Big Vision Podcast: Episodes
Favianna Rodriguez is a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. She is the co-founder of the <a href="http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/">EastSide Arts Alliance</a> (ESAA) and <a href="http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/youth/ve.php">Visual Element</a>, programs ...
<font>Marianne Manilov is the National Team Leader of <a href="http://www.engagenet.org/">The Engage Network</a>, a nonprofit social venture that promotes widespread civic engagement. At the moment, The Engage Network includes three "sectors": <a href="http://www.whatsyourtree.org">What's ...
Cami Walker is the founder of the <a href="http://www.29gifts.org/">29 Day Giving Challenge</a>, a global giving movement where participants give away one thing away each day for 29 days. You can read a transcript of this interview on my blog, <a href="http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/2008/10/29-day-giving-challenge-interview-with.html">Have ...
Activist, journalist and singer, Marisa Handler, is the author of the memoir <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Loyal-Sky-Activist-Marisa-Handler/dp/1576753921/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222038179&sr=8-1">Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist</a>, which received the 2008 Nautilus Book ...
Martin Fisher is the Co-founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.kickstart.org/">KickStart</a>. KickStart is a non-profit organization that develops and markets new technologies in Africa. These low- cost technologies are bought by local entrepreneurs and used to establish highly profitable new small ...
Ari Derfel talks about what he learned after saving his trash for one year. You can read more about his experiment on his blog, Save Your Trash at <a href="http://saveyourtrash.typepad.com">http://saveyourtrash.typepad.com</a>.<br /><br />Ari is the co-founder of <a href="http://www.backtoearth.com">Back ...
<font><span class="739121618-01042008"><span>Janessa
Goldbeck </span><span>is the
Director of Membership at the <a href="http://www.genocideintervention.net/">Genocide Intervention Network</a>, a nonprofit
organization that provides individuals and communities with the tools to prevent
and stop genocide. ...
Anisha Desai is the Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center. Founded in 1990, the <a href="http://www.coloredgirls.org/">Women of Color Resource Center</a> is headquartered in the Bay Area and promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color ...
This month's interview is with Kavita Ramdas, the President and CEO of the <a href="http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms">Global Fund for Women</a>. <span class="contentdescription">
The Global Fund for Women is an international network of women and men
committed to a world of equality and social ...
Cristi Hegranes is the Founder of <a href="http://www.piwdw.org/">The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World</a>. <br /><br /><div>"The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit
organization and citizen journalism initiative. The Institute was ...
Christina Arnold is the Founder of <a href="http://preventhumantrafficking.org/">Prevent Human Trafficking</a>. Prevent Human Trafficking is a Washington DC-based nonprofit working to build a bridge between South East Asia and the United States to prevent human trafficking. Prevent Human Trafficking ...
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The <a href="http://www.rockwoodleadership.org">Rockwood Leadership
Program</a> specializes in delivering the best practices and
methodologies in leadership development to the non-profit
community. Andre Carothers is the Rockwood Leadership ...
<p class="bodytext">For the past twelve years, Paola Gianturco has
worked as a photojournalist, documenting womenâs lives in forty
countries. Her new book, <em>Women Who Light the Dark </em>(September 2007) is her fourth published by <a href="http://powerhousebooks.com/index.html">powerHouse Books</a>. ...
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<strong>Shalini Kantayya</strong> is a
filmmaker, educator, and activist who uses film/video as a tool to educate,
inspire, and empower ...
Marsha Wallace is the founder of <a href="http://www.diningforwomen.org/">Dining for Women</a>. Dining for Women's mission is to empower women and children living in extreme poverty
by funding programs that foster good health, education, and economic
self-sufficiency <strong><em>and</em></strong> ...
Elizabeth Pomada is a literary agent who co-founded the <a href="http://www.sfwritingforchange.org/"><strong>Writing for Change</strong> Conference</a> and the <a href="http://www.sfwriters.org/">San Francisco Writers Conference</a> with her husband, Michael Larsen. Together, they started <a href="http://www.larsen-pomada.com/index.cfm">Michael ...
Chris Messina of <a href="http://www.citizenagency.com/">Citizen Agency</a> and Ivan Storck of <a href="http://www.sustainablemarketing.com/">SustainableMarketing.com</a> and <a href="http://www.sustainablewebsites.com">SustainableWebsites.com</a> talk about how to start a green coworking space based ...
In this episode, rather than hearing an interview with one individual, I wanted to share a recording from a panel I organized for the <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/womenscntr/swlc/index.html">Stanford Women's Leadership Conference</a> in April called, Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Social ...
Van Jones is working to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction.<br /><br />In 1996, Van founded the <a href="http://ellabakercenter.org">Ella Baker Center for Human Rights</a>. Named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the Center promotes ...
Paul Rice is the founding President & CEO of <a href="http://www.transfairusa.org">TransFair USA</a>, the
only Fair Trade certification organization in the U.S. today. Since
launching the Fair Trade Certified label eight years ago, TransFair has
established Fair Trade as the fastest growing segment ...