Kate Davies has over 25 years experience working for social and ecological sustainability. She is currently Director of the Center for Creative Change at Antioch University Seattle and has taught at several other U.S. and Canadian universities. In the 1980s, she established Toronto’s Environmental Protection Office, the first local government environmental office in Canada, and in the 1990s she was president of Ecosystems Consulting, which provided services to government agencies and non-governmental organizations.