2007
Kevin Danaher
Dr. Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange (1988), founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (2001), and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center (2004). Kevin received his PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his BA in sociology from Sonoma State University. He is the author and/or editor of 11 books, including his latest, due out in fall 2007 from PoliPoint Press, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots.
dahinda meda
dahinda meda is a powerful advocate for social justice. He has been an activist and innovator for over 5 decades. He started the U.S.’s first all-organic, fair trade coffee company (Cafe Mam) in 1989. He has been involved in organic farming and cooperative businesses since the 60’s. He is Vegmanec co-coordinator at the Oregon Country Fair.
Roxanne Magnuson
Since I discovered there was a choice, I've been dedicated to organic. Ever since I discovered the choice to trade fairly, I've been dedicated to that way of life. I am a member of Equal Exchange, a worker owned co-op dedicated to exemplifying that a fair profit can be made while trading fairly with everyone on the path, from producer to consumer.
Wisdom
Seasunz
Hailing from the windy city of Chicago, Seasunz is a recent addition to the Wisdom vocal crew... and a welcome one. He has toured with Wisdom all of 2006 and makes several appearances on the most recent album, "Growth & Elevation." The song "Next Level" was written when Wisdom & Seasunz first linked in the studio.
Don Wirtshafter
Don Wirtshafter started the Ohio Hempery in 1990. He saw it as a creative solution to the environmental and criminal problems that frequented his Athens, Ohio law office. Don started inventing products and developing companies that produced a wide variety of consumer goods from hemp seeds and fiber. In 1998 the Drug Enforcement Agency began to restrict importation of hemp seeds forcing Don to move his oil pressing operation to Manitoba. This effort has evolved into the world’s leading hemp producer Hemp Oil Canada, Inc., 1-800-BUY-HEMP.
DJ Cocheze
DJ Cocheze was named for a Chiricahua Apache chief, Cocheze started spinning when he was 14 years old. Having opened for acts like the Alkoholiks & Blackalicious at a young age, Cocheze has recently toured extensively as KRS-ONE's DJ. Cocheze is now a recent addition to the Wisdom Creations Band family as well, bringing a crucial element of hip-hop culture to the foreground of the Wisdom sound.
Wavy Gravy
Wavy Gravy, Hugh Romney, who at age 71 has reached official geezerhood, is more active and more effective in the world then he was decades ago. Back then when still known as Hugh Romney he stood on the stage of the original Woodstock concert and announced...." What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!" He was at Woodstock as a member of an entertainment/activist commune known as the Hog Farm.
Spencer Sherman
Spencer Sherman is the co-founder and CEO of Abacus Wealth Partners, a fee-only financial planning firm, and the co-founder and president of Kubera Portfolios.
Sandor Katz
Sandor Katz - Sustainability is Participation. Eating local is more than a consumer experience. It means rebuilding a whole web of relations and demands not only interactions with farmers, but more of us becoming food producers directly involved with the sources of our food: plants, seeds, microbes, animals, earth. Get inspired to reclaim food, power, and dignity.