Kenny Ausubel
Biography
Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist and filmmaker. He is the founder and co-executive director of Bioneers, a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring Earth's imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities. He launched the annual Bioneers Conference in 1990 with his producing partner and wife Nina Simons, Bioneers co-executive director. The Conference attracts over 3,000 people each year to the national conference in San Rafael, California, and in 2007 it will be beamed by satellite simulcast to 22 localized Bioneers conferences across the US and Canada to another 10,000 attendees.
Kenny serves as executive producer and co-writer of the award-winning annual radio series Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature, which airs on over 200 US public radio stations and more globally. He authored the book The Bioneers: Declarations of Interdependence, and edited the Bioneers anthology books Nature's Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies and Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves. He is executive producer of the Bioneers plenary series airing on Free Speech TV and Link TV. He acted as a central advisor to Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary The 11th Hour, and appears in the film.
Kenny co-founded the national company Seeds of Change in 1989 and served as CEO until 1994 to restore "backyard biodiversity" into the food web through marketing organic, biodiverse heirloom seeds to gardeners. He authored Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure about this social venture's mission and work.
Previously he produced several documentary films about alternative medicine including the award-winning feature documentary film Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crimeabout the medical politics surrounding the suppression of promising unconventional cancer therapies. The movie played theatrically and garnered the highest viewer response at that time it aired on HBO and later on Bravo. The film had a special screening for members of Congress at the Kennedy Center, reported on NPR. He authored the definitive book When Healing Becomes a Crime: the Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies. The Hoxsey project is currently in development as a feature dramatic film. Kenny founded and operates Inner Tan Productions, a feature film development company, and has written two screenplays. He attended Yale and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1972. He lives in the mountains outside Santa Fe, New Mexico with Nina and their two dogs.
