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Virali is the Communications Director at the Center for Environmental Health, where she leads communications and digital strategy to protect vulnerable communities from toxic chemicals. She has led communications and media work on climate change for Rainforest Action Network, consulted for Fortune 500 companies like Walmart and Hewlett Packard, and led backpacking trips for urban youth with Outward Bound. Virali is passionate about connecting human rights and the green movement, venturing with her three-year-old, and making lots of noise with her urban street drumming crew, BoomShake.

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Meet Some Of Our Former Speakers
  • Rachel Pitzel
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  • Lizza Monet
  • Liz Hitchcock
  • Hannah Crum
  • Harriet Shugarman
  • Dr. Anne Marie Fine
  • Carrie Balkcom
  • Meredith Sloane
  • Marina Miller
  • Joel Heath
  • Brian Paulsen
  • Betsy Opyt
  • Virali Modi-Parekh
  • Tshaka Armstrong
  • Sally Ekus
  • Nneka Leiba
  • Margie Kelly
  • Kelly Olexa
  • Haile Thomas
  • Aaronica Cole
  • Breanna Hawkins
  • Lindsay Dahl
  • Mike Schade
  • Gary Hirshberg
  • Robyn O’Brien
  • Anna Lappe
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  • Amy Theiringer
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  • Tara Redfield
  • Karla T. Vasquez
  • George Bryant
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  • Announcing ShiftCon 2019 Media Partners: ESSENCE & Everywhere Agency
    May 9, 2019
  • Past & Present Women Trailblazing The Green Initiative
    March 11, 2019
  • Watch How Shift Happens Instagram Takeover: March 3rd -9th!
    March 1, 2019
  • 5 Tips For An Eco-Friendly Valentine’s Day
    February 4, 2019
  • Hey Volunteers! ShiftCon Needs YOU!
    January 30, 2019
Some Of Our Speakers
  • Lindsay Dahl

    Lindsay Dahl is a seasoned campaigner and coalition builder and has been at the forefront of successful public health and environmental advocacy campaigns for over ten years. Currently Lindsay is the Director of Policy and Partnerships with Beautycounter, a safe skin care company dedicated to disrupting the beauty industry and reforming our out of date cosmetic safety laws. Lindsay helped start and run the nation’s largest campaign working to protect American families called Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. Before rolling up her sleeves in Washington D.C., Lindsay ran successful state level bans on toxic ingredients in consumer products in Minnesota, where they became the first state to ban the toxic chemical BPA.

  • Mike Schade

    Mike Schade spearheads the Mind the Store campaign which aims to work with the nation’s leading retailers on creating comprehensive chemicals policy. For the previous eight years, Mike was the Markets Campaign Coordinator with the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ), a national environmental health organization where he led national campaigns to phase out PVC plastic, phthalates, BPA and dioxin. Prior to CHEJ, he was the Western New York Director of Citizens’ Environmental Coalition. Ethisphere Magazine listed Mike as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics for 2007 and the PVC Campaign received two awards from the Business Ethics Network.

  • Gary Hirshberg

    In 1983, Stonyfield co-founders Samuel Kaymen and Gary Hirshberg were simply trying to help family farms survive, protect the environment, and keep food and food production healthy through their nonprofit organic farming school. Just to keep things running, the duo started putting their farm’s seven cows to work making yogurt. They knew they were making a healthy food grown with care; what they didn’t expect was how much people would love it.

  • Robyn O’Brien

    Robyn O’Brien has been called “food’s Erin Brockovich” by the New York Times and Bloomberg, and her story has inspired millions. Robyn was a financial analyst that covered the food industry. Her life changed when her fourth child had an allergic reaction. 

    Originally from a conservative Texas family, she now lends her analytical skill set, heart and mind to building a better food system and protecting the health of our country. 

  • Anna Lappe

    Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, a renowned advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain and an adviser to funders investing in food system transformation. A recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award, Anna is the co-author or author of three books on food, farming and sustainability and the contributing author to more than a dozen others. Anna’s work has been translated internationally and featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Oprah Magazine, among many other outlets. Named one of TIME magazine’s “eco” Who’s-Who, Anna is the founder or co-founder of three national organizations and currently runs Real Food Media,which brings together leading food and farm organizations to produce powerful communications initiatives to inspire, educate and grow the movement for sustainable food and farming.

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  • Amy Theiringer

    Amy Thieringer is a board-certified Nutrition and Health Coach who created Allergy Release Technique™ (A.R.T.™), an integrative approach and treatment of food allergies. Over the last twelve years, Amy has worked with over three hundred children to conquer their seemingly incurable food allergies—giving them hope where traditional medicine gives up.

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