February 18th was the
Big Vision Podcast's One Year Anniversary. Wahoo!
I have just loved talking with all 19 of these amazing people about their activism, what path brought them to their work, and their advice for others. If you haven't already, I encourage you to listen to, or read their stories, and contact them if you want to get involved.
Here they are, in the order I interviewed them:

Alli Chagi-Starr, Co-Founder, Art in Action / Art & Media Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights’ Reclaim the Future Program
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Eric Fenster & Ari Derfel, Co-owners, Back to Earth
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Brahm Ahmadi, Executive Director, People's Grocery
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Mei-ying Ho, Co-Director of SOUL (School of Unity and Liberation)
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Abby Jaramillo (formerly Rosenheck), Executive Director of Urban Sprouts
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Ilyse Hogue when she was the Global Finance Campaign Director for Rainforest Action Network. Now she is the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org
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Steve Williams, Co-founder and Executive Director of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights)
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Anna Lappe, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and co-founder of the Small Planet Fund.
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Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P. Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland.
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Lisa Russ, Associate Director of the Movement Strategy Center
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Jonah Sachs, Principal of Free Range Studios
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Jessica Jackley Flannery, Co-Founder and Board Member of Kiva.org
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Ingrid Severson, Lead Organizer of the Rooftop Resources Project, a project of Bay Localize
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Melinda Kramer, Founder & Director, Women’s Earth Alliance (formerly Women's Global Green Action Network)
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Kevin Danaher, Co-founder of Global Exchange and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center
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Reem Rahim, Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of Numi Tea
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Jodie van Horn Freedom, Campaigner for Rainforest Action Network's Freedom From Oil campaign, and the Coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area
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Priya Haji, CEO and Co-founder of World of Good.
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What a collection! I've been meaning go back over the last two years of blogger interviews, but the idea scares me! Nice to aggregate in a post!
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