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Natalia Allen
Natalia Allen is one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative, and one of Utne Reader’s 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.
Called the “Conscientious Fashionista,” Allen founded Design Futurist in 2005. She has developed textiles integrating conductive fibers for DuPont, rain gear free of petroleum-based chemicals for DKNY, and photoluminescent fabrics for athletic wear.
Winner of the Young Scientist/Entrepreneur Partnership Award from the IAP Global Network of Science Academies, she is developing "clean plastic" textiles with scientist Stephen Miller.
Allen is a member of the Consumer Industry Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum and of Social Venture Network. She holds the Generation Award from Women, Inspiration & Enterprise.
A graduate of Parsons The New School For Design, where she won the coveted Designer of the Year Award, Allen has shared her knowledge of green fashion as well as environmentally and socially responsible clothing production at conferences in China, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and at Davos
Paulette Cole
Paulette Cole is CEO & Creative Director of ABC Home.
Brooke Farrell
With a twenty year career in marketing strategy, sales and advertising on behalf of major corporations like Shell Oil, Exxon, Goodyear and Coca-Cola, that way of life merged with her professional life in 2001 when she began working with Waste Management. Brooke was most recently SVP, Brand Director at FKM, a US advertising agency with $250 Million in annual billings. As FKM’s strategic point person, her team’s work was recognized with an Addy for Waste Management’s Think Green campaign and a Mashable Award for Best Environmental Website 2008 for ThinkGreen.com. Brooke has a BS in Economics and Government from the University of Texas. Brooke tweets from conferences and on environmental issues @brookebf.
Almudena Fernandez
Almudena Fernandez is a Spanish model, eco-activist and Oceana supporter. In August 2010, Fernández participated in Oceana’s expedition in the Gulf of Mexico to help spread the word about the plight of the gulf and the dangers of offshore drilling.
She has been featured in fashion magazines including Elle, Vogue, Cosmpolitan, Shape and Harper’s Bazaar, and she has been photographed for Hermès, Givenchy, Cartier, Revlon, Lacoste, Carolina Herrera, among many others.
Fernández is also a passionate environmentalist. She has worked with Greenpeace's campaign to stop the pollution of the seabed, and since March 2008, she has been collaborating with former Vice President Al Gore to spread his message about the environment and sustainability. She is Mr. Gore’s official spokesperson for Spain, and in March of 2010 became the Climate Project Director of Ambassadors in Spain and Latin America, an affiliated organization.
She has also been named goodwill ambassador to the Spain and Portugal incarnation of the Rock in Rio music festival, a festival that spans seven days while producing its own energy through solar and hybrid technologies; Rock in Rio is the biggest music festival in the world.
Cheryl Heller
Cheryl Heller is an American communication strategist, writer, and designer whose work focuses on using communication design to transform organizations into living systems. She has helped Fortune 100, entrepreneurs, social innovators and non-profit organizations in nearly every industry grow, through identity and communication strategy, employee programs, naming, start-up and product launches, interactive design and complete communication programs. She has founded three successful enterprises and is now CEO of Heller Communication Design. Beyond her consulting work, she is best known for teaching and mentoring social innovators and entrepreneurs, bringing design solutions to the developing world with Paul Polack, as a faculty and board Vice Chair of PopTech, and through her accomplishments as a thought-leader on communication and innovation.
Van Jones
Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. Jones is a co-founder of three successful non-profit organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change and Green For All. He is the best-selling author of the definitive book on green jobs: The Green-Collar Economy. He served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009.
Jones is currently a senior fellow at the Center For American Progress. Additionally, he is a senior policy advisor at Green For All.
Jones also holds a joint appointment at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Mary C. Pearl
Dr. Mary C. Pearl, Internationally Known Scientist, Educator and Not-For-Profit Executive, is the Garrison Institute's New CEO
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