Thursday, March 28th
Introduction by Cara Pike, Founder and Executive Director, Climate Access
With climate advocates subject to surveillance and censorship and giant companies controlling the ways information and knowledge flow around the world, the fight to save our climate is now inextricably intertwined with digital rights. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has long been at the forefront of protecting those rights, has helped environmental activists protect their emails from Chevron, understand the surveillance they are under and develop “Security Self-Defense” practices to protect themselves. Cindy Cohn, EFF’s Executive Director, one of the nation’s leading civil liberties attorneys specializing in Internet law, will explain why EFF’s push for open access to scientific information, for net neutrality, for open source/patents, “creative commons” licenses, and more, is critical in the fight to prevent climatic unraveling.
March 28th | 10:28 am to 10:50 am | Zellerbach Hall
Introduced by
Cara Pike
Founder and Executive Director | Climate Access
Cara Pike, the founder and Executive Director of Climate Access, is a leading thinker in climate communications with 20+ years’ experience. Her expertise has been sought by nonprofits, academic institutions and government agencies including the City of Boston, the State of Vermont, EPA, FEMA, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the Union of Concerned Scientists and others. Her studies and toolkits on environmental engagement translate complex issues into actionable strategies that are helping thousands of climate advocates more effectively frame sustainability issues and promote behavior change. Cara is also co-founder and Senior Communication Advisor to Climate Access’s partner organization, Re.Climate.
Keynote
Cindy Cohn
Executive Director | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cindy Cohn, the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2015, served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel from 2000 to 2015. In 1993, she served as lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. Among other honors, Ms. Cohn was named to The Non-Profit Times 2020 Power & Influence TOP 50 list, and in 2018, Forbes included Ms. Cohn as one of America's Top 50 Women in Tech. In 2013, The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America, noting: "If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn."
3:00 pm: How to Fight for a Fair and Free Digital Landscape
Hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, founded in 1990, is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF champions user privacy, free expression, innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development, to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. Come join some leading figures at EFF for an interactive conversation in which we’ll share information and ideas at the juncture of the environmental, social and digital struggles for a better future. Topics will include: tools to protect environmental defenders from surveillance; legal strategies to combat governmental and corporate tracking and censoring; how researchers and activists can successfully fight for open access to information and data; and more. Let’s talk about what more we can do together. Moderated by Cindy Cohn, EFF Executive Director. With: Cooper Quintin, EFF Senior Staff Technologist; Mario Trujillo, EFF Staff Attorney; nash Sheard, EFF Managing Director, Advocacy; Beryl Lipton, EFF Investigative Researcher.
March 28th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Magnes Museum
Panelists
Cindy Cohn
Executive Director | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cindy Cohn, the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2015, served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel from 2000 to 2015. In 1993, she served as lead attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the U.S. export restrictions on cryptography. Among other honors, Ms. Cohn was named to The Non-Profit Times 2020 Power & Influence TOP 50 list, and in 2018, Forbes included Ms. Cohn as one of America's Top 50 Women in Tech. In 2013, The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America, noting: "If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn."
Cooper Quintin
Senior Staff Technologist | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation Threat Lab and a board member of Open Archive, has worked on projects including Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, and the analysis of state-sponsored malware campaigns such as Dark Caracal. He has given talks about security research at prestigious security conferences including Black Hat, DEFCON, Enigma, and ReCon and has been published or quoted in a wide range of publications including The New York Times, Reuters, NPR, CNN, and Al Jazeera. Cooper has given security trainings for activists, nonprofit workers, and vulnerable populations around the world.
Mario Trujillo
Staff Attorney | Electronic Frontier Foundation
F. Mario Trujillo, J.D., is a Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's civil liberties team, where he focuses on the Fourth Amendment and privacy rights. He is also part of the Coders' Rights Project. Prior to joining EFF, Mario was an attorney at the privacy law firm ZwillGen and clerked for a federal magistrate judge on the southern border. Before law school, Mario worked as a technology policy reporter at The Hill newspaper.
nash Sheard
Managing Director, Advocacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
nash Sheard, Managing Director for Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), works to assure that the organization's work is impactful, collaborative, and innovative. Before joining the executive team, nash led EFF's grassroots, student, and community organizing efforts, supporting member organizations of the Electronic Frontier Alliance in educating their neighbors on digital-privacy best practices and advocating for privacy and innovation-protecting policy and legislation.
Beryl Lipton
Investigative Researcher | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Beryl Lipton, an Investigative Researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), focuses her work on government transparency, law enforcement surveillance technology, and other uses of technology by government actors. She has extensive experience using Freedom of Information laws and large-scale public records campaigns in her research. At EFF, Beryl supports the Atlas of Surveillance, The Foilies, and The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance, among other projects. She enjoys teaching others about the strengths and limitations of public records laws and discussing the potential and real harms of the surveillance state.
Come join a heartfelt, honest conversation about the future of philanthropy with three leaders of cutting-edge donor networks in the U.S. who will share stories of lessons learned from collaboration and experimentation as they work to grow their networks to become powerful spaces for donor education and organizing, wealth redistribution and lasting social impact. Unlike private foundations, donor networks aggregate the power of not only one or two families or trustees but of large numbers of individuals and institutions, so they can have greater collective impact on the multiplicity of political, ecological and social crises facing communities. The problems facing us are too big for any individual or organization to solve alone, so a collaborative spirit and disciplined and concerted efforts to practice healthy partnerships are critical in this space. Like the seemingly miraculous choreography of masses of starlings, these networks seek to move as murmurations, knowing that in unity lies power; in coordination, strength and beauty; and that the whole is always more effective than the parts. With: Yahya Alazrak, Executive Director, Resource Generation and RG Action; Leena Barakat, President and CEO, Women Donors Network and WDN Action; Rajasvini Bhansali, Executive Director, Solidaire Network and Solidaire Action.
March 28th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Crystal Ballroom, Hotel Shattuck Plaza
Panelists
Rajasvini Bhansali
Executive Director | Solidaire Network
Rajasvini Bhansali, Executive Director of Solidaire Network and Solidaire Action, a community of donor organizers mobilizing critical resources to the frontlines of social justice, is a passionate advocate for participatory grassroots-led power building. Her wide-ranging career devoted to racial, economic and climate justice has included work in Asia, Africa and the Americas in such domains as youth development, addressing the digital divide, community organizing, research, policy analysis and strategic planning. She is co-author of Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times, and is also a poet, essayist, educator, yoga instructor and leadership coach.
Leena Barakat
President & CEO | Women Donors Network
Leena Barakat, a Los Angeles-based activist, strategist and Palestinian-American leader, is the President & CEO of Women Donors Network and its 501c4 affiliate, WDN Action. She began her career as a grassroots activist and cross-movement organizer and has since spanned the nonprofit, tech, and philanthropic sectors with the goal of creating a more just, joyful, and liberated future for all. Leena also serves on the board of Donors of Color Network.
Yahya Alazrak
Executive Director | Resource Generation and RG Action
Yahya Alazrak, Executive Director of Resource Generation (“a multiracial membership community of young people (18-35) with wealth and/or class privilege committed to the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power”) since 2021, was a young activist in the post 9/11 anti-war, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter movements and joined Resource Generation as a National Organizer and Coordinator of POC Programs in 2015, then became Campaign Director in 2020 before being appointed Executive Director. Yahya also sits on the board of Philadelphia’s social justice foundation, Bread and Roses Community Fund.
Alone, our debts are a burden. Together, they can make us powerful. This is the provocation of debtors’ unions. Indeed, the power of debt is something the wealthy have long wielded. To put it in words often attributed to petroleum industrialist J. Paul Getty “If you owe the bank $100,000, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100 million, you own the bank.” With student, medical, credit card, and housing debts all surging (and drowning households in the process), debtors, in theory, “own the bank.” But in practice, what does it take to organize an effective debtors’ union? Join organizers from the Debt Collective as they talk about household debt, racial justice, and transformative organizing and share information on how we can become part of this potentially powerful movement to combat the obscene level of wealth inequality in our society. With: Frederick Bell, Programs and Operations Manager, Debt Collective; Maddy Clifford, Creative Media Strategist with Debt Collective; René Christian Moya, an organizer with Debt Collective.
March 28th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Panelists
Frederick Bell
Programs and Operations Manager | Debt Collective
Frederick Bell is the Programs and Operations Manager for The Debt Collective, a membership-based union for debtors and their allies seeking to radically transform our economic system. With an academic background in Political Science, Frederick has been an activist for a decade, organizing with, among others, No New Youth Jail Seattle from 2014-2016, then in 2020 co-founding Black Praxis Project (a curriculum-based political education platform created to discuss black radical texts and apply that knowledge to present-day movements). He has organized several campaigns with The Debt Collective since 2021, including influential initiatives aimed at the cancellation of much student debt.
Maddy Clifford
Creative Media Strategist | Debt Collective
Maddy Clifford is an Oakland-based artist and creative media strategist with Debt Collective, the nation’s first union of debtors. Maddy’s creative work focuses on using words, sound and ceremony to disrupt hierarchal paradigms in order to illuminate the power of our interconnected desires for liberation. Her writings, digital media and music cover such topics as prison abolition, Black feminism and economic disobedience in late capitalism.
René Christian Moya
Organizer | Debt Collective
René Christian Moya is: an organizer with the Debt Collective; the coordinator of the Tenant Power Toolkit; and a member of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. Former Campaign Director for the Proposition 21 campaign — a ballot initiative in 2020 to strengthen rent control in California — he has worked extensively on tenant rights, pandemic-era emergency protections, and social housing.
Friday, March 29th
Introduction by Kenny Ausubel, Bioneers Co-Founder and CEO
Most of us would like to live in a society accountable to people and the planet, one in which we exercise genuine agency over our lives and have a real say in the decisions that affect our communities, but the dramatic increase in corporate domination, especially the rise of giant tech companies that wield unprecedented levels of surveillance and control, is radically undermining our democracy and concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands. Stacy Mitchell, who has long been at the forefront of the national movement to rein in excessive corporate power and reinvigorate local self-reliance, is here to tell us that, as powerful as these immense companies and their political allies may seem, they’ve finally met their match. A broad grassroots alliance, together with a new generation of creative government leaders, is bringing long-dormant anti-monopoly laws and strategies back to life. This promising turn of events, Stacy will explain, offers hope for reclaiming our rights and assuring a far more equitable and greener future.
March 29th | 10:08 am to 10:30 am | Zellerbach Hall
Introduced by
Kenny Ausubel
CEO and Co-Founder | Bioneers
Kenny Ausubel, CEO and founder (in 1990) of Bioneers, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, journalist, author and filmmaker. Co-founder and first CEO of the organic seed company, Seeds of Change, his film (and companion book) Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime helped influence national alternative medicine policy. He has edited several books and written four, including, most recently, Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature.
Keynote
Stacy Mitchell
Co-Executive Director | Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Stacy Mitchell, a Maine-based writer, strategist, and policy advocate whose work focuses on dismantling concentrated corporate power and building thriving communities and a healthy democracy, has played a leading role in today’s growing anti-monopoly movement. She is Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), a research and advocacy organization that for five decades has challenged the wisdom of neoliberalism and championed local, community-oriented models, from municipal broadband to distributed solar power, community banks, family farms, and local businesses. Stacy has written for The NY Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, and many other outlets, and is the author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses, and co-author of the influential report: Amazon’s Stranglehold. She has helped build a number of coalitions and win campaigns for policies that dismantle corporate power, level the playing field for independent businesses, and strengthen communities.
3:00 pm: Women in Clean/Green Tech Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Hosted by Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
The urgent need for a shift to clean, sustainable technologies is the most important challenge of our time, probably the most crucial our species has ever faced. In this session some trailblazing women leaders in this domain will share their projects, their thoughts on where we stand in the race to a clean and equitable transition, and the challenges they face in what has for far too long been a male-populated sector. Hosted by Sara Fuentes, President of Smart Waste, and Chairwoman of Women in Cleantech and Sustainability. With: Emily Teitsworth, Executive Director of the Honnold Foundation; Charlotte Michaluk, 17, award-winning young scientist and engineer; Kellie Macpherson, Executive Vice President of Compliance & Risk at Radian Generation; Kirthika Padmanabhan, Co-Pilot at X, the moonshot factory.
March 29th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Panelists
Sara Fuentes
Chairwoman | Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
Sara Eve Fuentes, Chairwoman of Women in Clean Tech and Sustainability, is the founder and President of SmartWaste, a minority women-owned and operated start-up with a focus on Waste Technologies, Waste Systems and Vendor Management for Zero Waste programs with core values of “transparency, circularity, and people." With 10 years of experience in the waste and recycling industry, Sara has become a dynamic leader in abating commercial waste as well as a passionate advocate for women.
Emily Teitsworth
Executive Director | Honnold Foundation
Emily Teitsworth is the Executive Director of the Honnold Foundation, which provides grants to community-based organizations advancing solar energy access for marginalized communities all over the world. A passionate advocate for climate justice with over two decades’ experience leading organizations in the nonprofit and philanthropic fields, with a focus on sustainability, public health, and gender and race equity, Emily’s thought leadership on trust-based philanthropy and community development has been featured broadly at global convenings and in media outlets including Inside Philanthropy and The Guardian.
Charlotte Michaluk – Youth Keynote
Engineer, Scientist and Linguistics Researcher | Acnestis By Wind
Charlotte Lenore Michaluk, 17, is a brilliant young, award-winning, multi-disciplinary engineer, scientist and linguistics researcher, passionate about engineering sustainable solutions. Her development of technology for a hybrid wind and fossil fuel powered cargo ship has been widely recognized. Charlotte, who has been certified in freshwater bioassessment for over a decade (!), has been collecting and analyzing field data working with her state’s EPA to preserve ecologically critical wetlands and wildlife corridors in Central New Jersey. Through her organization, Acnestis By Wind, she has been researching using wind power to clean remote shorelines, developing curricula, and protecting wetlands.
Kellie Macpherson
Executive Vice President of Compliance & Risk | Radian Generation
Kellie Macpherson is the Executive Vice President of Compliance & Risk at Radian Generation (a firm offering professional asset management services to the renewable energy industry) overseeing Radian’s NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation) compliance and managed security services. For over 15 years, she has been a leader in the renewable asset space and has implemented 200+ compliance programs and completed 40+ NERC audits.
Kirthika Padmanabhan
Co-Pilot | X, the moonshot factory
Kirthika Padmanabhan has had a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries (finance, healthcare, technology) on three continents. She currently works at X, the moonshot factory (an Alphabet company) as a Co-pilot for an Early Pipeline Project focused on climate tech. Prior positions include (to name only a few): Lead for Customer Success at Tidal, Program Lead for Adwords Sales Strategy & Support at Google, Analytics Manager for Trust & Safety Operation at YouTube, Chief of Staff for India Operations at Google, etc. Her most recent projects have included an early-stage climate startup focused on circular economy principles, and prior to that on ocean supply chain sustainability. Kirthika is also part of several women@ groups and is involved in philanthropic work in her community.
Saturday, March 30th
Richmond, CA, has been the site of exemplary progressive community organizing and political mobilization these past few years, and it is home to a number of groundbreaking projects, and some exciting new initiatives on the horizon include: a 10-acre farm and resiliency center in North Richmond; California’s First ADA accessible community garden on the Richmond Greenway; innovative approaches to getting youth access into higher education; radically boosted cycling infrastructure; and much more. Come hear from local Richmond activists and leaders as they share stories, best practices, and fresh perspectives on what building a genuinely progressive community looks and feels like. Hosted by Adam Boisvert, Deputy Director and Director of Education Programs at Urban Tilth. With Najari Smith, Executive Director at RICH City Rides; Arleide Santos, Community Organizer at Urban Tilth; Anselmo Ramirez, co-founder, Moving Forward; Chito Floriano, Director of Farm and Gardens at Urban Tilth.
March 30th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm | The Marsh Theater
Panelists
Adam Boisvert
Urban Tilth | Deputy Director
Adam Boisvert has spent the past 13 years growing community and school garden and food production programs with the food justice organization Urban Tilth in Richmond, California. Currently, Adam serves as Urban Tilth’s Deputy Director and as a teacher-of-record for the Urban Agriculture Academy at Richmond High School, a year-round elective course rooted in hands-on, experiential learning.
Najari Smith
Executive Director | RICH City Rides
Najari Smith is the Executive Director of Rich City Rides, a Richmond, CA-based organization he founded in 2012 that uses bike ownership and bicycling as base-building vehicles for healthy civic change, and that has been transitioning into the broader community-focused development through the incubation of new enterprises. For over 10 years, Najari and Rich City Rides have worked to unite communities, transform vacant lots into vibrant parks, make closed storefronts into worker-owned cooperatives and strip away the barriers to using bicycles as viable, healthy green transportation options.
Anselmo Ramirez
Co-Founder | Moving Forward
Anselmo Ramirez, a Richmond, CA native, co-founded Moving Forward (a fiscally sponsored project of Urban Tilth) to uplift and empower the Richmond community through health, academics, and community service. Since 2017, Anselmo and the Moving Forward team have: held an annual 5K fundraiser event, raising over $60,000 for Richmond youth pursuing higher education; hosted 100+ community clean-ups and 100+ health and wellness related events; and supplied thousands of local youth with backpacks, school supplies, and shoes to ensure local youth feel confident and prepared when stepping into their classrooms.
Chito Floriano
Director of Farm and Gardens | Urban Tilth
Marcos “Chito” Floriano, who first worked the land in the corn fields in Pajacuarán, Michoacán, where his father is from, is the Director of Farm and Gardens at Richmond, CA’s renowned grassroots community organization, Urban Tilth. Driven by a desire to feed his community, encourage healthy lifestyles and end generational disease, Chito began his activist trajectory at Richmond’s RYSE Youth Center and also has a background in teaching photo and video production and as a touring musician.
Arleide Santos
Community Organizer | Urban Tilth
Arleide Santos, a passionate educator and community activist from Brazil who has lived in the Bay Area since 2017, is the Greenway Community Organizer for the renowned, influential, multi-faceted Richmond, CA grassroots non-profit, Urban Tilth.
Oil, gas and coal are driving the climate crisis yet have, incredibly, largely been ignored in climate talks and policies. That’s starting to change. Millions of people are coalescing around the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to end the expansion of fossil fuels, phase out existing production, and accelerate a just transition to clean energy and low carbon solutions. Join a panel of civil society, government and Indigenous leaders in a conversation about the growing momentum for a Fossil Fuel Treaty and how this global initiative is shaping the climate conversation, removing industry’s social license and compelling decision-makers to finally take action to end the era of fossil fuels—fast, fair and forever. Hosted by Cara Pike, Senior Communication Advisor to the Fossil Fuel Treaty, founder/Executive Director, Climate Access. With: Osprey Orielle Lake, founder/Executive Director, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network; Eriel Deranger, Founder and Executive Director, Indigenous Climate Action; Michael Brune, Climate and Campaign Strategist; Eduardo Martinez, the Mayor of Richmond; and Bryony Worthington of Worthington and Associates.
March 30th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm | Goldman Theater, Brower Center
Panelists
Cara Pike
Founder and Executive Director | Climate Access
Cara Pike, the founder and Executive Director of Climate Access, is a leading thinker in climate communications with 20+ years’ experience. Her expertise has been sought by nonprofits, academic institutions and government agencies including the City of Boston, the State of Vermont, EPA, FEMA, Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the Union of Concerned Scientists and others. Her studies and toolkits on environmental engagement translate complex issues into actionable strategies that are helping thousands of climate advocates more effectively frame sustainability issues and promote behavior change. Cara is also co-founder and Senior Communication Advisor to Climate Access’s partner organization, Re.Climate.
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger
Indigenous Climate Action | Co-Founder and Executive Director
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation), a leading global figure in Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice activism, is the co-founder and Executive Director of Indigenous Climate Action and is a member of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change. She also sits on a number of boards of notable non-profit organizations (including Bioneers) and activist groups. She has organized divest movements, lobbied government officials, led mass mobilizations against the fossil fuel industry, written extensively for a range of publications and been featured in documentary films (including Elemental).
Michael Brune
Director | Larsen Lam Climate Change Foundation
Michael Brune, a leading national environmentalist for 25+ years (including as Executive Director of the Sierra Club for 12 years and of the Rainforest Action Network before that), has led some of the most effective environmental advocacy initiatives in U.S. history, including the Sierra Club’s massively successful Beyond Coal campaign, which resulted in the retirement of more than two-thirds of U.S. coal-fired power plants. Brune currently directs the Larsen Lam Climate Change Foundation and advises several other NGOs and early-stage clean energy companies, and he also serves on the boards of SOLARCYCLE and Outdoor Afro.
Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder and Executive Director | Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International
Osprey Orielle Lake, the founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. Osprey, who sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Free Non-Proliferation Treaty, is the author of The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.
Join our panel of engineers, artists, and land stewards who will discuss their professional journeys and share their personalized tips and strategies to help guide you in your academic, professional, and personal endeavors. This panel invites the community to listen and learn from Native professionals at different stages in their career path, within STEAM fields. These professionals will reflect on questions like What is burnout? How can I land an internship? What sustains you? What does sustainability look like for Native-led spaces? This conversation will be geared towards youth attendees, who are invited to participate in resource sharing and ask questions. Moderated by Nazshonnii Brown-Almaweri. Featuring brooke smiley and Ras K’Dee.
March 30th | 4:45 pm to 6:00 pm | Berkeley Ballroom, Residence Inn
Panelists
brooke smiley
Artist, Dancer and Somatic Movement Educator
brooke smiley, an Osage earth artist, dancer and somatic movement educator who works with Native and non-Native communities, national parks, and institutions worldwide to enliven public art experiences, seeks to capture the complexity of contemporary Native identity across generations through the collaborative creation of embodied earth markers and multisensory dance performances. Her choreographic and earth works are intended as embodied acts of change that can catalyze a deeper awareness of Indigenous, environmental, and social justice issues.
Ras K’Dee
Editor and Producer | SNAG (Seventh Native American Generation) Magazine
Ras K'dee, a Native California Pomo/African musician, community educator, and lyricist, producer, and lead vocalist/keyboardist for the renowned and widely traveled Bay Area-based live world hip- hop ensemble, Audiopharmacy, is also the founder of The NEST Community Arts Center, (Forestville CA), an Indigenous Led, sustainably-built hub for all artists; and the editor/producer of SNAG (Seventh Native American Generation) Magazine, a Native owned arts and culture magazine.
Nazshonnii Brown-Almaweri
Indigeneity Program Manager | Bioneers
Nazshonnii Brown-Almaweri, Intercultural Conversations Program Manager for Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program, is a West Oakland-based STEAM educator who advocates for exposure and opportunities for historically excluded people, especially Black and Native youth. She has provided many middle and high school students with the space to learn about STEAM at the intersection of ancestral knowledge and their lived experiences and has worked to help Oakland youth thrive in disciplines such as engineering. Nazshonnii is also a farmer connected to the Gill Tract Community Farm in Albany and was previously a STEM tutor, media educator, and youth program assistant for the American Indian Child Resource Center.
