Kendra Klein

Senior Staff Scientist, Friends of the Earth

Kendra is a writer, researcher, and advocate with expertise in food and agriculture, sustainability and public health. She is currently Senior Staff Scientist at Friends of the Earth where she leads work on pesticides and the harms of industrial agriculture as well as organic and agroecological solutions. She has worked on environmental health campaigns at…
Amy Ziff
Amy Ziff is founder and executive director of MADE SAFE®, America’s first nontoxic certification verifying that everyday household products, ranging from baby to beauty and furniture to fashion items, are made with safe ingredients not known to harm human health or ecosystems. The goal is to use the marketplace to bring about change in order…
Kate Jakubas
Kate Jakubas is the founder of Meliora Cleaning Products, Certified B Corp and a people- and planet-friendly home cleaning products brand based in Chicago. Meliora is a People-Planet-Profit focused business with certifications from MADESAFE to document commitment to ingredient screening and integrity. Kate holds degrees in Materials Science Engineering from the University of Illinois at…
Jen Auerbach

Clary Collection

Jen Auerbach is Co Founder of Clary Collection. Clary Collection is a family of small batch, hand blended, 100% organic skin care products useful for the entire family. Clary was born out of friendship and the connection her and business partner Adriel found during their pregnancy and births of their first children – two souls…
Allyson Owens
Allyson Owens is the founder of Pleni Naturals, a Colorado based skincare brand that focuses on the skin-nutritious benefits of fruit and vegetable ingredients. All Pleni Naturals products are dermatologist tested and certified Vegan, Cruelty-Free an Made Safe®.  Allyson is a former aesthetician with a professional background in product education and skin care product development. The…
Sophia Choi

WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News Anchor

Sophia Choi anchors Channel 2 Action News Saturday and Sunday AM and is a general assignment reporter for Channel 2 Action News. Prior to joining WSB-TV, Choi worked as  the 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. anchor at KVBC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas.  While there, she won two Electronic Media Awards for her work. Before moving to Las Vegas, Choi worked as the…
Alice Rolls

President and CEO of Georgia Organics

Alice Rolls has devoted her entire professional career to the environment and natural world, working for 34 years in the nonprofit arena, lending her expertise to the development of three organizations.  Alice is currently the President and CEO of Georgia Organics, a nonprofit organization working to connect organic food from Georgia farms to Georgia families. …

Jennifer Taylor, Ph.D

Lola's Organic Farm

Organic farmer. Advocate for small farmers, organic farmers, organic farming systems and participatory capacity building for black indigenous farmers and farmers of color. Faculty at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
Boyd Baker

Host, Good Gracious Show

Boyd Baker is a podcast host, family man, food enthusiast, freelance writer, community connector, and arts lover. With his Good Gracious Show he spotlights music, arts, and changemakers in the South through a live show, as well as a semi-weekly podcast. Food, and sustainable foodways, are of particular interest as he's just one generation off…

Gretchen Lee Salter

Strategic Advisor, Safer States

Gretchen Salter has spent over 15 years as an organizer, activist and advocate for progressive change in America. A veteran of electoral politics, Gretchen joined the environmental health movement as an advocate for safer chemical policies in California. She has led campaigns to eliminate phthalates and BPA from children’s products and created programs in California…