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Nina Simons Highlight
When we first started Bioneers, there was no money in it, but I didn't feel sad or burdened by it because I loved it. It made everything in me feel alive, as if I was participating in something I was born to be a part of.
About Nina
- Grew up in New York City with a passion for theater.
- She specifically enjoyed noncommercial, transformational theater because it challenged people's belief systems.
- This form of theater would later help her build innovative social media strategies for companies like Odwalla and Seeds of Change.
- Met her husband Kenny when she was 30 years old; they collaborated on a documentary called "Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime."
- The documentary found success and started a movement towards new methods of alternative medicine.
- She and her husband started Bioneers, a nonprofit that brings scientists together to solve environmental issues.
- At one point, she started to worry that she was only serving her husband's vision, felt like her "feminine skills" were somehow lesser.
- Now she sees that thought was a result of an internalized gendered bias and she pushes women to embrace these same skills.
