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Bill Aal Bill Aal is founder and Executive Director of Tools for Change Institute, in Seattle, which is dedicated to the integration of social justice and spirituality. Tools for Change aptly describes Bill's professional and extensive volunteer work for the last two decades, which has focused on grassroots activism, non-profit organizational development, popular education, and the use of computres and media to further social justice. He has a B.S. in Food Microbiology and has an in depth reading knowledge about sustainable and organic agriculture, the corporate agriculture model, and has worked on biotechnology issues for many years. Bill is currently vice-president of the Washington Biotechnology Action Council, an active founding member of RiseUp Computer Network, co-founder and board member of the Urban Action School and is co-founder and member of the Global Economy Working Group. Philip L. Bereano Philip L. Bereano is a Professor of Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. He is a Seattle community activist specializing in technology and public policy issues, and is a co-founder of WashBAC. Bereano has a background in both law and engineering, and has written and edited numerous books and articles. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, a law degree (cum laude) from Columbia University, and a Master's degree in Regional Planning from Cornell. He has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1965 and has practiced copyright, patent and trademark law. Bereano is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science "for contributions to understanding the role of science and technology in society." He organized a panel presentation on civil liberties and the Human Genome Project for the 1997 AAAS Conference. As a Fulbright Scholar in France, he spent 1989 at the University of Paris and the University of Nantes. He is on the board of the Council for Responsible Genetics in Cambridge, Mass., and is a member of the International Biotechnology Working Group. Bereano has been honored several times for his community service. Bereano believes in the Jewish principle of tikun olam, literally meaning "the repair of the world," and tries to live out this principle in many ways in his personal and professional life. For more information about Bereano's academic work, publications, and research, click here. To read some of Bereano's published articles, check out the Member Publications section under Archives & Resources. John Fawcett-Long John Fawcett-Long served as Coordinator of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (Western SAWG), a network of 40 organizations in the western U.S. and Canada, 1996-2000. He also served as an analyst and evaluator for the Food Alliance, a nonprofit organization developing a food ecolabel, 1994-1998. John served on the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture's Steering Committee, 1996-2000, and on its Executive Committee, 1998-2000. He also served on the Integrated Food and Farming Systems national Steering Committee, 1998-2000. He was instrumental in the founding of the Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network. He also founded and led an organizing effort called the Seattle Farm Bill Action Group, 1994-1998. He was raised on a family farm in southwestern Minnesota and graduated from the University of Washington in 1994 with a Masters of Public Administration, focusing on farm policy.
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