Renata Moreira

A Social Impact Consultant with over two decades of experience igniting social and climate justice movements across the Americas, Renata brings both strategy and soul to every space she holds. A proud Queer immigrant Mama, former executive director, and recovering academic, she is a lifelong mobilizer of people and resources committed to collective liberation. Rooted in both her Xucuru Kariri (Brazilian Indigenous) and , she walks the Earth as a perpetual learner, writer, practitioner, creator and healer. She is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, a Mindfulness Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, and a plant spirit guide trained by maestras and her lineage’s elders. Her work centers radical joy, justice, and deep healing—especially through beloved “Literary Therapy” Circles, where LGBTQI+, BIPOC communities, and parents gather to liberate themselves and each other. With every word and action, she invites us to imagine—and build—a more just and awakened world. Follow her @renatametta on IG to stay connected and discover upcoming offerings!

2025 Inside Ideas

Moderator  – Healing, Activism and Collective Liberation: Strategies for Building a New World

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis