Alexandra Spunt is the co-author of No More Dirty Looks: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics. Because most of the products we use every day can expose us to thousands of chemicals readily absorbed through our skin, No More Dirty Looks helps you detox your beauty regimen so you can be beautiful inside and out. The book contains useful information including the most dangerous ingredients in widely-used brands and how they’re still not regulated; the 100 best clean makeup, hair care and skin care products; and cheap and simple do-it-yourself beauty recipes. Alexandra started her career in fashion, managing models for top agency, Next. Later she joined the branding team at American Apparel, where she helped develop their advertising campaign and was a company spokesperson. She is now a natural beauty expert, freelance journalist and marketing consultant.

Dorka Keehn

Website: www.ecoamazons.com

Affiliation: Eco Amazon

Dorka Keehn is a journalist and activist. A leader in the women’s movement, she is a founder of Emerge America, the premier training program for Democratic women planning to run for political office; a founding board member of Ignite, an organization that provides political and civic education to high school and college women; and a Commissioner on the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. Dorka also hosts the arts and culture Internet and raAdio program, "Keehn on Art," and has produced several programs for television including the two-time Emmy-award-winning documentary, Of Civil Wrongs

and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story.

Sarah Engelhart, bakery manager for over four years, at local

Cafe Gratitude, is deeply passionate about the healing qualities

of food. A student of life, she brings sweetness and gratitude to

all that she does. Café Gratitude is a collection of 100% organic vegan restaurants specializing in gourmet raw and cooked

cuisines, whose produce comes from their very own farm in Vacaville, CA (Be Love Farm). Café Gratitude has created a menu that promotes consciousness and sustainability for our well-being

and health as well as the planet and all of its inhabitants. Cafe staff practice business through a

view of love called Sacred Commerce, where we celebrate mistakes, commit to strong

communication, and give gratitude for our lives.

Dr. Kevin Danaher

Website: www.globalexchange.org

Described by The New York Times as the "Paul Revere of globalization's woes,” in 1988, Dr. Kevin Danaher co-founded

Global Exchange, an international human rights organization

based  in San Francisco. Global Exchange educates the public

 through diverse mechanisms: Fair Trade stores in 5 cities, Reality Tours, publishing and events

such as the Green Festivals, of which he is a Founder and an Executive Producer. Additionally, Dr. Danaher is the Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center -- a real estate plan for creating a permanent Green Festival. The Global Citizen Center is planned to be a downtown San Francisco building that will unite the local Green Economy in a mixed-use, multi-tenant facility featuring non-profit offices, green businesses, multi-cultural event space and housing for school teachers. He is

the creator of GreenGuardians.ning.com, a green career website with 200 green training videos

and other green job resources.

Mary Cordaro

Mary Cordaro, president and founder of Mary Cordaro Inc, is a healthy building consultant and Certified Bau-Biologist. Since

1989, Mary has been helping parents concerned about or

sensitive to conventional building and interior materials and systems. Her collaborative approach is unique, synthesizing the fields of German Bau-Biologie and American building science. Together with a group of world class, highly specialized experts from

the U.S., Germany and Switzerland, Mary and her team consult on all aspects of new construction, remodeling and energy efficiency, as well as testing and remediating existing buildings. She

consults to and teaches homeowners, architects, interior designers, contractors and medical

doctors around the country.

Janine Christiano

Janine Christiano is the founder of the Arroyo Time Bank

based in the neighborhoods of Pasadena, Altadena, Eagle

Rock, Highland Park and Northeast Los Angeles. Through the

Arroyo Time Bank, she helped launch the Altadena Urban

Farmer’s Market to promote a local and sustainable food

economy. She is also developing the California Federation of Time Banks, a regional information

hub and network for Time Banks in California. Time Banking involves an exchange of services

 without using the cash economy. For every hour spent doing something for someone else,

you earn a Time Dollar that can be used for having someone do something for you. Janine is

also Program Coordinator at the Armory Center for the Arts and a proud resident of Pasadena.

Medea Benjamin

Website: www.codepink.org

Affiliation: Global Exchange and CODEPINK

Medea Benjamin is a cofounder of both the international

human rights organization Global Exchange and CODEPINK.

 Described as "one of America’s most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday,

and called "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times,

Medea has distinguished herself as an eloquent and energetic figure in the progressive movement.

In 2005 she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide.

In 2010 she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

In 2000, she was a Green Party candidate for the California Senate. A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, Benjamin is the author/

editor of eight books.