Bioneers celebrates our 25tth anniversary in 2014. What should our goals be in the crucial years ahead? Come connect, network, and share your insights.
Council: Weaving the Fabric of Community
With: Sharon Shay Sloan and Ilarion Merculieff.
Interactive/Experiential
Generation Waking Up: Building A Movement For Systemic Change
An interactive, multimedia program exploring the game-changing role of today's young generation, connecting the dots between environmental sustainability, social justice, and human thriving. We will walk away with a deeper sense of individual and collective purpose as we build bridges across movements to create systemic change. With, from Generation Waking Up: Joshua Gorman, founder; Barbara Jefferson and Hanni Hanson, trainers and coordinators; and Cherine Badawi, curriculum coordinator.
Gender Reconciliation: Breakthrough in Healing Gender-Based Violence
With: Will Keepin, Ph.D. and Rev. Cynthia Brix, Co-Directors of the Satyana Institute and Gender Reconciliation International.
Interactive/Experiential
Guardians of the Water: Native Youth Speak Out on Arts, Media, and Cultural Health
Indigenous Forum
Hosted by Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe), President of the Cultural Conservancy/professor at SFSU. With: Nicola Wagenberg (Colombian), Vice-President and Director for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program of The Cultural Conservancy (TCC); Valarie Perez Ordoñez (Salvadoran-Mexican), artist, activist, TCC Youth Coordinator for the Guardians of the Waters Youth program; Mateo Hinojosa (Bolivian-American), documentary filmmaker, educator, media director and teacher at TCC.
Giving Power: Exploring “Situatedness” and Power
Hosted by Connie Cagampang Heller, co-founder, Linked Fate Fund for Justice. With: Jeannette Armstrong, Ph.D. (Syilx Okanagan), traditional Okanagan knowledge keeper, co-founder and Executive Director of En’owkin Centre; Claire Jean Kim, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies, UC Irvine.
A Hero’s Quest: Tapping Our Courage and Unleashing Our Ingenuity to Address Climate Change
With: Betsy Taylor, Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions; John Neffinger, KNP Communications.
Biodynamic Farming: Way Beyond Organic
With: Gena Nonini, 3rd-generation farmer, owner/operator of Marian Farms, a premiere Biodynamic farm and distillery in Fresno, CA.
The Healing Potential of Cannabidiol, MDMA, and Entheogens
Hosted by J.P. Harpignies, Bioneers associate producer. With: Martin Lee, Director of Project CBD, a cannabis science information service, author of Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational and Scientific; Amy Emerson, Director of Clinical Research at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS); Ralph Metzner, legendary psychedelic research pioneer.



















































































































































