Collaborations
Bioneers is an innovative nonprofit organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Founded in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by social entrepreneurs Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons, Bioneers acts as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.
A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, Bioneers connects people with solutions and each other. Its acclaimed annual national conference and local Bioneers Network events are complemented by extensive media production including a vibrant online media presence, award-winning radio and podcast series, book series, and role in third-party media projects such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie The 11th Hour and Michael Pollan’s best-selling book The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Our dynamic programs and initiatives focus on game-changing initiatives related to Restorative Food Systems, Biomimicry, Rights of Nature, Indigeneity, Women’s Leadership and Youth Leadership.
In 2017, Ausubel and Simons were honored for the work of Bioneers by Japan’s Goi Peace Award, whose past recipients include Bill Gates, scientist James Lovelock of the Gaia Hypothesis, Nigerian pro-democracy activist Hafsat Abiola-Costello and Deepak Chopra.
Sacred Activism workshops
Live Online Course with Nina Simons & Deborah Eden Tull
What if our greatest challenges are invitations to become more whole?
In an era of accelerating change and deepening divides, we’re being called to meet the moment—not only with action, but with presence, compassion, and a reimagined sense of leadership. This course explores sacred activism as a powerful path for transforming adversity into growth, healing, and regenerative service.
Sacred activism speaks to what inspires, guides, and resources us to serve life. It integrates inner transformation with outer engagement, weaving together deep listening, collaboration, and embodied wisdom. In this four-week live online course, you’ll explore sacred activism as a living practice that draws from your own lived experience, challenges, and discoveries.
Together, we’ll examine how centuries of social conditioning have separated us from stillness, interdependence, and relational intelligence—and how reclaiming those ways of being can strengthen our leadership and our movements. Through weekly sessions, you’ll engage with practices to meet adversity with compassion, explore emotional resilience, and move beyond urgency or fear as motivators.
This course is not about striving harder—it’s about showing up more fully, guided by love, connection, and a deepened sense of relational leadership.
Mandala by Laura Loescher
Long Term Relationships that Inform and Infuse Nina’s Worldview:
WECAN, Womens Earth Alliance, Daughters for Earth, Indigenous Climate Action, Work that Reconnects, Mindful Living Revolution