Zoe Helene is an artist, pro-activist and Cosmic Sister. She is deeply committed to women’s rights, the arts and archetypes, wilderness and wildlife, and children—as stewards of the future. Zoe and Chris travel together extensively, exploring remote regions of the globe, working to promote environmental protection and cultural preservation.

Save The World's Smallest Dolphin
“Knowingly allowing an extinction is not OK, period. With only 55 Maui dolphin left, we have no choice but to get this story into the hands of big media.” – Zoe Helene

State of Wildlife
“Market still is and always will be about supply and demand. As long as people buy exotic skins, pets and bush meat this will continue until there's nothing left.” – Zoe Helene

Balancing Power
“There can be no true sustainability without a civilized gender balance of power, worldwide. Here at home too: our own culture is terribly, terribly off in so many ways.” – Zoe Helene

Tomorrow's Stewards
“The world's beautiful children will steward the future long after we are gone. What we do today matters.” – Zoe Helene

Motherhood
“I love meeting the mothers. There's just so much love and hope for or their little ones ones, regardless of situation.” – Zoe Helene

Invasive Culture
“No matter how remote the scene, Americana will be there. Is this a good thing or a not so good thing?” – Zoe Helene

As partner and co-owner of Medicine Hunter, Inc. Zoe produces medicinehunter.com and supports media professionals, partners and allies, publishers and event directors, and many others. A supporter/connector by nature, she created New Tribe in support of the greater community. Zoe also produced the new edition of The Five Tibetans, Chris' best-selling yoga classic.

Zoe brings 25+ years of creative leadership experience to Medicine Hunter and the sustainability movement, most notably in performing and visual arts and interactive and converging media. She is an expert in brand loyalty, integrated marketing, and evolving mediums. Zoe has held award-winning positions as producer, creative director, designer and performing artist. Her professional credits include dozens of blue chip Americana brands and some of the finest arts, diversity and environmental organizations in the USA. Zoe works tirelessly with media and broadcast professionals to help communicate messages of passionate, informed pro-activism and hope to a wide audience.

Expeditions include: The Great Amazon - many times! (Cat's Claw, Dragon's Blood, Ayahuasca), Peruvian Highlands (Maca) many times! San Blas Islands (Cocoa) Patagonia, Chile (Maqui Berry), South Africa (Hoodia), New Zealand (Manuka) and Vanuatu, South Pacific (Tamanu, Kava). Upcoming: Amazon (Dragon's Blood, Ayahuasca) and Siberia (Rhodiola).

Cosmic Sister

Zoe feels strongly that there can be no true sustainability without a civilized gender balance of power, worldwide. Towards this end, she is busy developing Cosmic Sister™, a collective venue connecting kindred spirit women on the path. The website is currently in development, but the project is definitely underway and experiencing inspiring momentum.

Animal Medicine

Wildlife is increasingly at serious risk around the globe. Zoe feels that “Seven billion human beings is far, far too many.” She believes “Animal medicine is as profoundly revealing and healing any other mind/body/spirit methodology. We can't very well observe in awe the miracles of wildlife if we wipe it all out, now can we?”

Last Call for the World's Smallest Dolphin

Billing herself as a “Media Rep for the Maui Dolphin,” Zoe is connecting key players internationally in a last-chance effort to Help Save the World’s Smallest Dolphin. The Maui dolphin, a sub-species of the Hector’s, is a beautiful, friendly, highly intelligent dolphin found in shallow waters of Moana (the ocean) of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Dolphins are sacred to Aotearoa’s indigenous Māori tribes, as well as to tribes in Zoe’s own Greek and Celtic heritage.

Natural Products Movement

In 2002 Zoe chose to transition from serving predominately conventional Americana brands to supporting the Natural Products Movement. As an independent she worked with brands such as Annie’s (famous for their organic Mac & Cheese) and Healthy Handfuls, and provided strategic consulting for The Organic Center, a non-profit organization providing scientific information proving the benefits of organics. It is during this time Zoe met Chris at an industry trade show. She will tell you he was, “Colorful amongst the colorful.”

Digital Revolution

Zoe is a recognized pioneer in the interactive and converging media industry. She joined the Digital Revolution in 1994 and, in a previous incarnation, played a key role in developing the industry’s premier integrated communications solution, several influential early social media projects, and a variety of industry concepts and processes now commonly embraced. For over a decade Zoe held senior management positions at trendsetter companies serving blue chip clientele such as American Express, Allstate, the United States Senate, IBM e-business, Nike, Calvin Klein, Sprint, Hershey's, Ralston-Purina, The Dial Store and Unilever. Interactive strategies and solutions Zoe worked on during this period earned innovation awards from entities such as Discovery, Verizon, IBM, Lotus, Yahoo! and EPCOT Center, and were featured in media such as the The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Mass High Tech, Fast Company Magazine, Computer World, LA Times, Boston Business Journal, The Boston Globe and (a personal favorite) the MIT Technology Review turn-of-the-millennium cover story. As Chief Creative Officer, she also served as company liaison for top advertising agencies such as Wieden & Kennedy, R/GA, and Arc Worldwide. Zoe’s unique front-line experience in the futurist arena makes for a heightened perspective of the Digital Revolution.

Giving Back

From within the corporate world, Zoe discovered she had a knack for persuading large companies to give back by funding the arts and sustainability. She was instrumental in procuring hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of support for organizations such as Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Defenders of Wildlife, World Music, Very Special Arts, the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), National Geographic's The Green Guide, American Repertory Theatre and many others. Zoe is an accomplished artist in her own right, and expresses fluently across several mediums. She is captivated by the depth and breadth of myth and archetypal psychology as the language of soul, a passion that informs much of her creative work.

Early Career

In her early career, Zoe was a professional performing artist, devoted to the craft. She is fully trained in method acting and performed in a full range of styles and genres in independent theatres and activist improv comedy venues for 15+ years. In addition to acting, Zoe has designed costumes and sets for numerous award winning full period pieces and modern dress shows. She also danced professionally for many years.

Education and Training

Zoe holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of North Carolina and a Master of Fine Arts in Performing Arts from Brandeis University, where she was mentored by the legendary Patricia Zipprodt, one of the most influential theatrical artists of the past century and partner of 20+ years to director-choreographer Bob Fosse. At age sixteen, she was mentored for three years by master animator John Ewing, whose credits include multiple Disney classics and the original Spiderman TV series. Zoe believes teaching to be one of most noble forms of art, and is grateful for all the educators who have enriched her life. As a way of giving back, Zoe will on occasion mentor a gifted young person, if their calling is strong.

North Carolina School of the Arts

Zoe was born and raised in a multicultural environment filled with science, art, nature, progressive education and activism. As a girl she was a faculty wild child at the North Carolina School of the Arts where her father specialized in teaching science and mathematics to gifted performing artists, during the height of the counter-culture revolution. Zoe recalls being surrounded by brilliant, bigger-than-life master artists and students who encouraged creativity, diversity, and personal growth and expression. She also remembers sharing a studio with her mother, an accomplished visual artist, and joining her in marches for human rights, the women's movement, and the environment.

Aotearoa

Zoe spent the years from age nine to nineteen in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and was influenced strongly by the experience. When approaching the remote island by sea, New Zealand forms a graceful arch along a curved horizon. White clouds collect above the land mass, creating a strikingly beautiful visual. In awe of this, the indigenous Māori people named New Zealand Aotearoa, The Land of the Long White Cloud. When Zoe’s family first moved to NZ they traveled by sea. She likes to think her first memory of the island is like that of Māori, so many years ago. Zoe bonded with the island through the spirit of sweet spring lambs. See also: Help Save the World’s Smallest Dolphin.

See the Chris and Zoe expedition album.

Bio Updated May 14, 2012