A glimpse at one of
CC's co-founders...
Vicki Robin is well-known as the coauthor with Joe Dominguez of the international best-seller, Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence (Viking Penguin, 1992), available now in ten languages She is currently updating the book for the 21st century (Viking Penguin 2009).
Vicki has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, including "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Good Morning America" and National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition" and "Morning Edition"; she has also been featured in People magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Money, Woman's Day, Newsweek, Utne Magazine and the New York Times. Newspapers around the world have reported on her work on lowering consumption in North America .
Called the prophet of "consumption-downsizers" by the New York Times, she is a frequent speaker on this issue at conferences; to corporate, academic, religious and environmental institutions; and at professional meetings of organizations seeking to understand and contribute to the national trend toward sustainable lifestyles.
Inspired by years of experience in communication and dialogue skills - and by the challenge to democracy, ecological sustainability and social justice represented by the 9/11 crisis - Vicki took responsibility for creating and spreading Conversation Cafés throughout Seattle - and the world. Conversation Cafés are hosted conversations among diverse people in public places on subjects that matter. An engaged, lively and socially fearless populace is more able to respond intelligently and compassionately to the complex systemic challenges of the 21st century.
Vicki served on the President's Council on Sustainable Development's Task Force on Population and Consumption. She is also co-founder of the New Road Map Foundation, the Center for a New American Dream, Sustainable Seattle, the Simplicity Forum, the Turning Tide Coalition, Let's Talk America, and currently Transition Whidbey which is seeking to catalyze the community on Whidbey Island to greater food, fuel, energy and economic self-reliance in light of predicted impacts of oil depletion and climate change. She has received awards from Coop America , A&E Biography and from Sustainable Northwest for her pioneering work on sustainable living.
Vicki was born in Oklahoma, grew up on Long Island, graduated cum laude from Brown University in 1967, has lived and worked across the United States from Wisconsin to Texas to Colorado to California to Arizona. She currently lives with her cat on Whidbey Island among natural beauty, a beloved community and a rich network of friends and creative opportunities.