Founder
Unity Through Creativity Foundation

Laurie Marshall is an author, artist and innovator with 40+ years’ experience empowering youth and adults through creative collaboration with her “Peace Building through Art inspired by Nature” approach. A visionary educator, she has served mostly low-income children, families and their schools as an Arts Integration and Project Based Learning specialist. Founder of Unity Through Creativity Foundation and the Singing Tree Project, Laurie is a certified K-12 Art and Social Studies Teacher with training in the Waldorf Curriculum, Conversational Intelligence, Peace Literacy and Outward Bound. Her many clients have included NASA, FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Interior, the U.S. Botanical Gardens, and many public schools, hospitals and prisons around the country, and, every year for much of the last two decades, Laurie has facilitated and exhibited Singing Tree murals at Bioneers.

Certified Facilitator
Singing Tree Project

Leslie Rein, a mental health counselor early in her career, became the head of a large, multi-level department in a Bay Area government agency but has focused since 2017 on visual art, a process which she describes as “a creative soul awakening.” She is a certified Singing Tree Project facilitator and is passionately committed to that approach to collaboration and “peace-building through process” to bring people together, heal common heartbreaks, rebuild trust, strengthen respect, practice acceptance, and cultivate love.  Leslie has facilitated five Singing Tree Murals.

Counselor
Concordia Language Village in Minnesota

Fernanda Lugo, a transdisciplinary scholar/activist with backgrounds in bio-behavioral health and environmental sciences, serves on the board of Eco El Paso and works with Citizens Climate Lobby, Move to Amend, and The Alliance for Just Money. Fernanda’s activism includes working on ecological health, land restoration, soil remediation, livable wages, healthcare, and dignified work for all. She also serves as a counselor for Concordia Language Village in Minnesota and is currently training to be Singing Tree Mural Facilitator, working on “The Singing Tree of a Just and Democratic Economy.”