Speakers

Anna Pinto
Founded CORE in 1987 and is now Secretary and Programme Director of CORE (Centre for Organisation, Research and Education), an indigenous peoples' policy research and advocacy organisation based in the North East of India; active member of the Indian Women's Movement for over two decades; worked with indigenous and tribal people in various parts of India on gender, violence/conflict, and land related issues for over two decades; first really big involvement with Indigenous Peoples issues was on dams and evictions, assessing non-monetary incomes for compensation and rehabilitation in 1986-88
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Raul Quinones-Rosado
In facing society's serious issues, many people intently work for community empowerment, social and economic justice, and institutional change, while others focus their attention more on personal growth, loving relationships and spirtiual development. Some believe change happens from the inside out; others are convinced we will be happier only when external conditions imporve and justice prevails for all. All of us, undoubtedly, aspire to a better life and a better world.
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Malik Rahim
Malik Rahim, born and raised in New Orleans' Algiers neighborhood, has worked as an organizer for decades around housing and prison issues. During Hurricane Katrina, Malik stayed to assist the community and has been speaking out about racism and the failures of government exposed by the Katrina disaster.
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Ocean Robbins
Ocean Robbins is the Founder and Director of YES! "Helping Visionary Young Leaders Build A Better World" Ocean organized a peace rally in his elementary school at the age of seven. He ran his first marathon shortly after moving to California at the age of 10.
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Josh Ruebner
Josh Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a national coalition of nearly 300 organizations working to change U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine to support human rights, international law, and equality. Josh is a former Analyst in Middle East Affairs for Congressional Research Service, a federal government agency providing Members of Congress with policy analysis.
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Enrique Salmón
Enrique Salmón (pronounced sahl-móhn), is a Rarámuri (Tarahumara). He feels indigenous cultural concepts of the natural world are only part of a complex and sophisticated understanding of landscapes and biocultural diversity, and he has dedicated his studies to Ethnobiology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in order to better understand his own and other cultural perceptions of culture, landscapes, and place.
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Hector Sanchez
Hector has toured with Carleen Pickard and Manuel Perez Rocha, Hector Sánchez is the Policy Education Coordinator for Global Exchange's Mexico Program. He represents the program in Washington, D.C., where he coordinates efforts to inform and organize legislators and key organizations in support of new priorities on trade and immigration. Hector has over 10 years of policy, research and community organizing experience in the education, government, and non-profit sectors. His commentaries on Mexican politics were frequently published in Mexico before he moved to Washington six years ago.
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Renee Maria Saucedo
Renee Maria Saucedo is a vocal advocate for immigrant rights in California. Since 1991 she has worked with La Raza Centro Legal as an employment attorney and a youth law attorney. She also advocates for progressive policies in the educational and juvenile justice systems.
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Dave Snyder
Dave Snyder is a long-time organizer and advocate for socially just transportation and land-use policies. Currently, he serves as Transportation Policy Director for San Francisco Planning + Urban Research (SPUR).
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Gillian Sorensen
Gillian Martin Sorensen, formerly United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for External Relations, now Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation, is a national advocate on matters related to the United Nations and the United States-United Nations relationship, addressing audiences as diverse as Rotary International and the Air Force Academy; university students and faculty; Members and staff of Congress; journalists and leaders of civil society.
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