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Advisory Board

Members of our Advisory Board have the important task of helping us to define what is green and sustainable and how we can best bring this information together in a way that engages the public. They will also help us select which workshops, education, entertainment, and outreach programs we will invite to participate on the March.

Justin Yuen - Founder of FMYI

Justin founded FMYI in 2004 with the vision of providing a communication and collaboration platform for sustainability initiatives. Before launching the company, Justin was a Senior Manager in Corporate Sustainable Development at Nike, Inc. His accomplishments included creating innovative organizational change programs, designing collaboration tools, building the business case for sustainability, and managing global employee training. He is currently Co-Chair of the City of Portland/Multnomah County's Sustainable Development Commission and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Natural Step Network. Justin is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Portland Parks Foundation and the Northwest Earth Institute.

 

Deanna Cohen

Deanna Cohen, hails from Seattle but spent 18 years working in the music and television business in Los Angeles.  Her work has included projects with: Paramount Pictures, Discovery Networks,  Universal Pictures, Sony Music,  CBS and Current TV.  She has three young daughters and desires to help create the paradigm shift that ushers in a greener, more sustainable society for them to inherit.

Marc Ross - President, Rock the Earth

From 2002 through 2007, he served as both President and Executive Director.  Marc also Co-Chairs the Legal and Technical Committee.  Between 1998 and 2004, Marc was one of four in-house environmental attorneys at Alcoa Inc., serving as the company''s primary water counsel and counseling the company on a wide variety of national and international environmental compliance, permitting and remediation issues. Marc received his B.A. in 1990 from the Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. in 1993 from the Dickinson School of Law. Marc has spoken on corporate environmental practice at the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Annual Environmental Law Forum and has published articles in both the Dickinson Journal of Environmental Law and Policy as well as the Dickinson Journal of International Law. When not practicing law, Marc spends his time reading, engaged in outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, camping and canoeing, or chasing any number of bands across the country.

D. R. Arbib

Ruben Arbib is a Permaculture designer and teacher. He is a secretariat member and the ecological coordinator for Kibbutz Tzivon. He is also the founder and committee member of the Permaculture Organization of Israel.

Ruben is an adviser and endorser for the Great Green March in ideological, holistic and sustainable domains.