August 4 - 6, 2006   |   Asilomar Conference Grounds  ·   Pacific Grove   ·   CAlifornia

This years' presenters include

	JUST ADDED! Margot Fraser, retired Founder of Birkenstock Footprint Sandals
	VALERIE RED-HORSE Red-Horse Native Productions
	RIANE EISLER Center for Partnership Studies
	LISA LORIMER Vermont Bread Company
	LORI HANAU Global Round Table Leadership
	Jyll Taylor J Y Enterprise, Inc.
	Phaedra Ellis-Lamkin Working Partnerships USA

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkin
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is the Executive Director of Working Partnerships USA, a public policy advocacy organization, and the Executive Officer of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, representing over 110,000 union members. Ellis-Lamkins has distinguished herself as an innovator in Silicon Valley’s high-tech economy and, at age 29, is among the youngest labor council leaders in the nation. As a woman of color, she has led the way for emerging leaders in the American labor movement, directing numerous campaigns to win progressive majorities on local, regional and statewide political bodies.

Under her leadership, the nation’s first county-based universal children’s health insurance program has expanded its coverage to over 100,000 children and is the subject of statewide legislation. As a founder of Team San José, Ellis-Lamkins pioneered a new model for public/private management of San José convention center and cultural venues. She also led the launch of the Partnership for Working Families, a national coalition to bring the principles of good jobs and community benefits to local economic development. In the past year, Ellis-Lamkins also gained support of private developers and environmentalists to include privately-financed community health care clinics as part of the infrastructure for Coyote Valley in San José, a mega-urban reserve slated to house 70,000 new residents.

A Senior Fellow of American Leadership Forum, Ellis-Lamkins serves on the board of the New World Foundation, the Progressive Technology Project, the Women's Fund of Silicon Valley and the AFL-CIO Central Labor Council Advisory Committee. She was recently identified by City Flight Magazine as one of the 10 most influential African-Americans in the Bay Area for 2005.