Maude is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates, and numerous awards including the 2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the "Alternative Nobel") for her global water justice work, and is the Citation of Lifetime Achievement winner of the 2008 Canadian Environment Awards. She is also the best selling author or co-author of 16 books, including Blue Gold, The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water and the recently released Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude was recently appointed Senior Advisor to Miquel d'Escoto, President of the UN General Assembly, to advance the right to water internationally.<<

Ms. Fonda has long been known for activism and advocacy on environmental issues, human rights, and the empowerment of women and girls. She is a member of the Women and Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations; the board of Women's Media Center, which she helped found in 2004; and she sits on the board of V-Day: Until The Violence Stops, a global effort to stop violence against women begun in 1998 by Eve Ensler, the author of "The Vagina Monologues". In 1994, Ms. Fonda was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund.

Best-known for her work on stage and screen, Ms. Fonda has earned numerous nominations and awards including Oscars (Best Actress in 1971 for "Klute" and in 1978 for "Coming Home"). She won an Emmy for her performance in "The Dollmaker".

Ms. Fonda revolutionized the fitness industry with the release of "Jane Fonda's Workout" in 1982. She followed with the production of 23 home exercise videos, 13 audio recordings, and 5 books selling 16 million copies all together. The original "Jane Fonda's Workout" video remains the top grossing home video of all time.

In May 2005, Random House published Fonda's memoirs, "My Life So Far" which immediately went to #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list. That same spring, "Monster-in-Law", her first film in 15 years, also became a #1 box office hit. Her newest film, "Georgia Rule", opened in Spring 2007.

Jane Fonda is an avid reader, hiker, fly fisherwoman and yoga enthusiast. She lives in Atlanta, along with her daughter, Vanessa Vadim, and her two grandchildren.<<

As a college student in the early 1960s, Buffy Sainte-Marie became known as a writer of protest songs and love songs. Many of these became huge hits and classics of the era, performed by hundreds of other artists including Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins, Janis Joplin, Roberta Flack, Neil Diamond, Tracy Chapman and The Boston Pops Orchestra.
An early Macintosh pioneer in digital art and music, Buffy Sainte-Marie's works were among the first to be seen in museums and galleries across North America. Sainte-Marie was inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame for her life-long contribution to music in 1995 and won a Gemini Award in 1997 for the Canadian TV special Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation in Canada in 1998, and was also made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1999, she received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
Buffy continues to draw huge crowds on the concert circuit - she played to 210,000 people in Denmark and a million people in Washington DC for the Smithsonian's 150th birthday- but she never forgets her own people and performs regularly on the smallest of reservations across North America. Her art and music are also teaching tools, and she uses these continually to enlighten.
An educator before she was ever known as a singer, Buffy lectures at colleges and civic venues on a wide variety of topics: film scoring, electronic music, songwriting, Native American studies, the Cradleboard Teaching Project, women's issues, the Native genius for government, and remaining positive amidst tough human realities. She serves as Adjunct Professor in Canada at York University in Toronto and Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Regina, and in the U.S. was an Evans Chair Scholar at the Evergreen State College in Washington State. She has also taught at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA).

In February 1996, Buffy released her album Up Where We Belong (EMI), a collection of new songs with new recordings of her best songs. She was recently awarded the Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement by the First Americans in the Arts (US), who also paid homage to Buffy and her legendary career by naming the award after her.

Since 1996 she has limited her concert appearances to about twenty a year, speaking engagements to about the same number, and focused her time mostly on the Cradleboard Teaching Project, using her multimedia skills to create accurate, enriching core curriculum based in Native American cultural perspectives. The interactive multimedia CD-ROM SCIENCE: Through Native American Eyes features Buffy on camera as well as producer and director. Buffy's newest CD, Running for the Drum, will be released on October 28th. It also includes a documentary about Buffy called, Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life.
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