Planet Drum Foundation Discussion at the San Francisco Public Library
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2018-10-12

Peter Brastow - Senior Biodiversity Coordinator, San Francisco Department of the Environment. Currently convening 15 City Departments to implement San Francisco's recently passed Biodiversity Policy; implementing the Yerba Buena Island Habitat Management Plan; and promoting pollinator- and wildlife-friendly landscaping throughout the city's built environment.
Jean Gardner - Jean Gardner is an activist, teacher, public speaker, writer, and visionary on Design for a Living Earth. She is Associate Professor of Social-Ecological History and Design, The School of Constructed Environments, Parsons School of Design.
Stephanie Mills - Stephanie Mills is an author, lecturer and longtime bioregionalist. Her books include Tough Little Beauties, Epicurean Simplicity, On Gandhi's Path, and In Service of the Wild.
Judy Goldhaft - Judy Goldhaft is an activist who has used art, theater and education to further social change. She has taken theatrical performances and workshops to urban and rural locations to promote community empowerment and bioregional ecological education.
Judy has been a guiding force with Planet Drum Foundation since its inception, and is currently its Director.
Anthony Kahlil - Anthony Kahlil is Community Engagement Director for Literacy for Environmental Justice. Born and raised in the Santa Cruz Mountains and San Francisco, he has deep experience working with youth and communities of color. He has conducted environmental education and restoration programs for Bay Area residents over the past two decades, fostering increased community and youth stewardship of Southeast San Francisco natural areas.
Marc Kasky - Marc Kasky has been involved in a wide variety of community-building projects concerned with creating sustainable communities. He has worked with community-based non-profit organizations, charitable foundations, design firms, public agencies, financial institutions, and developers to improve the quality of life for people living, working, or visiting cities, with a focus on environmental, cultural and economic sustainability. Marc created, organized and acted as the Executive Director for both the SF Ecology Center and Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. He has been an advisor on other sustainable communities projects in the U.S. and Germany and has served on the boards of directors of more than 20 nonprofit organizations, including Planet Drum Foundation and the Green City Project.
Sabrina Merlo - Sabrina Merlo is Managing Director of Maker Faire. She has a wealth of other storytelling and experiential projects with a great range of collaborators and employers, from Code for America to Futurefarmers to the Center for Land Use Interpretation to the Exploratorium. She has also been an electrician for Static Electric, and a maker with Survival Research Laboratories. She advanced public understanding of urban sustainability both while at Planet Drum Foundation where she designed, organized and was the Manager of Green City Project, and with the SF League of Urban Gardeners and the SF Bicycle Coalition. Sabrina is a mom of two teens, Ruby and Arlo, and lives in Oakland, CA.