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Former Speakers

 

A Selection of Previous Practitioners Gathering Keynotes and Speakers

 

Alicia Garza

Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Anand Giridharadas

Author of "Winners Take All"


Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder in Residence, PolicyLink

Antonique Smith

Grammy Nominated Singer, Actress, Activist and People’s Climate Music Ambassador

Basil Braveheart

Lakota Elder


Bill McKibben

Co-founder and Senior Advisor, 350.org

Colin Le Duc

Partner & Co-CIO, Generation Investment Management

David Simas

The Obama Foundation


Dennis Kucinich

Former Ohio U.S. Congressman, US House of Representatives

Dr. James Hansen

Adjunct Professor, Colombia University's Earth Institute

Dr. Jane Goodall

Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute


Gillian Caldwell

Chief Climate Officer & Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID

Ira Ehrenpreis

Managing Partner, DBL Partners

Jeff Chang

Executive Director, Institute for Diversity in the Arts


john a. powell

Director, Othering & Belonging Institute Professor of Law, African American, & Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley

Kate Wolford

President, McKnight Foundation

Kevin de León

former President pro Tempore of the California State Senate


Lisa Mensah

President & CEO, Opportunity Finance Network & Former White House USDA Under Secretary of Rural Development

Mike Masserman

Head of Global Policy & Strategy, LYFT

Mitch Kapor

Co-Chair, Kapor Center for Social Impact


Naomi Klein

Award-winning Journalist and Author

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II

President, Repairers of the Breach

Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.

President and CEO, Hip Hop Caucus


Rich Duke

Former Associate Director for Energy & Climate at the White House Office of Energy

Sandra A. Urie

Chairman Emeritus, Cambridge Associates

Senator Elizabeth Warren

United States Senate


Stephen Heintz

President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Thomas Hübl

Founder, The Pocket Project

Tom Steyer

Co-Executive Chair, Galvanize Climate Solutions


Valerie Wayne-Rockefeller

Trustee, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

W. Kamau Bell

Host of United Shades of America

Winona LaDuke

Executive Director, Honor the Earth