Howard Bloom, The Howard Bloom Institute
Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain’s Channel 4 TV. One of his seven books–Global Brain—was the subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defense including representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. His work has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and the Scientific American. He does news commentary at 1:06 am Eastern Time every Wednesday night on 545 radio stations on Coast to Coast AM. For more, see http://howardbloom.institute.
Marcel Reid, Whistleblower Liaison, former ACORN Chair, Co-Organizer Whistleblower Summit for Civil and Human Rights
Marcel Reid has had a major impact over the last decade in grassroots community organizing, the whistleblowing community, and a national media foundation. Her efforts have resulted in major policy changes.
As a National Director, Chair of DC ACORN and one of a three-member Interim Management Committee (IMC) to reorganize ACORN after the discovery of a major embezzlement, Marcel came face to face with the difficulties in reporting corruption. This was her first exposure to fighting entrenched corruption and her introduction to the whistleblower community.
Later, Marcel was elected to serve as a director on the National Board of Pacifica Radio. In that position, she introduced a motion to have Pacifica support whistleblowers; making it the first national media organization to incorporate it into their platform. After the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) passed in 2012, Pacifica’s steadfast support of whistleblowers was credited by many in the whistleblowing community as helping to reinvigorate the WPEA campaign after over a decade of unsuccessful attempts.
After serving on the board for three terms, Marcel became the first national media whistleblower liaison for the Pacifica Foundation, the only position of its’ kind, in media to date. She continues her efforts to shed light on corruption worldwide by actively supporting the efforts of whistleblowers globally. As an outgrowth, Marcel is co- organizer of the annual Whistleblower Summit for Civil and Human Rights that takes place on Capitol Hill, where the prestigious Pillar Award is awarded to First Amendment rights advocates. Previous honorees include but are not limited to: Congressional Black Caucus Chair Marcia Fudge, Senators Rand Paul, Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Charles “Chuck”Grassley, Senator Claire McCaskill, Senator John Boozman, Senator Daniel Akai, and Represenative Elijah Cummings.
Allan Savory
Allan Savory, a native Zimbabwean, pursued an early career as a research biologist and game ranger, and based on that experience made a significant breakthrough in the 1960s in understanding what was causing the desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems. He then worked, as an independent scientist, with numerous managers on four continents to develop a regenerative solution – what became known in the early 1980s as Holistic Management.
He served as a Member of Parliament in the latter days of Zimbabwe’s civil war and became the leader of the opposition to the ruling party headed by Ian Smith. Exiled in 1979 as a result of his opposition, he immigrated to the United States where he could focus once more on the development of Holistic Management. The demand for training, and a desire to assist many more people led him to continue its development in the nonprofit world.
In 2009 Allan and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado. The Institute today includes an international network of 50 hubs in 30 countries that create localized impact through training and support of farmers, ranchers and pastoralists, whose land now covers 30 million hectares worldwide. Allan is the author of Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment, Third Edition (Island Press, 2016), The Grazing Revolution, a TED Book republished by Savory Institute in 2023, and numerous papers and articles. He has received a variety of awards including Australia’s International Banksia Award (2003) “for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale,” and in 2010 the Buckminster Fuller Challenge award (with the Africa Centre for Holistic Management) for work that has “significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. A TED talk Allan gave in 2013 has received over 9 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED Talks of all time.
Dr. David Moskowitz,Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Medical Officer, GenoMed, Inc.
Dr. Moskowitz majored in Chemistry (summa cum laude) at Harvard College, Biochemistry (first class honours) at Merton College, Oxford, and received an MD (cum laude) from the Harvard-MIT Division in Health Sciences and Technology (Harvard Medical School). He trained for 7 years in Internal Medicine, Biochemistry, and Nephrology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis before spending 11 years on the faculty of St. Louis University School of Medicine. Since 1994, Dr. Moskowitz has experienced first hand the clinical effectiveness of knowing a disease-associated gene (the angiotensin converting enzyme, or ACE, gene).
Dr. Moskowitz is a pioneer in the field of medical genomics, and has been recognized for his groundbreaking treatment of diseases associated with the angiotensin I-converting enzyme, such as chronic renal failure due to hypertension or type II diabetes.
Nickson Otieno, Niko Green
Nickson Otieno is a Registered Architect, a sustainability expert, and an Eisenhower Fellow who’s championing the transition to an inclusive, sustainable and resilient built environment through design, research, training and technology.
He has over 13 years of post-graduate leadership and innovation experience in co-designing and delivering climate-smart built environment programs ranging from green building, clean energy, biodiversity conservation, sustainable waste and water management, and use of digital technologies to strengthen urban governance for sustainability.
He has provided policy advice to the Government of Kenya and consulted for different organizations including UN Agencies such as UN Environment, UN-Habitat, World Health Organization (WHO), and UNDP. Nickson has also been involved in convening and participating in several multidisciplinary networks, conferences and professional exchange programs. Nickson is a Director at Trimax Architects and NIKO GREEN.
Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored
Mickey Huff is the third director of Project Censored, founded in 1976, and the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. Since 2009, he has coedited the annual volume of the Censored book series for Seven Stories Press in New York, now in partnership with The Censored Press, the Project’s new publishing imprint. He has contributed numerous chapters to these works since 2008. His most recent books include United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and what we can do about it), co-authored with Nolan Higdon, published by City Lights Books in San Francisco (2019) and Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2021, co-edited with Andy Lee Roth (2020). In 2019, he was recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, for their annual James Madison Freedom of Information, Beverly Kees Educator Award. He continues to co-author articles on media and propaganda for several scholarly journals and news publications, as well as book chapters. He co-directed Project Censored’s latest documentary on fake news and critical media literacy, “United States of Distraction: Fighting the Fake News Invasion,” edited and narrated by Abby Martin (2020). His next publications include Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2022, co-edited with Andy Lee Roth (The Censored Press/Seven Stories Press, 2021); and a forthcoming textbook fusing critical thinking, conflict management, and constructive communication practices through a critical media literacy lens titled, Let’s Agree to Disagree, co-authored with Nolan Higdon (Routledge, 2022).
Huff is professor of social science, history, and journalism at Diablo Valley College where he co-chairs the History Area and is chair of the Journalism Department. He has been a lecturer in communications at California State University, East Bay and has taught sociology of media at Sonoma State University. Huff is executive producer and host of The Project Censored Show, a weekly syndicated public affairs program he founded with former Project Censored director Peter Phillips in 2010. The program originates from the historic studios of KPFA, Pacifica Radio, in Berkeley CA, and airs on 50 stations around the US and is also now a podcast online.
Additionally, Huff sits on the board for the nonprofit Behind the Headlines and serves on the editorial board for the journal Secrecy and Society. For the past several years, Huff has worked with the national outreach committee of Banned Books Week, working with the American Library Association and the National Coalition Against Censorship, of which Project Censored is a member. He is a co-founding member of the Global Critical Media Literacy Project and is on the advisory board at Credder.com, which is a crowd contested media, interactive platform online that allows users to rate news articles and sources for trustworthiness using critical media literacy skills. He has been interviewed by numerous media outlets around the world and is regularly invited to give lectures and workshops at conferences and other public events regarding critical media literacy, propaganda, and censorship issues as well as contemporary historiography in the US. He is a longtime musician and composer and lives with his family, and two heavy metal pets (Lemmy the dog and Ozzy the cat) in Fair Oaks, California.
Michael Caporale
After graduating, Syracuse University and the University of Illinois Caporale crafted a career in photography and filmmaking. What began in advertising soon branched out into commercial films makimg, working both as a Director of photography, producer, editor, writer, Director, and ultimately producing his very own film, “The Black Dove.”
His writing credits include work as a featured columnist for Indie Film Reporter and Mobilized News, seventeen screenplays, two cookbooks, three novels, an autobiography, a biography, a political commentary book, and a book on filmmaking.
Working with Steven Jay of Mobilized, together they produced the documentary film, “We Are One,” which continues to air on Free Speech TV. Caporale also served as the editor on that film.
Bryan McGavin, Scientists Warning
Dr. Dale Taylor, PhD.
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Amar Fernando, Human Rights leader, Ouro Preto, Brazil
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