href="http://wilmetteinstitute.org/robert-white/" target="_blank"Bob completed his undergraduate education in Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan in 1972 but the orientation to controlling nature for economic ends was dissonant with his own life experience of relating to the natural world. In response, he traveled around the world for two years searching to develop his own understanding of humanity#39;s relationship to nature. During his travels, he met Richard St Barbe Baker (who was known as the Man of the Trees) and Bob felt an inner calling to understand St Barbe Baker's grand vision of a cooperative relationship with the earth. His intellectual inquiry and the St Barbe Baker influence led him to embrace the Baha#39;i Faith in 1982.

Jaime is founder of the href="https://www.facebook.com/SLSmicroschool/" target="_blank"Service Learning School, a micro school in Florida. She explains what a micro school is as well as the inspiration behind the Service Learning School.

Jana is an mother, educator, librarian and author. Her latest book is called href="http://www.bahaibookstore.com/What-Good-Will-Come-P8467.aspx" target="_blank"What Good Will Come. We talk about the inspiration behind the book and she reads an excerpt.

Katharine is a singer-songwriter who has recently produced a CD called href="http://www.bahaibookstore.com/What-the-Fire-Is-CD-P8552.aspx" target="_blank"What the Fire Is. Her whole discography can be found on href="https://soundcloud.com/katkeymusic/albums" target="_blank"sound cloud. In the interview, we feature songs from her various releases including a couple rough demos of songs that she hasn't released yet. If you want to contact Katharine, you can do so by using her href="http://www.justkat.com/" target="_blank"contact request form on her website.

Martin is a singer, song writer, acoustic and electric guitarist, a bassist, and a percussionist. He is also a graphic artist who likes to write. He has a modest history of performing / recording lyrical rock, acoustic, and swing styles alone and with others from a variety of cultures. In the interview, Martin refers to a tour he made throughout the UK. In the interview we feature selections from an album, href="https://martinewman.bandcamp.com/album/p-e-r-s-p-e-c-t-i-v-e-s" target="_blank"Days of Certaintynbsp;that represents the music he created for that tour. He is offering these tracks to listeners to download. You can find a more descriptive bio of Martin on his href="https://www.facebook.com/martinewmanmusic" target="_blank"Facebook page.

As a young man Badi left his home in Iran and pursued is higher education in India as a way to provide service to the Baha'i Faith there. He found himself a refugee when the Iranian Revolutionary government refused to renew his passport because he was a Baha'i. He thus had to leave India and take refuge in Canada. Just before leaving India he started an elementary school there called the Martha Root school, named after a famous Baha'i who traveled all over the world promoting the Baha'i teachings in the early part of the 20th century.

Badi's field of interest is economics and he has published a compilation " href="https://www.amazon.com/Economics-of-the-Future/dp/8185091323" target="_blank"Economics of the Future" and also recently the book " href="http://www.bahaibookstore.com/Economics-of-the-Future-Begins-Today-P8756.aspx" target="_blank"Economics of the Future Begins Today". He is retired from the education system and lives with his wife on Vancouver Island where he tends his many varieties of fruit trees.

Peggy has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, and a Doctorate in Psychology. As an ethnomusicologist she is an accomplished musician that focused her research on Persian music and the Persian santur. She also did her research on a well-known Persian musician, Mirza Abdu'llah from the early part of the 20th century who happened to be a Baha'i. She talks about how she found out about Mirza Abdu'llah in the interview. She is a board certified music therapist and a registered dance therapist. She has taught in universities on ethnomusicology and has spent many years as a licensed psychologist working with children and adults. We talk about how she uses music and dance as a therapist.

Erin was a devout Mormon when she encountered the Baha'i Faith for the first time. She explains how a devout Mormon could become a Baha'i and still love the Mormon Church as much as she does.

Joany is a classically trained musician and was attending Mills College when she was introduced to the Baha'i Faith. After becoming a Baha'i she aspired to travel about the world promoting the teachings of the Baha'i Faith. She explains how she had to transform her music abilities to more informal genres like singer-songer writer and jazz as she was living abroad . We play her music that she had written during her life time traveling for the Baha'i Faith.

Bahiyyih is an author that has written three books. Her first book is titled href="https://www.amazon.com/Saddlebag-Fable-Doubters-Seekers-Bluestreak/dp/0807083437/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;qid=1491348701amp;sr=8-1amp;keywords=Saddlebag+Bahiyyih+Nakhjavani" target="_blank"The Saddlebag: A Fable for Doubters and Seekers. It is a novel based on an historic event related to the Bab, the martyred prophet of the Babi Faith that prepared the way for the Baha'i Faith. Her second book is titled href="https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Bahiyyih-Nakhjavani/dp/0747576602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;qid=1491348741amp;sr=8-1amp;keywords=Paper+Bahiyyih+Nakhjavani" target="_blank"Paper. It is a novel tracing the origin of paper and reveals the interesting fact that the Bab produced one of His most significant works on British paper. Her third book is href="https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Who-Read-Too-Much/dp/0804799482/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;qid=1491348800amp;sr=8-1amp;keywords=The+Woman+Who+Read+Too+Much+Bahiyyih+Nakhjavani" target="_blank"The Woman Who Read Too Much. It is a novel centered around a significant historic figure in the Baha'i Faith, Tahireh, who was a courageous woman who proclaimed the message of the Bab in a country hostile to any teaching deviating from Shiah Islam, and was also a renowned poetess. Bahiyyih will be releasing a new book which will be quite different from the other three, called href="http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27469" target="_blank"Us amp;Them, which speaks to the current dilemma that Europe and the US are struggling with, namely immigration. In the interview, Bahiyyih reads excerpts from each of her first 3 novels.