- it's my great honor and pleasure to introduce our first keynote speaker today, trathen heckman, who is a personal hero of mine. building community resilience from the ground up is among the most urgent and important endeavors to navigate the great unraveling. in this time, we're all called upon to be leaders and leadership arises in community. that's exactly what the daily acts organization and its impassioned founder and director trathen heckman have been doing in california, sonoma county for over 20 years. their work as an exemplary model that needs to spread widely. like the redwood tree whose tiny seed produces a towering tree, daily acts is about how the power of small, can grow into something really big. they started by ripping out water sucking lawns and planting food for us. yard by yard, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood. over time, daily acts began providing local communities with hands-on skill building workshops, sustainability education and tight social networks of connection and collective action. it led to formidable community mobilization that has now aff

that's exactly what the daily acts organization and its impassioned founder and director trathen heckman doing in california, sonoma county for over 20 years. their work as an exemplary model that needs to spread widely. like the redwood tree whose tiny seed

. - it's my great honor and pleasure to introduce our first keynote speaker today, trathen heckman, whourgent and important endeavors to navigate the great unraveling. in this time, we're all called upon to be leaders and leadership arises in community. that's exactly what the daily acts organization and its impassioned founder and director trathen heckman have been doing in california, sonoma county for over 20 years. their work as an exemplary model that needs to spread widely. like the redwood tree whose tiny seed