.Best Podcaster: Blogger most dedicated to social change

By profiling individuals and organizations who enact various visions of utopia, Oakland’s Britt Bravo expresses her own hope for a better world. Through Big Vision, she broadcasts interviews with many of the East Bay’s most successful activists for social change. Since its debut in early 2006, Big Vision has profiled more than twenty local visionaries, including Priya Haji (CEO and founder of fair-trade gifts and accessories store World of Good), Melinda Kramer (cofounder of Women’s Global Green Action Network), and Eric Fenster and Ari Derfel (founders of organic catering and outdoor adventure company Back to Earth). The name of another of Bravo’s blogs, “Have Fun * Do Good,” may be her daily mantra, but “big vision” is an equally apt tagline — beyond her writing, teaching, and podcast production work, she provides consulting services to nonprofits and individuals looking to create their own positive change.