A freelance journalist based in Washington, DC, Peter Tucker is a frequent critic of The Washington Post and writes for his own weblog, Pete Tucker.



Tucker’s stories have appeared nationally at HuffPost, Salon, CounterPunch and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Pete has also been published in various local media outlets including The Washington Post, the Washington City Paper, District Dig and WPFW.



He previously ran the website TheFightBack.org, which reported on activism in the D-M-V and hosted The Taxi Link on WUST 1120 AM.

SIMON MAINWARING

Simon Mainwaring is the founder & CEO of We First, a strategic consultancy accelerating growth and impact for purpose-driven brands, and author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller LEAD WITH WE: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future. He’s a member of the Steering Committee of Sustainable Brands, the Forbes Business Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His first book, We First was a New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of the Year by strategy+business. He hosts the Lead With We podcast.

For far too long, businesses have operated with a dog-eat-dog mentality where the winner takes all. Yet over the past year and a half, through the social, political, economic, and environmental upheaval we’ve all experienced, this way of conducting business has proven not only futile, but irresponsible. Society is ready for, and desperately in need of, a revolutionary new way to run our businesses to preserve our future.

For us, together, to bring about real, lasting changes, we will all need to learn to operate as an interdependent collective rather than as opposing forces. It is time we stop leading with “me” and start leading with “We.”

The market is increasingly disrupted, the economy is only beginning to heal, consumers are more and more conscious, and the constellation of crises facing the world continues to compound. To help solve all of these interconnected challenges, Simon Mainwaring has developed a revolutionary blueprint for creating lasting business growth through impact in his new book, LEAD WITH WE: The Business Revolution That Will Save Our Future (Matt Holt Books, November 9, 2021).

As CEO and founder of We First, and author of the 2011 New York Times bestseller We First, Mainwaring is one of the world’s leading thinkers on leveraging the reach, resources, and unique responsibility of business to improve company cultures, the communities it serves, our society at large, and the planet on which all of our futures depend.

Equipped with a decade of research and hands-on experience as a key partner in some of the most impactful brand revolutions at companies such as Timberland, TOMS, SAP, Avery Dennison, VSP Global, VF Corporation, etc., Mainwaring reveals a critical blueprint for CEOs, top executives, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and all stakeholders in our collective future to pivot their thinking, behaviors, and impact, and to repurpose business as the vanguard of meaningful change before it’s too late.

CHRISTIAN SHUBIN

Christian Shubin of “Poseidon Collective”

Since childhood Christian Shubin was inspired by his mother DeAnne who grew up surfing in the late 50’s and 60’s in Malibu with legends such as Miki Dora, Mickey Munoz, Dewey Weber, and the other staples of Surfrider in Malibu. He lived and breathed a raw and unadulterated surf culture from his mother and family since his youngest days.

Christian explored music in his youth playing Bass guitar in local Malibu Ska, Reggae, Punk band Bonsai Tribe as well as “Jester’s Dead” in his Central Californian College days. In 2010 Poseidon Surf was formed to pursue his inner passions, making it an homage to their mother, a refuge for his lifestyle, and a reflection of his surfing dreams. Since founding Poseidon Christian has incorporated Live Music into his Poseidon Surf Shop Events making it a hub for local music and surf culture in Santa Monica.

His “Poseidon Collective” band features Christian on Guitar and Vocals with numerous friends joining in on

Bass, Saxaphone, Drums and any other number of instruments including Kazoo.

THE MALIBU HILLBILLIES AND THE UNJAM SINGALONG CIRCLE

What is the unJam Singalong Circle?

The unJam Singalong Circle is an underground network of people who all pretty much acknowledge that music and more specifically, the actual making of it, is a beneficial act to engage in repeatedly throughout life.

The group is ever changing and fresh each time we get together. And literally every one of the individuals who has tapped into this experience carries a particularly unique and inspiring gift, service, attitude, and perspective for anyone fortunate to connect with them in the world.

Who are The Malibu Hillbillies?

The Malibu Hillbillies are made up of Lucinda Monroe King and Colin James Martin who were brought together through seemingly divine intervention right at the beginning of the 2020 global pandemic.  In the tenderness of that unprecedented time, Lucinda and Colin put themselves into a creative lockdown and birthed a musical identity with the kind of energy that serves as a pillar for our collective humanity on the track toward reclaiming balance and harmony. 

In jest, they refer to themselves as The Beverley Hillbillies, reflecting both the city in which they found their genesis and the opposing ends of the spectrum of life from which they sink their individual roots.  Lucinda, or Peach, is more Beverley, while Colin, or Cash, is way more Hillbilly.  And between the two, there’s something good for just about anyone. 

WILLIAM D NAJGER

William is living his life to the absolute fullest. He has journeyed around the globe in search of the true meaning to why we are here and the best methods available to increase human potential. The result is simple, LOVE. Love is the answer to all of life’s situations.

As the previous director of “The Center of Unlimited Possibilities”, the creator of “Eden Out Meals” and the producer of numerous conscious events, He’s been extremely active in the Human Potential Movement for over 25 years. He believes that the power of goodness through health, wisdom and action is the most powerful tool for solving any and all problems we face today. In other words, love is the ultimate way to save humanity help each person thrive.

He’s have been practicing a healthy lifestyle for over 36 years. He became an atheist and vegan after realizing the logic in being compassionate towards all life and believing in what is real a factual. It was important for me to replace God with goodness and have faith in the human potential to create heaven on earth. No matter who you are, when you are kind, caring and empathetic to others…good things happen.

William became a messenger of love when he was writing a movie screenplay about a modern day messiah of peace and love. The Revelation (www.The GreatestMovieEver.com) is a script he created to spread the message of Love. That by risking and sharing love with everyone, including your enemies we can overtime, create a world full of life, love and logic. Love makes sense. As he was pitching his screenplay he created a street performing character like Moses. He dressed up like the biblical Moses and hit the busy streets of Asheville NC holding signs promoting love and unity.

It was when Covid 19 hit America hard and the shutdown was in place that he started hanging love signs all over his home town. He has posted over 300 Love, Unity and Peace signs on telephone pole and as yard signs around Asheville. In the fall of 2021 he traveled across the U.S. to California hanging 150 more signs of Love.

The response has been very positive and over 100 people now have permanent signs in their front yards. William is launching a new non-profit called LOVE STRONG USA to spread love all around America on a mass scale. The goal is to get yard signs posted in front of millions of home across the U.S. He will be accepting donation and selling yard signs at affordable prices and creating a following called the Society Of Unconditional Love…S.O.U.L. The non-profit is in its initial stages and will be fully functioning in early 2022. As funding increases Love Strong USA will include t-shirts, bumper stickers and billboards all promoting the direct and simple message of Love. Most of the messaging will be 4 words or less. Such as, Love Wins, Choose Love, Got Love?, Be Kind, Kindness, Unity, Peace, Share Love, Give Love and Love is the Answer. All the signs are big, bold, colorful and easy to read. At some point we will hit a critical mass of positivity and a big shift will happen.

EMILY GLAZENER

I’m a widowed mother of three boys and I’ve been singing and playing music live since I was a teen.

Throughout the years I’ve played in cover bands and performed solo acoustic shows, as well as being the lead singer of Red Iris, an original rock band out of Houston, TX.

This Winter I’m releasing my first solo album titled Finding Irene with my first single from the album “Spotlight.”

My goal is to reach out, uplift, encourage, and inspire people around the world with my music.

I believe if you share a smile most people will smile back.

DR. REGINA F. LARK, CPO ^®

In 2008, Dr. Regina Lark founded A Clear Path: Professional Organizing and Productivity. Regina is a featured speaker and educator on issues ranging from productivity, hoarding, and women’s leadership. In October 2021, Regina published her third book, Emotional Labor: Why A Woman’s Work is Never Done and What To Do About It.

As a Certified Professional Organizer CPO®, Regina is a specialist in boomer and senior downsizing, residential organizing, and life transitions. With an additional Certification in Chronic Disorganization, she works with clients who are challenged by ADHD, hoarding, procrastination, and time management.

Since 2018, she is identified as one of “20 Best” Professional Organizers by Expertise.com. In 2016, she was named one of LA’s Top 10 Organizers by CBS/KCAL Channel 2.

Dr. Lark is a current Board member of Opica Adult Day Care Center. She earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Southern California, writing a dissertation on interracial marriages between Japanese women and American GIs after World War 2.

For fun she plays golf and tennis, and writes goofy songs about clutter.

ANAHITA ANAIS PARSEGHIAN

Anahita Anais Parseghian is a Trauma-Informed Resilience Coach, Integrative Mental Health Practitioner, and Plant Medicine Guide. She mentors conscious leaders in high power positions to develop burnout-proof resilience, address stress-induced symptoms, attain sustainable high performance, and cultivate lasting career fulfillment so they can continue breaking barriers and inspiring change.

Her work is informed by her life-long journey of resilience as a war survivor, refugee, chronic pain warrior, and conscious activist as well as her studies in Integrative Mental Health Medicine, Somatic Trauma Therapy, Leadership Coaching, Chronic Pain Coaching, and over 13 years of intentional and ceremonial practice and education in indigenous plant medicine traditions.

Anahita is also the founder and publisher of Microdose Guru: an integrative microdosing education and harm reduction resource. The mission of Microdose Guru is to inform, advocate, and inspire the therapeutic and medicinal use of psychedelic medicines through a safe, conscious, and mindful approach. Anahita is an advocate for sustainable cultivation, fostering reciprocity with indigenous communities, reverence of ancient shamanic traditions, and social justice for those impacted by the “war on drugs”.

She is a masterful and engaging speaker and educator. Her trainings, workshops, and retreats facilitate profound and lasting transformation for the participants. Her work is often referred to as “reality-shifting” and “ life-altering”.

Anahita was born and raised in Iran. She migrated to the U.S. at age 20, graduated with Latin honors from UCLA, and spent over a decade in the tech industry as a product leader before leaving her career to pursue healing arts and resilient leadership.