Ms. Hannah Strong is President of the Manitou Institute, a non-profit charitable organization in Crestone, Colorado. She is an internationally recognized guest speaker and authority on ecumenical communities, sustainability and spiritually based environmental education. Ms Strong also founded Earth Origins Seeds, which is committed to the preservation of native seeds throughout the world and the Earth Restoration Corps, a leadership development program designed to train and educate youth in sustainability. Ms Strong's husband, Maurice Strong, is known as "father of the environment" and is President of the United Nations' Peace University.