Author, Podcaster, Speaker, Stanford Inn & Resort’s Wellness Programs Director

Sid is the author of Approaching the Natural: A Health Manifesto, Raising Healthy Parents: Small Steps, Less Stress, and a Thriving Family and Six Truths: Live by these truths and be happy. Don’t and you won’t. He holds a BA in Philosophy from UCLA, is a public speaker, podcaster (What Sid Thinks Podcast), certified nutritionist & running coach, Oxygen Advantage breathing instructor, and founder of smallsteppers.com. He is the Stanford Inn & Resort’s Wellness Programs Director and Race Director of the Mendocino Coast 50K trail ultramarathon (one of only two vegan ultras in the US and has sold out every year!).

Producer, The Invisible Vegan

Jasmine is a filmmaker and actress based in Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in TV, Film, and Media and a Masters of Fine Arts in Screenwriting. Leyva worked as an Associate Producer on the NAACP Award-winning docu-series, Unsung, and was subsequently a writer and producer for Being, a docuseries highlighting dynamic entertainers in film and music. In 2019, Jasmine and Kenny Leyva released their own feature-length documentary, The Invisible Vegan, a film that chronicles Jasmine’s personal experience with plant-based eating. The film examines how plant-based eating is directly linked to African roots and how African-American eating habits have been debased by a chain of oppression stemming from slavery, economic inequality, and modern agribusiness. She currently teaches media writing at California State University Northridge and is in pre-production for two new self-produced projects.

Director, “The Cove”, “Racing Extinction”, “The Game Changers”

The Executive Director of Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), Louie Psihoyos is widely regarded as one of the world's most prominent still photographers. He has circled the globe dozens of times for National Geographic and has shot hundreds of covers for other magazines including Fortune, Smithsonian, Discover, GEO, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated.

Psihoyos' first documentary film, "The Cove," has won over 100 awards globally from festivals and critics, became the first doc in history to sweep all the film guilds and won the Oscar® for Best Documentary Feature in 2009. The activism around that film help lead to an over 93% drop of dolphin and porpoise deaths. His second film, "Racing Extinction," about the global extinction crisis was seen by 36 million people in 220 countries and territories the first day it aired and led to laws banning the trade of some of the world’s most endangered species.

Cardiologist

Dr. Joseph Sky was raised in in a community closely connected to one of the Blue Zones areas and graduated from the only medical school located in a Blue Zone. Lt Col (Dr) Joseph Sky is a cardiologist in the U.S. Air Force and his passion is finding and working with patients willing to use diet and lifestyle as medicine. He believes the science now clearly shows the value of preventive cardiology, complementary medicine and whole person care which includes the community in which we live.