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Alejandro Aguilera
International Green Solidarity: A Discussion with Greens from Around the World
Alejandro Aguilera is a Deputy in the Venezuelan National Assembly representing the Ecological Movement of Venezuela. He is also a Deputy representing Venezuela in the Parlasur, the parliament of Mercosur, the Southern Common Market.
He is General Secretary for the Ecological Movement of Venezuela and has served as Executive Co-President of the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas and the Lead Representative for the Americas on the Global Greens Coordination.
He is also a civil engineer and lawyer.
Ali Abunimah
Ali Hasan Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist who advocates a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. A resident of Chicago who contributes regularly to publications such as the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, he has served as the vice-president on the board of directors of the Arab American Action Network, is a fellow at the Palestine Center, and is the executive director and a co-founder of The Electronic Intifada website.
He has appeared on many television discussion programs on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and other networks, and in a number of documentaries about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including Collecting Stories from Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948 (1999). In 2014, he published The Battle for Justice in Palestine, which won the Palestine Book Award General Prize.
Alison Lam
International Green Solidarity: A Discussion with Greens from Around the World
As a scholar and activist focusing on the convergence of global climate negotiations and Green political theories, Alison is in a unique position both academically and professionally to conduct her research. Now in the third year of her doctoral studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, she focuses on the intersections of participatory democracy, ecological and social justice.
Within the Green Party of Canada, she serves as the Critic for Intergovernmental Affairs, Women and Gender on the Shadow Cabinet as well as Co-Chair of the International Secretariat. Her initiatives include policy proposals to rescind the Natural Resources Transfer Acts, creation of the party platform supporting the decriminalization of sex work, and the relaunch of the Women’s Caucus with mentorship and peer support programs.
Internationally, she represents the Federación de Partidos Verdes de las Américas (FPVA) on Global Greens Coordination and is the Co-Coordinator of the Global Greens Climate Working Group, organizing annual delegations to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP), including COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
Andres Jinete
Immigration and Latinos in the Workforc
Andres Jinete is a tenant union organizer, community activist and candidate for the 12th Congressional District in New Jersey. Before his candidacy, Andres helped build and expand Rapid Response in Central Jersey, supporting families targeted by ICE, and connecting businesses, nonprofits and religious institutions.
His campaign calls for rent control, universal healthcare and the elimination of student debt. In addition, he is a staunch supporter of the Abolish ICE and BDS movements.
Anita Rios
Andruil and ongoing toxic waste contamination in Appalachia
Barbara Dahlgren
Housing actions to plant giveaways - Mutual Aid
Since 2010 Barbara Dahlgren has been a Green volunteer and currently serves as Secretary of the Greater Milwaukee Green Party (GMGP) in addition to raising her small children. She was an elected official for 8 years as a delegate to the Wisconsin Conservation Congress. She is also a volunteer master gardener who founded the GMGP garden committee.
Barry Bendar
Fighting ICE / Detention Centers
Briahna Joy Gray
Briahna Joy Gray is an American political commentator, lawyer, and political consultant. After writing for The Intercept in 2018 she started her political career as the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. She co-hosted The Hill's web program Rising from September 2022 to June 2024.
She is the host of the Bad Faith podcast.
Bryan Lamble
Monetary Transformation for People, Planet & Peace
Bryan Lamble joined the Green Party in November '24 after finally relinquishing the belief that the 2-party duopoly could self-correct. Bryan is a co-coordinator of GreensKC (The Kansas City Chapter of the Missouri Green Party), and its Chapter Representative to the MOGP Coordinating Committee.
Along with other members of GreensKC, he has launched a podcast (and YT channel) called The Greater Good, the purpose of which is to begin a proactive conversation about how authentic, messy democracy is the only tool powerful enough to allow us to save ourselves from end-of-empire ruination.
Butch Ware
What's Next for the Green Party
Professor Butch Ware is a lifelong activist, world-renowned historian, and a bold candidate for Governor of California. He’s spent over two decades putting scholarship in service of liberation—organizing teach-ins, building grassroots education, and standing on the front lines against genocide, imperialism, and racial injustice. From Gaza to George Floyd’s Minneapolis, Ware has shown what it means to lead with truth and moral clarity.
Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Minneapolis, Butch earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught at Northwestern, the University of Michigan, and UC Santa Barbara. As a leading voice on Africa, Islam, and the U.S. Black Radical Tradition, he brings unmatched depth, integrity, and vision to the political arena.
Rooted in African, Indigenous, and Abrahamic traditions, Ware’s campaign is about building a just, peaceful, and sustainable future for all Californians—one where communities thrive, not just survive. He’s not a politician playing the game. He’s a movement builder, a truth-teller, and a revolutionary educator stepping up to lead California with courage.
This isn’t just another campaign. This is a call to rise.
Cam Gordon
Keynote Address: The Imperative & Opportunity of local politics
Cam Gordon is an American politician who was a Green Party member of the Minneapolis City Council from 2006 to 2022.
He was a co-founder of the Green Party of Minnesota and has been called "the most prominent Green elected official in the US."
Cheri Honkala
Housing actions to plant giveaways - Mutual Aid
Cheri Honkala is director and co-founder of the Poor People's Army/Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign which focuses on uniting people to abolish poverty. She has run for Vice President in 2012 with Jill Stein, Sheriff of Philadelphia, and PA District 197.
She continues to be America's leading housing advocate, and recently authored "Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing" with PPEHRC.
Chris Smalls
Chuck Fall
Advancing issues that can grow our ranks
Building a Grass-Roots Democracy
Chuck Fall is a retired school teacher, following employment as a food server, and workers' compensation claims examiner. His chief passion is the fight for justice, ecological integrity, and building a movement that can preserve our civil rights.
While at college in Portland Oregon, in a Philosophy of Anarchism class, he was introduced to the ideas of Murray Bookchin, a proponent for the transformation of society into a post capitalist, ecological one, based on egalitarian and communal values of mutual aid and solidarity for all.
Craig Cayetano
What's Next for the Green Party
Craig Cayetano is currently a co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. Craig is also the Communications Chair of the Green Party of New Jersey where he also served previously as co-chair of his state party.
Craig has run for local office several times in Hawthorne, N.J. for town council Ward 3 and council at-large. He received 33% of the vote in his last race in 2023. He worked on numerous Green Party campaigns since joining in 2016.
Craig's commitment to democratizing elections led him to become one of the co-founding members of Voter Choice New Jersey.
Craig has served his community through membership on the Hawthorne Green Team and is a Board Member of the Passaic County SPCA. During the pandemic he started Mutual Passaic County to provide assistance and support to neighbors in need.
Craig Mokiber
Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and activist and a former senior United Nations human rights official. A human rights activist in the 1980s, he would go on to serve for more than three decades at the United Nations, with postings in Switzerland, Palestine, Afghanistan, and UN Headquarters in New York, undertaking dozens of human rights missions to countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
In October of 2023, he left the United Nations, penning a widely read letter criticizing the UN’s human rights failures in the Middle East, warning of unfolding genocide in Gaza, and calling for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on international law, human rights, and equality.
Cyn Muthoni
International Green Solidarity: A Discussion with Greens from Around the World
Cyn Muthoni has been a member of the Young Greens of England and Wales executive committee for the past two years, and currently serves as the International Officer. She is also an elected Local Councillor in Oxfordshire in England.
Her education includes a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a Master’s Degree in Climate Change and International Development.
Before becoming an active member of the Green Party of England and Wales, she had a passion for anti-racism campaigning and her efforts landed her the UK Parliament’s Petitioner of the Year Award.
Darren Broering
Daryl Davis
Andruil and ongoing toxic waste contamination in Appalachia
Dee Taylor
Dee Taylor has been a longtime member of the Green Party of Utah, where she has held leadership positions, run for office, and been elected to municipal office. Nationally, Dee has served as co-chair of the Green Party’s National Women’s
Caucus, co-chair of the Annual National Meeting Committee, and helped form the Green Elders Caucus, along with holding other leadership roles on various committees of the Green Party of the United States over the last two and a half decades. Dee believes the Green Party is the only political organization with a platform capable of transforming the current political system and fostering a global movement for social change.
Eyde Arndell
Eyde Arndell is a proud Green running to be the next Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. Born and raised in the Midwest, she comes from a working class background. Eyde understands what it means to put in a long, hard day and is dedicated to serving Illinois!
Eyde is a cofounder of the March for Medicare All, she successfully organized 56 marches all across the country in July of 2021. Her experience speaks to her capability to get things done. She’s knocked doors, petitioned, organized events, volunteered for campaigns and canvassed to get out the vote. Eyde currently serves on the Green Party Media Committee, is an organizer for the state party, the Secretary of her local chapter – the Shawnee Greens and the host of the Green Livestream – the official ILGP Podcast.
As a very active member of the Carbondale community, Eyde has developed solid working relationships with many diverse groups in her city and throughout the state. Illinois needs real change not half measures and empty talk. Vote for Eyde Arndell as your next Lt. Governor, she will serve the people and not the billionaire class.
Fight Back Coalition
The Uhuru 3 and The Fight for Anti-Colonial Free Speech! Repeal the Foreign Agent Registration Act!
Gabriel Medina
Immigration and Latinos in the Workforce
Gabriel Medina made local history in 2024 as the first Green Party candidate elected to the PVUSD Board, defeating a MAGA-aligned incumbent. He ran on a bold platform centering student rights, labor solidarity, and community power. His vision includes creating a Student Bill of Rights, expanding ethnic and Chicano studies, integrating dual enrollment with Cabrillo College, and transitioning the district to a 4-day school week.
With a background in Chicano studies from UCLA and a Master’s in Film Producing and from USC, Gabriel applies a scholar-activist lens to board governance—challenging neoliberal contracts, opposing police presence on campus, and fighting for transparent budgets. He’s been a vocal critic of district leadership for suppressing community-led agenda items, cutting culturally responsive programs like Barrios Unidos, and allowing School Resource Officers (SROs) to cite students without parental consent.
Beyond the boardroom, Gabriel is a filmmaker, educator, and community organizer dedicated to building political awareness through media, mutual aid, and public storytelling. He stands firmly with Palestine, supports local farmworker struggles, and consistently calls for accountability from corporate agribusiness in the region.
For Gabriel, Green politics means practicing solidarity, not just talking about it. His activism is grounded in lived experience, not political convenience.
Galen Tyler
Housing actions to plant giveaways
Galen Tyler is a formerly homeless father that has been a longtime member and national organizer with Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. Originally from Virginia, Galen is a veteran of the U.S. Army and got involved with Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) and PPEHRC when he and his family were homeless due to foreclosure.
He is previous Executive Director of KWRU and currently the Life Coach at New Jerusalem Now recovery community, where he helps individuals find themselves on their path towards healing themselves and society.
Galen has helped housing thousands of families, coordinates food distribution, and is a leader in political education. Galen has traveled internationally to meet with poor people’s movements in India, Cambodia, Thailand, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Spain, Columbia, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and the Netherlands. He has appeared in numerous films such as August in the Empire State, Battle for Broad, Outriders, and Flesh and Blood.
Galen is a founding member and President of the Cheri Honkala Community Center, based in Kensington. Galen has been on the GP Philadelphia City Committee for last 9 years, and Chair of that committee for 2 of those years.
Gloria Mattera
Gloria Mattera has been a member of the Green Party since 2001. Coming to the Green Party through the Nader campaign, Gloria has been involved in building a left, political independent movement since the mid 90's as a leader in the Labor Party New York Metro Chapter.
She has served as a coordinating member of System Change Not Climate Change and is a founding member of Left Elect.
Haig Hovaness
Organizing for Peace: A Guide for Peace Activists
Haig Hovaness is a peace activist with a professional background in information technology. He has written and presented on defense and peace issues. He is the Co-Chair of the Green Party Peace Action Committee (GPAX).
Holly Hart
Candidate Cafe
Holly Hart has extensive experience at the local and state level politics and initiatives. She sought and gained bi-partisan legislative support for an expanded ballot status option bill in 2001-2003, and served as a consultant in a related Green/Libertarian lawsuit successfully settled out of court, allowing voters the option to register as members of third parties. She was also a consultant in a successful lawsuit expanding the right to collect candidate petition signatures in public and certain private spaces.
Holly has served on the Iowa City Housing and Community Development Commission and on the Secretary of State’s HAVA Task Force. She coordinated ballot access petitioning in her state for the Green presidential candidates since the early 2000’s.
She oversaw or assisted with ballot filing paperwork nationally for several presidential campaigns. Holly was also the IAGP candidate for Lt Gov in 2002. (Slate was endorsed by the statewide Latino weekly "El Communicador.”)
Holly has served as a volunteer with several local campaigns, including campaign treasurer. She was also a panelist on women in electoral politics program (the only representative of a third party), presented by the University of Iowa Women's Resource and Action Center. Holly is a member of Iowans for Voting Integrity; Iowans for Palestine; local Single-Payer Action; PEACE Iowa, Food and Water Watch and Better Ballots Iowa.
Howie Hawkins
International Green Solidarity: A Discussion with Greens from Around the World
Howie Hawkins is a retired Teamster in Syracuse, New York. He has been active movements for civil rights, peace, labor, and the environment since the late 1960s. He participated in the Greens' first national organizing meeting in August 1984, was the first U.S. candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010, and was the Greens’ presidential nominee in 2020.
His articles on politics, economics, and the environment have appeared in Against the Current, Black Agenda Report, CounterPunch, Green Left, Labor Notes, New Green Horizons, New Politics, Tempest, Z Magazine, and other publications. He has published two books: Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate (2006) and The Case for an Independent Left Party: From the Bottom Up (2020).
Jacqui Deveneau
Green Party Women Around the World
Women at the Frontlines: Climate Justice, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Jacqui Deveneau is retired living in Portland, Maine on Wabanaki land. She became a member of the Green Party in 2000 when she lived in Cocoa Beach, Florida and worked on Ralph Nader's run for President. She returned to her family home in 2001 when her Mother passed to take care of her Father and get the family home ready to sell. Then in September of 2001 she moved to Maine and joined the Maine Green Party.
After years of doing Party work and attending, as a National Delegate, the Green Party ANMs and Presential Conventions, she is now the Chair of the Cumberland County Green Committee and Senior Advisor to the Maine State Committee, as well as still on the National Committee and has also been on the SC of the Global Green Women's Network. She is also on the National Women's Caucus, Animal Right's Committee, ANM Committee, GPAX and one of the founding members of the forming Elder's Caucus.
At 76 she has devoted 26 years to the Green Party.
Jaime Navarro
International Green Solidarity: A Discussion with Greens from Around the World
Jaime Navarro Wolff is Secretary General of the Green Alliance of Colombia and Co-President of the Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas.
Jason Salley
Andruil and ongoing toxic waste contamination in Appalachia
Jay Ting Walker (he/him)
Green Party of Allegheny County, 9 years of party building
By day, Jay Ting Walker (he/him) is a Community Organizer at a Pennsylvania environmental non-profit Clean Air Council. By night, Jay is a proud member of the Green Party of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh DSA, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, and Bike Pittsburgh. Jay serves as one of the Green Party of Pennsylvania’s delegates to the GPUS National Committee.
He studied Biology and Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he was active in environmental activism. In his free time, Jay is passionate about ultimate frisbee, board games, Age of Empires 2, and watching soccer.
Jennifer Sullivan
Why Proportional Representation Matters
Jennifer Sullivan has been a Green since 1996 and has been involved in every single one of our 4 Pillars. Her particular interest has been "Democracy" because she has determined that the USA does not actually have it! What this country has is 50 states and a national government each with varying types of voter suppression.
Sullivan has lobbied for 100% Public Funding for all Elections in both houses in DC, sponsored an event at the National Press Club on this topic, worked for IRV/RCV, single payer systems and open debates. Until Florida got even more draconian, she was a designated registrater of voters.
Jesse Nevel
Jill Stein
What's Next for the Green Party
Jill Stein is a physician, an environmental health advocate and an organizer. In 2006, she transitioned from clinical medicine into “political medicine” to help heal "the mother of all illnesses”, our sick political system that’s literally killing us.
She was the Green Party presidential candidate in 2012, 2016 and 2024, where as ran the only pro-worker, anti-war, anti-genocide, climate emergency campaign on the ballot for a majority of voters. That work resulted in the Green Party emerging as the leading people-powered political alternative, receiving over five times the vote count of the next biggest non-corporate alternative.
This work continues now with greater urgency than ever in building the Green Party and laying foundations for solidarity and collaboration across people-powered parties and independents. We have nothing less than a moral responsibility to keep building political momentum to end genocide, dismantle empire, overcome oligarchy & fight fascism.
Joanna Jurdi
Women at the Frontlines: Climate Justice, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
An architect with a Masters of Science in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, with 15+ years of experience in architectural design and project development, holding the purpose of creating sustainable, well adapted environmentally viable regenerative systems in human design furthermore pushing boundaries to new possibilities of ”create conditions conducive to Life”
Johanna Epke
Why Proportional Representation Matters
Johanna Epke (she/her): Johanna is the director of Build & Fight, a 501(c)4 launched in 2025 to democratize elections, the economy, and the law. She is a movement lawyer with twenty years experience fighting for climate justice, democratic elections, and the abolition of corporate rights.
Prior to launching Build & Fight, Johanna practiced environmental law for a nonprofit firm in Boston and was general counsel for a major campaign finance reform organization. She serves on the board of directors of the US Solidarity Economy Network, and ProRep, the proportional representation campaign in California.
John Spritzler
Building a Grass-Roots Democracy
John Spritzler is a retired Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, the father of three, and editor of PDRBoston.org that advocates egalitarianism.
JT Cestkowski
JT Cestkowski is a reporter for StatusCoup covering corruption, workers’ struggles, corporate power, grassroots movements. Independent, on-the-ground accountability journalism.
Kalia Fitzgerald
Graphics and Engagement for Social Media
Kalia currently serves as Co‑Chair of the Black Caucus of the NCGP, and is a member of the NCGP Coordinating Committee, Candidate Endorsement Committee, Candidate Support Team, Media Committee, Membership Committee, and NCGP Spokesperson. She is the campaign manager for Michael Dublin, who ran for US House District 2 in 2024 and has committed to run again in 2026. She also represents the NCGP on the Steering Committee of the People's Power Coalition.
On the GPUS national side, Kalia is a national delegate for the North Carolina Green Party and serves on the Annual National Meeting Committee (ANMC), National Black Caucus, National Media Committee, Credentials Committee, Dispute Resolution Committee, Presidential Campaign Support Committee, and the Coordinated Campaign Committee (as NC Liaison/Volunteer).
Beyond formal leadership, Kalia shows up. She attends protests, rallies, vigils, and community actions—because building a just world means being present. And every Sunday at 6 PM EST, she hosts Green Party Tea on YouTube, where she interviews candidates and Green Party members, shares news from across the states, and recently launched a monthly “National Committee Corner” to engage delegates with reminders about upcoming proposals, discussions, and votes.
Kevin McCormick
Monetary Transformation for People, Planet & Peace
I am running in the 2026 election as the Green Party candidate for Texas Lieutenant Governor. In 2016, I ran for U.S. Representative for the 24th District of Texas as a Green Party candidate.
I received my Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1986. Most recently, I was a high school math teacher at Jefferson High School in San Antonio.
I have tentatively retired and now my wife and I live in the Lindale area of east Texas.
Kit Cabello
Kshama Sawant
Most of the time, working people have no political representation under capitalism. It’s the worst kept secret in the world. A plurality of Americans believe neither the Democrats nor the Republicans represent them. The approval ratings of both Trump and Congressional Democrats are in the gutter.
In stark contrast, for a decade in Seattle, working people had one independent representative who fought for them. Former socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant led movements to win historic victories, including the highest minimum wage of any major city in the country (now $20.76/hour), the Amazon Tax to fund affordable housing, a slew of landmark renters’ rights laws, the nation’s strongest resolution against the genocide in Gaza, and much more. Unlike virtually every other politician in the country, Kshama kept her promises.
Lawyers for Nature
Embedding the Voice of Nature in Green Party Governance Structures
Directors Paul Powlesland, Brontie Ansell, and Jessie Mond Wedd represent Lawyers Nature, a community interest company with a unique approach—to reimagine the law and create systemic change so that life on Earth, in its many forms, may thrive. Lawyers for Nature believes in a future where Nature is valued, respected, and provided with the legal protections it needs to flourish. They work to reshape legal systems to protect the natural world, fostering regenerative, ecocentric systems that contribute to climate rebalance and serve all life. They operate at the forefront of this paradigm shift, ensuring Nature has a voice in critical decision-making processes. They work across sectors to embed Nature's voice into governance structures, driving deep systems change, while educating people about this movement so they too can embody a world where Nature has rights.
Lily Benavides
Immigration and Latinos in the Workforce
Fighting ICE / Detention Centers
Lizzie Wood
Embedding the Voice of Nature in Green Party Governance Structures
Lizzie serves the Green Party of Florida as a board member and GPFL’s first Nature Director. She serves on the Green Party U.S. National, International, and Peace Action Committees. She forwarded the Rights of Nature addition to the GPUS National Platform and has organized state, national, and Global Green events on Rights of Nature and Antarctic Rights.
Lucy Kagendo Mbae
Green Party Women Around the World
Women at the Frontlines: Climate Justice, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Lucy Kagendo Mbae is a passionate environmentalist, Gender Secretary at the Green Congress of Kenya (since 2016), CEO at Be Well and Green Network and Secretary at Global Greens, with extensive experience working with organizations that advocate for climate change mitigation, adaptation, and food security.
As the founder of the Adopt A Tree Initiative, she plays a significant role in simplifying climate change education for young learners and empowering them to develop and share solutions for the climate crisis, which promotes climate awareness, recycling, clean air advocacy, and children and youth engagement in climate spaces. With her strong background in program development and implementation, she coordinates initiatives that bring policy and grassroots actions, where she has actively contributed to global climate discussions.
Through her work, she continues advocating for inclusivity and actionable solutions in Kenya and on global platforms.
Luke Adams
Madelyn Hoffmann
Organizing for Peace: A Guide for Peace Activists
Madelyn Hoffman is an environmentalist and peace activist. Madelyn served as the director of New Jersey Peace Action from 2000 to 2018 and has been a prominent figure in the Green Party, running as their candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018 and 2020, and for Governor of New Jersey in 1997 and 2021.
Maria Paz Ordonez
International Green Solidarity: A Discussion with Greens from Around the World
Maria Paz Ordonez is an indigenous Ecuadoran activist who was a lead organizer for the successful 2023 national referendum to ban oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon forest where indigenous groups live.
She worked on the 2014 Green Party campaign of Howie Hawkins for New York Governor while attending the SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry in Syracuse, New York.
Marie Therese
Women at the Frontlines: Climate Justice, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Eng. Dr. Marie Therese Merhej Seif is a Member of the Political Board of the Green Party of Lebanon (GPL), where she champions a green political vision rooted in ecological responsibility, social justice, transparency, and inclusive decision-making. Within the party, she works to advance climate resilience, renewable energy, sustainable cities, and biodiversity protection, while placing gender equality at the heart of environmental policy and governance.
She also serves as UNEP's Regional Facilitator for Major Groups and Stakeholders (MGS) for the West Asia Region, representing civil society perspectives in UNEP regional processes and strengthening dialogue between stakeholders, governments, and environmental actors.
A committed advocate for women's leadership, Marie Therese is Gender Focal Point for the Arab Region within the Arab Network for Environment and Development (RAED), promoting gender-responsive climate policy across Arab civil society. She is a member of the UNEP Women's Major Group and the IPEN Women's Caucus, and was elected to the G100 Global Network of Women Leaders, representing the Environment, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Oceans sector.
A Lebanese architect with a PhD in Forestry Engineering and Sustainable Development, and President of the Human Environmental Association for Development (HEAD), Marie Therese continues to bridge green politics, environmental governance, and women's leadership—building a more just, sustainable, and gender-equal Lebanon and Arab region.
Marlon Duran
Fighting ICE / Detention Centers
Matthew Pillischer
Matthew Pillischer is Educational Coordinator and an organizer with Poor People’s Army (aka Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign). Poor People’s Army heavily focuses their political education on economic changes occurring due to automation, robotics, A.I., and biotech, how these revolutionary tools are impacting social relations, how the ruling class is implementing fascism to adjust to these changes, and opportunities it affords our class to takeover and create a cooperative economy and society.
Matt organizes Poor People’s Army educational meetings, schools, bootcamps, and networking gatherings across the U.S. He also coordinates 2-3 weekly zoom “revolutionary analysis and strategy sessions” for people in 25+ states.
Matt contributed to the writing and editing of various Poor People’s Army pamphlets on the subject of automation, as well as their recent book, Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing. Matt is a JD, a filmmaker, a dad, and has been with Poor People’s Army since 2018.
Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK, fearless advocate for peace, justice and human rights, leading the charge against militarism and the obscene $1.5 trillion military budget. Medea is renown for confronting members of congress about their loyalty to Israel and AIPAC.
She has recently returned from a trip delivering humanitarian aid to the Cuban people who are being starved by the US blockade.
For this, CODEPINK is being investigated by the US Treasury Department. Medea will share strategies for fighting the US blockade and impending assault on Cuba. More generally, she’ll share ways to mobilize against imperialism, oligarchy, ICE and the stranglehold of duopoly.
Michael Cooper
Candidate Cafe
Located in Portage, home to the Indiana Dunes National Park, Michael Cooper is an active member of the Northwest Indiana Green Party where he coordinates the communications team that maintains the NWIGreenParty.org website and the monthly e-news letter.
Mike Feinstein
Mike Feinstein serves as the Elections Database Manager, Green Party of the United States
He is the former Green Mayor and City Councilmember, Santa Monica, CA and Co-founder of the Green Party of California.
Mike has served as a former Co-chair, Green Party of the United States and was the 2018 Green candidate for California Secretary of State.
Natalie Kopytko
International Green Solidarity: A Discussion with Greens from Around the World
Natalie Kopytko is a lecturer in sustainability at Leeds University in the UK. She conducted research for her PhD on climate resilience in Ukraine’s agri-food sector prior and during the Maidan Revolution (2010-2015).
Using a participant-driven method, the research focus became about dissatisfaction with the corruption of the Yanukovych government. This sentiment was expressed by farmers, environmentalists, civil servants and civic society. Many of her research participants live under russian occupation in Kherson oblast.
Natalie was drawn to the topic for a variety of reasons including coming from a family of Ukrainian Canadian farmers. She first visited Ukraine for a class on Chornobyl and nuclear power, while completing graduate studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. This visit ‘inspired’ her research on climate impacts to safe nuclear power operation.
Currently, Natalie is chair of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign in the UK, one of the founding members of UCU (University and College Union) for Ukraine, and active in the Green Ukraine Solidarity group of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Natalie Reyes
Immigration and Latinos in the Workforce
Natalie J. Reyes is a first-generation Latina activist and policy researcher whose work is rooted in the immigrant experience. Growing up in Los Angeles as the daughter of Central American migrants, she witnessed firsthand the systemic discrimination and indifference faced by her community. These early observations fueled her lifelong commitment to social justice, prompting her to challenge who is truly seen and valued in American society.
Today, as Co-Chair of the Latino Caucus, Natalie continues to advocate for systemic change through strategic communication. Her philosophy is built on mutual solidarity: she believes that by showing up for one another, we ultimately protect our own freedoms and collective future.
Navia Fahed
Green Party Women Around the World
Women at the Frontlines: Climate Justice, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Navia Fahed is a Lebanese environmental advocate, civil society leader, and political activist, associated with numerous green NGOs and sustainability initiatives. I am the Founder of Green Wave Lebanon and a Political Bureau Member of the Green Party of Lebanon, actively promoting environmental governance, social justice, women’s empowerment, and sustainable development.
Navia is Global Green Women Representative, Asia Pacific Green Federation Women Representative, and Deputy Co-Convenor, contributing to international cooperation, women’s political leadership, and policy dialogue across regional and global green networks. "With extensive involvement in community development, humanitarian action, civic engagement, and environmental advocacy, I work to advance inclusive, resilient, and sustainable solutions for communities. I am committed to strengthening cross-cultural collaboration, advancing gender equality, and supporting responsible leadership at local, regional, and international levels."
Nick Cruse
Penny Hess
The Uhuru 3 and The Fight for Anti-Colonial Free Speech! Repeal the Foreign Agent Registration Act
Penny Hess Penny is the author of the book, Overturning the Culture of Violence. She is the chair and a founding member of the African People's Solidarity Committee under the leadership of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP). A member of APSC for 50 years Penny fights for white solidarity with and reparations to African people.
Along with her leadership, APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Penny is one of the Uhuru 3 that as well as Jesse Nevel, chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. The Uhuru 3 were raided, indicted and put on trial solely for their words. The Uhuru 3 advocate for the right to "anti-colonial free speech."
Philena Farley
Black Economic Boycotts in the Crisis Era, Lessons and a Plan
Philena Farley is a Green Party activist, GenX Oracle. She blends tech literacy with grassroots organizing, helping Greens explore ethical, movement‑aligned uses of emerging tools for fundraising, voter engagement, and political education. As a host and presenter, Philena brings an intuitive, relational style grounded in the SEED framework and the Green Party’s core values of ecology, social justice, grassroots democracy, and nonviolence
Rachel Braaten
Fighting ICE / Detention Centers
Richard Gomez
Immigration and Latinos in the Workforce
Riley Mahon (he/him)
Green Party of Allegheny County, 9 years of party building
Riley Mahon (he/him) is a full-time student at Point Park University where he studies political science and serves as the president of the Student Government Association and the Point Park chapter of Young Eco-Socialists. He is currently serving as the Working Groups Coordinator of the Green Party of Allegheny and has previously served as the Neighborhood Groups Coordinator, Vice-Chair, and Chair.
Rita Jacobs
Advancing issues that can grow our ranks
Roger Waters
Fundraiser
Roger Waters, the legendary co-founder of the rock band Pink Floyd, is a musician, songwriter, and activist known for his powerful critiques of war, injustice, and oppression. Beyond his iconic music, he advocates for Palestinian rights, speaks out against global militarism, and uses art as a force for human rights and freedom.
As part of a “conversation with Roger Waters” interview (by zoom), we’ll explore his trajectory from architecture student to musician to peace activist and international force for human rights.
Rozlyn Tousignant
Planting Seeds for Future Growth
Rozlyn Tousignant is a civic-engagement expert with more than a decade of experience at the municipal level of government. Rozlyn holds a Masters of Public Administration from Hamline University and is passionate about leveraging resources and establishing systems to improve efficiencies.
Sabrina Mendoza Malavé
Sabrina Mendoza Malavé is a Venezuelan artist who addresses the socio-political situation in Venezuela, offering a critical perspective on imperialist power structures and their impact on the population.
In her works, she intertwines her poems with visual references to historical events in Venezuela, protest movements, political polarisation, propaganda, national symbolism and much more. In this way, she fights against the cognitive war waged against Venezuela. Her aim is to promote social awareness, celebrate Venezuelan culture and honour the country’s resilience in the face of adversity.
Safia Mahjebin
Muslims Going Green: Visions from the Political Margins
Safia Mahjebin is the former Chair of the Cook County Green Party and local organizer of the ANM in Chicago this year. She comes to the Green Party from the students encampments at the University of Chicago (may it be cursed for its blood soaked profits) where she traded in text to meet the needs of the moment as an anti-war and anti-racism activist.
She continues to organize and construct with comrades wherever she can find them, whilst making time to create art along the way.
Sam Husseini
Organizing for Uniting for peace: Confronting Israel with the Genocide Convention to Overcome the US Veto at the UN
Sam Husseini writes at husseini.substack.com. He wrote extensively about the possibility of a country invoking the Genocide Convention against Israel prior to South Africa doing it and was in South Africa for over five weeks earlier this year. He is considering running for Congress in Maryland's 4th Congressional District against Glenn "AIPAC" Ivey.
Husseini is founder of VotePact.org which encourages people from the left and right to pair up and vote for anti-establishment candidates rather than cancelling out each other's votes by continuing to vote for genocidal Democrats and Republicans. He is also starting PapersProject.com which aims to platform creative PDF flyers. He is senior analyst at the Institute for Public Accuracy.
Scott Free
Seth Piper
International Green Solidarity: A Discussion with Greens from Around the World.
Seth Piper (he/him) has worked with Greens around the world, including the Norwegian, Swedish, and England & Wales parties as well as the Global Greens.
He has a decade of strategic and operative experience with successful election campaigns, fundraising, and communications, including as campaign manager and consultant for Oslo Greens, where the party has broken through with a double-digit vote share.
Shirine El Jurdi
Shirine El Jurdi is an international peacebuilding, mediation, security governance, and disarmament specialist with more than 20 years of experience designing and leading policy dialogue, civilian protection, Women, Peace and Security (WPS), climate, peace and security, and gender-responsive arms control initiatives across Lebanon, the MENA region, and global policy forums.
She is the Co-Founder of WISELY, an initiative dedicated to mediation, negotiation, policy innovation, knowledge production, parliamentary engagement, and regional partnerships to advance WPS, civilian protection, and disarmament. She serves on the International Board of Control Arms, is a Steering Committee Member of the Arab Feminist Network, a member of the MENA Feminists Taskforce of the Women and Gender Constituency, and previously served on the International Board of WILPF. Her work bridges international policy frameworks including the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons (PoA), the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, and the Climate, Peace and Security agenda—with locally led action through research, mediation, dialogue, strategic partnerships, and parliamentary engagement.
She further developed the Youth, Women+ (YW+) Leadership model by bringing together young women leaders and women from Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian communities to strengthen inclusive peacebuilding, mediation, and security governance.
Stephen Young
Fighting ICE / Detention Centers
Tom Rodman
Monetary Transformation for People, Planet & Peace
Valielza Huynh-O'keefe
Project Matcha - A 5 Year Horizon for Greens to Build Local Power Amongst Millennials and Gen Z
Wissam Charafeddine
Universal Declaration of Human Values
How to Use Basecamp for Green Party Success
Wissam Charafeddine is an Arab American Thinker, Activist, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, and Engineer. He has a Masters Degree in Software Engineering from the University of Michigan Dearborn,. He is the Family and Community Engagement Liaison at HES School District.He is a published poet, with four published works: The Opposite Swings, Climbing Leaves, Pains, and the Book of Paris.
He is also the author of the Awaited Arab State, the awaited confederation project of the Arab World, Universal Declaration of Human Values, and A Dialogue – A Universe from Void. Wissam is also a hyper-entrepreneur, and a founder of multiple nonprofit organizations. In addition to his academic background, he has an extensive background in Islamic Studies and activism, and Arabic history and identity issues.
Zikomo Smith
Project Matcha - A 5 Year Horizon for Greens to Build Local Power Amongst Millennials and Gen Z
Zikomo Smith, an organizer in Chicago, is passionate about building broad coalitions amongst the Left. Zikomo is a founding member of the Solidarity Now Collective , a collective of Left organizers across the USA that's main goal is coalition building to strengthen the Left's communication and power amongst orgs.
A dues paying member of the Green Party, Solidarity now and DSA. Zikomo is also a professional engineer , a hip hop / open format DJ .
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