Belvie RooksBelvie Rooks, who currently lives in northern California, is a writer, educator, and human rights activist whose work weaves together the worlds of spirituality, feminism, ecology and social justice. With her late husband, Dedan Gills, she is co-founer of Growing a Global Heart, a vision to inspire the planting of millions of memorial trees to honor the forgotten souls of our past. They have engaged in memorial tree-planting projects along the Trans-Atlantic Slave Route in West Africa, the Underground Railroad in the US and Canada and also for victims of urban violence. As an educator she was a member of the founding faculty of the College of Social Justice at the State University of New York (SUNY) Old Westbury. She has been a board member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Bioneers, and the Ella Baker Center. Read More Read Less