Panama is an advisor for Karen Douglas, the Chairman at the CA Energy Commission where he advises her on climate change, land use, renewable energy, transmission, green building, and biofuels policy. He serves on the City of Sacramento’s Planning Commission and the County of Sacramento’s Environmental Commission. He is a board member on and Vice-President of the Northern California Chapter of the United States Green Building Council and the Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living. He previously worked for the California Conservation Corps on vocational environmental education and the Division of the State Architect where he ran the Sustainable Schools program. He is a graduate of Humboldt State University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Restorative Development and a Masters of Science in Community Development from UC Davis.

Lynda Resnick is Co-Chairman of the Roll International Corp. Dubbed the PomQueen for obvious reasons, thanks to the tireless marketing efforts of Lynda and her team at POM Wonderful, pomegranates are ubiquitous in our culture and their astonishing health benefits are well known. Lynda and her husband Stewart own Teleflora, the world’s largest floral service and floral products company, FIJI Water, Paramount Farms and Paramount Citrus Companies. Lynda continues to create and build successful brands for all their crops and companies, including the ground-breaking and healthy pistachio treat Everybody’s Nuts, Wonderful Pistachios and Cuties brand mandarin oranges. With marketing initiatives that were as differentiating as the brand itself, FIJI Water is now the largest imported bottled water brand in the United States.

Lynda reveals her secrets for creating memorable brands and pioneering fresh approaches to launch and promote them in her bestselling book, Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in your Business.

Luis Santana has a Masters degree in Social Work and extensive experience in administration, community organizing, counseling, outreach and recruitment, and professional development. He has worked as a missionary coordinating street outreach and mental health counseling efforts in South America.

In 1999, Luis joined a group of concerned citizens and established this organization and became its first Executive Director; a position he still occupying. Under his leadership Reading and Beyond was established and has flourished becoming a major force for Building Foundations for Children and Families.

In 2009, Luis became the first person in the Central Valley to receive the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.