Justine Willis Toms, Ph.D (hon), is Co-founder and Managing Producer of New Dimensions Radio/Media, a nonprofit, public benefit, tax-exempt educational organization. She has hosted many radio series including "In Her Company: Deep Dialogues with Women of Wisdom," and produced many award-winning radio series including "Deep Ecology for the 21st Century," and "Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature." She also serves as host of "New Dimensions," which is distributed worldwide. She serves as Editor-In-Chief of the New Dimensions E-Newsletter. Besides her radio work she leads workshops on, "Living Life On Purpose." She is co-author with Michael Toms of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do and author of Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World. She is a founding convener of the Millionth Circle Initiative and has been actively involved in circle work since 1980, including being a founding member of a mixed circle of men and women who have been meeting regularly since 1980. This circle has been witness to all the life cycles, including birth and death and everything in-between. She also participates in other circles, including several women's circles. She was bestowed an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, an accredited graduate school in Palo Alto, CA.

Since 1973, Michael Toms has been engaging in dialogue with the world's leading-edge thinkers, social architects, creative artists, scientists and spiritual teachers. Called "the Socrates of radio," he is acknowledged by guests and listeners alike as one of the premier interviewers in media today. His legendary dialogues with such luminaries as mythologist Joseph Campbell, visionary inventor Buckminster Fuller, world reknowned physicist David Bohm, writer/activist Alice Walker, playwright Peter Brook, Nobel laureates Linus Pauling, H. H. the Dalai Lama, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Betty Williams and Jose Ramos Horta, Pulitzer Prize winners Gary Snyder and E.O.Wilson, physician/author Andrew Weil, artist/writer Natalie Goldberg, poet/author Robert Bly, architect/designer William McDonough, cultural historian Theodore Roszak, religious scholar Huston Smith, philosopher Jean Houston, spiritual philosopher J. Krishnamurti, poet/author Maya Angelou and many others, have brought wide acclaim to the "New Dimensions" radio series and have helped to bring innovative ideas into the mainstream culture.

Michael's sensitive and engaging interviewing style combined with his own intellect, breadth of knowledge and interests help create the compelling and highly listenable dialogues, for which "New Dimensions" has become famous far and wide.

During his twenties he rose to become one of the top advertising copywriters in the nation and started the first direct marketing ad agency on the west coast as well as founding six other corporations. Following his advertising career, he conceived and presented the widely acclaimed nationwide seminar series, "Successful Communications and Marketing Techniques for the Nonprofit Organization," which was attended by more than 10,000 individuals representing over 6,000 socially relevant organizations. Revenues generated from this seminar series provided financial support during the startup phase of New Dimensions Foundation and New Dimensions Radio.

He is the founding president of New Dimensions Foundation, co-founder of New Dimensions Radio/Media, currently serving as CEO and co-president. He serves as the executive producer and principal host of the award-winning "New Dimensions" internationally syndicated radio series. He served as executive producer / host of the award winning Deep Ecology for the 21st Century series and the Bioneers / Revolution from the Heart of Nature I,II, and III series, which received the prestigious NY International Radio Festival Silver and Bronze Medals.

He is a former director of KQED, Inc., was a founding director of KZYX / KZYZ FM, and a co-founder and executive director of Audio Independents, Inc., a national organization supporting the interests of independent radio producers and audio artists. He is an accredited member of The Society of Professional Journalists and The Society of Environmental Journalists.

His nationally acclaimed book, An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms, has sold more than two hundred thousand copies. Seventeen additional books based on his interviews have been published, including The Well of Creativity, The Soul of Business, The Power of Meditation and Prayer, Buddhism in the West, At the Leading Edge, and A Time For Choices: Deep Dialogues for Deep Democracy. More than one million of his diverse dialogues have been sold to individual listeners throughout the world.

He has received numerous awards for his broadcast endeavors, including three honorary doctorates for his vanguard work in media and a doctorate in theology from St. Basil the Great Seminary in Sydney, Australia for his "contribution to the spiritual benefit of humanity on the planet." He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by the Institute for Transpersonal Pyschology in Palo Alto, CA. He is an adjunct professor at Union Graduate School and Marylhurst Graduate School of Business and is board chairman emeritus of the California Institute of Integral Studies. A writer, seminar leader, communications, marketing, fundraising consultant and master dialogue coach, he has worked with literally hundreds of organizations in both the social profit and private sectors. He also served for seven years as senior acquisitions editor for HarperSanFrancisco where he midwifed more than 50 titles, including several bestsellers, and worked with such authors as Sogyal Rinpoche, Larry Dossey, M.D., Joseph Chilton Pearce, Peter Russell, Jean Houston, Arnold Mindell, Deena Metzger and others. From 1998 to 2000 he was an editor of The Inner Edge, the much acclaimed and award winning newsletter for enlightened business practice. He is co-author with his partner, Justine Willis Toms, of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do (Bell Tower/Crown) and is the author of the bestselling A Time for Choices: Deep Dialogues for Deep Democracy (New Society Publishers).