The Bioneers at Hollyhock

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simmons of the Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) address the Social Change Institute conference

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons - The Bioneers Story

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons are respectively the founder and co-executive directors of Bioneers.

One year after Kenny founded the organic biodiversity seed company Seeds of Change, where he and Nina served as CEO and President until 1994, he founded the Bioneers conference to highlight practical solutions for restoring the Earth and human communities. Together they have co-produced Bioneers for the past sixteen years. Kenny is an award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker and radio producer. Nina is also an leader in community-based marketing.

The two were named ?Utne Visionaries? in 1996, and in 2006 received the Global Green Award for Community Environmental Leadership from Green Cross International, founded by Mikhael Gorbachev, for their work with Bioneers.

For more information about Hollyhock, visit http://sci.hollyhockleadership.org