Rebecca Adamson, a Cherokee, has worked directly with grassroots tribal communities, and nationally as an advocate of local tribal issues since 1970. She started First Nations Development Institute in 1980 and First Peoples Worldwide in 1997. She works globally with grassroots tribal communities, sits on the boards of the Corporation for Enterprise Development and the Calvert Social Investment Fund, and is an advisor to the United Nations on rural development.

 

 

Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne founded the Sarvodaya movement in Sri Lanka in 1958. For his work promoting nonviolent social transformation he was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in Japan in 1992 and the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize in 1996. In 2007 he received the Sri Lankabhimanya, the highest National Honour of Sri Lanka.

 

 

 

Orland Bishop is the founder and director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, where he has pioneered approaches to urban truces and mentoring at-risk youth. His work in healing and human development is framed by an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies of South and West Africa. Orland is currently focusing on understanding the deeper meaning money for designing new economic platforms that support healthy community life. He is a member of the Spirit of Money Collaborative.

 

John Bloom is Director of Organizational Culture at RSF Social Finance. As part of his work he has been developing the Transforming Money Collaborative, as well as other educational programs that address the intersection of money and spirit in personal and social transformation. His most recent book is The Genius of Money – Essays and Interviews Reimagining the Financial World.

 

 

Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In her most recent book, Web of Debt, she has taken those skills and created an amazing analysis of the Federal Reserve and the historical unfolding of the current money system. She writes regular articles for the Huffington Post.

 

 

 

Dr. Edgar S. Cahn is the creator of Time Dollars and the founder of TimeBanks USA, as well as the co-founder of the National Legal Services Program and the Antioch School of Law (now the David A. Clarke School of Law). He is the author of “No More Throw Away People: The Co-Production Imperative,” and “Time Dollars.” As the president and founder of the Time Dollar USA, Cahn’s experience with Time Dollars led him in 1995 to develop a radical new framework for social welfare and social justice that turns recipients of service into co-producers of change.

 

Charles Eisenstein is a philosopher, teacher and author. His books include The Ascent of Humanity and the upcoming Sacred Economics. Charles is also on the faculty of the Health Arts and Sciences program at Goddard College. Read his blog on Reality Sandwich.

 

 

 

Graciela Chichilnisky is the author of the carbon market of the UN Kyoto Protocol that became international law in 2005. Dr. Chichilnisky is a Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics at Columbia UniversityDr. Chichilnisky is a Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Saving Kyoto, published in fall 2009, and The Economics of Climate Change.

 

 

Riane Eisler is a social scientist, attorney, and author whose work on cultural transformation has inspired both scholars and social activists. She has been a leader in the movement for peace, sustainability, and economic equity, and her pioneering work in human rights has expanded the focus of international organizations to include the rights of women and children.  Her most recent book is The Real Wealth of Nations.

 

 

Larry Emerson is a Diné or Navajo activist, educator and artist. Professor Emerson has been an active lecturer and conference presenter, providing a wealth of professional services to urban foundations and Indigenous Nations.

 

 

 

Rev. Mark Francisco Bozzutti-Jones is a priest for pastoral care and nurture as Trinity Wall Street, the Episcopal parish located in Lower Manhattan at the head of Wall St. Trinity Church has been actively engaged in a deep dialogue about creating an ethical economy, “a whole new vision of economic life.”

 

 

 

John Fullerton is Founder and President of the Capital Institute. He is also the principal of Level 3 Capital Advisors, LLC, an investment firm focused on high impact sustainable private investments. A former Managing Director at JPMorgan, John was also the seed investor and CEO of Alerian Capital Management, an investment firm focused on energy infrastructure that grew to $250mm in assets under under his leadership.  John is currently a director of the New Economics Institute, Investors’ Circle, Grasslands, LLC, New Day Farms, Inc., and an Advisor to Natural Systems Utilities.

 

Robin Gottfried is a Professor of Economics at the University of the South. Professor Gottfried is interested in the interrelationships between humans and their natural environment: How and why do people change their environment, what ecological impact does this change have, and how does this impact, in turn, affect other people.   His book is called Economics, Ecology, and the Roots of Western Faith: Perspectives from the Garden.

 

 

Thomas Greco is a community and monetary economist, educator, writer, and consultant. He is a former tenured college teacher who has spent more than 30 years studying and writing about ways to achieve greater harmony, equity, and sustainability through business and economics. His most recent book is The End of Money and the Future of Civilization.  He also keeps an active blog on money and the economy.

 

 

William Greider, a national reporter of 40 years, is currently the national correspondent for The Nation, the country’s oldest and largest political weekly. His career has spanned newspapers small and large, magazines, public television and books. He writes about capitalism and about democracy and explains how these two value systems are in collision. Author of many books, he wrote The Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country.

 

 

Roshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher,  Zen priest, anthropologist, ecologist and author.  She is currently serves as Abbot and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Sante Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990.

 

 

 

Thom Hartmann is the nation’s #1 progressive radio talk show host. The author of 20 books, he wrote The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight  and Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture. Thom has spent much of his life working with and for the international Salem relief organization (www.saleminternational.org)

 

 

 

Sarah Hearn spent two years working at The New Economics Institute (formerly the E. F. Schumacher Society) in Massachusetts managing the BerkShares local currency program. She is a co-founder of Think OutWord a peer-led training in social threefolding, based on the social and economic thinking of Rudolf Steiner. She is a research associate at the Hawthorne Valley Center for Social Research where she is working (with Gary Lamb) to publish Rudolf Steiner’s Indications on Money and Finance: a Reference and Study Guide.

 

 

 

Hazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and Nautilus award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books.

 

 

Jean Houston is a scholar, philosopher and researcher in human capacities, is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time, one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. A powerful and dynamic speaker, she holds conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide.

 

 

Aaron Kipnis is core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute.  Dr. Kipnis is clinical psychologist and author of several books, including Angry Young Men: How Parents, Teachers, and Counselors Can Help “Bad Boys” Become Good Men.  Dr. Kipnis teaches classes on the psychological influence of money on our lives and sense of who we are.

 

 

David Korten is an author, lecturer and most of all a deeply engaged citizen.  His biography is long but in short he works to call us all into the possibility of creating a conscious economy.  His most recent book Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth is a response to the financial crisis of 2008.  Read his Yes! Magazine blog.

 

 

Rabbi Steven Leder is the senior rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles, CA in addition to teaching homiletics at HUC-JIR  teaching homiletics at HUC-JIR.  He has published essays in Reform Judaism and the Los Angeles Times and is the author of More Money Than God: Living a Rich Life Without Losing Your Soul.

 

 

 

Bernard Lietaer has been active in the domain of money systems for a period of 25 years in an unusual variety of functions. While at the Central Bank in Belgium he co-designed and implemented the convergence mechanism (ECU) to the single European currency system.  He is the author of The Future of Money and New Money for a New World.

 

 

Jacob Needleman is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.  He is the author of many books, including Money and the Meaning of Life. In addition to his teaching and writing, he serves as a consultant in the fields of business, psychology, education, medical ethics and philanthropy.  His most recent book is What Is God?

 

 

John Perkins was Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm, advisor to the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. His books on economics and geo-politics have sold more than 1 million copies. John’s Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a startling exposé of international corruption. Hoodwinked is a blueprint for a new form of global economics. John is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to establishing a world our children will want to inherit.

 

James Quilligan, international economist, is an analyst and administrator in the field of international development since 1975, Quilligan served as policy advisor and writer for many international politicians & leaders, such as Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterrand, Edward Heath, Julius Nyerere, Lopez Portillo Olaf Palme, & others.

 

 

Jim Ritchie-Dunham is the president of the Institute for Strategic Clarity.  Jim’s work has focused primarily on understanding human agreements from a systems-resource perspective and fostering large-scale social change as a collaborative, holistic inquiry.  He has pioneered work in Ecosynomics and is a member of the Spirit of Money Collaborative.

 

 

Vicki Robin is well-known as the coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence.  Called the prophet of “consumption-downsizers” by the New York Times, she is a frequent speaker on this issue at conferences and at professional meetings of organizations seeking to understand and contribute to the national trend toward sustainable lifestyles.

 

 

Elisabet Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, author and consultant.  In her unique approach, called “Living Systems Design,” she applies the principles of biology and evolution to organizational development so that organizations may become more functional, healthy “living systems,” with increased resilience, stability, and cooperation.  She wrote Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution.

 

 

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, and activist, she won the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, and is an Associate Editor of The Ecologist magazine. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists.

Her work highlights the fundamental connection between human rights and the environment. She founded Navdanya, a organizational network of seed keepers and organic producers spread across 16 states in India.  She is the author of many books, including Earth Democracy. 

Eric Smith is the founder of Goodfunds Wealth Management in 1986. The practice was established to professionally and competently serve citizens wishing to participate in the new sustainable and responsible investing movement.  Eric has been a leader in the SRI movement for over a decade.

 

 

 

Jamie Traeger-Muney is founding principal of the Wealth Legacy Group.  Jamie is an innovator in the burgeoning field of wealth psychology, using genograms to compassionately facilitate the exploration of complex family “truths” (messages that get handed down through generations) and taboo issues related to money.  Her area of expertise is the emotional impact of wealth on individuals, families and foundations.

 

 

Brother David Steindl-Rast has been a practicing Benedictine monk for over half a century and was one of the first Vatican-sanctioned delegates to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue. He is a recipient of the Martin Buber Award for his outstanding role in building bridges between religious traditions, and serves as a senior member of the Mount Savior Monastery in Elmira, New York. Br. David offers a resource to put the principle of gratitude into practice through Gratefulness.org.

 

 

Lynne Twist is a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant and author.  Her award-winning book The Soul of Money has been an inspiration to many. She has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us.  She has spent more than three decades working in positions of leadership on major global initiatives. She co-founded The Pachamama Alliance with her husband Bill Twist.

 

 

Judy Wicks is the founder and former owner of the White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, PA.  She is also co-founder of BALLE , the Business Alliance for Local Living economies.