Vicki Robin, a prolific social innovator, writer and speaker, is co-author with the late Joe Dominguez of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence — and the upcoming book, Blessing the Hands that Feed Us; What Eating Closer to Home Taught Me About Food, Community and Our Place on Earth (Viking/Penguin 2014) about how her experiment in 10-mile eating not only changed how she ate, but also renewed her hope and rooted her in her community. Vicki has helped launch many sustainability initiatives including: The New Road Map Foundation, The Conversation Cafes, Sustainable Seattle, Transition Whidbey and more. For fun, Vicki is a comedy improv actress, appearing frequently with her troupe, Comedy Island.
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