Aqeela Sherrills:
In 1992 he brokered a peace agreement between the Bloods and the Crips (two rival gangs).Aqeela recently managed the "Ashes and Snow the Nomadic Museum", a traveling museum featuring the profound artwork and film by Gregory Colbert. He currently serves as interim Executive Director of Assemblies in Motion (AIM) a non-profit started by Artistic Educator Leila Steinberg, manager and mentor of the late Hip-Hop icon Tupac Shakur. Bernard Lietaer:
Bernard Lietaer is the author of the forthcoming "Of Human Wealth" and "The Future of Money" (London: Random House, 2001), 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 currently a Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resource Development at UC Berkeley. Charles Wheelan:
Charles Wheelan was appointed as a lecturer in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago in September of 2004. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Chicago, Wheelan was Director of Policy and Communications for Chicago Metropolis 2020, a business-backed civic group promoting healthy regional growth in the Chicago area. Constance Rice:
Constance Rice, co-director of The Advancement Project, is known for her success in tackling problems of inequity and exclusion. She has received more than 50 major awards for her work in expanding opportunity and advancing multi-racial democracy. As a litigator, Rice has filed class action civil rights cases redressing police misconduct, race and sex discrimination and unfair public policy in transportation, probation and public housing. Elizabet Sahtouris:
Internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality-- is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author, and consultant on Living Systems Design. Dr. Sahtouris shows the relevance of biological systems to organizational design in businesses, government, and global trade. She teaches in the Bainbridge Graduate Institute's sustainable business MBA program and is a fellow of the World Business Academy. Gar Alperovitz:
Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; a founding Fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Alperovitz also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State. Fritjof Capra:
Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education. Dr. Capra is on the faculty of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in England, and frequently gives management seminars for top executives. He is the author of several international bestsellers, including The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, and The Web of Life. George Selgin:
Professor of Economics, The Terry College of Business, University of Georgia Hazel Henderson:
Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, LLC and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series - Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. The first version of her Country Futures Indicators (CFI©), an alternative to the Gross National Product (GNP), is a co-venture with Calvert Group, Inc.: the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators (Desk Reference Manual, 2000), updated regularly at www.calvert-henderson.com. Howard Zinn:
Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He has received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts. Michael Albert:
Michael Albert is a founder and current member of the staff of Z Magazine as well as System Operator of Z Magazine's web system: ZNet (www.zmag.org).Albert's radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc. Robert Putnam:
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world's highest accolades for a political scientist. Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. He has written a dozen books, translated into seventeen languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. Juliet Schor:
Juliet Schor's research over the last ten years has focussed on issues pertaining to trends in work and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic justice. Schor is a board member and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, an organization devoted to transforming North American lifestyles to make them more ecologically and socially sustainable. She also teaches periodically at Schumacher College, an International Center for Ecological Studies based in south-west England. She teachers at Boston College. Michael Shuman:
Michael Shuman is Director of the Institute for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship with the Village Foundation in Washington. Working with African-American men and boys, the Institute is focused on community-based solutions rooted in local markets, small business and devolution. Formerly the co-director of IPS in Washington, he is the author of the acclaimed Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. He founded the Center for Innovative Diplomacy, an 8,000-member nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting global peace, justice, development, and environmental protection through direct citizen and city participation in international affairs. L. Hunter Lovins:
L. Hunter Lovins, Esq., is the president and founder of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and co-creator of the Natural Capitalism concept. In 1982 she co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute and led that organization as its CEO for Strategy until 2002. Under her leadership, RMI grew into an internationally recognized research center, widely celebrated for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. By the time Hunter left, the institute had grown to a staff of 50 people and a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise. Noam Chomsky:
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at MIT. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior,He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. Lawrence H. White:
Lawrence H. White, PhD is the F.A. Hayek Professor of Economic History with the University of Missouri - St. Louis Economics department. Dr. White is a believer in the Austrian "free-market" school of economics and an important modern-day analyst of the history and practicality of money issue by so-called free - "private" - banks ing. Dr. White's investigations of redeemable competitive currency issuances (also known as "fiat money" because it is backed by fractional reserves) by major Scottish banks several hundred years ago were ground-breaking and even today remain controversial. According to Dr. White, it is probably best left up to the marketplace to determine the amount of currency an individual private bank can issue, and the rates of interest that the fiat money will demand on bank loans and deposits. Professor White's analysis does not condone the current system of government-supported central banks and, in fact, make a strict distinction between private banks and leads to a critique of the modern banking system that rests on a government central bank having a monopoly of currency issue. Riane Eisler:
Riane Eisler has been described as a modern renaissance woman due to her far-reaching insights as a cultural historian. She is the author of The Chalice and the Blade, which the eminent anthropologist, Ashley Montague has hailed as "the most important book since Darwin 's Origin of Species. " She has taught at the University of California and the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, and she is a member of the General Evolution Research Group. She has pioneered legislation to protect the human rights of women and children. Lynne Twist:
Lynne Twist has had a long career as a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, and mentor. She works to end world hunger, empower women, nurture children and youth, promote economic integrity and spiritual authenticity, and preserve the earth's natural heritage through the Hunger Project, Pachamama Alliance, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and State of the World Forum. She is the author of The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Life and founder and president of the Soul of Money Institute. Robert Frank:
Professor Frank is a monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times. Until 2001, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board, fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was Professor of American Civilization at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Robert Pollin:
Co-director and Professor of Economics Robert Pollin is co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at UMass Amherst. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1982. His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, and the analysis of financial markets. Susan Witt:
Susan Witt has served as Executive Director of the E. F. Schumacher Society since 1980, leading its national educational programs while at the same time remaining deeply committed to implementing Schumacher's economic ideas in her home region of the Berkshires. She is Administrator of the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires, and in that capacity has been responsible for many of the innovative financing and contracting methods that the Land Trust has implemented to create more affordable housing for its members. She is founder of the newly formed BerkShares local currency program and its predecessor SHARE micro-credit program. She is a board member of the Great Barrington Land Conservancy and an advisory board member of Public Radio Station WAMC, of the Orion Society, and of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies based in San Francisco. She writes and speaks on the theme of building sustainable local economies. William Greider:
William Greider, a prominent political journalist and author, has been a reporter for more than 35 years for newspapers, magazines and television. Over the past two decades, he has persistently challenged mainstream thinking on economics. Greider's next book will be The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to A Moral Economy. In it, he untangles the systemic mysteries of American capitalism, details its destructive collisions with society and demonstrates how people can achieve decisive influence to reform the system's structure and operating values.
In 1992 he brokered a peace agreement between the Bloods and the Crips (two rival gangs).Aqeela recently managed the "Ashes and Snow the Nomadic Museum", a traveling museum featuring the profound artwork and film by Gregory Colbert. He currently serves as interim Executive Director of Assemblies in Motion (AIM) a non-profit started by Artistic Educator Leila Steinberg, manager and mentor of the late Hip-Hop icon Tupac Shakur. Bernard Lietaer:
Bernard Lietaer is the author of the forthcoming "Of Human Wealth" and "The Future of Money" (London: Random House, 2001), 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 currently a Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resource Development at UC Berkeley. Charles Wheelan:
Charles Wheelan was appointed as a lecturer in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago in September of 2004. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Chicago, Wheelan was Director of Policy and Communications for Chicago Metropolis 2020, a business-backed civic group promoting healthy regional growth in the Chicago area. Constance Rice:
Constance Rice, co-director of The Advancement Project, is known for her success in tackling problems of inequity and exclusion. She has received more than 50 major awards for her work in expanding opportunity and advancing multi-racial democracy. As a litigator, Rice has filed class action civil rights cases redressing police misconduct, race and sex discrimination and unfair public policy in transportation, probation and public housing. Elizabet Sahtouris:
Internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality-- is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author, and consultant on Living Systems Design. Dr. Sahtouris shows the relevance of biological systems to organizational design in businesses, government, and global trade. She teaches in the Bainbridge Graduate Institute's sustainable business MBA program and is a fellow of the World Business Academy. Gar Alperovitz:
Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; a founding Fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Alperovitz also served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State. Fritjof Capra:
Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist, is a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, which promotes ecology and systems thinking in primary and secondary education. Dr. Capra is on the faculty of Schumacher College, an international center for ecological studies in England, and frequently gives management seminars for top executives. He is the author of several international bestsellers, including The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, and The Web of Life. George Selgin:
Professor of Economics, The Terry College of Business, University of Georgia Hazel Henderson:
Hazel Henderson, founder, Ethical Markets Media, LLC and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series - Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. The first version of her Country Futures Indicators (CFI©), an alternative to the Gross National Product (GNP), is a co-venture with Calvert Group, Inc.: the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators (Desk Reference Manual, 2000), updated regularly at www.calvert-henderson.com. Howard Zinn:
Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He has received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts. Michael Albert:
Michael Albert is a founder and current member of the staff of Z Magazine as well as System Operator of Z Magazine's web system: ZNet (www.zmag.org).Albert's radicalization occurred during the 1960s. His political involvements, starting then and continuing to the present, have ranged from local, regional, and national organizing projects and campaigns to co-founding South End Press, Z Magazine, the Z Media Institute, and ZNet, and to working on these projects, writing for various publications and publishers, giving public talks, etc. Robert Putnam:
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. In 2006, Putnam received the Skytte Prize, one of the world's highest accolades for a political scientist. Raised in a small town in the Midwest and educated at Swarthmore, Oxford, and Yale, he has served as Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. He has written a dozen books, translated into seventeen languages, including the best-selling Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, and more recently Better Together: Restoring the American Community, a study of promising new forms of social connectedness. Juliet Schor:
Juliet Schor's research over the last ten years has focussed on issues pertaining to trends in work and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic justice. Schor is a board member and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream, an organization devoted to transforming North American lifestyles to make them more ecologically and socially sustainable. She also teaches periodically at Schumacher College, an International Center for Ecological Studies based in south-west England. She teachers at Boston College. Michael Shuman:
Michael Shuman is Director of the Institute for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship with the Village Foundation in Washington. Working with African-American men and boys, the Institute is focused on community-based solutions rooted in local markets, small business and devolution. Formerly the co-director of IPS in Washington, he is the author of the acclaimed Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. He founded the Center for Innovative Diplomacy, an 8,000-member nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting global peace, justice, development, and environmental protection through direct citizen and city participation in international affairs. L. Hunter Lovins:
L. Hunter Lovins, Esq., is the president and founder of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and co-creator of the Natural Capitalism concept. In 1982 she co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute and led that organization as its CEO for Strategy until 2002. Under her leadership, RMI grew into an internationally recognized research center, widely celebrated for its innovative thinking in energy and resource issues. By the time Hunter left, the institute had grown to a staff of 50 people and a $7 million annual budget, half of it earned through programmatic enterprise. Noam Chomsky:
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at MIT. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior,He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. Lawrence H. White:
Lawrence H. White, PhD is the F.A. Hayek Professor of Economic History with the University of Missouri - St. Louis Economics department. Dr. White is a believer in the Austrian "free-market" school of economics and an important modern-day analyst of the history and practicality of money issue by so-called free - "private" - banks ing. Dr. White's investigations of redeemable competitive currency issuances (also known as "fiat money" because it is backed by fractional reserves) by major Scottish banks several hundred years ago were ground-breaking and even today remain controversial. According to Dr. White, it is probably best left up to the marketplace to determine the amount of currency an individual private bank can issue, and the rates of interest that the fiat money will demand on bank loans and deposits. Professor White's analysis does not condone the current system of government-supported central banks and, in fact, make a strict distinction between private banks and leads to a critique of the modern banking system that rests on a government central bank having a monopoly of currency issue. Riane Eisler:
Riane Eisler has been described as a modern renaissance woman due to her far-reaching insights as a cultural historian. She is the author of The Chalice and the Blade, which the eminent anthropologist, Ashley Montague has hailed as "the most important book since Darwin 's Origin of Species. " She has taught at the University of California and the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, and she is a member of the General Evolution Research Group. She has pioneered legislation to protect the human rights of women and children. Lynne Twist:
Lynne Twist has had a long career as a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, and mentor. She works to end world hunger, empower women, nurture children and youth, promote economic integrity and spiritual authenticity, and preserve the earth's natural heritage through the Hunger Project, Pachamama Alliance, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and State of the World Forum. She is the author of The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Life and founder and president of the Soul of Money Institute. Robert Frank:
Professor Frank is a monthly contributor to the "Economic Scene" column in The New York Times. Until 2001, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Nepal, chief economist for the Civil Aeronautics Board, fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was Professor of American Civilization at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Robert Pollin:
Co-director and Professor of Economics Robert Pollin is co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at UMass Amherst. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1982. His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, and the analysis of financial markets. Susan Witt:
Susan Witt has served as Executive Director of the E. F. Schumacher Society since 1980, leading its national educational programs while at the same time remaining deeply committed to implementing Schumacher's economic ideas in her home region of the Berkshires. She is Administrator of the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires, and in that capacity has been responsible for many of the innovative financing and contracting methods that the Land Trust has implemented to create more affordable housing for its members. She is founder of the newly formed BerkShares local currency program and its predecessor SHARE micro-credit program. She is a board member of the Great Barrington Land Conservancy and an advisory board member of Public Radio Station WAMC, of the Orion Society, and of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies based in San Francisco. She writes and speaks on the theme of building sustainable local economies. William Greider:
William Greider, a prominent political journalist and author, has been a reporter for more than 35 years for newspapers, magazines and television. Over the past two decades, he has persistently challenged mainstream thinking on economics. Greider's next book will be The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to A Moral Economy. In it, he untangles the systemic mysteries of American capitalism, details its destructive collisions with society and demonstrates how people can achieve decisive influence to reform the system's structure and operating values.