Lina is the admin and operations coordinator at the Academy for Systems Change, where she enjoys contributing backbone stability to the organization. Outside of the Academy, Lina’s systems change work centers on moving towards more liberatory patterns in her roles of mother, daughter, sister, cousin and community member.

• Location: North Carolina, USA

Kennedy Peace is a rising senior strategic communications major, leadership studies minor, with a 3.87 GPA. Kennedy hails from the keystone state (more…)

Carol MacKinnon, MA, PCC is an Associate of The Coaching Project, Inc. where she delivers innovative Leader Coach® training and individual, team and organization systems coaching. (more…)

• Location: Canada

Melanie Goodchild, moose clan, is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibway woman) from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation and Ketegaunseebee (Garden River) First Nation.  She is a systems thinking and complexity scholar who offers a uniquely Anishinaabeg approach to making sense of society’s most entrenched problems. (more…)

• Location: Ontario, Canada

Sara Heppner’s passion for creative communication comes from a lifetime of formal artistic training, highly focused listening and a belief (more…)

Laura Schmitt Olabisi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University. (more…)

Kim Kita serves as the founding Director of Colorado State University’s international educational center in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Kim leads and oversees strategic planning, finance, (more…)

Michele Hunt has a very diverse background. In 1992 Michele served on President Bill Clinton’s Transition Team. In 1993 she was appointed by President Clinton to serve as the Executive Director (more…)

Ina Gjikondi is a teacher, speaker, mother, alchemist, innovator, poet, modern mystic and co-curator of creative learning experiences that expand consciousness with the goal of (more…)

Tanya Davis is a philanthropist and author whose life work is to help transform lives through empowerment and a sense of purpose. Along with her family, Tanya established the William & Mary Davis Foundation (more…)