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Eric Nelson

Kathryn Playa

Stuart Muszynski

Kirsten McCormick

J. Fred Tone

Jenny Pinto

Jevon Wilkes

Sandra Sedgbeer

Marya Carr

Ryan Franks

Laurie Monopoli

LaDonna Bennett

Hal Stone, Ph.D. and Sidra Stone, Ph.D

Barbara Storper MS, RD

Susan Albers, Psy.D.

Terry Odendahl, CEO, Global Greengrants Fund

Sue Sigler, Executive Director of California Association of Food Banks

Sarah Gelb, Executive Director GrowingGreat

Corydon Ireland

Kathy Ryan

Noa Burger

Benjamin Goldfarb (AltUse.com Co-Founder and President, Technology)

Rachel Lloyd

ShelterBox

Rebecca Wood

Peggy Curry

Maria Shriver

John Podesta

Dr. Derrick S. Boone Sr.

Chet Tchozewski

Audrey Salzburg

Zakiya Harris

Jason Saul

Annie Leonard

Jason Mark

Enid Borden, President & CEO Meals On Wheels Association of America

Heather Boushey

Louise Hay

Nina Harada

Chuck Wielgus, CEO USA Swimming Foundation

Mary Alice Casalina, Vice President, Director of Schools, Project Love

Bracken Hendricks and Tom Kenworthy

Hilary Byerly

David Wolfe, JD

Maria Echaveste

Kate Gordon

Jessica Arons and Dorothy Roberts

Michael Allen

Gayle Smith

Chef Ann Cooper

Joy Chudacoff

Lauren S. Henry, President and Founder Brush Of Love

Eldonna Lewis-Fernandez

Brad Harrington and Jamie J. Ladge

Melissa Casey

Marcy Smith

Alli D. Seigel

Michael Lynton, Chairman & CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment

Lysa Heslov, Founder and Executive Director of Children Mending Hearts

Stella Kenyi

Andrew Light and Sean Pool

Stan Brock, RAM Founder

Susan J. Douglas

Melissa Lazarín, Associate Director of Education Policy

Marianne Simon

Dr. Michael Kimmel

Michael Muniz, Outreach and Events Coordinator for Generosity Water

Jamal Simmons

Moira Smiley

Renita Kalhorn

Ric O'Barry

Robert Reich Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley

Ashley Thorfinnson

Karen Smith Rotabi, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Joan Platz

Charles M. Payne, Ph.D.

Brian Katulis, Matthew Duss and Peter Juul

Bracken Hendricks and Tina Ramos

Kara Stewart

Zainab Salbi, Founder and CEO of Women for Women International

Bob Wise, President of the Alliance for Excellent Education

Daniel J. Weiss and Susan Lyon

Bernard J. Milano

Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin with Susan Pinkus and Kelly Daley

Sima J. Gandhi

Ken Yeager

Sarah Annes Brown

Gary Oppenheimer, AmpleHarvest.org Founder

Peter Kostishak, Director of Programs, Greengrants

Joy Moses

John Lippmann

Jonathan Erwin

Glynda-Lee Hoffmann

Marianne Williamson

John Norris and Andrew Sweet

Lester Brown

Eleanor Roosevelt

Jitinder Kohli

Joy Moses

Vivek Dharmaraj

Richard Florida

Joseph Robertson

Sara Laimon, Founder/Program Director of GreenAmbassadors.org

Mitchell D. Chester, Ed.D. Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education

T. Willard Fair, Chairman, Florida State Board of Education

Stanley S. Litow, IBM Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President of IBM International Foundation

Louis Lo Re, Director of Planned Giving of the Teachers College Columbia University

Ichiro Kano

Colin Beavan

Ray Thomson

David W. Orr

Krista J. Dunbar

Ellen-Marie Whelan

Eustace Conway

Mahmoud Jabari

Tamara Fisher

Art Smith

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The Playa Wire provides timely news and information to better the lives of children, caregivers and adults. This online magazine is a safe haven of articles, video and other content that will nourish, inspire and equip readers to affect real change.

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