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Jen Angel
Jen Angel has been a writer and media activist for more than 15 years. She is the co-founder and publisher of Clamor Magazine, an award-winning quarterly magazine which, until it ceased publication in 2006, covered radical culture and politics. In 2002, she was named as one of “30 Under 30 Visionaries who are changing the world” by Utne Reader. She is a founding board member of Allied Media Projects, a non-profit independent media advocacy organization. Jen’s publishing history includes Clamor, publishing the Zine Yearbook, writing her personal zine Fucktooth, and editing MaximumRockNRoll. Her writing has also appeared in magazines such as Punk Planet, Bitch, and In These Times. Currently, her main project is helping independent authors, filmmakers, and artists promote their work through Aid & Abet, a cooperative booking and publicity group. | |  | | Jill Bamburg
is a long-time supporter of the Positive Futures Network and YES! Magazine, having served as a volunteer and board member since our founding in 1996. She is currently the board vice-chair and head of our fundraising committee. Jill Bamburg is a co-founder and Dean Emeritus of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI), where she currently teaches in the area of sustainable business. She is also the author of Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business without Selling Out (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). Adult education is her third career, following previous seven-year stints in community journalism and high tech marketing. She has a BA in English from Washington University, an MBA from Stanford University and is currently enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Washington College of Forest Resources. She lives on Bainbridge Island with her 12–year-old daughter, Kate Gao.
Jill contributes to YES! in the area of business. | |  | | Walden Bello
is executive director of the Bangkok-based research, analysis, and advocacy organization Focus on the Global South. He is the author and co-author of books on the Asian economic and political development, including Dragons In Distress, Asia's Miracle Economies in Crisis and A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Degradation in Modern Thailand. He is the recipient of the 2003 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize. | |  | | Pamela O'Malley Chang
Pam was an editorial fellow at YES! from Sept. 2001-July 2002. After a career in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Sustainable Design, she obtained a Master of Science degree in Traditonal Chinese Medicine and is now a founding partner of Sarana Community Acupuncture in Albany, CA. www.SaranaCommunityAcupuncture.com | |  | | Holly Dressel
is a writer and journalist based in Montreal, Canada, whose work on documentaries for radio and television for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada have won many awards. She is the co-author, with Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, of two best-selling books, From Naked Ape to Super-species and Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet (Greystone Press). She is currently working on a book on the effects of globalization on the public health care system. | |  | | Carol Estes
was managing editor of YES! until a couple of years ago. Carol left to start a video production company with her son and devote more time to her work on criminal justice reform. She is currently a sponsor of the Black Prisoners' Caucus, a 30-year-old organization at a close security prison in Monroe, Washington, where she teaches writing. She has worked as a writer, editor, and teacher of college literature and writing, and has published both fiction and nonfiction in national and regional magazines, including an essay that won the national Sierra Nature Writing Contest. In the summer of 1999 she was an observer for the election campaigns in East Timor. | |  | | Lisa Gale Garrigues
is an award-winning writer and educator whose articles, essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in English and Spanish in a variety of media outlets, including YES!, Pacific News Service, Alternet, Indian Country Today, elatico.com, Pimienta Negra and Campo Grupal. She has lived and traveled extensively in Europe, the US and Latin America. She is interested in cross cultural communication and building global communities. lisagarrigues.blogspot.com | |  | | Van Jones
is the founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC). Headquartered in Oakland, CA, EBC is a national organization that challenges human rights abuses in the U.S. criminal justice system. He also serves on the boards of the Apollo Alliance, Bioneers, Rainforest Action Network, Circle of Life and the Vasconcellos Legacy Project. Van has an extensive background in media and communications. He has worked as a professional journalist, independent publisher, cartoonist, columnist and a national spokesperson. Born in rural west Tennessee in 1968, Van is a 1990 graduate of the University of Tennessee at Martin and a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School. His latest book is The Green Collar Economy. www.greenforall.org | |  | | David Korten
David Korten is president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum, co-chairs the New Economy Working Group, and serves as a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He is an associate of the International Forum on Globalization and a member of the Club of Rome. He holds MBA and PhD degrees from the Stanford Graduate school of Business and is a former faculty member of the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He was previously a Ford Foundation project specialist in Manila and an Asia Regional Advisor on Development Management for the US Agency for International Development. David has authored numerous books, including Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, When Corporations Rule the World, and The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism. He is a regular guest on talk radio and television and a popular speaker at conferences around the world. www.davidkorten.org. | |  | | Frances Moore Lappé
is the author or coauthor of fifteen books including the 1971 three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet. Her most recent work, Democracy’s Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life (www.democracysedge.org) calls Americans to rethink the very meaning of democracy. With her daughter Anna Lappé, Frances leads the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute , a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life.
In 1990, Lappé co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative to help accelerate the spread of democratic innovations. Lappé served as founding editor of the Center’s American News Service. Lappé has received seventeen honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions. In 1987 in Sweden, Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the “Alternative Nobel,” for her “vision and work healing our planet and uplifting humanity. | |  | | Jonathan Rowe
is the director of the Tomales Bay Institute, which aims to revive the concept of the commons in American life and debate. He is a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly and a former staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor, where he still contributes columns. He has worked for Ralph Nader and has served on U.S. House and Senate staffs, and on the staff of the D.C. City Council. He contributes regularly to several publications, and hosts a public affairs show on KWMR-FM in West Marin County, California. See Jonathan's blog at Onthecommons.org. | |  |
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