Website: www.sheeplessco.com

Scott Ballum is the founder of Sheepless Co., a creative practice dedicated to providing deliberate, considered solutions in design and advocacy for small businesses and artistic or cultural organizations effecting positive social change.

Scott has previously served as design director of Housing Works, the nation's largest community-based AIDS service organization and a leader in social enterprise, as well as senior designer at C&G Partners, a multi-disciplinary design studio catering to the arts, media and public spaces. Recent projects include work for the Art Directors Club of New York, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Parrish Art Museum, School of Visual Arts, Signature Theatre Company, Webby Awards and the Alhurra Television Network.

Scott founded Consume®evolution magazine in 2005, dedicated to exposing a growing complacency with globalization and consumerism and offering viable alternatives to a "mass-produced" lifestyle. In 2008, he began the Consume®econnection Project, in which he aims to spend a year meeting individuals involved with the production of every item he consumes. The project was recently featured on NPR's All Things Considered in January, 2009.