sure he will benefit mankind with his amazing abilities. Evan
is also the author of many children's poems, and is finishing
a collective illustrated book of children's poems in the upcoming
weeks.
Joseph Hupperich,
Team Leader and Manager, Greenpeace USA
Raised in Wisconsin, and really gets to the heart of the Greenpeace
Mission, Joe is essential to Greenpeace's mission to recon the
USA to find where Greenpeace can establish a foothold and expand
to benefit the world as a whole. He is also a talented musician,
where the folk is in his heart and soul. He grew up near one of
the biggest ammo plants in Wisconsin, and decided to be an environmentalist
after his friends got cancer from the contaminated water supply.
Tyler Wilkerson,
Team Leader and Manager, Greenpeace USA
Tyler is also a Marine Corps Combat Veteran, and has become an
essential member of the Greenpeace USA Recon team. He has helped
Greenpeace establish a foothold in Palm Springs, California and
Sacramento. Seeing the worst mankind can do itself, he too wishes
to help Greenpeace ensure a peaceful and sustainable future for
the world. He is also a budding musician, and loves a good all
night jam session.
Thursday,
June 14th:
Keith L. Knudsen is the Deputy Director of the Earthquake
Science Center for the U.S. Geological Survey. He is a Quaternary
geologist and geomorphologist who specializes in the assessment
of earthquake hazards. Prior to joining the USGS, he worked on
projects characterizing seismic hazards for large engineered facilities
at URS Corporation in Oakland. Prior to joining URS, Keith managed
the Liquefaction Zoning Unit and the Bay Area Regional Geologic
Mapping Unit of the California Geological Survey’s Seismic
Hazards Zoning Program. He served on the Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute’s Northern California Chapter Board as
a Director and as President. He is currently Secretary of the
Seismological Society of America. He lives in the East Bay, less
than two kilometers from the Hayward fault.
Friday,
June 21st:
Bruce Hamilton, Deputy Executive Director, The
Sierra Club
Deputy Executive Director Bruce Hamilton has worked for the Sierra
Club for 35 years. He started as a local organizer in the Northern
Rockies, where he fought oil and gas development in wilderness
and coal strip mining. He has been involved in designing and implementing
campaigns to promote Smart Energy Solutions, preserve America's
Wild Legacy, and support Safe Healthy Communities at the local,
state, regional, federal and international levels. Recently he
headed teams to develop and implement national Sierra Club programs
to ecosystems from climate change and the national Beyond Natural
Gas campaign.
Beyond Natural Gas seeks to reform and stop reckless natural gas
development, including fracking, and to end our reliance on all
fossil fuels by 2050. Bruce is trained as a wildlife biologist
but his main occupation is agitator. He lives in Berkeley.
Friday, June 22nd:
California State Senator Loni Hancock has spent
nearly four decades as a forceful advocate for open government,
educational reform, environmental protection, economic development,
and social justice. Senator Hancock currently serves on the Environmental
Quality Committee, which oversees legislation relating to air
and water quality, waste management and toxic substances, among
other environmental issues.
Saturday,
June 23rd:
CA State Assemblymember Nancy Skinner chairs
the Assembly Natural Resources Committee which oversees implementation
of California's Global Warming Solutions Act, AB 32.
Prior to her election to
the legislature Skinner worked internationally on climate issues.
A founder of ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Skinner
led ICLEI's Cities for Climate Protection program 1993 to 2004.
Her expertise in energy
efficiency includes initiating the first citywide energy efficiency
retrofit laws and the first municipally owned ESCO (Energy Services
Company) while she was a Councilmember in the City of Berkeley
during the 1980s.
As US Director of
the London based Climate Group, Skinner worked with Fortune 500
companies and state, provincial, and national leaders to enact
greenhouse gas reduction plans. Her recently approved Assembly
Bill 758, the first statewide program aimed at achieving energy
efficiency retrofits for all existing residential and commercial
buildings, will move California's leadership on energy efficiency
from gold to platinum, and promises to create thousands of new
jobs to aid California's economic recovery.
