Flower Soldiers

Diana Beresford-Kroeger was raised by druids to became one of the world’s top medical biochemists in the fight to stop climate change. Orphaned as a child in Ireland, Beresford-Kroeger was educated by elders who instructed her in the Brehon knowledge of plants and nature.  She went on to study botany and chemistry.  This resulted in a unique combination of western scientific knowledge and the traditional concepts of the ancient world.  She works with indigenous people in Canada and elsewhere to protect and conserve their forests.

Fritzi Horstman is the Founder and Executive Director of Compassion Prison Project. She is a Grammy-award winning producer for her work on “The Defiant Ones”, has been a producer and post-producer on dozens of television projects and documentaries and has directed several films. She believes it is urgent to bring humanity and compassion to those living behind bars and these acts will help transform our society.  She is best known for her work in illuminating the ubiquity of Adverse Childhood Experiences through the “Step Inside the Circle” Project.

Playwright, actor, producer & educator, Fanshen Cox is the writer/producer/performer of One Drop of Love, which traveled across the U.S. and internationally from 2013-2020, exploring the complicated perceptions and realities of history, family, race, class, justice, and love through her personal history. Fanshen was a Producer and Development Executive at Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Pearl Street Films where she co-authored the Inclusion Rider. She is now the president of TruJuLo Productions, Inc, continues to speak on storytelling with an impact and consult on implementing the Inclusion Rider, while co-hosting the podcast Sista Brunch.

Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset, is an Indigenous rights activist, spiritual teacher, and transformational change maker.  Sherri was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation (Penawahpskek).  She speaks and teaches around the world on issues of Indigenous rights, environmental justice, and spiritual change. Her broad base of knowledge allows her to synthesize many subjects into a cohesive whole, weaving together a multitude of complex issues and articulating them in a way that both satisfies the mind and heals the heart.  Sherri is an attorney and author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-based Change.

Valarie Kaur is a civil rights and social justice activist, lawyer, filmmaker, innovator, mother and Sikh American thought leader who founded the Revolutionary Love Project , which inspires and equips people to ground their lives and social justice work in the ethic of love, in order that everyone can have a role in creating a future where we are all safe and free to flourish.

Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women’s nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.

Tanaya Winder is an author, singer / songwriter, poet, motivational speaker and educator who comes from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Diné and Duckwater Shoshone Nations where she is an enrolled citizen. She works in the domains of youth & women empowerment, healing trauma through art, creative writing workshops, and mental wellness advocacy.

Rivera Sun is a change-maker, a cultural creative, a protest novelist, and an advocate for nonviolence and social justice. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection trilogy, The Way Between trilogy for young people and other novels. She is the editor of Nonviolence News. Her study guide to making change with nonviolent action is used by activist groups across the country.

Scilla Elworthy is a peace builder, and the founder of the Oxford Research Group, a non-governmental organisation she set up in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, for which she was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Lyla June Johnston is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her personal mission is to grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper and to support and empower indigenous youth.

Akilah Richards is passionate about mindful partnerships and conscious parenting. She uses audio and written mediums to amplify the ways that unschooling in particular, is serving as healing grounds and liberation work for Black, Indigenous/Native, and People of Color communities. By unschooling, she means shedding the programming and habits that resulted from other people’s agency over one’s time, body, thoughts, or actions, and designing and practicing beliefs that align with a desire to thrive, be happy, and succeed.