President of the Bullitt Foundation, Denis Hayes is transforming the Pacific Northwest into a model of sustainable development. Denis was the National Coordinator of the first Earth Day and has since expanded Earth Day to more than 180 nations, making it the world’s most widely-observed secular holiday. Under President Carter, Denis headed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and later served as professor of energy engineering at Stanford University. He chairs the board of trustees of the American Solar Energy Society and is immediate past chair of the Energy Foundation. Time magazine declared Denis a “Hero of the Planet.”

A leading voice in public interest law for more than thirty years, Nan Aron is President and Founder of Alliance for Justice, a national association of over 100 public interest and civil rights organizations. Nan guides the organization in its mission to advance the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community's influence on national policy and foster the next generation of advocates.

In 1985, Nan founded AFJ's Judicial Selection Project, now the country's premier voice for a fair and independent judiciary and a major player in the often-controversial judicial nominations process. Notable accomplishments include helping to defeat Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987; supporting the nomination of Roger Gregory, the first African American judge in the Fourth Circuit, in 2001; and organizing the effort that helped support ten Senate filibusters against President George W. Bush's most extreme judicial nominees.

In addition to increasing judicial advocacy, Nan has led Alliance for Justice to expand its programs to support the participation of nonprofit and foundation staff in public life. AFJ’s workshops, technical assistance and publications encourage lobbying, involvement in ballot measures and election activities. Nan has also developed advocacy training for young people through the creation of programs that educate and inspire students to engage in social justice activism, including producing more than a dozen award-winning films on immigration, courageous judges, and gun violence.

Nan is the author of Liberty and Justice for All: Public Interest Law in the 1980s and Beyond and has appeared as an expert in such media outlets as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Vanity Fair and National Public Radio. She is a frequent guest speaker at universities, law schools, corporations, nonprofits and foundations.

Prior to founding AFJ, Nan was a staff attorney for the ACLU's National Prison Project, where she challenged conditions in state prison systems through lawsuits in federal and state courts. As a trial attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she litigated race and sex discrimination cases against companies and unions.

Gerald Torres currently holds the Bryant Smith Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and is former President of the Association of American Law Schools. A 1977 graduate of the Yale Law School Torres has taught at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. Torres served as Counsel to the Attorney General on environmental matters and Indian affairs at the Department of Justice. Torres has served on the Board of the Environmental Law Institute, the EPA's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council as well as the National Petroleum Council. He is currently board chair of EarthDay Network and the Advancement Project.

Phil Radford has been serving as Greenpeace’s Executive Director for the last year. Before he took the position he worked for 6 years as the Grassroots Director. As Director, Radford built what has now become a thriving and strategic grassroots program, including online and on-the-ground organizing, student organizing and training, and a national street canvass program.

Before joining Greenpeace, Radford founded Power Shift, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating clean energy market breakthroughs. As executive director, he worked with the cities of San Diego, Chula Vista, Berkeley, and others to secure solar energy efficiency investments for municipal buildings. He also won a commitment from Citigroup to offer and market energy efficient mortgages to make solar and wind power affordable for American home owners.

Radford was always passionate about the environment and started his career as a door canvasser, fundraising for environmental issues. He grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. He has a degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and a certificate in Non-profit Management from Georgetown University.

U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA): Rep. Inslee has fought to restore protections for roadless areas in national forests. Since 2005, Jay has used his seat on the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee to promote his vision for a clean energy future, the New Apollo Energy Act, and to advance other legislation that would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In March 2007, he was appointed to the 15-member Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Jay recently co-authored a book on the clean-energy revolution with Bracken Hendricks entitled, Apollo’s Fire.

A Siegel is on the board of Energize America and The Energy Consensus. He blogs on questions of energy and climate at www.GetEnergySmartNow.com.