"Van Jones and Majora Carter"

Plenary Speakers for the

Seattle Bioneers Conference in October 2007


  -  a free film showing -


Did you miss the 2007 Seattle Bioneers? Don't worry, we will be showing recordings of the plenary speakers all year long!
Van Jones and Majora Carter gave inspirational presentations from October 2007. 
Whether you are a long time Bioneers supporter, or new to them, don't miss these two recordings.

Biographies:

Van Jones (www.ellabakercenter.org) is an activist working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental destruction. In 1996, he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration. He has served on the boards of many groups, including: the National Apollo Alliance, Social Ventures Network, Rainforest Action Network and Bioneers he is also the recipient of a Reebok Human Rights Award as well as an Ashoka Fellowship. The City of Oakland, CA has adopted the Ella Baker Center's "Green Jobs Corps" proposal, and Van is pushing to create the first-ever Green Enterprise Zone in Oakland. (30 min.)


Majora Carter (www.ssbx.org), has long fought to improve the quality of life in her environmentally challenged community. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001, and has had remarkable success creating riverfront parks, fighting to demolish underused expressways, implementing environmental stewardship training programs, and pushing for a major project, the South Bronx Greenway (now under construction), and securing over $20M in funding. Majora's vision, drive and tenacity have earned her national recognition as a major figure in the Environmental Justice movement along with a 2005 MacArthur Fellowship. (30 min.)

Camp Long Environmental Learning Center
5200 35th Ave. SW,
Seattle, WA 98126