Kenny Ausubel

CEO & Co-Founder, Bioneers
New Mexico

Kenny Ausubel is an award-winning social entrepreneur, author, journalist, and filmmaker.  He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bioneers, a nationally recognized nonprofit dedicated to disseminating practical and visionary solutions for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities. Ausubel launched the acclaimed annual National Bioneers Conference in 1990 with his producing partner and wife, Nina Simons, Bioneers Co-Founder.

His work has been recognized by the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Challenge Award as well as awards from the Rainforest Action Network and Global Green, among others.  He serves as executive producer and co-writer of the award-winning annual radio series, “The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature,” which airs on over 200 U.S. stations and more globally.  He co-founded the company Seeds of Change, the first national organic seed company dedicated to “backyard biodiversity.”

Ausubel has produced several documentary films including the award-winning feature documentary film Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime.  The movie, which won the Best Censored Stories journalism award, played theatrically and garnered the highest viewer response at the 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 founded and operates Inner Tan Productions, a visionary film development company.  He acted as a central advisor to Leonardo DiCaprio on his feature documentary The 11th Hour, and appears in the film.

Ausubel has written several books – Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature (2012); When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies (2000); The Bioneers: Declarations of Interdependence (1995); and Seeds of Change: The Living Treasure (1994). He has edited several other books, and periodically posts on the web.