Past Presenters

Alan Alton
Administrative Analyst, City of Santa Rosa

Dan Benedetti
President, Clover-Stornetta

Doug Bosco
attorney, former Congressman (1st Dist.)

Hampton Bynum
Vice-President, Davis Bynum Winery

Denise Cadman
natural resource specialist, city of Santa Rosa; adjunct faculty, Life Sciences Dept, SRJC

Dick Carlile
Principal, Carlile & Macy engineering & urban planning; former Santa Rosa Planning Commissioner

Ed Castillo
Professor and chairman, Native American Studies Program, SSU

Moira Chatton
financial educator, SRJC

Larry Colvin
Transit-oriented developer

John Crivelli
history teacher for 28 years at SRJC (retired), native son of Sonoma County

Dick Day
Co-founder & President, Sonoma County Conservation Action; former judge; long-time environmental activist

Joe Dietzen
Regional V.P., National Bank of the Redwoods

Michael Dimock
agricultural marketing consultant

Don Dixon
Professor of Political Science, Sonoma State Univ

Brock Dolman
Founder, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center; environmental educator, permaculture systems designer

Dennis Dorch
Planning Director, City of Cotati

Jim Earp
Exec Dir, California Alliance for Jobs

Fred Euphrat
Forester & watershed management consultant; essayist for KRCB radio

Noreen Evans
Santa Rosa City Councilmember

Charles Evans
Developer and land use planner

Paul Fassinger
Research Director, Association of Bay Area Governments

Chris Field
Plant biologist, author of UCS study on climate change

Karen Gaffney
Biologist & riparian restorations specialist

Lionel Gambill
Rail transportation activist

Wayne Goldberg
Director of Community Development, City of Santa Rosa

Marty Griffin
Founder, Friends of the Russian River, and author, Saving the Marin Sonoma Coast

Laura Hall
Urban designer & educator

Lynn Hamilton
Co-founder of Town Hall Coalition, former Mayor of Sebastopol

Dennis Harter
President, Sequoia Pacific Mortgage

Lawrence Jaffe
Organic farmer & former Field Rep for Pat Wiggins

Carolyn Johnson
Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation

David Keller
Community activist, former Petaluma City Councilmember

Bill Kortum
Former County Supervisor , longtime environmental activist, co-founder of COAAST and SCCA

Leo Koziel
Director, Green Plan Center, Resource Renewal Institute

Helga Lemke
Exec Dir, Sonoma County People for Equal Opportunity

Terry Lindley
Vice-President of Marketing, Pacific Coast Farm Credit; part-time cattle rancher

Andrew Lorand
Dean, School of Alternative Agriculture, New College

Jake Mackenzie
Western Coordinator, Pesticide Programs, EPA; Mayor, Rohnert Park

Laurel Marcus
Watershed scientist

Scott Mathieson
Farmer / Owner, Laguna Farm

Kay McKabe
Founder of Russian River Celebration, lifelong activist

Rod McNab
City Planner, City of Santa Rosa

Bruce McPherson
Ecological economics instructor, SRJC

Beth Meredith
Community organizer, co-founder Sustainable Petaluma

Marie Meredith
Senior planner, City of Santa Rosa

Adina Merenlender
Instructor & researcher, Env. Science, UC Berkeley

Andy Merrifield
Chair, Political Science Dept, Sonoma State University

Bill Mushallo
Financial Planning Manager, City of Santa Rosa

Allan Nichol
Architect and planner

Terry Price
Political consultant

Steve Rabinowitsh
Santa Rosa City Council member

John Rauck
Past President, Sonoma County Grape Growers Assn

Mike Reilly
County Supervisor

Chuck Rhinehart
Co-founder & president of COAAST, former professor of education, Sonoma State University

Tom Roth
Senior Field Rep for Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey

Alfredo Sanchez
Community Worker, California Rural Legal Assistance

Ernestine Smith
Environmental activist, former biology teacher

Eric Storm
Coordinator, Sustainable Sonoma County

Alan Strachan
Developer of Courtside Village, Santa Rosa

Sonia Taylor
Political / community activist,housing advocate

Anthony Tusler
Disability consultant and instructor at SSU

Marco Waaland
Wetlands ecologist

John Westoby
Sonoma County Agriculture Commissioner

Pat Wiggins
State Assemblymember, 7th District

Joe Louis Wildman
senior field rep, Service EmployeesIntl Union local 707

Suzanne Wilford
Exec Dir, Sonoma County Transportation Authority