Mr. Lewis directs Government Affairs and Food and Agriculture Policy for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, a 60-year-old health food store chain which operates 90 stores in fourteen Western and Mid-western states. He also oversees organic integrity, certification and compliance for the chain.

Mr. Lewis is active in several national trade organizations and is a member of the Boulder County, Colorado, Food and Agriculture Policy Council. His focus is on communicating with policy makers at the federal, state and local level using frameworks that are non-confrontational and inclusive.  He has lived for extended periods in Portugal, Haiti, and Dominica, where he developed a keen appreciation for the variables of agriculture within ecological, cultural and economic contexts.

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Alicia Voorhies

Alicia Voorhies, founder of The Soft Landing, LLC, is a Registered Nurse and unapologetic medical research geek. In 2007, she began working with her mom and sisters to educate parents about the dangers of toxic chemicals in everyday products and their effect on growing children. The Soft Landing team specializes childproofing in Kansas City and safe, natural living consultation. Their work has been cited by ABC News, Newsweek, New York Times, USA Today, Fox 4 News, KMBC 9 News, Better Kansas City, The Kansas City Star, National Geographic’s The Green Guide, Dr. Greene, Healthy Child Healthy World and the Environmental Working Group (EWG). You can find Alicia on Facebook, Pinterest, Google + and Twitter.

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Amelia Winslow

Andrea is passionate about fitness, health, wellness and inspiring people to live their best lives. With over 30 years experience in the healthy lifestyle space, she has become recognized as a trusted expert and adviser. She speaks across the country with American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association  and other health conscious and corporate wellness audiences.  She is a best-selling author, “Naked Fitness” (Vanguard Press), fitness DVD personality, personal trainer and considered one of Americas Top Fitness Experts.  She is a fitness pro with the  American Council on Exercise.With over a dozen appearances on the NBC TODAY Show and weekly appearances on NBC Chicago she has gained personal engagement with hundreds of people to lose the weight and change their lives forever.In addition she has been a regular contributor with nationally syndicated Better TV and cited in many media outlets include USA Today, Fitness, Shape, Prevention, Wall Street Journal weekend.

Annelies Zijderveld

Annelies Zijderveld has been working in food as long as she has been employable. From an early stint at a bakery while in high school to serving restaurant patrons during graduate school, the combination of hospitality and nourishing others through good food has made working in food for over a decade, a delight. As a chai-wallah, she has worked in tea and for over 4 years has been a whole grain ambassador and enthusiast, working at Attune Foods, a manufacturer of non-GMO cereals, granolas, organic grahams and probiotic chocolate bars, where she manages the online community for several brands including Erewhon Organic Cereals. Bringing people together over good food gives her great joy. Helping connect bloggers with food they care about puts a bounce in her step.  Follow Erewhon Organic at @erewhonorganic. Follow her personal antics @anneliesz on twitter. [hr]

Annie Urban

Annie has been blogging about parenting, feminism and social change on the PhD in Parenting Blog since May 2008. She is a social, political and consumer advocate on issues of importance to parents, women, children and the earth and regularly uses her blog as a platform to create awareness and to advocate for change. Through her advocacy work, she’s been entangled in numerous online controversies and has learned from experience what to do when people get really upset. Annie lives near Ottawa, Canada with her partner and two children.

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Ashley Koff

Ashley Koff is an internationally-renowned registered dietitian who believes better nutrition is simple and is on a mission to help people achieve their personal health goals by providing simple but highly effective tips and strategies. A self-described “Qualitarian,” Koff emphasizes the value of quality nutritional choices in achieving optimal health and developed tools such as The AKA Qualitarian Nutrition Plan and The AKA Personal Shopper to help people make better quality choices.

Widely sought after for her knowledge and ability to translate nutrition science into practical and motivating messages, Koff regularly appears on The Dr. Oz Show as well as on shows such as The Doctors, The Today Show, Good Morning America and Fox & Friends and twice monthly on Fox DC where she answers viewers questions for her “Ask Ashley Koff RD” segment. She is also frequently featured in and writes articles for national publications, including Dr Oz The Good Life, The New York Times, O!:The Oprah Magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Redbook, and Women’s Health.

A respected industry advisor speaking at conferences like Natural Products Expos East and West, Koff regularly shares nutrition expertise as a keynote speaker, panelist, emcee, and moderator with audiences nationwide. Koff has been recognized by Share- care.com as one of the Top 10 Social Health Makers in Nutrition and by the natural foods industry leader New Hope 360 as one of the leading “50 Natural Influencers” in health and nutrition to follow on Twitter. Koff was also named among the Top 10 Registered Dietitians in the US by Today’s Dietitian Magazine and the Best of LA’s “Nutrition- ist/Dietitians” by CitySearch, three years running.

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Ashley Saunders

Ashley is a former Kindergarten teacher turned stay at home mom in the suburbs of the Nation’s capital. She has always been a passionate person who believes in living a healthy lifestyle. That lifestyle does not need to break the bank either! Ashley is the go to girl for her family, friends, and extended communities who are looking to make an organic, wallet friendly change.

Catch her on her personal blog athttp://www.teachablemommy.com http://twitter.com/irishred02 and http://www.facebook.com/teachablemommy

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Beth Terry

After learning about the devastating effects of plastic pollution on the environment and human health, Oakland accountant Beth Terry began an experiment to see if she could live without buying any new plastic. Since then, she has reduced her plastic waste to less than 2% of the national average. That experiment turned into the popular blog MyPlasticFreeLife.com and new book Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too. A founding member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Terry gives presentations on plastic-free living and why, despite what some critics assert, our personal actions really do make a difference. Her work and life have been profiled in the award-winning film Bag It, as well as Susan Freinkel’s book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story and Captain Charles Moore’s Plastic Ocean.

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Carla Birnberg

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Carrie Kocik

Carrie Kocik is a communications consultant for organic food brands, working daily with bloggers to help bring them inside the industry to learn and discover what’s behind many of today’s better-for-you foods. Carrie knows working with bloggers is a two-way street and believes brands learn and gain just as much from these relationships. Carrie spent the beginning of her career as a business journalist and at PR agencies in New York, learning the communications ropes from some of the biggest brands in a variety of industries. She then worked at a PR agency in Boston where she was able to focus in on food, eventually jumping ship to work full-time for a client, Stonyfield Organic, as Director of Communications. Now as a PR consultant with her own growing business, Carrie is fortunate to be able to pair her passion for better food and better agricultural practices with her love of sharing stories and connecting bloggers with brands that can help make their lives a little better. Sometimes a lot better. She has recently worked with Organic Valley, Kingdom Cheddar, Hope Foods and other delicious brands helping to keep this great big world healthy and happy. 

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Carol Hazen

As Director of Advocacy Resources, Carol coordinates the Rudd Center’s work to educate and inform community organizations about issues relating to food marketing, and develops tools and resources to help identify and implement appropriate strategies for intervention.Prior to joining the Rudd Center, since 2009 Carol served as Deputy Project

Director for Save the Children’s Campaign for Healthy Kids where she was responsible for strategy development and policy activities that supported state-level policy change efforts across the country to address childhood obesity. Prior to this position Carol served as Legislative Assistant to State Senator Gayle Slossberg at the Connecticut General Assembly. Carol has also previously worked for United States Congressman Bruce Morrison and United States Senator Joseph Lieberman, both of Connecticut. Carol has also worked as campaign manager and finance director for state and federal political campaigns.She holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree and a Master of Sciences degree, both in political science, fromSouthern Connecticut State University.Carol is also a Mom to three children. She is an active member of her local PTA and serves on her district’s wellness committee and nutrition and physical activity subcommittee.

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Chako Fairbanks

Chako Fairbanks is co-owner of online farm-to-table grocery store, FarmBox. What started as a small business to help a handful of local farmers has grown to a full-service online grocery store, complete with prepared foods and artisan goods. Now a multi-city online store for local farms and small food businesses to sell their fresh, healthy food direct to customers, Farmbox is changing the way we thing about grocery shopping. Chako is passionate about shifting our eating habits back to eating seasonally and supporting our local agriculture and community. FarmBox has been featured on Wall Street Journal, NBC News, San Francisco Chronicle and more. Find FarmBox on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

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Dana Gunders

Dana Gunders is a Staff Scientist at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) focused on Food and Agriculture. She works on market and policy oriented initiatives to promote sustainability throughout food systems and supply chains. She leads NRDC’s work on reducing food waste and is the author of a widely distributed report “Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill”. She also recently co-authored a report called The Dating Game, revealing how confusing food dates lead to food waste in America. Her work on food waste has been featured by CNN, NBC, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and many other outlets.In addition to working on reducing the amount of wasted food, Dana works on improving food sourcing of individual companies and as part of the Steering Committee for the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops and a participant in the Sustainability Consortium. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

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Dave Murphy

Dave Murphy is the founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now!, a grassroots movement of more than 650,000 American farmers and citizens dedicated to reforming policies relating to food, agriculture and the environment. Murphy has been called “the most crucial and politically savvy actor in the on-going efforts to help move American agriculture into the 21st century” as a result of his “Sustainable Dozen” campaign, which resulted in four candidates being placed in high level positions at the USDA and his efforts to reform food and agriculture under the Obama administration.

In 2006, Murphy moved back to Iowa to help stop a factory farm from being built near his sister’s farm. After seeing the loss of basic democratic rights of rural Iowans, Murphy decided to stay in Iowa to fight for Iowa’s farmers and rural residents and expose the flaws of industrial agriculture to help create a more sustainable future for all Americans.

In 2007, Murphy organized the Food and Family Farm Presidential Summit, where 5 of the 6 Democratic candidates pledged their support to help save family farm agriculture and he filmed then Senator Barack Obama’s now famous promise to Iowa farmers to label genetically engineered foods.

Previously, he has worked as an environmental and food policy lobbyist and political strategist. His writing has appeared in the Nation, the Hill, Huffington Post and the New York Times. Dave is known as the “big dude from Iowa” by friend and foe alike and is a board member of the Iowa Organic Association.

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Dennis Littley

Culinary Instructor and Food Blogger.Chef Dennis can also be found on Google plus where he has become the resident expert for Food Bloggers around the world on how to use G+, and as one of Google’s Top Chefs. Dennis is also the founder of the G+ Food Bloggers Community and Hosts three weekly shows on Google+ “Good Day Google+” A variety type talk show ; “Around the Kitchen Table” A cooking show that is co-hosted with renown kitchen designer Susan Serra; “The Food & Booze Show” Showcasing local restaurants live at their locations which he co-hosts with Mia Voss. You can find Dennis on most social media as @askchefdennis and on Google+ as +Chefdennislittley Dennis is semi-retired and currently lives in the Orlando area with his wife Lisa.

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Desiree Peeples

Desiree Peeples is a mom, on-air personality, reporter, published author and blogger. She is the creator of MommyReporter.com and has a passion for living and sharing the raw vegan lifestyle.

Desiree has worked with many notable companies in online and offline media campaigns, including LogiTech, Proctor and Gamble, AT&T, Disney, PBS KIDS Sprout, The Dial Corporation, and Sky Angel, LLC. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Desiree currently is the head organizer of the Las Vegas Bloggers Meetup Group, a monthly meeting that connects local bloggers and digital media enthusiasts. She has one son, Kadin, who is six years old and an adopted female rat terrier named “Bentley.”

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Emily Martin

Emily Martin is a campaign manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Food team working on antibiotic stewardship in the livestock industry. She resides in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and their 3-year-old son.

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Emily Sandford

Emily is the fitness and plus size fashion blogger behind Authentically Emmie (formerly Skinny Emmie). Known for her transparent voice, she shares the good, bad, and ugly on the road to health, having lost over 110 pounds so far. Plus size fashion also became a blogging focus after sharing ways to find confidence with bodies of all sizes through personal style.

She started blogging after eight years in corporate marketing when she decided to focus on social media consulting full time for fitness and fashion brands. Her story and writing has appeared in national media outlets including Ladies’ Home Journal, Health Magazine, the AP, New York Post, and more.

Emily resides in Lexington, KY with her husband David and pup Lilly.

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Hanna Saltzman

Hanna Saltzman is the national campaign organizer for the Value [the] Meal campaign at Corporate Accountability International. She collaborates with health professionals, advocacy and research organizations, parents, bloggers, athletes, and students nationwide to build the grassroots movement to stop child-targeted fast food marketing. As part of this role, she directs the #MomsNotLovinIt online action component of Value [the] Meal. Before joining the campaign, Hanna worked with Green Corps, the Field School for Environmental Organizing, where she ran several local grassroots campaigns in various places across the country, including campaigns to label GMOs, reform agricultural subsidies, improve public transportation, and strengthen public water systems. Hanna graduated summa cum laude from Williams College in Massachusetts with a degree in anthropology. In her free time, she loves hiking, cooking, creative writing, yoga, spending time with friends & family, and exploring new places. [hr]

Jasmine Jafferali

Jasmine Jafferali, MPH is a Corporate Lifestyle and Wellness Consultant in fitness, wellness, and nutrition. She is the creator of the Snack Smart Solutions app which was created on need that Americans are over snacking by almost 600 calories per day causing many to overeat. She realized that Americans were not eating proportioned snacks that was helping to sustain blood sugars and curb cravings. Each snack is balanced in terms of the amount of protein, fiber and good fats all under 200 calories. The app is available on iTunes, GooglePlay and Amazon apps.

Jasmine is also a seasoned fitness and wellness professional having over 15 years of experience in the industry working a Fortune 100 companies and world class health clubs. Having an undergrad in Exercise Physiology, she is a personal trainer, certified perinatal trainer and group fitness instructor. She speaks on a variety of health and alternative health topics both publicly and professionally and meets with individuals who are looking to make positive lifestyle changes and transform their lives. Jasmine has appeared on WGN, NBC5, ABC7 and The Living Healthy Chicago show for fitness and her gluten free lifestyle.

Jasmine is a firm believer that true healthcare reform begins in the grocery cart. She realizes we all have choices when it comes to eating and how we care for our overall health and wellbeing. It is her mission to empower people to make the right food and health choices by staying away from chemical laden packaged foods and understanding alternative health options for better healing. She wants you to speak up and be heard for a better “well”care system. One that embraces exercise, fresh, quality foods, stress reduction, family time, sleep and one’s spiritual health.

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Lori Alper

Lori Popkewitz Alper is the founder and editor-in-chief of Groovy Green Livin, a site dedicated to sharing simple green living tips and current information on sustainable living. A contributing writer for multiple blogs and websites, Lori speaks, writes and advises on a variety of issues related to creating a greener lifestyle. She also advises a variety of organizations on how to create a social media presence. 

Lori has been featured on ABC World News, Boston News ABC and CBS and featured in the Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Woman’s Day, LA Times, Yahoo! Shine, Care2, Chicago Tribune and Bloomberg News. 

Lori lives in the Greater Boston area with her three sons and her groovy husband. In her free time she can be found practicing yoga, pitching a baseball, running, cycling, skiing, reading, cooking, or trying out a new eco- friendly product.

Connect with Lori and Groovy Green Livin on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+,  Instagram, or LinkedIn.

Margie Kelly

Margie Kelly is the Media Relations Manager for the Breast Cancer Fund and Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.Margie has more than two decades experience in high-profile media, marketing, and brand building for environmental health and human rights organizations. She has been the Communications Director for a number of non-profit organizations including Healthy Child Healthy World, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a coalition of organizations working to overhaul the nation’s toxic chemicals law, and SAFER, a multi-state coalition of environmental health organizations.

Margie lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband and two teenage children.  You can connect with her online: @SafeCosmeticsHQ, @BCF_Media, Facebook.com/SafeCosmetics, and Facebook.com/BreastCancerFund

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Mark McAfee

Mark is the founder and CEO of McAfee Farms and Organic Pastures Dairy Company. He is pre-med trained, a retired Paramedic and a Health Department medical educator. Mark has lectured on Raw Milk production, food safety, and nutrition at Stanford Medical School, Rutgers University, 30 different states and internationally. He is certified in HACCP management from Chapman University and has developed and implemented award winning Food Safety Plans including Raw Milk Risk Analysis & Management Plans (“RAMP”) and the 1997 Odwalla Apple Juice “Field HACCP”

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Melissa Lanz

 Melissa Lanz is a former Internet marketing executive who quit her day job to promote health and happiness as daily habits.Founder of The Fresh 20, an industry leader in healthy meal planning, Melissa and her team reduce the consumption of processed foods at the family table.  The Fresh 20 has introduced their meal plans to over 100,000 families across North America and beyond. At a time in our society when processed foods have become the go to meal in busy households, Melissa created The Fresh 20 to show families and individuals that there is a better alternative that is easier, healthier, and often less expensive.   Melissa has been featured in Prevention, The New York Times, InStyle, USA Today, Family Circle, Working Mother, Parents, and a contributor to Shape Magazine.In the Spring of 2013 Melissa released The Fresh 20 Cookbook (Harper Collins/William Morrow ) and continues to promote nutritional education and healthy cooking through speaking engagements and appearances.

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Mia Voss

Mia Voss is an entrepreneur juggling several great ventures that all have one thing in common: building a stronger community. Mia is well known on Google Plus & YouTube for her Hangout On Air programs:  The Mia Connect Power Chat, a weekly program that consistently brings in a large audience as well as high levels of engagement between guests and attendees. Each week Mia showcases innovators & influencers and showcases their smarts & skills to the world.

The Food & Booze Show is an on location program that highlights different restaurants around the US. Mia and her co-host Chef Dennis interview chefs & restaurant owners on location and sample dishes & drinks. They also take questions from the audience & actively connect restaurants to potential new customers around the world!

Mia’s main focus for The Mia Connect is to provide great programming & connecting her audience to the people & businesses they need to know!

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Paige Wolf

Paige Wolf is a publicist, author, and green living expert who uses her media savvy and personal moxie to promote manageable eco-chic living.

Paige is the owner of Paige Wolf Media and Public Relations, a B Corporation certified eco-friendly PR firm focused on sustainable clientele, and the author of Spit That Out! The Overly Informed Parent’s Guide to Raising Children in the Age of Environmental Guilt. Paige regularly appears on television as a green living expert, and she has been featured in publications including Boho, People.com, The Huffington Post, MSN.com, and Forbes.com. She frequently speaks at green living conferences and expos and has written about green living for several publications. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, two children, and American Hairless Terrier.

Visit www.spitthatoutthebook.com for her blog on making green living practical, manageable, and affordable.

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Pamm Larry

Pamm Larry is the Director of Labelgmos.org, the grassroots group that sparked California’s Prop. 37 in 2012.  She works locally, statewide and nationally with grassroots groups and other nonprofits to continue the fight for GMO labeling and other food sovereignty issues.

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Penelope Jagessar Chaffer

Penelope  is a multi award winning documentary filmmaker, writer, artist and children’s environmental health advocate and  global environmentalist.  Starting her career at the BBC in London, she is the first black, female director to be nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award, earning over 10 awards over the course of her career. A documentary auteur, her films display a singularly unique perspective on the world we live in with The Observer newspaper calling her work “a joy to watch.” Penelope is the creator of Toxic Baby, the documentary that looks at how chemicals in our environment affect the health and development of babies and children, which is being developed as the first ever interactive documentary app. She has been named one of the top 100 Green Online Influencers and is Healthy Child, Healthy World’s “Mom On A Mission 2010.” Penelope’s TED talk with Professor Tyrone Hayes “The Toxic Baby” based  on her film has been viewed over 300,000 times. She is also an author for Toxipedia, writes her own blog and guests on others about living a less toxic life and writes for publications around the world. She is the mother of two and lives in New York City.

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Rachel Sarnoff

Better known as “Mommy Greenest,” Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff is a journalist, consultant, sustainability advocate and former CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World who was editor of Children magazine—before she had three of her own. Rachel was featured in Los Angeles and Lucky magazines and appeared on “The Today Show” and “CNN Headline News,” among others. The author of The Big List of Things That Suck, Rachel also publishes MommyGreenest.com, sharing healthier parenting advice with less judgment, because you shouldn’t have to be a scientist to raise healthy kids. Follow her @RachelLSarnoff and at YouTube.com/RachelSarnoff.

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Sarah Kay Hoffman

Sarah Kay Hoffman is a professional healthy lifestyle blogger at A Gutsy Girl and the founder and (current) CEO of “A Loving Spoon” nut butters. Her early career began in various marketing, sales and communications positions across different industries, most recently with an emphasis on social media optimization, online community building and general marketing. She began A Gutsy Girl in early 2009 as a way to document her journey with food intolerance and Colitis, and in 2012 became a Holistic Health Coach in order to work with women who struggle with the same. In early 2013, A Loving Spoon, LLC was born out of Sarah’s desire to reinvent the everyday snack and dessert. The initial national launch with the first flavor, Honey Vanilla Bourbon Peanut Butter, is expected for March, 2014. When Sarah is not working, she lives for spending time with her new baby girl, Samarah, her husband, Ryan, and their two dogs. Find her on Twitter at @sarahkayhoffman.

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Sara Snow

Sara Snow is a Green Lifestyle Expert, TV Host and Author with a passion for healthy living and the creation of a more sustainable planet. As creator and host of GET FRESH WITH SARA SNOW and LIVING FRESH for the Discovery Networks, host of BIG GREEN LIES for the Fine Living Channel, as well as through her book, SARA SNOW’S FRESH LIVING, Sara shares a message of simple, attainable green living. It’s the same message she, daughter of organic-foods pioneer, Tim Redmond, grew up with. Sara is also a frequent public speaker and media contributor, having been seen on CNN, Good Morning America, The Early Show, The New York Times, Lucky Magazine, and Better Homes and Gardens, among others. Sara works closely with the non-profit groups Healthy Child Healthy World, EWG, The Organic Center and Butler University’s Center for Urban Ecology. Sara lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband and their two daughters. Learn more at www.sarasnow.com

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Sarah Stanley

Sarah Stanley is a wellness educator, endurance athlete, speaker, author, founder of #wellnesschat and wellprint. Passionate about healthy living Sarah lives what she speaks about, practicing an organic, whole foods, plant-based lifestyle that fuels her ultrarunning adventures and endurance training. A former organic farmer on one of the first certified organic farms in the country, her goal today is to empower others to be knowledge about what they put in & on their body so they can live a healthy, disease-preventative and happy life as well! She’s been featured in SELF, SHAPE, Ladies’ Home Journal and Washingtonian.

Connect with Sarah on Twitter (@SarahStanley), G+ (+SarahStanley) and visit SarahStanleyInspired.com to start your wellness journey today!  

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Stacy Malkan

For over a decade, Stacy Malkan has led campaigns to move the market to safer products. She is author of the award-winning book, “Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry” (New Society, 2007) and co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Stacy has been named “one of five visionaries leading the charge to better health,” by Experience Life! Magazine, and “one of seven powerful women in the natural beauty industry,” by NewHope360. Stacy has appeared on Good Morning America, Democracy Now! and in New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and many other media outlets; and in several documentaries including The Human Experiment, Unacceptable Levels and Pink Skies. In 2012, Stacy was media director for the historic California Right to Know ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods. She now works with leading nonprofits on campaigns to move the market to nontoxic products and healthy food. Her website and blog is at www.MovetheMarket.org 

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Stefanie Spear

Stefanie is founder and CEO of EcoWatch, a leading news website reporting on environmental news, green living and sustainable business. EcoWatch also features content from students around the world and renowned environmental and business leaders. She has been publishing environmental news for more than 25 years.

Stefanie is dedicated to publishing cutting-edge news that educates and motivates readers to become engaged in their community, adopt sustainable practices and support strong environmental policy.   She is president of Expedite Renewable Energy, a consultancy company that project manages solar and wind projects, and works on energy policy on the local, state and federal level.

Stefanie chairs the Renewable Energy Committee for Sustainable Cleveland 2019 and is on the advisory board for Lake Erie Waterkeeper and GreenCityBlueLake Institute.

Follow @StefanieSpear

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Stephenie Hendricks

Stephenie Hendricks is communications director for Coming Clean, a Collaborative of 200 NGOs and 100 additional experts on science, health, and policy. She works with reporters to generate stories to raise awareness about ubiquitous chemical exposure, and also works to  support the transition from a fossil fuel economy to renewables. Before working with scientists and health professionals on environmental health she was a journalist for 25 years, producing radio and TV.  She is the author of Divine Destruction: Wise Use, Dominion Theology,  and American Environmental Policy. Melville House 2005.

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Stephanie Moram

I am a tree hugger; I am a plant-based foodie; I am trying my best to make a difference on this planet. To say I am passionate about “all things green” and simply calling my passion environmentalism is an understatement! I want to continue to promote green habits and environmental values, as well as be the voice of change that will help others make their positive contributions to the environment. You can find me collecting trash on the streets or along the water, creating raw treats in the kitchen or simply making a difference over on my site, Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter and Pinterest.

Tamara Rubin

Tamara Rubin is an internationally recognized, award winning* lead-poisoning prevention advocate and documentary filmmaker. She took on the cause of childhood lead-poisoning when her own sons were poisoned by the work of a painting contractor in 2005.Since then Tamara has created a strong web and media presence for the cause of lead-poisoning prevention, in an effort to bring this message to the world: lead poisoning was not “solved” with the 1978 ban on lead in residential paint. She is committed to educating every parent about this wholly preventable environmental illness that causes permanent brain damage in young children yet still today conservatively costs the United States more than $50.9 Billion annually!Through her advocacy work, Tamara has personally helped thousands of families create safer homes and environments for their children.

Tania Reuben

Tania Reuben is a passionate about “scents” education.  Tania is best known as the founder of PureNaturalDiva.com and as the creative force behind Pure Natural Diva Botanicals she’s been called a maverick.   The Pure Natural Diva adventure began in 2009, driven by a passion for helping others to find simple ways to live an eco savvy lifestyle.  In 2012 Tania began to develop beautiful effective organic beauty products  free of synthetic fragrance chemicals under the Pure Natural Diva umbrella.  Tania gets around: She’s been featured on ABC News, CBS NEWS, Fox News, WBZTV, King 5, We Are Austin, and Martha Steward Living Radio. The Botanicals have been featured in Women’s Wear Daily, Fragrantica.com, Ca Fleur Bon, and Just Luxe to name a few.  As a safe scents advocate, Tania has narrowed the focus of her eco savvy passion to focus on chemical & synthetic fragrance toxins that invade every facet of our lives.

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Travis Eliot

Travis Eliot is one of the most talked about, hottest stars in the yoga community! LA Yoga Magazine says that, “He has a style that is dynamic, transforming and full of heart.” Influenced by his global travels, ayurvedic studies and profound passion for music, his classes are physically demanding yet perfectly meditative.

Travis teaches his signature “Holistic Yoga Flow” classes at Santa Monica Power Yoga, The Yoga Collective and Equinox Fitness in Los Angeles and also teaches workshops nationally and internationally. He is the co-creator with Udaya Entertainment of “The Ultimate Yogi,” the groundbreaking DVD program, in addition to numerous other best selling yoga DVDs. He is the CEO of Inner Domain Media, Director of “Holistic Yoga Flow” teacher trainings, and faculty of the acclaimed Kripalu Institute.

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Trina O’Boyle

Trina is a professional green lifestyle writer and founder of O’Boy! Organic. Trina educates others and improve the eating habits of families through her online community and in person by doing cooking classes for parents and kids in the Philadelphia area.

Through her partnerships with Stonyfield (Yo-Getter & Clean Plate Blogger) and Healthy Child Healthy World Trina is able to expand her reach to the masses by sharing with families how living a healthy lifestyle can be inexpensive, easy and fun for everyone. Trina also uses her voice for social good as a national Shot@Life champion and locally with The Kolbe Fund and ConKerr Cancer Foundation.

Connect with Trina through her website and Social Media sites Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+.

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Tshaka Armstrong

Tshaka Armstrong brings an eye, ear and understanding for creating content that grabs viewers, “followers” and fans alike. With 19 years of award winning broadcast, writing/producing, promotions and real world digital engagement experience, Tshaka has unique insight into building a digital presence and messaging that is impactful, empowering and engaging. That insight is further bolstered by working directly with families offline through his non-profit, Digital Shepherds, whose mission is to help parents, children and educators cross the digital divide through digital literacy education.

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Will Allen

Will Allen has many years of involvement in the field of sustainable agriculture. Will has taught anthropology and agriculture at the university level and has also farmed his entire life. He was one of the pioneers of organic farming in California and helped start the certification program through the California Certified Organic Farmers Organization. In 1990, Will founded the Sustainable Cotton Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping cotton growers transition to organic production, and working with cotton companies to encourage them to purchase and use organic cotton in their manufacturing processes. He is known throughout the U.S. and in other parts of the world as an expert on organic cotton. Currently, he serves on the policy and advisory board of the Organic Consumers AssociationWill is a founding board member of Farms Not Arms, an organization dedicated to bringing together people from the farming community to oppose the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2008, Will’s book, The War on Bugs, was published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company in White River Junction, Vermont. He is currently traveling throughout the country, promoting the book and meeting with activists who are anxious to work with him on educating the public about the dangers of the U.S.’s toxic chemical-based agriculture system. The public is becoming increasingly convinced, through efforts such as these, that organic farming is the key to the future health of people, as well as, the environment.

In 2000, Allen made his first trip to India where he spoke about organic cotton at a forum organized by the New Delhi-based Research Foundation for Science Technology & Education, headed by Dr. Vandana Shiva. In 2004, he returned to India for the World Social Forum in Mumbai. Will spoke on workshop panels at the gathering. He participated in a protest of Coke and Pepsi plants that were polluting farmland and water in Kerela. In addition, he had the opportunity to visit numerous farms in Kerela and the Erode District of Tamil Nadu. He has served as consultants to the Armenia Tree Project and traveled to Armenia in 2005 to meet with small farmers interested in converting their operations to organic. Will remains active in food politics.

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Zuri Allen

Zuri Allen Star is an agent for change in social media activism for the good food movement. She is focused on the clean living space assisting organizations and brands with new media marketing, brand management, content creation, social strategies, tribe building, non-profit solutions, creative direction and has become the go-to girl for social media activism. She runs social media and marketing campaigns for a number of organizations, non-profits and brands. Her father Will Allen, who was one of the first certified organic farmers in California, grandfathered Zuri into the organic movement. As an organic farmer’s daughter she naturally has a passion for clean living, social justice and sustainable sourcing. She has been a driving force behind the GMO labeling activity across the US and is an integral part of the California, Washington, Oregon and Vermont campaigns. Just this year Zuri was part of the Vermont Right To Know victory in passing the first no-trigger GMO labeling law. Zuri is now embarking on a new role as a leader in the health and wellness space as she launches her lifestyle project: “I Am Zuri” in early 2015. Aside from her social media, activism and lifestyle work, Zuri is an accomplished singer-songwriter, a mother and an entrepreneur.

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