Sherry Watson is a native of Aztec, New Mexico, and is the founder and CEO of The POWER of GRANT MONEY™ - America’s #1 Source for Grant Money to build and grow any small business, structuring your business entity as a 501 (c) (3) Corporation.   Sherry Watson, founder, was appointed by President Bush to a special task force and has raised over $130 million in Grant Money to improve the lives of people in the community as well as improving the community.

Throughout her journey in life Sherry learned that we take so much for granted.  Over 28 years ago she went from being a wife, a mom, a pianist, living the American Dream, to being a patient.  Sherry sustained a severe brain injury, resulting in a coma.  In an instant she lost control of her life and destiny.  After many months of intensive rehabilitation she re-learned to swallow, walk, talk, read and write.  Part of Sherry’s rehabilitation was forming a local support group for people with disabilities.  Leading the support group, Sherry was instrumental in establishing a multi-million dollar Rehabilitation Center using grant money.  This achievement led to an award presented by the Governor of New Mexico, the Jaycees “Outstanding Young Woman of the Year”.  Sherry went on to co-found the New Mexico Head Injury Foundation and later became the President of a National Organization on Disability in Washington, DC.  Sherry was instrumental in the design and passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Sherry has a proven track record working with 501 (c) (3) Corporations as well as joint ventures and businesses.  The track record is not just shown through testimonials from those she’s worked with, but more importantly, from hands on experience in establishing corporations from the ground up.

Rachelle Carson Begley Celebrity/Actress and Green Living Expert -featured on “Living With Ed” on Discovery’s Planet Green

Rachelle and Ed have wrapped their third season of their own show “Living With Ed” on Discovery’s Planet Green. It’s about their wonderfully wacky lifestyle that hopefully one day will be more main stream. But, today, it’s still a novelty. They live in a solar powered house, and drive a Prius or Ed’s all electric car around LA. They recycle everything! It’s been an adjustment to live like he does, but she managed to adjust. She has said she feels a little like Eva Gabor in “Green Acres” Over the years, Rachelle has supported many charities, including Water Keepers, Green Wish, anything involving children and Alzheimer’s Disease. www.rachellecarson.com

Sarah Backhouse - Host, speaker and sustainability expert

Sarah Backhouse is Founder and Host of Future360 -- an online cleantech video network showcasing cutting-edge cleantech innovation from around the globe.A TV host, producer and sustainability expert, Sarah has lived in Sydney, London and Los Angeles, where she worked for a diverse array of broadcasters including: CNBC, BBC, PBS, Fine Living, Sci Fi Channel, Discovery Channel and Planet Green. A sought after emcee, keynote speaker and interviewer, Sarah has presented to audiences of 10,000, spoken at Ivy League Schools and participated in sustainability conferences worldwide, interviewing Heads of State, as well as thought leaders in government, business, and academia.Sarah honored as one of Asia Pacific’s Leading 50 Women at the 2011 Advance Women’s Leadership Summit, and was a host on Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Reality.Sarah was born in the UK and raised in Australia and Japan. She graduated with Bachelors degrees in Economics and Japanese Studies from the Australian National University and Keio University, Tokyo, and speaks fluent Japanese. www.sarahbackhouse.com  www.future360.tv


Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Filmmaker and Activist

Harrell Tickell is the force behind the award winning documentaries “The Big Fix” (an Official Selection of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival), “Freedom” and “FUEL,” the 2008 Sundance Award winning documentary about America’s addiction to oil. She is a filmmaker, musician, activist, public speaker and author.

After spending close to two years documenting the impacts and root cause of the BP oil spill for “The Big Fix” and “Freedom,” she was left with permanent damage from exposure to the oil and dispersant in the atmosphere. Doctors say she can’t expose the skin on her neck and chest to the sun for the rest of her life and that, because of the high levels of toxins she was exposed to, that she should not have kids.

Rebecca’s husband, award-winning filmmaker Josh Tickell, is a fifteen-year veteran of green energy, including support for alternatives to oil, coal, nuclear and “natural” gas. Together, they drove the first Algae gasoline powered car across the US helping to raise over 1 billion dollars for alternative fuels in 2009.

Harrell Tickell co-chairs the non-profit, I’ll Be the One, and penned the book, ‘Hot, Rich & Green,’ about redefining feminism and the role of women in the environmental movement. She firmly believes she can heal herself and, that we can turn this crisis around. But first we are going to have to take different actions. “We can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. It is up to us each one of us.”


Anna Getty - PureStyle Living

Anna Getty has played many roles over the course of her remarkable life: Actress. Fashion maven. Chef. Kundalini yoga teacher. Writer. Mother. Environmental Activist. And now green living and holistic lifestyle expert. But through it all she has maintained a keen sense of self, a grounded perspective and a passion for healthy living, spiritual fulfillment and respect for the environment. She calls this conscious mentality PureStyle Living.



Dr. Kathy Gruver

Dr. Kathy Gruver, author of The Alternative Medicine Cabinet, has earned her Doctorate as a Traditional Naturopath and PhD in Natural Health. She has studied mind-body medicine at the famed Benson-Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School and pursued further education at The National Institutes of Health. Gruver has been featured as an expert in countless publications and has written dozens of health and wellness articles. She has appeared as a guest expert on over 55 radio shows and has done over 40 educational lectures around the country. She has also served as an expert witness for massage negligence and ethics cases.

In addition to maintaining an award winning natural health and medical massage practice in Santa Barbara, CA, Kathy offers phone and email health consultations. She has also produced an instructional massage DVD, Therapeutic Massage at Home; Learn to Rub People the RIGHT Way and is a practitioner with over 20 years of experience. Kathy was featured on Lifetime Television’s The Balancing Act in 2011 speaking about natural health and is in development with a network in Los Angeles for her own TV show. For more information and free health tips and resources go to www.thealternativemedicinecabinet.com

 

Andrea Robinson, founder of ARC Sustainability

In 2007 and 2008, Andrea served as the first-ever Director of Sustainability & Greening for the 2008 Democratic National Convention held in Denver, Colorado. Andrea was responsible for designing, managing, implementing, measuring and messaging the comprehensive sustainability efforts and carbon footprint for the Convention. Andrea worked closely with all DNCC Departments, Convention venues and Co-Chaired both Mayor Hickenlooper’s Energy and Waste Minimization Task Forces. She collaborated with City and State environmental programs, facilities and businesses, and produced, wrote and hosted numerous educational green webisodes, all in an effort to raise awareness and cultivate a long-term legacy of sustainability. The 2008 Democratic National Convention is considered to be the most sustainable political convention in modern American history.

Andrea has extensive media experience and has appeared on CNN, NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’, ABC, NBC, FOX, in the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Show and featured as a cover story of the Wall Street Journal. She received her degree in Environmental Science from University of California at Santa Barbara with an honors thesis on Biodiversity and the United Nations Earth Summit. www.arcsustainability.com




Jennifer Bonetto, Feng Shui Master, MBA

Since 2008, Jennifer Bonetto has been the soul behind Real Feng Shui SOULutions. Her mission now is to bring "true" Feng Shui to the world and help as many people with the tools she's acquired. She is a certified Master Practitioner, Certified Master Instructor, and a fellow for the American College of Classical Feng Shui. She also serves as co-moderator for the Xuan Kong discussion group. She is also a member of the International Feng Shui Guild. Currently, she is part of the 400 year old Wu Chang Pai mastery lineage of Grandmaster Yap Cheng Hai, of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, through American Feng Shui Master, Denise Liotta-Dennis.

Her background includes employment with several Fortune 500 corporations. Jennifer received an MBA from Chapman University in Orange, CA. Having lectured, written several articles, e-books and currently authored a book on Classical Feng Shui, she continues to educate people on this ancient science that has been mistranslated and misused throughout the years. After losing her mother to cancer in 1999, Jennifer embarked on a spiritual mission that began her journey to heal her body, mind, and soul. In search of a passionate new beginning and good health, she began to explore alternative healing modalities. She learned how emotions, beliefs and the environment affect all aspects of our lives. Resonating with Chinese metaphysics, Jennifer was able to combine her two great loves, real estate and Chinese metaphysics, by employing Classical Feng Shui. Having received audits from various types of Feng Shui Consultants, it wasn't until she found Feng Shui from the Wu Chang Pai mastery lineage that her life changed in "miraculous" ways. After utilizing this method with her clients, she achieved results beyond her expectations. This success has had a profound impact on all her clients and hence, Real Feng Shui SOULutions was created.

Jennifer Bonetto, MBAReal Feng Shui SOULutions
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Tracy DiNunzio is the founder and CEO of RecycledBride.com, the world's largest wedding marketplace. The site promotes resale as a sustainable action, encouraging brides and their friends to buy and sell new and gently used wedding dresses and other wedding items. She also operates RecycledTyke.com and the forthcoming RecycledStyle.com. Tracy is a regular editorial contributor to various publications on the topic of green weddings, and works as a business consultant for sustainable web startups. She loves sharing her expertise in Internet marketing, SEO, media relations and green business with growing companies.
 
 
Zhena Muzyka -Tea Mistress, triple bottom line maven and fonder of Zhena's Gypsy tea

As one of the early pioneers of the organic and Fair Trade movement and the founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea, Zhena Muzyka believed that by selling tins of tea she could become a purveyor of hope and a conduit for change. Zhena’s company doesn't just market products; it markets meaning, teas with a commitment to social responsibility, sustainability and the well being of others. Zhena’s Gypsy Tea is a community minded, pro-active company and works directly with small growers and out of the way tea gardens and affects change by providing these workers with healthcare, guaranteed maternity leave, childcare, literacy, better working conditions, and autonomy.

 
Tamara Henry, M.A.,  Anchor for Metro Motion, Reporter for Santa Monica Channel 16, Host of GreenTwithTamara.TV

"Green T" is the award winning new media host of GreenTwithTamara.TV and is also on TV five times a day for two local news shows that impact environmental health issues in our community. She produces films for the Discovery Network's Military Channel that trigger Congress to pass legislation and most recently had a social cause film on the 2010 Oscar shortlist. Tamara is a former Fox Evening News Anchor who most recently broadcast live from Oscar night on FoxNews.com, asking green questions on the red carpet.

She has also starred on Animal Planet, The Tonight Show, Access Hollywood, E!'s Style Network, USA Network, the Miss USA Pageant and her own local spiritual entertainment talk show on Time Warner Cable Los Angeles "IN with Tamara Henry." In 2010 "Green T" helped the Miss America Contestants inspire the nation about green issues with her "Green Is Gorgeous" interactive eco contest. She was a speaker at the Go Green EXPO where she kicked off celebrating 10 years car free and anchors the eco-transpo TV show "Metro Motion" for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority.


Brianne Gates

Brianne is a nutritional expert and representative for New Chapter Organics. Brianne has eight years of experience in the natural products industry and began her study of the healing wisdom of nature after suffering a major illness in her adult life. During that time, Brianne was able to transform her health through nutritional therapies such as herbs, cultured foods, and medicinal mushrooms. She is now an outspoken advocate for the importance of whole body health, and brings her knowledge, passion, and personal experience to communities throughout Southern California.

DeAna Vitela-Hayashi | Director AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc.

Since 1987, inventor,entrepreneur, DeAna Vitela-Hayashi has been a pioneer in the research, development, & application of non-pathogenic microorganisms for degradation of pollutants. Her specialty is water/waste water remediation using Bioremediation, Phyotoremediation, and Biomimicry. As CEO and partner of AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc. & AquaBio Urban Watershed & Management Division, Ms. Vitela has continued this process in pollution mitigation. Ms. Vitela has consulted & provided her expertise, for environmental, engineering, & remediation firms, municipal & industrial facilities, waste treatment facilities, confined animal feed operations, landfill, & compost, facilities as well as stormwater retention basins, lakes, & aqua culture facilities, in both fresh & marine environments. www.aquabio.us

Stephanie Witherspoon, Alterna.tif Design - Founder / Art Director

After earning her BFA in graphic design from Chapman University, Stephanie Witherspoon nabbed a coveted position with the highly esteemed Chase Design Group. There, she acted as lead designer for a number of projects for Mattel and the Cartoon Network—work that was publicly recognized by Print magazine. Witherspoon soon moved on to Gel Communications, where she designed for clients such as Disney, Kellogg’s, Paramount, Warner Bros., and Cranium. In 2008, Witherspoon formed Alterna.tif Design, a boutique design studio specializing in branding, print, packaging, and web design. See her work at www.alternatif-design.com

Rachel Bailin - Farmscape Gardens


Rachel Bailin grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and moved to Los Angeles to start Farmscape. Farmscape is the largest urban farming venture of its kind in California. They have installed over 200 urban farms in Los Angeles since 2009. She manages Farmscape's marketing and media duties but also spends time farming her own yard. She loves to grow and eat kale, run, hike, and watching cute animal videos on the internet.

Debra Atlas

An environmental journalist, professional blogger, radio personality and professional speaker, for over three years Debra has penned a newspaper column, Distinctly Green, profiling and explaining the newest, green innovations, technologies and green services in the marketplace. With an eye on the digital market, Debra writes for numerous websites and blogs, including SierraClubGreenHome.com, Beamingsun.com,  Envirothink (her own blog) and the internationally-acclaimed Red Ferret Journal (where she’s a regular contributor and their Eco Editor).

Embracing new challenges, Debra’s Eco Trends feature is heard weekly on the radio, extolling the striking benefits of the coolest new green products that can help consumers ease into a greener lifestyle.

A professional speaker since 1993, Debra’s newest program is called " Eco-Solutions that are Changing the World". It’s a dynamic, fun-filled program that presents audiences with real life solutions and green innovations in consumer products and a look at the formula that went into their creation.

A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Debra can be reached at debraatlas@gmail.com.

 


Susan von Seggern - www.susanvonseggern.com

Susan is one of the most well known and well liked publicists in Los Angeles. In LA for almost 20 years, her work as a record label publicist, CEO of a boutique PR agency, time spent in political PR, her globe-trotting exploits in corporate PR and her recent return to consulting for corporate, cause and cultural clients have exposed countless journalists and tastemakers to Susan’s honest, positive and tenacious PR style. Honing her PR strategies over many years in PR, Susan knows that she can take her interesting, news worthy and active clients to new highs of media coverage, creating strategies that employ the latest PR tactics such as social media and hyper-local coverage with tried and true methods including events, press releasing and sustained media outreach.

 



Jill Kraft, Holistic Health Counselor - your personal advocate for living a consciously healthy and productive life.

Focusing on serving Ecological Creatives overcome challenges and reach their goals, while managing all that they are committed to. She practices a holistic approach and provides a safe place to receive attentive listening, guidance and support towards maintaining their best health and wellbeing.

Health begins with each one of us tending our inner environment and extending outward to our community and contribution to a healthier planet. Begin creating your healthy future today. Visit www.jillkraft.com for more information or call 626-319-3699. Schedule your complimentary get-to-know session.



Felicia Marie Tomasko – RN, E-RYT 500, inspires people to follow the path to personal freedom and vibrant health through the practice of Yoga and Ayurveda. She teaches a heartfelt exploration of shakti, sacred energy, and radical health through asana, pranayama, Ayurveda concentration and relaxation and maintains a private practice in the healing tradition of Ayurveda, a system of holistic and integrative medicine native to India.

Felicia integrates more than twenty years of study of the ancient approaches of Yoga and Ayurveda with her training and licensure as a registered nurse. She is the editor in chief of LA YOGA Ayurveda and Health magazine (where she has been on staff for more than seven years) and serves on the board of directors of the California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine and the National Ayurvedic Medical Association, on the advisory board of the Holistic Option and the Leadership Council of the Green Yoga Association.

She is a featured voice on Intent.com and writes regularly on health and well-being for a number of books, newspapers, magazines and websites. In addition to Yoga and Ayurveda, Felicia has worked in cognitive neuropsychology and plant biochemistry research and has degrees in nursing and environmental biology. She teaches and practices throughout California. FELICIA MARIE TOMASKO www.ayurvedafordailylife.blogspot.com






Patty Smucker - www.doshacare.com

Patty Schmucker is President and CEO of Performance Branding Services (PBS) and founder of DoshaCare. Prior to launching PBS, she accumulated significant experience in business management and development, having served as Vice President of Sales, Education and Marketing for Caesar’s Beauty, a wholesale distributor for the Aveda Corporation. She also served as National Director of Sales-West for the Aveda Corporation and sat on the company’s Advisory Committee from 1985-1998. DoshaCare was launched in 2008.

Patty earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business. She serves on the board of directors for the largest non-hotel YMCA in the U.S. as well as the Independent Manufacturers and Distributors Association (ICMAD). She is an adjunct instructor at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and is a certified trainer with Franklin Covey and The Chopra Center for Well Being.

Dr. Adana Moses

Dr. Adana Moses, DC has a vision for creating a community of healthy families. With a special focus on the care of women, pregnant mothers and children, she realizes that together we can create a generation of healthier people by changing lifestyle habits and reducing sedentary living. She’s on a mission to stop the overmedication of our society and help people get back in tune with the communication their bodies are giving them on a regular basis. Her family wellness practice, Innate Family Chiropractic, gives people the opportunity to find out what their body has been through and receive a plan for what it will take for them to express their greatest level of health. www.innatefamily.com