Hi Bioneer,The past couple of years has launched a great shift to online gatherings. We’ve been beyond grateful to be able to connect for two fantastic virtual Bioneers Conferences. Those experiences, during truly dark times in many of our lives, felt like the exact salve we needed. As we begin to see glimmers of light at the end of this multi-year tunnel, the opportunity to gather in person is within reach. Leaving behind a virtual event that allowed so many of us to connect — from countries worldwide — felt like saying goodbye to something special. This year, for the first time, Bioneers 2022 will be a hybrid event. We’ll welcome attendees to join us in person in San Francisco and virtually from any corner of the globe. See the full conference schedule here. Today marks the launch of registration for the virtual Bioneers 2022! Take advantage of the lowest price that will be available when you register now. When you join us online, you’ll be able to watch live keynote addresses and panels featuring our incredible, growing program of speakers. Bioneers Virtual will feature live HD multi-camera production featuring all the action on the main stage of the Palace of the Fine Arts along with interactive Community Conversations and a full on-demand film festival. You’ll get access to on-demand recordings of each talk or conversation shortly after the live session wraps up, and you’ll have exclusive access to those recordings for three weeks. We’re thrilled to be able to make Bioneers 2022 a far-reaching, international, inclusive event. We hope you’ll join us. |
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BIONEERS 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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Our keynote speaker lineup for 2022 is an impressive mix of leaders and visionaries on the frontlines of today's most pressing challenges, from environmental justice and Indigenous rights to green building and economic progress.
Our list of amazing speakers is still growing, so stay tuned for updates! |
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Enric Sala
Enric Sala is a former university professor who saw himself writing the obituary of ocean life, and quit academia to become a full-time conservationist as a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. |
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Kate Aronoff
Kate Aronoff, a Brooklyn, NY-based staff writer at The New Republic, and a former Fellow at the Type Media Center whose work has appeared in The Intercept, The New York Times, The Nation, Dissent, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, among other outlets, is the co-editor of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism, American Style and the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet–And How We Fight Back. |
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Angela Glover Blackwell
Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder in Residence at PolicyLink, the organization she started in 1999 to advance racial and economic equity for all. |
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Zainab Salbi
Zainab Salbi is a humanitarian, media host, author, and founder and former CEO of Washington-based Women for Women International. |
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Clayton Thomas-Muller
Clayton Thomas-Muller is the ‘Stop It At The Source’ Campaigner with 350.org, founder and organizer with Defenders of the Land and Bioneers board member. |
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Jason McLennan
Jason McLennan, one of the world’s most influential visionaries in contemporary architecture and green building, is a highly sought-out designer, consultant and thought leader. A winner of Engineering News Record’s National Award of Excellence and of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize, Jason has been showered with such accolades as “the ‘Wayne Gretzky’ of the green building industry and a “World Changer." |
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Karen Washington
Karen Washington, co-owner/farmer at Rise & Root Farm in Chester New York, is a renowned activist and food advocate, who, among her many achievements, in 2010 co- founded Black Urban Growers (BUGS) an organization supporting growers in both urban and rural settings. In 2012, Ebony magazine voted her one of their 100 most influential African Americans in the country, and in 2014 she was the recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award. Karen also serves on the boards of the New York Botanical Gardens, the Mary Mitchell Center, SoulFire Farm and the Black Farmer Fund. |
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Ohki Forest
Ohki Forest is a Mohawk spiritual teacher dedicated to the healing of the “First Wound of the Americas” and Indigenous restitution through her non-profit, Red Wind Councils, in Chiapas, Mexico. The author of Dreaming the Council Ways, True Native Teachings from the Red Lodge, Ohki received the Eagle Feather Award from the Society for Shamanic Practice for her lifelong dedication to the renewal of Indigenous spirituality. |
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Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal, Ph.D., is a Dutch/American biologist and primatologist widely renowned for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. C. H. Candler Professor Emeritus at Emory University, de Waal has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was declared one of The Worlds’ 100 Most Influential People Today by Time magazine in 2007. |
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Cindy Montañez
Cindy Montañez is the CEO of TreePeople, which organizes thousands of people to plant and care for trees in their neighborhoods, schools, parks, and local mountains and forests. |
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Samuel Myers
Samuel Myers, MD, MPH, studies the human health impacts of accelerating disruptions to Earth’s natural systems, a field recently dubbed “Planetary Health.” A Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he is the founding Director of the Planetary Health Alliance, the author of roughly 100 peer-reviewed research articles, and the lead editor of Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. |
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Kongjian Yu
Kongjian Yu, a world-renowned, award-winning leader in ecological urbanism and landscape architecture, is the founder of the planning and design firm, Turenscape, in Beijing. Yu, who received a doctorate at The Harvard School of Design, founded the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture and the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Peking University. |
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