Terry Patten is the author of the groundbreaking book, “A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries,” which makes a clarion call for a new kind of revolution, one that can help reshape America in a positive and beneficial direction in which love and wisdom are paramount.
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Karenna Gore is the director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, an environmental activist, the author of the book “Lighting the Way: 9 Women Who Shaped Modern America,” and the daughter of former Vice-President Al Gore.
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Robert “Skip” Backus is the CEO of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY, the world’s leader in holistic education. Omega Institute, founded by Stefan Rechtschaffen and Elizabeth Lesser in 1977, is a global community that awakens the best in the human spirit and cultivates the extraordinary potential in us all.
Read MoreKen Kitatani, International Policy and Spiritual Activist
Ken is a global political and spiritual activist, working to further the transformation and evolution of humanity, both on a personal and societal scale. In this capacity, Ken has a number of projects that he is involved with, including working closely with the U.N. in helping to shape the U.N.’s Sustainability Development Goals that have gone into effect in the fall of 2015.
Read MoreMichael Ben-Eli, Founder, The Sustainability Laboratory
Michael Ben-Eli is the Founder of The Sustainability Laboratory, the mission of which is “To act as a catalyst for accelerating the transition of world’s society and its economy to a sustainable basis by researching, developing, demonstrating and facilitating adoption of breakthrough sustainability practices, thereby expanding prospects, and producing positive, life-affirming impacts on people and ecosystems in all parts of the world.”
Read MoreMike Bonanno, Filmmaker, The Yes Men
Mike Bonanno is both a filmmaker and leader of an organization called The Yes Men. Their exploits have been chronicled in three documentary films: “The Yes Men”; “The Yes Men Fix the World”; and “The Yes Men Are Revolting.” Mike, with his work with The Yes Men, is a social and political activist, a cultural jammer, and a satirist and comedian.
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