John Hofmeister

founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy. Former CEO of Shell Oil Corp.

Jeffrey Hollender

leading authority on corporate responsibility, sustainability and social equity.

Marc Bousquet

Professor of English at Emory University

Sandra Praeger

Kansas Commissioner of Insurance

Edward Wolff

Professor of Economics at New York University

Daniel Wildcat

Professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and writer on indigenous knowledge, technology, environment, and education.

Russ Feingold

Former senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United

Ali Noorani

Executive director, National Immigration Forum

Karen Countryman-Roswurm

Founder at the Anti-Sexual Exploitation Roundtable for Community Action

Libuse Binder

Author, How to Make A Difference in your 20’s

Nancy Jackson

Executive Director of the Land Institute’s Climate and Energy Project

Simon Dang

Former child slave from the Sudan

David Hursh

Professor of Education at University of Rochester

Paula Allen

Photographer and “Activist with a camera”

Robert Egger

Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen

Loretta Ross

National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective

Larry Schweiger

Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation

Thomas Frank

Author of the book, “What’s the Matter With Kansas?”

David Mindich

Chair of the Journalism Department at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont and author of “Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Tune Out the News”

Rink Dickinson

Co-founder and Co-executive director of Equal Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts

David Eisenhower

Director of the Institute for Public Service Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Patricia Williams

Author/Law Professor/Cultural Commentator

Dr. Frances Fox Piven

Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York

Jack Duvall

Founding Director and President of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict and Executive Producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS series “A Force More Powerful”

Paul Rogat Loeb

Author of Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time and Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus

Phyllis Bennis

Fellow and Director of the New Internationalism Program of the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. and Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amersterdam

Jeffrey Hollender

President and Corporate Responsibility Officer of Seventh Generation, the Leading Brand of Natural Household Products in the United States

Stephen Douglas

Retired Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Son of Lou and Mary Douglas

Dr. William F. Schulz

Executive Director of Amnesty International, USA and former president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Milo Mumgaard

Executive Director/ Attorney, Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest and an Inaugural winner of the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award

Dr. Cornelia Butler Flora

Director, North Central Regional Center for Rural development and Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Sociology, Iowa State University

Sister Helen Prejean

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and Author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S.

Norman Solomon

Syndicated Columnist and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Ali A. Mazrui

Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large in the Humanities and Development Studies at the University of Jos in Nigeria

Juliette Beck

Policy Analyst at Global Exchange, San Francisco

Carl Rosen

President, District 11, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Chicago, IL

Olga Idriss Davis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Women’s Studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University

Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine and Co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program

Father Roy Bourgeois

Founder, School of Americas Watch

James K. Galbraith

Professor of Public Affairs and Government, University of Texas at Austin

Eugenie C. Scott

Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education I

Laura A. Cecere, M.S.W., J.D.

Founder and Director of China Seas Adoption Agency

Noam Chomsky

Preeminent Linguist & Political Commentator

Molly Marshall

Professor of Theology, Women’s Religious Advocate

Barney Frank

Democratic Congressman, 4th District Massachusetts

Ellen Wartella

University of Texas at Austin

Howard Zinn

Preeminent Historian

Barbara Trent

Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary 1993

James Howard Kunstler

Author

Rhoda H. Karpatkin

President, Consumer’s Union

Malcolm C. Young

Executive Director, the Sentencing Project

Cynthia Price Cohen

Executive Director, Childrights International Research Institute

Timothy E. Quill

Associate Chief of Medicine at The Genesee Hospital

Morris Dees

Civil Rights Lawyer and Co-Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center

Dr. Michael Apple

John Bascom Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Edward Luck

President Emeritus and Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Association of the USA

Dr. M. Jocelyn Elders

Former United States Surgeon General

Werner Fornos

Director, World Population Institute

Jack Weatherford

Cultural Anthropologist