Speakers

Laurie Guevara-Stone
Laurie Guevara-Stone is the international program manager at Solar Energy International. She has a Master's Degree in Energy Engineering from the University of Colorado. Laurie has done extensive work in Latin America with numerous development organizations, and over the past 20 years has conducted projects in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico and Ecuador implementing photovoltaics, solar cooking and water distillation.
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Marisa Handler
Marisa Handler--writer, activist, speaker and singer-songwriter--is the author of Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist, which won a 2008 Nautilus Gold Award for world-changing books. Marisa has worked as an organizer in the global justice and peace movements, and she speaks and sings about visionary social change all over the country.
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John Harrington
Making money and supporting social justice are not mutually exclusive. With personal charisma and energy, John Harrington makes socially responsible investing fascinating and immediate.
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Zakiya Harris
Zakiya Harris is a California native, who has been working as an artist, educator and activist for the past 10 years. She received her B.A. in Political Science and History from Rutgers University and attended New College of Law in San Francisco before leaving to pursue her life long passion of teaching.
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Mary Anne Hitt
Mary Anne Hitt is the executive director of Appalachian Voices, a nonprofit organization that brings people together to solve the environmental problems having the greatest impact on the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. The organization works with communities across Appalachia to tackle two major causes of climate change: mountaintop removal coal mining and the construction of new coal-fired power plants.
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Mike Hudema
Mike Hudema is a long time member of the Canadian activist scene. He was part of a motley band of activists that took to the streets of Quebec City for the FTAA protests, slept on the steps of the legislature to protest rising tuition rates when he was President of the University of Alberta Students' Union, and occupied Anne McLellan's office to defeat Canada's anti-terrorism legislation.
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No More Deaths: Immigration Speaker
Driven by economic inequality, thwarted by ill-conceived US border policy, and the harsh conditions of the Sonoran Desert, more than 2000 men, women, and children have died trying to cross the Mexican border into the United States since 1998. Most of the deaths occurred in the brutal heat of the summer months.
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Deborah James
Deborah James is the is the Director of International Programs of Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, an independent, nonpartisan think tank that was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives.
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Antonia Juhasz
Antonia Juhasz is author of Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill [Wiley Publishers, April 2011], a searing look at the human face of BP's disaster in the Gulf. Naomi Klein has said of Juhasz's book: "These remarkable stories--of loss, heroism and culpability-- are a vivid reminder that this catastrophe will be with us for decades." And Professor Robert Bea of the Deepwater Horizon Study Group said "Black Tide is extremely well researched and written.
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Brandon Knight
Brandon Knight is the Mid-West Independence from Oil Campus Organizer at Global Exchange. Brandon has studied Transportation Economics and Environmental Economics and Policy at Michigan State University. He has worked in the energy efficiency and renewable energy field for over 2 years with non-profits and with MSU Campus Office of Sustainability. Brandon is now using his experience to help students organize to improve the fuel-efficiency of university vehicles and to develop transportation alternatives as part of the Campus Climate Challenge.
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