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Paul Andres – www.1worldmedicine.com
Currently Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of 1 World Medicine, an Integrative Medicine Clinic in Las Vegas where Paul is responsible for overall business direction, strategic partnerships, and application of technology to their unique approach to healthcare. Paul’s education includes a BS in Mechanical Engineering and post-graduate work in Electrical Engineering (focus on Control Systems / Expert Systems) followed by a Masters in Business Administration (Marketing / Finance).



Liat Cohen – www.globalkinect.com
Liat S. Cohen brings over 9 years of strategic alliances and management experience to her conscious marketing and consulting practice, through which she helps establish evolving agencies in solidifying their key functions within the Green Market. Throughout her career, she has substantially increased unrestricted operating funds, diversified revenue streams, wrote successful grant proposals to private foundations and government agencies for specific programs and planned and executed special events and campaigns. She has also developed, administered and evaluated many different socially responsible causes and initiatives, and created marketing campaigns to bring them into a new audience.


Sonja Christionat Koehler
Sonja’s life work is about making connections – making connections between what happens locally to what happens globally, between vision and action, between people whose synergy creates collective good. She is drawn to projects that are in transition, either starting up or moving to a new level. Her work for socially conscious endeavors has led Sonja from reducing street violence through community engagement in Salinas, CA to organizing the largest peace movement in Chicago, IL during the onset of the Iraq war. She has created innovative, wraparound workforce development programs for youth and adults in Monterey County, CA, introduced secondary school students to careers in environmental protection in Benin, West Africa, and built cross-sector collaborations for improving urban environments throughout the United States. She has furthered her desire to create holistic global health as an advisor for Environmental Cleanup Coalition and the Love of Life Institute in Santa Cruz, CA. She provides leadership coaching, facilitates executive & board work sessions and focus groups, raises funds, designs experiences & events, and acts as a “brain-for-hire” for just about anything that is exciting.



Andy Maeding

I am a true lover of the natural world, since my childhood it was nature that was my most sacred and revered haven. When I attended College my passion for exploring nature resulted in my studying Recreation Resources Management. Following completion of my degree, my professional work was dedicated to sharing my passion of nature with children. It consisted of instructing for the Outward Bound School, Yosemite Institute and Maui Undersea Adventures Inc. on Maui, HI. I am also an American Montessori Society Certified Lower Elementary Teacher. Currently, I work as the Director of Environmental Education for White Rock Montessori School in Dallas, TX and volunteer with the National Audubon Society as a Texas Master Naturalist. Having worked in the Environmental and Outdoor Education for over twenty years, I have a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to share with the Environmental Cleanup Coalition. I look forward to being an essential contributor to the ECC Board, sharing my desire to manifest our mission of educating about the importance of cleaning our watersheds and oceans of man made pollution.


Maximillian Meyers is an experienced Ecological Designer, Permaculture Teacher, Consultant, Commercial Aquaponic System Designer/Installer, Rainwater and Greywater System specialist, Farmer, and the Executive Director of the Mendocino Ecological Learning Center – a nonprofit educational organization and ecological reserve offering green job training and sustainable living skills to the public. Though his work as an instructor of Permaculture and Ecological Design he has successfully trained over a thousand students from more than 40 countries world wide. In addition to the work at MELC, Mr. Meyers provides Ecological design services to the public, organizations, and schools through Osiris Designs and NorCal Aquaponics. He is passionate about all things related to a more just and sustainable world. He has been studying, practicing and teaching Permaculture and Ecological Design for 13 years.


Bonnie Monteleone – www.theplasticocean.com
She works in both the Chemistry Office at UNC Wilmington and in collaboration with chemists examining the plastic samples she has collected from the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. Her thesis title “The Plastic Ocean Project” looks at the compromised environment for the convenience of plastic. Her thesis investigates questions beyond the physical harmful effects on marine life, such as ingestion and entanglement, and explores the implication of plastic in the food chain. Lastly, the research necessitates outreach detailing the three socio/political changes necessary to combat the issue of one time use plastics – education, legislation and motivation. A major thrust of her studies, in collaboration with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, addresses the question “If the gyre in the North Pacific is inundated with plastic, is it happening in other gyres?” She has given numerous lectures about this issue throughout the U.S. Other publications include a video PSA titled “Reduce, Reuse, Reduce” for an EPA contest that received Honorable Mention, a radio interview on NPR, and quoted in the NY Times.


Michael Sammet is a sustainability educator who teaches courses at the Academy of Art University, Dominican University and the California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also founded the Professional Program in Sustainable Design at UC Berkeley Extension. A long time political talk show host in Santa Cruz, Michael has degrees from UC Berkeley and Stanford University.


Katharine Woods is the founder of The Mountain School and has worked at the school since its inception. Katharine, born and raised in New York City, is the owner of the property upon which the school is located. She designed and facilitated the building of the green school building, farm and gardens. Her teaching duties include the Second and Third Grade Program. Katharine obtained her Waldorf teaching credential from The Rudolf Steiner College Teacher Training in San Francisco in 2000, and is credentialed to teach Waldorf Education Kindergarten through 8th grade. She has taught school since 1997 when she began teaching kindergarten at The San Francisco Waldorf School. She has taught Kindergarten for a total of three years at The San Francisco Waldorf School from 1997-1999 and at The Santa Cruz Waldorf School in 2000 and 2002. When Katharine moved back to The Wood River Valley with 7her daughter India in 2000 she started a non-profit organization called The Friends of the Earth Festival Co. which offered after-school programs and seasonal festivals throughout the valley during the years of 2000-2007. She also taught as a substitute at The Santa Cruz Waldorf School throughout the elementary school grades in the years of 2003-2005. Katharine is also a certified perma-culturalist. Katharine’s daughter India attended Waldorf School for her preschool, kindergarten and 1st grade years. She is currently attending Stanford University.