Aaron Freeman:
Policy Director for Environmental Defence.  His areas of specialization include climate change, toxic substances & pollution, and species at risk. 

Adriana Paz:
Community organizer on migrant worker issues for Justicia for Migrant Workers & The Migrant Justice Network

Adrienne Montani:
Provincial Coordinator for First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition

Angus McAllister:
Founder of McAllister Opinion Research, Angus is a veteran researcher with over 15 years experience in conducting market intelligence & public affairs research around the globe. 

Bill Sherritt:
Director of Community Business Banking at Vancity Credit Union.  The majority of Bill’s career is with ‘for-profit’ business members with the past 7 years as Area Manager working with business members in the Fraser Valley region. 

Billy Parish:
Founder and director of Energy Action, a campaign aimed at getting colleges to buy renewable energy, creating a market for clean energy and moving new energy technologies into the mainstream.

Clayton Thomas-Muller:
Of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, Canada, an activist for Indigenous Rights & Environmental Justice

David Eaves:
An expert in negotiation and public policy, David works with two spin-offs of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Common Outlook and Vantage Partners, developing and implementing collaborative negotiation strategies.

David Hatfield:
A respected leadership consultant & independent educator based in Vancouver.  He has 9 years experience in designing & delivering a wide range of educational programs.

Deena Chochinov:
M.Ed. is an organizational development consultant, a management coach and a Registered Clinical Counselor based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

George Heyman:
President of the BCGEU since June 1999. 
The BCGEU represents approximately 60,000 men and women in more than 550 bargaining units.

Grace-Edwards Galabuzi:
Author of Canada's Economic Apartheid:
The Social Exclusion of Racialized Groups in the New Century

Jackie Larkin:
Director of Toxic Free Canada &
Facilitator of “The Work That Reconnects”

Joel Solomon:
President of Renewal Partners & Executive Director of the Endswell Foundation

Judith Sayers:
Chief of the Hupacasath First Nation & chief negotiator for the treaty process for fourteen years.

Judy Rebick:
Women’s movement activist & Sam Gindin Chair in
Social Justice & Democracy at Ryerson University

Julian Griggs:
One of the founding Principals of Dovetail Consulting Inc., & has been a regular trainer & facilitator for the Hollyhock Leadership Institute since its inception.

Karen Mahon:
Executive Director of Hollyhock Leadership, has been working on wilderness protection in BC for the past fifteen years.  Known for her sound strategic thinking, & ability to develop winning campaigns, her counsel has contributed to all the key environmental issues of this region.

Lori Winstanley:
Director of COPE 378’s Strategic Campaigns and Communications which includes the Public Power BC—Take Back the Power campaign.

Marcy Cohen:
For the last ten years, worked as the senior researcher and policy analyst for the Hospital Employee's Union of British Columbia.

Marlo Raynolds:
Executive Director at the Pembina Institute. He has worked in the development & practical application of triple-bottom-line decision-making tools, energy systems, & strategies for sustainability

Norman Gludovatz:
Tactical campaign strategist who works with individuals, organizations, unions & businesses to find ways to engage supporters.

Ross McMillan:
Ross is the President and oversees development at the Tides Canada Foundation.  Ross was a principal architect of the $120 million conservation financing program that helped protect Canada's 21 million acre Great Bear Rainforest.

Sage Aaron:
Campaign assistant for COPE 378’s Public Power BC campaign and spends as much time on the road meeting with groups and concerned citizens as she does anchoring the campaign activities at home.

Seth Klein:
BC Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a public policy research institute committed to social and economic justice.

Teresa Marshall:
Social justice communicator & filmmaker.  She has worked with the BCGEU for the past seven years on child care, environmental, anti-poverty and equity & human rights campaigns.

Todd Paglia:
Executive director of ForestEthics, Todd can be credited with transforming the paper policies of multi-billion-dollar Fortune 500 companies, including Staples, Office Depot, Williams-Sonoma, Dell and Victoria’s Secret.

Tom Katzenmeyer:
Senior vice president of investor, media and community relations for Limited Brands-operator of 2,929 specialty stores through Victoria's Secret, Pink, Bath& Body Works, C.O. Bigelow, La Senza, White Barn Candle Co. and Henri Bendel.

Tzeporah Berman:
Co-founder of ForestEthics, which has protected over 5 million acres of forests in the last five years & have transformed buying patterns of major paper & wood consumers such as Staples & Office Depot

Uzma Shakir:
Diversity and Social change advocate, former Executive Director of The Council of Agencies Serving South Asians 

Vanessa Richards:
Artist, performer & social change advocate