2007

Johnny Lake is a nationally certified and internationally recognized speaker and trainer in programs focused on leadership, diversity, community-building, cross-cultural interactions skills promoting equity and ethics. He has worked as a teacher, writer and storyteller, working and teaching across the US and Canada.

Jim Hinde  - Singer , songwriter, storyteller and Film Maker from Seattle.  A strong voice in the American folk scene…with a powerful repertoire of stories and songs of pride, passion, and life.  Jim is a big man, with a big beard, a big voice, and a social activist. 

In 1988 George Siemon joined a half-dozen neighboring family farmers to form Organic Valley® Family of Farms.

Ezra LeBank is a Eugene native who sold his soul to New York for amazing performing and playwriting abilities. He is still waiting for the amazing performing and playwriting abilities. He has performed socially activist theatre, film and dance in New York, Massachusetts, California, Oregon and on a small cobble-stone street in the Jewish quarter of Prague. He teaches theatre for OCF's incredible youth program Culture Jam!

Roxy Jane Allen hails from the magical land of Florida. She is a local model turned youth minister.  She prefers the Atlantic to the Pacific, digs scars and tattoos, and believed it was her life's ambition to be a rockstar (being a youth minister is a close second). She loves high fives, check yes or no love poems, holding hands, laughing, glitter, high heels, the sunshine, skipping, coloring books, and grape Slurpees.  Her heart is easily won with dirty jokes, sincerity, and intelligence.

Jon Labrousse was the Eugene Poetry Slam champion in 2005, and competed with the Eugene team at the National Poetry Slam in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that same year.  He's published two poetry chapbooks, Making Waves, and, Kiss Your Mother with that Mouth.  Most of his writing, poetry and otherwise, is also published on the web at www.thatjon.com.

drea brown is a supa sista...a poem peddlin soothsay originally from st.louis, she's performed her work from the east coast to the west secretly, she's a california girl at heart, and imagines she is magic... 

drea is in eugene for the love of words, the space to create, and because there's no better place to be insane and broke...simply put, she is a graduate student in the MFA program at U of O.

Dave McAlinden grew up on the Oregon coast. He is an alumni of Southern Oregon University where he studied film.  At 23 years old, Dave has been involved with Slam for 3 years.  He has an affinity for the beat generation as well as the romantics. Ultimately, Dave is just a Star Wars geek who hates bio sketches with a passion and thinks Annie Nealy is the sexiest girl on the planet. He currently lives in Astoria, Oregon where he harbors an ongoing desire to have a monkey as a pet.

Ernest Callenbach is author of the visionary novel Ecotopia – an environmental classic that has been translated into nine languages.  Initially rejected by publishers, Callenbach self-published the book.  It went on to become an underground classic and is now used in classrooms across the world.   Recently, Callenbach has introduced the story of a real-world community movement in Japan that is reminiscent, in its aims and practices, of his Ecotopian society.  The Yamagishi move

Sara Rich is a social worker, doula and family therapist in private practice. She was on the Eugene Human Rights Commission for 6 years the last two years as the Chair. She has served as a Chaplain at Unity of the Valley for two years, was on the Board of Directors for Community Alliance of Lane County, is on the management team for the Oregon Country Fair as a BUM, is a member of Military Families Speak Out and CODEPINK.