Drew Dellinger

Activist, Artist, Change agent, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Filmmaker, Job-seeker, Parent, Writer/Editor

Drew Dellinger, Ph.D., is an internationally known speaker, poet, writer, and teacher whose keynotes and poetry performances--which address ecology, justice, cosmology, and connectedness--have inspired minds and hearts around the world. He is also a consultant, filmmaker, and founder of Planetize the Movement. Dellinger has presented at over 1400 events across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia. He has spoken and performed at numerous conferences--Âincluding Bioneers, the Green Festival, the Dream Reborn, and the Parliament of the Worlds' Religions--as well as colleges and universities, poetry venues, protests, and places of worship. He has shared podiums and stages with luminaries such as Alice Walker, Cornel West, Thomas Berry, Danny Glover, Jim Carrey, Julia Butterfly Hill, Brian Swimme, Paul Hawken, Ani Difranco, Chuck D, Joanna Macy, and many others. Dellinger's award-winning book of poems, Love Letter to the Milky Way, was selected by ForeWord Reviews magazine as a 2011 Book of the Year Award Finalist. Now in its sixth printing, love letter has devoted readers in dozens of countries on six continents. Dellinger's work has appeared in films, books, anthologies, and magazines--Âfrom The New York Times magazine to YES!, Tikkun, Kosmos, and others. His poems have been cited and quoted in venues ranging from prison workshops to climate change hearings before the US Congress. As a consultant, Dellinger was a core developer and designer of the Pachamama Alliance's Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium, now used in 78 countries, in 18 languages. Dellinger holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion from CIIS, and has taught at numerous colleges and universities including Prescott College, Schumacher College, Naropa University--Oakland, the Sophia Center, CIIS, and John F. Kennedy University, where he was Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Social Ecology. Dellinger has been called "a national treasure," by Joanna Macy, "a deep and courageous poet," by Alice Walker and "one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic voices of his generation," by Cornel West.