Mia Hanak
The combination of her well rounded academic background, professional
experience, and worldly perspective, makes Mia Hanak a leader and
pioneer in the art world, working in the museum industry for over
fifteen years. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1996 with degrees
in Art History and in Cultural Anthropology and from Tufts University in
Medford, Mass. in 2001 with a degree in Museum…
Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards is widely recognized as one of the world's leading
authorities on civil society, philanthropy, and social change. For the
past thirty years, he has worked to strengthen the contributions of
ordinary citizens to their communities as a grant giver, writer,
advocate, organizer, and activist across five continents, and has lived
and worked in Zambia, Malawi, Colombia, India, the UK,…
Michael Skoler
Michael Skoler entered journalism 25 year ago, after leaving the French wine business and buying a book titled How to Be a Freelance Writer. His work in print, radio, and television has received numerous honors.
Skoler joined Minnesota Public Radio/American Public
Media in 2003 as managing director of news. He and his team created the
Public Insight Journalism, which systematically taps…
Michael Vlahos
Michael Vlahos, PhD is Professor of Strategy at the United States Naval War College. He is the author of Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change,
a ‘take no prisoners’ analysis of how war—as culture’s core ritual—has
shaped national identity in the modern world. Vlahos, a graduate of Yale
and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, began his career in the…
Mikhail Gorbachev
Destructive processes
which the emerging Soviet democracy was unable to curb, eventually led
to the disintegration of the multinational Union of republics that
Gorbachev led. In his attempts to prevent such an outcome Mikhail
Gorbachev made maximum efforts, save the use of force, which would have
been against his inner principles of political vision and morality.
On December 25, 1991,…
Mirabai Bush
Mirabai Bush is a Senior Fellow and former Director of the Center on Contemplative Mind in Society, which works to integrate contemplative practice into
contemporary society in order to create a more just, compassionate, and
reflective society.
She formerly directed the Seva Foundation Guatemala Project, which
supports sustainable agriculture and integrated community development.
She co-developed…
Nancy B. Roof
Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: Global Transformation in Harmony with all Life, based on evolving interior development and cultural values as they impact globalization and world community. Kosmos Associates, Inc. is also actively involved in the founding of the Global Commons movement with James Quilligan of the Global Commons Trust.
Nancy won the 2009…
Nancy L. Rivard
Extensive travel on a personal quest for meaning engendered in Nancy a
deep desire to serve humanity and a new vision for the travel industry.
She lived with the Hopi Indians, adopted a girl in Sri Lanka, spent a
month in the high Andes, and searched for spiritual teachers in
Thailand, Africa, India, the Philippines and the former USSR before
founding Airline Ambassadors International (AAI). AAI…
Nicanor Perlas
Nicanor Perlas was awarded the 2003 Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm,
Sweden, for his outstanding efforts in educating civil society about
implementing alternatives to corporate globalization. Founder of the
Centre for Alternative Development Initiatives, he won the Global 500
Award from UNEP for providing training and technical assistance to civic
groups in his native country, the…
Nila Tadic de Ossio
Nila Tadic de Ossio was born in Bolivia and grew up and studied in Chile. She is a wife, mother of four children, and grandmother of ten, and lives in Bolivia. She is a bilingual secretary, but never has had the time to work. Being a busy housewife, she always had a book on her lap while doing her daily chores.
A facilitator for more than thirty years in units of service groups, Nila has…