Featured Speakers


Kathleen Dean Moore is the award-winning author of books about our cultural and spiritual connections to wet, wild places (The Pine Island Paradox; Holdfast: At Home in the Natural World; and Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water). She is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University and founding director of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature and the Written Word. Her essays have appeared in magazines such as Orion, Discover, Audubon, Wild Earth, Hope and Field and Stream. Of her work, the Library Journal wrote, "Moore's intense love for and close observation of nature combine with a keenly philosophical mind, reminiscent of the work of other fine philosopher-naturalists such as Thoreau, Dillard and Muir."


Allan Pressel is founder and CEO of CharityFinders, which helps nonprofits use the Internet. CharityFinders' main product is NonprofitSite123, a tool that enables any nonprofit to build its own world-class website in just hours. Allan co-founded i-Cube, now owned by Razorfish, which helps corporations develop and implement IT and internet strategies much like CharityFinders does for nonprofits. Allan is one of 42 fundraising professionals from around the world to be named an ePhilanthropy Master Trainer by the Philanthropy Foundation.


Amy O'Connor is a professional trainer, consultant and coach and the President of Integrated Development Consulting. She has been empowering people to build more successful organizations in the nonprofit sector for 20 years. Amy served as Membership Director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and helped grow SUWA's membership from 1,000 people to over 20,000.


Peter Donaldson has 24 years experience as an educator, curriculum designer and instructional coach. He is a performance artist and consummate storyteller with two one-man shows that tour the Pacific Northwest annually; "Leonardo da Vinci" and "Salmonpeople." Peter has authored a dozen plays, produced some sixty others and publishes his poetry in an annual collection. He has created numerous public school partnerships integrating American history with six traits: writing, ecology, drawing, drama, dance, playwriting and poetry. Peter was recognized as National Youth Theater Director of the Year by the American Alliance for Theater and Education. He is a national practitioner of Open Space Technology and an experienced group facilitator. He is dedicating his life to telling the big stories of the new renaissance, awakening the wisdom of ecological and economic sustainability. In addition to addressing the entire River Rally, Peter will also be presenting a workshop on environmental education.