Paula Marcela Moreno Zapata is the first female black Minister Culture in the history of Colombia. She is spearheading a major new government initiative in her country, as well as working with a coalition of cultural ministers to expand opportunities for presenting and touring the arts of Latin America across the continent and globally.

Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of American culture. His prominent position in American culture was solidified in April 1997, when he became the first jazz artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his work Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center.  He has served as the world-renowned arts organization's artistic director as well as music director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (formerly known as the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra) since its inception.

Few individuals understand the connection between risk and reward better than Majora Carter, who is one of the best-known and most effective advocates of improving the quality of life in environmentally challenged communities throughout the world. As founder and pioneer of the highly successful non-profit environmental corporation: Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), she developed water permeable open spaces and urban reforestation as part of a robust horticultural infrastructure that resulted in new jobs, reduced poverty, and altered the cultural life of the community.

She is a 2006 MacArthur "genius" Fellow, one of Essence Magazine's 25 most influential African-Americans, one of the NY Post's 50 Most Influential Women for the past two years, co-host of The Green on the Sundance Channel, recipient of the National Building Museum's Visionaries in Sustainability Award, a board member of the Wilderness Society, and host of a special NPR series called The Promised Land (thepromisedland.org). She established the Majora Carter Group, LLC in 2008 to help clients solve economic and environmental problems simultaneously.

Majora Carter's talks have been described as "a force of nature." Don't miss this opportunity to hear a most powerful and articulate voice to captivate us and inspire the way we think about our role and responsibilities as important members of the greening movement.