Nancy Polend
Nancy Polend is a visionary social architect, facilitator, and regular gal whose ability to see and take people beyond the obvious, through the complexity, and beneath their differences has been empowering human systems of all shapes, sizes, and sectors create the future they want for over 20 years.
Her humor and talent for creating frameworks, tools, and experiences that make vague and…
John L. Petersen
President and Founder, The Arlington Institute
John L. Petersen is considered by many to be one of the most informed futurists in the world. He is best-known for writing and thinking about high impact surprises—wild cards—and the process of surprise anticipation. His current professional involvements include the development of sophisticated tools for anticipatory analysis and surprise…
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Spirit of Global Citizenship
In the Winter edition of Kosmos Quarterly we will be exploring what it means to be a Global Citizen. How can we move beyond platitudes and declarations, toward deep systemic transformation – new institutional designs and new ways of being in the world that reflect our highest hopes and respect nature’s boundaries? In what ways can we express the civic values of a…
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Board of Directors
Nancy B. Roof, Chairman
Nancy Roof, Ph.D. is the founder of the award-winning Kosmos Journal: Global Transformation in Harmony with All Life, and President of Kosmos Associates, Inc. The mission of Kosmos is to identify and support systemic economic, political, social, environmental and personal transformation leading to the new planetary civilization. She is actively involved in the founding…
A Brief History of Kosmos Associates, Inc.
In a sunny garden in Manhattan close to the United Nations, a small group met to share a common commitment to enhance the quality of life and the humanization of global relations. Among those present were Reverend Chung OK Lee, Head Minister of the Manhattan Won-Buddhist Temple and Co-President of World Conference on Religions and Peace and Nancy Roof, Co-Founder of the Values Caucus at the…
About Kosmos
KOSMOS is an ancient Greek term meaning the harmony and beauty of the universe wherein all parts have their place within the Whole.
Our Mission
The Kosmos mission is to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation for global transformation in harmony with all Life. We do this by sharing transformational thinking and policy initiatives, aesthetic beauty and wisdom, local…
Carolyn Raffensperger
Carolyn Raffensperger, M.A., J.D. is executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network. In 1982 she left a career as an archaeologist in the desert Southwest to join the environmental movement. She first worked for the Sierra Club where she addressed an array of environmental issues, including forest management, river protection, pesticide pollutants, and disposal of radioactive…
Norie Huddle
Norie Huddle has written seven published books (three bestsellers) on environmental issues and on transforming humanity. Growing up in the woods of northern Virginia, Norie's background is eclectic and international. She was an exchange student in Italy, a Russian language graduate of Brown University, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, and spent four years in Japan working with the…
J. Kim Wright
J. Kim Wright is a pioneer, leader and change agent in the area of integrative law.
Kim has been a lawyer since 1989. Early in her career, she began to explore the transformational models of law practice. Her holistic and healing approach allowed her to facilitate some of life's most intimate moments, creating and dissolving important relationships, like marriages…