Jacqui Berlinn is co-founder of both the California Peace Coalition and Mothers Against Drug Addiction and Death (MADAD).

She was inspired to create MADAD in 2021 by her son Corey, who has been struggling with heroin and fentanyl addiction since the age of 21. The organization calls for the restoration of mandatory drug treatment as an alternative to jail for people who break the law, for local governments to break-up the open-air drug scenes, and for drug dealers to stop selling dangerous drugs.

Berlinn has led numerous protests and rallies against open air drug markets and supervised consumption sites. She appears regularly in local and national news media. A mother of six, she also works for the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Ken is a founding member of Jackson Square Partners and has served as a portfolio manager and analyst since its inception in May 2014. Previously, he was a portfolio manager of the Delaware Investments Focus Growth Equity team. Prior to Delaware Investments, he was a principal and portfolio manager at Transamerica Investment Management. Before joining Transamerica in 2000, he was a portfolio manager with The Franklin Templeton Group and was a consultant in the business valuation and merger and acquisition group at KPMG Peat Marwick.

He received an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles and his bachelor’s degree in economics from Colgate University. He is also a CFA charterholder. Outside of work, Ken is also a longtime board member of the Mill Valley Film Festival and recently joined the External Advisory Board for the Center for Freedom and Western Civilization (CFWC) at Colgate. His deep passions are reading, cinema, public policy debate, and philosophy.

Melissa Chen, Ph.D. is the Managing Director of the nonprofit organization Ideas Beyond Borders and the New York Editor of Spectator USA — the American edition of the oldest English language magazine in publication. She is a human rights activist and classical liberal who regularly talks on various podcasts, TV news, and at conferences. Melissa is a critic of the People’s Republic of China’s weak human rights record, with free speech and foreign relations restrictions. She is also a critic of her native Singapore’s similar restrictions on free speech.

Melissa earned her Ph.D. in computational biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously she attended Boston University to be a geneticist, inspired by Richard Dawkins. Fresh out of college she worked at the Broad Institute, a genomics research institute, bound for academia. As well, she was an Editor at the Global Secular Humanist Movement. Soon, however, she dropped out of academia and cofounded the nonprofit organization Ideas Beyond Borders with Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, a founder of the Global Secular Humanist Movement. Together they make inaccessible ideas freely accessible to those who speak Arabic, Farsi, or Kurdish.

John Crary began his career in venture finance and management forty years ago. Today, he sees his evolving mission as being one who promotes self-empowerment so that people may prosper and thrive. Accordingly, he now devotes his energy to work with and support non-profit organizations aligning with this mission to promote personal and social healing, skill development, self-empowerment, individual sovereignty, and freedom. He currently serves as Founding Board Chair of Veteran Rites, which aims to help Veterans find their whole identity, purpose and belonging after military service. In addition, he serves on the board of The Escala Initiative which provides basic business education to small-scale entrepreneurs and artisans living in poor communities in the developing world.

Justin Dangel is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Ready Responders. He is also a founding investor and Chairman of Firefly Health – which provides efficient, digital primary care – and an investor and board member at Norton Point a company that makes consumer products from recovered Ocean plastic.

Previously, Mr. Dangel founded Consumer United (now Goji) in 2008 and grew it from just a few employees in a small office to over 500 employees across multiple locations within 5 years. Consumer United was named one of the ‘Top 10 Fastest Growing Companies in Insurance’ by Inc. Magazine in 2012. Mr. Dangel sold most of his position in a liquidity transaction in 2013 and now serves on the board.

Mr. Dangel has spoken at numerous events and conferences across the country, including the World Economic Forum in Washington. He is a graduate of Duke University with a degree in Political Science.

Lisa Linowes resides in rural New Hampshire and has been a leading figure in the wind energy debate for nearly two decades. She serves as Executive Director for the Windaction Group, a national advocacy focused on the impact and policy issues associated with industrial wind energy development. Lisa has testified before Congress on environmental issues, and she has held elected and volunteer positions in community planning and land negotiation.

Matthew Swanson, of Turlock, is a California farmer and CEO of Associated Feed, Virtus Nutrition, and Nutrius Products, manufacturers of organic, non-GMO, and conventional feed products serving the dairy, cattle, swine, and poultry industries. His other entrepreneurial endeavors include leading the development of software and application of data analytics to improve agricultural and environmental efficiencies and help achieve net zero carbon dairy farms. Mr. Swanson also serves as Chairman of Riser House Entertainment, a full-service label and music publishing company in Nashville, Tennessee.