Ronit is a psychotherapist, corporate consultant and social activist whose life work is devoted to making visible her love, and inspire others to step into their power to do the same. Her experiences as the president of an international human rights organization, a corporate consultant and a past director of a psychiatric crisis and trauma team, have given her a unique understanding of human behavior and organizational processes. Ronit’s social activism work exposed her to the hardships facing different parts of the world including, Tibet, Haiti, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Developing a greater understanding of the challenges facing our planet, Ronit is the co-founder of Transform the Planet.

Leor Herzfeld is a fine artist and dilettante philosopher who was enticed into the sordid world of computers and graphic design during the dot com boom. When that particular bubble burst, he was left with no job, no career options, and a Manhattan rent. After spending an obscene amount of time moping, he took a shower, moved to an even more expensive apartment and founded leor.com. As his client list grew, he pulled in some of his oldest friends including Julio P (4th grade), Philip Rojas (10th grade) to add more sophisticated development and animation/video capabilities.

A sometimes unwilling catalyst of the events in his life, Leor co-founded Transform the Planet with his mother Ronit, and Julio. His next task after bringing light, love, and video games to the people of the world is trying to remember what free time feels like.

Reli4nt, also know as, Julio was raised in New York City, Julio is a self styled "Jack-of-all-trades-Master-of-none." He spent high schools years in a specialized math and science school studying entomology. He then went to college for Social Work, after which he spent several years as a manager for a couple of businesses including a movie theater chain, a pharmacy and a market research firm. More recently he taught himself web programming and development, and has spent the last several years developing both websites and businesses for a range of clients with his company The JPProject focusing on finding uncommon solutions to common business problems.

He subscribes to a belief that business doesn't have to be predatory but can still in fact be rewarding, fulfilling, and profitable. Transform the Planet has been a natural extension of both his varied history and his personal philosophies.

Sherika Henry is an art lover that dabbles around with anything artistic ranging from acrylics and oils to crayola.

Sherika has worked in the corporate world for the past ten years as an artist, assisting established companies in revamping their image.

Her personal interest includes promoting a sound mind and body through nutrition and fitness, and will be contributing to Transform the Planet in that capacity.

Jim Egan is the Executive Director of the Marine Resources Council, an environmental non-profit that received an award from the President of the United States for innovative solutions to the Nation’s environmental challenges. He supervises a staff of twelve scientists and eight hundred volunteers involved in the nation’s largest endangered species monitoring network, the second largest estuary water quality monitoring network, and is involved in several million dollars of land acquisition for conservation every year. He is a Professor of Environmental Science, author of several books on environmental restoration and on self awareness. He is the CEO of Just Earth, Inc. a source of unique environmental-supporting products and expertise.

Phil Rojas

Tom Christensen is a 60 year old father of 4, businessman, rock climber, piano player, artist and caretaker of his personal Pixie Garden. His academic background is in Eastern and Western Philosophy and Psychology and he is Spiral Dynamics SD2 Certified. His focus at Transform the Planet is to provide distinctions and perspective intended to free two-leggeds from undisclosed interior limits on creativity, effectiveness and resilience.

SouLove (aka Jodan, formally John Daniel G. Alzamora Dickin) is an artist, fashion designer, musician and acusonic massage therapist that integrates traditional healing enhancing techniques with futuristic neuroacoustic sound science and vibrational medicine. Founder of World Peace Studio and committed to nurturing mystical bliss, he is continually exploring our potential for grateful ecstasy and miraculous, passionate balance. His dream is to see the global community cooperating as our organs do and reflecting the human body's internal healing wisdom. He plans to open a spa recording / performance center.

Born in the United Kingdom, he grew up in Peru, Florida and moved to NYC in 1995. Musical director of World Artists for Tibet, in 1998 he became a leader in sonic activism for non-violence and since has been avidly exploring the healing arts. In 2004 he had a revelation to use sub-bass frequencies to massage, resonate and balance our internal environment. In 2006 he graduated from the Swedish Institute of Health Sciences, became licensed in New York State. He also studied at the Center for Neuroacoustic Research, where he further explored binaural beats and trinity optimization techniques. He recently finished his first meditation / massage / yoga / healing enhancement cd, Hearts' Dream (tonifying the Heart meridian and organ) and is currently working on the next album for the Kidneys.

Chrissie Dowler was born in Vienna, Virginia. She moved to NYC and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has been significantly involved in the fashion world since. Having worked for many fashion labels for over 10 years, Chrissie has seen much of the inner workings of the industry: the good, the bad and the ugly. During her business-related travels, she has been deeply inspired by the beauty of other cultures, while also appalled by the low standards of environmental and human conditions in factories. Recognizing the large impact that the fashion industry has on the world, she currently works to promote an industry that can be inspired by a new precedence, where fashion contributes more to humanity and takes less from the earth.

Chrissie is also a talented artist. Her father, Robert Dowler, is a watercolorist that has influenced her from a young age. Besides fashion illustration and rendering, she also paints fine art, and studies Chinese brush painting. Her extraordinary love for animals shows in her artwork and her style.

Chrissie recently moved to the “country” and is currently living in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, with her boyfriend Isaiah.

Marlene Rubins is a New York City woman, a human rights advocate, dedicated to education, growth and development of all people, She has spent her life protesting the wrongs, advocating for the underdog, fighting for black civil rights in the 60’s, women’s rights in the 70’s, gay rights in the 80’s, prisoner’s rights in the 90’s and always for the rights of all peoples to human dignity and freedom. She taught in New York City Public Schools for 26 years with an emphasis on environmental education, and taught children to question and think for themselves. Then, as a social worker, she worked with HIV infected people, the mentally ill, and later with incarcerated men on Rikers Island. She recently returned from Cameroon where she volunteered with and AIDS organization.

Along with the flow of art & poetry that silent lotus offers, there has always been a presence that has attracted people to look for his spiritual guidance. He shares his vision individually as well as through seminars and retreats in many countries.
" May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears." ..... silent lotus
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