Featured Speakers
(Organization Funding Specific Speakers are in Parentheses )

Paul Hawken (EC)
Paul Hawken is a business leader, environmentalist, and author. He is considered one of the leading architects and proponents of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. He has founded several companies, and has written such best-selling books as The Ecology of Commerce and Growing a Business. The latter became the basis of a PBS series that has aired in 115 countries. He helped found The Natural Step in the United States and internationally, and advises many major companies on sustainability issues.
Natural Capitalism
The Natural Step

Chol Soon Rhie (CEB)
Chol Soon Rhie has organized one of the world's first women's unions with textile workers in Korea. She is the Director of the Korean Women Workers Associations United, a federation of regional women's working associations working to resolve various employment-related problems facing working women today, including employment discrimination, employment security, underemployment, and child care.
Working Women's Network

Danny Kennedy (CEB)
Since helping to found Project Underground in 1996, Danny Kennedy has been the Director of Project Underground's efforts to work domestically with Native American communities and indigenous communities abroad that are threatened by mining and oil industries. He was recruited to environmental organizing when he was twelve years old, to help stop the construction of the Franklin Dam in Australia. As father of a twelve month old, Danny Kennedy has stepped down from his position as Director to spend more time with his child… but don't expect him to be out of the action for long!
Project Underground

Kevin Danaher (CEB)
Kevin Danaher is co-founder and Director of Public Education for Global Exchange, a non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people to people ties around the world. Dr. Danaher is a prolific writer on the subjects of globalization and its impact in the US and abroad, the policies of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, world hunger, agricultural systems, and the global impact of US trade policies.
Global Exchange

Ignacio Ibarra (ASSG)
Ignacio Ibarra is a leading figure in an organizing effort initiated by Sin Fronteras called the Border Agricultural Workers Project (BWAP), a farm worker center, in El Paso, Texas. The center is located in South El Paso, in the heart of the border movement, and operates as a multipurpose support facility for border agricultural workers. The farm workers' center has served to renew the hope of a better life for the chile pickers and for the workers in general. Mr. Ibarra and BWAP are committed to improving the lives of farm workers by developing and implementing long-term solutions to the economic and social problems facing their community.
Border Agricultural Workers Project

Njoki Njoroge Njehu (CEB)
Njoki Njoroge Njehu is the Executive Director of the Washington, D.C.-based coalition 50 Years Is Enough, a network of over 200 NGOs and faith-based groups dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This organization's goals include reducing the power and influence of the IMF and the World Bank in the communities of the Global South through debt cancellation, an end to structural adjustment programs, and political freedom for communities of the Global South to make their own decisions and set their own priorities.
50 Years Is Enough

Raquel Sancho (BRAG)
Raquel Sancho is the Program Director at the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health (SCCOSH), a non-profit, community-based organization empowering immigrant workers in the Silicon Valley. The Center supports the workers as they organize for economic justice, and humane working conditions. Ms. Sancho has successfully developed an innovative leadership training curriculum for multi-ethnic immigrant women workers called the Working Women's Leadership Project or "WE LeaP!".


Amy Goodman (SHOC)
Amy Goodman is host of Pacifica Radio's nationally syndicated daily newsmagazine Democracy Now!. Since its inception 5 years ago, Democracy Now! has been a leading national source for incisive policy analysis. Ms. Goodman is currently struggling to maintain the reporting freedom of Democracy Now! as interests threatened by the show's honesty attempt to limit its editorial freedom. Amy Goodman is widely acclaimed for her honest and intelligent reporting. Her efforts to maintain the integrity of Democracy Now! are being supported by loyal listeners all across the US.
Democracy Now!

Julie Davids (SHOC)
Julie Davids is a longtime member of ACT UP Philadelphia, the largest and most diverse grassroots AIDS activist group in the US. In the past two years, ACT UP and the Health GAP Coalition have forced the US government, multinational pharmaceutical companies, and multilateral organizations to change or cease trade practices that block access to AIDS treatments and tools. As anti-globalization activists, HealthGAP has focused on targeting the US government and US-based corporations for their role in fueling the AIDS pandemic.
ACT UP Philadelphia

Carlos Zorrilla (Sinapu)
Carlos Zorrilla was born in Cuba, and is a 25 year resident of Ecuador--where he started the Organization for the Defense and Conservation of Intag, (Decoin), a grassroots group comprised of farmers, peasants and priests. In addition to leading the Inspection Panel process against the World Bank and Mitsubishi mining project, Carlos has managed Intag's cloud forest reserve since 1979. He is the co-founder of three environmental organizations. In addition, Carlos is the main author of the recently approved Cotacachi Ecological Ordinances that restrict land use by transnational corporations and support community-centered and ecologically sustainable development.
Decoin

Micheal Morrill (WSG)
Michael Morrill is the executive director of the Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network and the state coordinator of the Pennsylvania Fair Trade Campaign. Mr. Morrill served as the lead organizer for Unity 2000, the march and rally held on the eve of the Republican Convention in Philadelphia on July 30, 2000. Morrill has represented working people's interests in testimony before the U.S. Senate and numerous state legislative committees across the country. He is currently concentrating his efforts on public education regarding the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network

Orrin Williams (WSG)
As manager of the AIDS Research Alliance, Mr. Williams has committed himself to overseeing the health care needs of low-income HIV infected patients. His commitment to the community only begins here, however, as he immerses himself in environmental issues and projects in and around the Chicago area. Currently, Mr. Williams is working on the Center for Urban Transformation, which is geared towards creating ecologically sustainable communities and economic development projects in communities of color.
AIDS Research Alliance

Ward Churchill (BRAG)
Ward Churchill is co-director of the American Indian Movement of Colorado, Vice Chairperson of the American Anti-Defamation Council, and a National Spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee. An associate professor of American Indian Studies and Communications at the University of Colorado/Boulder, Churchill serves as Associate Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. His titles include Indian Are Us, Fantasies of the Master Race, and Struggle for the Land.
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History, Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies, and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has published three books on the Yaqui Indians of northern Mexico and Arizona (one in Spanish) and numerous scholarly articles on her current research on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean, and written on the politics of multiculturalism. She is founder of the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute.
Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute

Irungu Houghton
Irungu Houghton is the Policy Advisor and executive of the newly established (ActionAidUSA). Coming to the US from his home country Kenya, Irungu worked with ActionAid Kenya on engaging local, national and regional public policy issues ranging from the national constitution, poverty reduction strategy papers, the National Poverty Eradication Plan 1999-2015 and the World Bank Country Assistance Strategy 1998. Previously, he represented and worked with a number of membership organizations such as the Kenya National Council of NGOs (as executive committee member 1993-1999), MWENGO (as Vice-chairperson 1995-1997) and the Basic Rights Steering Committee (founder member 1997-2000). Through these for a, Irungu has supported the rights of landless, the internally displaced, women and pastoralists. He holds two social science degrees and has written widely on a range of development topics.
Action Aid

Jason Wallach (ASSG)

William Begay(SEAC)

Funding Orgainzations:
Environmental Center (EC)
Boulder Rainforest Action Group (BRAG)
Stop hate On Campus (SHOC)
Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
Wilderness Study Group (WSG)
Arts and Sciences Student Government (ASSG)
Cultural Events Board (CEB)