Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement. Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and a tireless crusader for farmers’, peasants’, and women’s rights, she is the author and editor of a score of influential books, among them Making Peace…

Chris Smaje

Chris Smaje has coworked a small farm in Somerset, Southwest England, for the last fifteen years. Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working at Goldsmiths College on aspects of social policy, social identities, and the environment. Smaje writes the blog, Small Farm Future, and is a featured author at Resilience.org. He is the author of A Small Farm Future, Chelsea Green…

Judith D. Schwartz

Judith D. Schwartz is a journalist whose work explores nature-based solutions to global environmental and economic challenges. She is the author of Cows Save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight, and her latest book is The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Stories of Working With Nature to Heal the Earth published by Chelsea Green Publishing (August 2020). A graduate of the Columbia Journalism School…

Staci K. Haines

Staci K. Haines is the co-founder of Generative Somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and environmental justice leaders, organizations, and alliances. She is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice.

Célia Xakriabá

Célia Xakriabá is an indigenous educator and activist of the Xakriabá people of Brazil. Since 2017, Xakriabá has spoken at various conferences and debates at universities in Brazil promoting, among other things, advancement of the status and rights of indigenous women, indigenous land rights, indigenous education, and encouraging the revitalization of native languages in Brazil. In 2015,…

David Abram

Dr. David Abram, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher, is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (1996) and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (2010). Hailed as ‘revolutionary’ by the Los Angeles Times, and as ‘daring’ and ‘truly original’ by Science, Abram’s work has been catalytic for the emergence of several new disciplines, including…

Anne Baring

Anne Baring b. 1931. MA Oxon. PhD in Wisdom Studies, Ubiquity University 2018. Jungian Analyst, author and co-author of 7 books including, with Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image; with Andrew Harvey, The Mystic Vision and The Divine Feminine; with Dr. Scilla Elworthy, Soul Power: an Agenda for a Conscious Humanity. Her most recent book, The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest…

Staff and Advisors

KOSMOS SUMMER 2020  > STAFF AND ADVISORS Staff and Advisors Founder and Editor Emeritus NANCY B. ROOF Editor RHONDA FABIAN Guest Editor ALNOOR LADHA Webmaster | Art Director KAREN ANDERSEN Associate Editors CATALINA LASSEN RROWAN BABER Kosmos Associates Board of Directors NANCY B. ROOF, Chair TARA STUART RHONDA FABIAN, Vice Chair, Treasurer JUDY WICKS JERRY BABER Poetry Editor CAROLYN MARTIN…

Yogi Hale Hendlin

Yogi Hale Hendlin is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist committed to identifying and ameliorating the environmental determinants of health - those aspects of our environment which due to industrialization and structural inequalities harm some more than others. Yogi is Associate Editor of the journal Biosemiotics, and is an assistant professor in the Dynamics of Inclusive…

Robert Cobbold

Robert Cobbold is a philosopher, educator, and public speaker who has delivered transformative educational experiences to over 40,000 young people worldwide. He is founding editor of Conscious Evolution, an online publication and podcast aiming to disseminate the evolutionary worldview, and kindle an evolutionary transition.