by Joanna | Oct 22, 2010 | Bioneers 2010 |
Adeola A. Oredola is the Executive Director at Youth In Action, a 12 year old non-profit in Providence where over 1,000 young leaders have been at the forefront of creating positive social change throughout their city. Adeola grew up Providence, attended Providence Public Schools, then Brown University, and now lives in the Washington Park area of the city. As a product of the community in which she works, Adeola is truly dedicated to every aspect of youth and...
by Joanna | Oct 22, 2010 | Bioneers 2010 |
Alan Khazei has pioneered ways to empower citizens to make a difference. In 1987 he co-founded a nonprofit organization called City Year with his friend, Michael Brown. City Year unites young adults ages 17-24 from all backgrounds for an intensive year of full-time community service mentoring, tutoring, and educating children. It served as the model and inspiration for President Clinton’s AmeriCorps program and now operates in 20 U.S. cities and Johannesburg...
by Joanna | Oct 19, 2010 | Gaialogues |
Eric Herm grew up on a cotton farm near Ackerly, Texas. He left the farm to pursue other interests, traveling to various places across the world before returning to his roots. Upon arriving back on his family farm, he noticed many changes in not only the landscape but the methods of commercial agriculture that were causing more long-term problems. He began searching for answers to these problems, slowly discovering healthier organic methods which provided the...
by Joanna | Oct 11, 2010 | Gaialogues |
Fantuzzi is a world-class musical star who is charismatic, funny, sensual, and highly-energized and will definitely get you moving! Meet the man that Newsweek Magazine featured on its cover to symbolize the gathering of the original 1969 Woodstock Concert. A continuous world traveler to over 50 countries throughout the past 35 years, Fantuzzi has performed on every continent at thousands of events including those at Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, Rio De...
by Joanna | Oct 4, 2010 | Gaialogues |
Jacob Freydont-Attie is a writer, independent filmmaker, and freethinker based in rural northern California. A second generation flower-child, he was raised in the woods without electricity, television, telephone, indoor plumbing, or Hostess products. At fifteen he moved to Los Angeles to attend Beverly Hills High School where he began a tumultuous relationship with theater arts that would one day lead to his film “String Theory”. With a little...
by Joanna | Sep 21, 2010 | Gaialogues |
Kim Rosen, MFA, has touched listeners around the world with poetry’s power to awaken, inspire and heal. She is the author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words (Hay House, 2009) and the co-creator of four CDs of spoken poetry and music, including Only Breath , an interweaving of spoken poems of ancient and modern poets with the music of cellist/composer Jami Sieber. Combining her devotion to poetry with her background as a spiritual teacher and...
