Shannon Biggs directs the Community Rights organizing program at Global Exchange, assisting communities confronted by corporate (and State) harms to organize in a new way—by passing cutting edge laws that place their rights above the claimed “rights” of corporations (also called rights-based organizing). She is the co-author of the book Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots (Polipoint Press, Fall 2007). She is also a national lecturer of Democracy Schools, which teach this new organizing model.
Previously, she was a senior staffer and editor at the International Forum on Globalization, and a lecturer of International Relations at San Francisco State University. She holds a Masters Degree from the London School of Economics (LSE): Economics/Empire & Post Colonialism.
Contact: shannon@globalexchange.org
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Carleen Pickard is the Associate Director with Global Exchange, based in San Francisco, CA. Global Exchange is a human rights organization which values the rights of workers and the health of the planet; prioritizes international collaboration as central to ensuring peace; and aims to create a local, green economy designed to embrace the diversity of our communities.
She holds a MA in Anthropology and Development from the University of Sussex, UK, and has worked in social justice organizations in London, UK, Chiapas, Mexico, Vancouver BC and Ottawa ON prior to moving to San Francisco in 2010.
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Reede Stockton manages the Campaign for Climate Equity at Global Exchange.
Reede began working with Global Exchange in the Summer of 2007 in the Reality Tours department and in early 2008 became Online Activism Manager. He began developing what would eventually become the Campaign for Climate Equity in mid-2008 and, with lots of creative and strategic guidance from GX management, staff and Board, officially launched the campaign in June 2009.
Global Exchange's Campaign for Climate Equity believes that the only path to a sustainable world is through Climate Justice. Climate Justice requires a more equitable distribution of wealth and power between the Global North and Global South and within individual nations both North and South. GX's Campaign for Climate Equity is committed to building awareness of the strong linkage between wealth and climate disaster, and to creating a more just, sustainable and equitable world.
A Vietnam era conscientious objector, Reede also does volunteer work for No More Deaths , a Tucson-based humanitarian organization working to prevent migrant deaths along the Arizona-Mexico border; and for Mobilization for Climate Justice , building street heat for a just and sustainable world.
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Antonia Juhasz is the director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights organization. The Chevron Program links communities across the United States and the world to expose the true cost of Chevron and reign in the entire oil industry. Juhasz is the author of The Tyranny of Oil: the World's Most Powerful Industry--and What We Must Do To Stop It (HarperCollins 2008) and The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time (HarperCollins 2006). She is the editor and lead author of "The True Cost of Chevron: An Alternative Annual Report," May 2009. An award winning writer, her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Petroleum Review Magazine, Washington Post, The Daily Mirror - Zimbabwe, The Star – Johannesburg, Alternet.org, and The Huffington Post. A frequent media commentator, Juhasz was featured in the CNBC documentary, "The Hunt for Black Gold," and has appeared on numerous shows, including, Kudlow & Company, The Business Hour with Neil P. Cavuto, Hannity & Colmes, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, The Diane Rehm Show, Talk of the Nation, To The Point, Marketplace, Bloomberg Radio News, Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, Air America, and Pacifica radio, among many others. She is a leading oil industry expert, best known for her work on the Iraq Oil Law, including the March 2007 New York Times Op Ed, "Whose Oil Is It, Anyway." She is a policy analyst, author and activist. She is on the National Advisory Board of Iraq Veterans Against the War, an Associate Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies, and a Senior Policy Analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus. She previously worked as the Project Director at the International Forum on Globalization and has served as a Legislative Assistant to two United States Members of Congress. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University and an Bachelors Degree in Public Policy from Brown University.
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