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Michael A. Cohen
Author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America, Cohen, a Senior Fellow at the American Security Program, writes and lectures on wide-ranging political and national security issues, including the war in Afghanistan, the ongoing militarization of American foreign policy.
James G. Workman
Award-winning journalist and author of Heart of Dryness, James G. Workman has devoted his life to helping solve, the overriding paradox of our time: Water conservation is, ironically, unsustainable. But, why? A former advisor shaping national and global policy under Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, Workman addresses this riddle in a compelling multimedia program.
Edward Miguel
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, and author of Africa's Turn?, Miguel is the Director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at UC, Berkeley.
Robert Levine
The Internet was going to move us into the “information economy” – but information is worth less than ever. In Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, acclaimed journalist and former Exec. Editor of Billboard, Levine, lays out how the media business can save itself (in spite of itself).
Raymond Fisman
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations and Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
Jeffrey M. Stibel
In his book Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet, Stibel, a brain scientist, entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, demonstrates how the Internet has effectively replicated the human brain, and how the future of business lies in leveraging the understanding of these similarly complex networks.
James R. Chiles
Author of the acclaimed book Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology, Chiles helps organizations assess risk, avoid catastrophe and increase efficiency.
James G. Workman
Award-winning journalist and author of Heart of Dryness, James G. Workman has devoted his life to helping solve, the overriding paradox of our time: Water conservation is, ironically, unsustainable. But, why? A former advisor shaping national and global policy under Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, Workman addresses this riddle in a compelling multimedia program.
Emily Liebert
Award-winning writer, editor and author of Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit, Liebert examines the positive power and untapped potential of the social networking revolution, beginning with 25 true stories of hope and triumph reaching across cultures -- all resulting from Facebook connections.
Edward Miguel
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, and author of Africa's Turn?, Miguel is the Director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at UC, Berkeley.
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column "How the World Works" - a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics.
Gustavo Arellano
Author of the bestselling book and nationally syndicated column ¡Ask a Mexican!, and Orange County: A Personal History, Arellano takes on immigration, integration and ethnic stereotypes.
Emily Liebert
Award-winning writer, editor and author of Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit, Liebert examines the positive power and untapped potential of the social networking revolution, beginning with 25 true stories of hope and triumph reaching across cultures -- all resulting from Facebook connections.
Elizabeth Royte
Author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, and Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte addresses the staggering impact of waste and consumption on the environment, the economy, and our public water supplies.
David Zweig
A writer, scholar, musician, and documentarian, Zweig’s work delves into the connections between our culture and our experiential reality. His acclaimed novel, Swimming Inside the Sun, spawned the groundbreaking theory “Fiction Depersonalization Syndrome,” which addresses our increasing isolation, despite our being more technologically-connected than ever.
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column "How the World Works" - a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics.
Valerie Boyd
Award-winning author of the acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, and the forthcoming Spirits in the Dark: The Untold Story of Black Women in Hollywood.
Elizabeth Royte
Author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, and Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte addresses the staggering impact of waste and consumption on the environment, the economy, and our public water supplies.
Ben Hewitt
Author of the critically acclaimed The Town That Food Saved and the forthcoming Making Supper Safe, Ben Hewitt, a diversified, small-scale farmer, shows how regionalized agriculture and food production holds the potential to reinvigorate our bodies, communities, and economies.
Logan Smalley
Director of the multi-award-winning documentary “Darius Goes West,” which chronicles the epic cross-country road trip he and 10 others took with Darius Weems, a friend stricken with fatal Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Smalley is a change agent for a new generation.
William Lobdell
Award-winning former LA Times journalist, and author of the memoir Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America
William C. Rhoden
Award-winning New York Times columnist, bestselling author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete and frequent guest on ESPN's "The Sports Reporters”.
Valerie Boyd
Award-winning author of the acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, and the forthcoming Spirits in the Dark: The Untold Story of Black Women in Hollywood.
Separate, But Equal
Based upon the acclaimed book he co-authored, Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson, filmmaker Shawn D. Wilson’s documentary explores the all black, separate-but-equal town of Greenville, MS in the 1950s-60s, and asks a most provocative question about desegregation: "Did we lose more than we gained?"
Kayla Williams
Author of the memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Williams addresses the shifting role of women in society, the changing demands on today's military, and the treatment/reintegration of veterans.
John Bowe
Award-winning New Yorker and New York Times Magazine journalist and author of Pulitzer Prize nominee Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
Gustavo Arellano
Author of the bestselling book and nationally syndicated column ¡Ask a Mexican!, and Orange County: A Personal History, Arellano takes on immigration, integration and ethnic stereotypes.
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food & Agriculture blogger at Mother Jones, Philpott was, until recently, Food editor at Grist.org, where his biweekly “Victual Reality” column was the only regular food-politics column in the national media.
Susan Freinkel
Award-winning author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, in which she explores one of the most transformative inventions of the 20th century, Freinkel writes about the intersection of science, culture, and the environment, and the issues that arise from humans’ seemingly ceaseless effort to control the natural world.
Saleem H. Ali
Author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, and professor of environmental planning and conflict resolution at the University of Vermont, Dr. Saleem Ali, named one of eight “Revolutionary Minds in the World” by Seed magazine, is a leading advocate for cross-cultural environmental pragmatism.
Robert Levine
The Internet was going to move us into the “information economy” – but information is worth less than ever. In Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, acclaimed journalist and former Exec. Editor of Billboard, Levine, lays out how the media business can save itself (in spite of itself).
Robert Glennon
Author of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, Glennon, the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, addresses America’s onrushing water shortage, and provides a provocative solution in the form of a market-based system that values water as both a commodity and a fundamental human right.
Raymond Fisman
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations and Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School.
Michael A. Cohen
Author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America, Cohen, a Senior Fellow at the American Security Program, writes and lectures on wide-ranging political and national security issues, including the war in Afghanistan, the ongoing militarization of American foreign policy.
John Bowe
Award-winning New Yorker and New York Times Magazine journalist and author of Pulitzer Prize nominee Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.
James G. Workman
Award-winning journalist and author of Heart of Dryness, James G. Workman has devoted his life to helping solve, the overriding paradox of our time: Water conservation is, ironically, unsustainable. But, why? A former advisor shaping national and global policy under Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, Workman addresses this riddle in a compelling multimedia program.
Edward Miguel
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, and author of Africa's Turn?, Miguel is the Director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at UC, Berkeley.
Ben Hewitt
Author of the critically acclaimed The Town That Food Saved and the forthcoming Making Supper Safe, Ben Hewitt, a diversified, small-scale farmer, shows how regionalized agriculture and food production holds the potential to reinvigorate our bodies, communities, and economies.
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column "How the World Works" - a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics.
Separate, But Equal
Based upon the acclaimed book he co-authored, Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson, filmmaker Shawn D. Wilson’s documentary explores the all black, separate-but-equal town of Greenville, MS in the 1950s-60s, and asks a most provocative question about desegregation: "Did we lose more than we gained?"
Logan Smalley
Director of the multi-award-winning documentary “Darius Goes West,” which chronicles the epic cross-country road trip he and 10 others took with Darius Weems, a friend stricken with fatal Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Smalley is a change agent for a new generation.
David Zweig
A writer, scholar, musician, and documentarian, Zweig’s work delves into the connections between our culture and our experiential reality. His acclaimed novel, Swimming Inside the Sun, spawned the groundbreaking theory “Fiction Depersonalization Syndrome,” which addresses our increasing isolation, despite our being more technologically-connected than ever.
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food & Agriculture blogger at Mother Jones, Philpott was, until recently, Food editor at Grist.org, where his biweekly “Victual Reality” column was the only regular food-politics column in the national media.
Susan Freinkel
Award-winning author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, in which she explores one of the most transformative inventions of the 20th century, Freinkel writes about the intersection of science, culture, and the environment, and the issues that arise from humans’ seemingly ceaseless effort to control the natural world.
Saleem H. Ali
Author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, and professor of environmental planning and conflict resolution at the University of Vermont, Dr. Saleem Ali, named one of eight “Revolutionary Minds in the World” by Seed magazine, is a leading advocate for cross-cultural environmental pragmatism.
Robert Glennon
Author of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, Glennon, the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, addresses America’s onrushing water shortage, and provides a provocative solution in the form of a market-based system that values water as both a commodity and a fundamental human right.
James G. Workman
Award-winning journalist and author of Heart of Dryness, James G. Workman has devoted his life to helping solve, the overriding paradox of our time: Water conservation is, ironically, unsustainable. But, why? A former advisor shaping national and global policy under Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, Workman addresses this riddle in a compelling multimedia program.
Elizabeth Royte
Author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, and Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte addresses the staggering impact of waste and consumption on the environment, the economy, and our public water supplies.
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column "How the World Works" - a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics.
William Lobdell
Award-winning former LA Times journalist, and author of the memoir Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America
Separate, But Equal
Based upon the acclaimed book he co-authored, Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson, filmmaker Shawn D. Wilson’s documentary explores the all black, separate-but-equal town of Greenville, MS in the 1950s-60s, and asks a most provocative question about desegregation: "Did we lose more than we gained?"
Saleem H. Ali
Author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, and professor of environmental planning and conflict resolution at the University of Vermont, Dr. Saleem Ali, named one of eight “Revolutionary Minds in the World” by Seed magazine, is a leading advocate for cross-cultural environmental pragmatism.
Raymond Fisman
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations and Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School.
John Bowe
Award-winning New Yorker and New York Times Magazine journalist and author of Pulitzer Prize nominee Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.
Joe Drape
Award-winning New York Times journalist and author of the bestseller Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
Edward Miguel
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, and author of Africa's Turn?, Miguel is the Director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at UC, Berkeley.
Ben Hewitt
Author of the critically acclaimed The Town That Food Saved and the forthcoming Making Supper Safe, Ben Hewitt, a diversified, small-scale farmer, shows how regionalized agriculture and food production holds the potential to reinvigorate our bodies, communities, and economies.
Emily Liebert
Award-winning writer, editor and author of Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit, Liebert examines the positive power and untapped potential of the social networking revolution, beginning with 25 true stories of hope and triumph reaching across cultures -- all resulting from Facebook connections.
David Zweig
A writer, scholar, musician, and documentarian, Zweig’s work delves into the connections between our culture and our experiential reality. His acclaimed novel, Swimming Inside the Sun, spawned the groundbreaking theory “Fiction Depersonalization Syndrome,” which addresses our increasing isolation, despite our being more technologically-connected than ever.
Tom Clynes
Acclaimed journalist, photographer and author of Wild Planet, Tom Clynes, longtime Contributing Editor at National Geographic Adventure brings audiences along on assignment to the ends of the Earth, telling the stories of individuals who managed to shape once-ordinary lives into extraordinary, world-changing adventures, and how each of us can do the same.
Separate, But Equal
Based upon the acclaimed book he co-authored, Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson, filmmaker Shawn D. Wilson’s documentary explores the all black, separate-but-equal town of Greenville, MS in the 1950s-60s, and asks a most provocative question about desegregation: "Did we lose more than we gained?"
Emily Liebert
Award-winning writer, editor and author of Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit, Liebert examines the positive power and untapped potential of the social networking revolution, beginning with 25 true stories of hope and triumph reaching across cultures -- all resulting from Facebook connections.
Elizabeth Royte
Author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, and Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte addresses the staggering impact of waste and consumption on the environment, the economy, and our public water supplies.
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food & Agriculture blogger at Mother Jones, Philpott was, until recently, Food editor at Grist.org, where his biweekly “Victual Reality” column was the only regular food-politics column in the national media.
Susan Freinkel
Award-winning author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, in which she explores one of the most transformative inventions of the 20th century, Freinkel writes about the intersection of science, culture, and the environment, and the issues that arise from humans’ seemingly ceaseless effort to control the natural world.
Ben Hewitt
Author of the critically acclaimed The Town That Food Saved and the forthcoming Making Supper Safe, Ben Hewitt, a diversified, small-scale farmer, shows how regionalized agriculture and food production holds the potential to reinvigorate our bodies, communities, and economies.
Michael A. Cohen
Author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America, Cohen, a Senior Fellow at the American Security Program, writes and lectures on wide-ranging political and national security issues, including the war in Afghanistan, the ongoing militarization of American foreign policy.
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food & Agriculture blogger at Mother Jones, Philpott was, until recently, Food editor at Grist.org, where his biweekly “Victual Reality” column was the only regular food-politics column in the national media.
Tom Clynes
Acclaimed journalist, photographer and author of Wild Planet, Tom Clynes, longtime Contributing Editor at National Geographic Adventure brings audiences along on assignment to the ends of the Earth, telling the stories of individuals who managed to shape once-ordinary lives into extraordinary, world-changing adventures, and how each of us can do the same.
Saleem H. Ali
Author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, and professor of environmental planning and conflict resolution at the University of Vermont, Dr. Saleem Ali, named one of eight “Revolutionary Minds in the World” by Seed magazine, is a leading advocate for cross-cultural environmental pragmatism.
Raymond Fisman
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations and Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School.
Michael A. Cohen
Author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America, Cohen, a Senior Fellow at the American Security Program, writes and lectures on wide-ranging political and national security issues, including the war in Afghanistan, the ongoing militarization of American foreign policy.
Kayla Williams
Author of the memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Williams addresses the shifting role of women in society, the changing demands on today's military, and the treatment/reintegration of veterans.
John Bowe
Award-winning New Yorker and New York Times Magazine journalist and author of Pulitzer Prize nominee Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.
James G. Workman
Award-winning journalist and author of Heart of Dryness, James G. Workman has devoted his life to helping solve, the overriding paradox of our time: Water conservation is, ironically, unsustainable. But, why? A former advisor shaping national and global policy under Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, Workman addresses this riddle in a compelling multimedia program.
Edward Miguel
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations, and author of Africa's Turn?, Miguel is the Director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at UC, Berkeley.
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column "How the World Works" - a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics.
Tom Clynes
Acclaimed journalist, photographer and author of Wild Planet, Tom Clynes, longtime Contributing Editor at National Geographic Adventure brings audiences along on assignment to the ends of the Earth, telling the stories of individuals who managed to shape once-ordinary lives into extraordinary, world-changing adventures, and how each of us can do the same.
Liza Donnelly
Author and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly's personal journey to success in a field dominated by men fuels her passion to expose cultural stereotypes, working with international cartoonists as editor of World Ink, a site dedicated to political cartoons from around the world.
John Bowe
Award-winning New Yorker and New York Times Magazine journalist and author of Pulitzer Prize nominee Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
Gustavo Arellano
Author of the bestselling book and nationally syndicated column ¡Ask a Mexican!, and Orange County: A Personal History, Arellano takes on immigration, integration and ethnic stereotypes.
Liza Donnelly
Author and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly's personal journey to success in a field dominated by men fuels her passion to expose cultural stereotypes, working with international cartoonists as editor of World Ink, a site dedicated to political cartoons from around the world.
John Bowe
Award-winning New Yorker and New York Times Magazine journalist and author of Pulitzer Prize nominee Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.
Gustavo Arellano
Author of the bestselling book and nationally syndicated column ¡Ask a Mexican!, and Orange County: A Personal History, Arellano takes on immigration, integration and ethnic stereotypes.
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column "How the World Works" - a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics.
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food & Agriculture blogger at Mother Jones, Philpott was, until recently, Food editor at Grist.org, where his biweekly “Victual Reality” column was the only regular food-politics column in the national media.
Susan Freinkel
Award-winning author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, in which she explores one of the most transformative inventions of the 20th century, Freinkel writes about the intersection of science, culture, and the environment, and the issues that arise from humans’ seemingly ceaseless effort to control the natural world.
Robert Levine
The Internet was going to move us into the “information economy” – but information is worth less than ever. In Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, acclaimed journalist and former Exec. Editor of Billboard, Levine, lays out how the media business can save itself (in spite of itself).
Logan Smalley
Director of the multi-award-winning documentary “Darius Goes West,” which chronicles the epic cross-country road trip he and 10 others took with Darius Weems, a friend stricken with fatal Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Smalley is a change agent for a new generation.
Jeffrey M. Stibel
In his book Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet, Stibel, a brain scientist, entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, demonstrates how the Internet has effectively replicated the human brain, and how the future of business lies in leveraging the understanding of these similarly complex networks.
James R. Chiles
Author of the acclaimed book Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology, Chiles helps organizations assess risk, avoid catastrophe and increase efficiency.
James G. Workman
Award-winning journalist and author of Heart of Dryness, James G. Workman has devoted his life to helping solve, the overriding paradox of our time: Water conservation is, ironically, unsustainable. But, why? A former advisor shaping national and global policy under Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, Workman addresses this riddle in a compelling multimedia program.
Emily Liebert
Award-winning writer, editor and author of Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit, Liebert examines the positive power and untapped potential of the social networking revolution, beginning with 25 true stories of hope and triumph reaching across cultures -- all resulting from Facebook connections.
Tom Clynes
Acclaimed journalist, photographer and author of Wild Planet, Tom Clynes, longtime Contributing Editor at National Geographic Adventure brings audiences along on assignment to the ends of the Earth, telling the stories of individuals who managed to shape once-ordinary lives into extraordinary, world-changing adventures, and how each of us can do the same.
Separate, But Equal
Based upon the acclaimed book he co-authored, Separate, But Equal: The Mississippi Photographs of Henry Clay Anderson, filmmaker Shawn D. Wilson’s documentary explores the all black, separate-but-equal town of Greenville, MS in the 1950s-60s, and asks a most provocative question about desegregation: "Did we lose more than we gained?"
Logan Smalley
Director of the multi-award-winning documentary “Darius Goes West,” which chronicles the epic cross-country road trip he and 10 others took with Darius Weems, a friend stricken with fatal Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Smalley is a change agent for a new generation.
Emily Liebert
Award-winning writer, editor and author of Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit, Liebert examines the positive power and untapped potential of the social networking revolution, beginning with 25 true stories of hope and triumph reaching across cultures -- all resulting from Facebook connections.
Saleem H. Ali
Author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, and professor of environmental planning and conflict resolution at the University of Vermont, Dr. Saleem Ali, named one of eight “Revolutionary Minds in the World” by Seed magazine, is a leading advocate for cross-cultural environmental pragmatism.
William Lobdell
Award-winning former LA Times journalist, and author of the memoir Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America
William C. Rhoden
Award-winning New York Times columnist, bestselling author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete and frequent guest on ESPN's "The Sports Reporters”.
Valerie Boyd
Award-winning author of the acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, and the forthcoming Spirits in the Dark: The Untold Story of Black Women in Hollywood.
Tom Clynes
Acclaimed journalist, photographer and author of Wild Planet, Tom Clynes, longtime Contributing Editor at National Geographic Adventure brings audiences along on assignment to the ends of the Earth, telling the stories of individuals who managed to shape once-ordinary lives into extraordinary, world-changing adventures, and how each of us can do the same.
Susan Freinkel
Award-winning author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, in which she explores one of the most transformative inventions of the 20th century, Freinkel writes about the intersection of science, culture, and the environment, and the issues that arise from humans’ seemingly ceaseless effort to control the natural world.
Robert Levine
The Internet was going to move us into the “information economy” – but information is worth less than ever. In Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, acclaimed journalist and former Exec. Editor of Billboard, Levine, lays out how the media business can save itself (in spite of itself).
Michael A. Cohen
Author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America, Cohen, a Senior Fellow at the American Security Program, writes and lectures on wide-ranging political and national security issues, including the war in Afghanistan, the ongoing militarization of American foreign policy.
Liza Donnelly
Author and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly's personal journey to success in a field dominated by men fuels her passion to expose cultural stereotypes, working with international cartoonists as editor of World Ink, a site dedicated to political cartoons from around the world.
Joe Drape
Award-winning New York Times journalist and author of the bestseller Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
David Zweig
A writer, scholar, musician, and documentarian, Zweig’s work delves into the connections between our culture and our experiential reality. His acclaimed novel, Swimming Inside the Sun, spawned the groundbreaking theory “Fiction Depersonalization Syndrome,” which addresses our increasing isolation, despite our being more technologically-connected than ever.
Brandon Friedman
Author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War, Friedman is currently Director of New Media at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served from ’07-’09 as Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org and as editor of the blog VetVoice.
William C. Rhoden
Award-winning New York Times columnist, bestselling author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete and frequent guest on ESPN's "The Sports Reporters”.
Tom Clynes
Acclaimed journalist, photographer and author of Wild Planet, Tom Clynes, longtime Contributing Editor at National Geographic Adventure brings audiences along on assignment to the ends of the Earth, telling the stories of individuals who managed to shape once-ordinary lives into extraordinary, world-changing adventures, and how each of us can do the same.
Kayla Williams
Author of the memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Williams addresses the shifting role of women in society, the changing demands on today's military, and the treatment/reintegration of veterans.
Joe Drape
Award-winning New York Times journalist and author of the bestseller Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
Jeffrey M. Stibel
In his book Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet, Stibel, a brain scientist, entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, demonstrates how the Internet has effectively replicated the human brain, and how the future of business lies in leveraging the understanding of these similarly complex networks.
Brandon Friedman
Author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War, Friedman is currently Director of New Media at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served from ’07-’09 as Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org and as editor of the blog VetVoice.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
Jeffrey M. Stibel
In his book Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet, Stibel, a brain scientist, entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, demonstrates how the Internet has effectively replicated the human brain, and how the future of business lies in leveraging the understanding of these similarly complex networks.
Emily Liebert
Award-winning writer, editor and author of Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit, Liebert examines the positive power and untapped potential of the social networking revolution, beginning with 25 true stories of hope and triumph reaching across cultures -- all resulting from Facebook connections.
Kayla Williams
Author of the memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Williams addresses the shifting role of women in society, the changing demands on today's military, and the treatment/reintegration of veterans.
David Zweig
A writer, scholar, musician, and documentarian, Zweig’s work delves into the connections between our culture and our experiential reality. His acclaimed novel, Swimming Inside the Sun, spawned the groundbreaking theory “Fiction Depersonalization Syndrome,” which addresses our increasing isolation, despite our being more technologically-connected than ever.
Brandon Friedman
Author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War, Friedman is currently Director of New Media at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served from ’07-’09 as Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org and as editor of the blog VetVoice.
Raymond Fisman
Co-Author of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations and Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School.
Logan Smalley
Director of the multi-award-winning documentary “Darius Goes West,” which chronicles the epic cross-country road trip he and 10 others took with Darius Weems, a friend stricken with fatal Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Smalley is a change agent for a new generation.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
Saleem H. Ali
Author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, and professor of environmental planning and conflict resolution at the University of Vermont, Dr. Saleem Ali, named one of eight “Revolutionary Minds in the World” by Seed magazine, is a leading advocate for cross-cultural environmental pragmatism.
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food & Agriculture blogger at Mother Jones, Philpott was, until recently, Food editor at Grist.org, where his biweekly “Victual Reality” column was the only regular food-politics column in the national media.
Michael A. Cohen
Author of Live From the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the 20th Century and How They Shaped Modern America, Cohen, a Senior Fellow at the American Security Program, writes and lectures on wide-ranging political and national security issues, including the war in Afghanistan, the ongoing militarization of American foreign policy.
Liza Donnelly
Author and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly's personal journey to success in a field dominated by men fuels her passion to expose cultural stereotypes, working with international cartoonists as editor of World Ink, a site dedicated to political cartoons from around the world.
Kayla Williams
Author of the memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Williams addresses the shifting role of women in society, the changing demands on today's military, and the treatment/reintegration of veterans.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
Gustavo Arellano
Author of the bestselling book and nationally syndicated column ¡Ask a Mexican!, and Orange County: A Personal History, Arellano takes on immigration, integration and ethnic stereotypes.
Brandon Friedman
Author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War, Friedman is currently Director of New Media at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served from ’07-’09 as Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org and as editor of the blog VetVoice.
William Lobdell
Award-winning former LA Times journalist, and author of the memoir Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America
William C. Rhoden
Award-winning New York Times columnist, bestselling author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete and frequent guest on ESPN's "The Sports Reporters”.
Joe Drape
Award-winning New York Times journalist and author of the bestseller Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen.
Tom Philpott
Co-founder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable-food education, and Food & Agriculture blogger at Mother Jones, Philpott was, until recently, Food editor at Grist.org, where his biweekly “Victual Reality” column was the only regular food-politics column in the national media.
Susan Freinkel
Award-winning author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, in which she explores one of the most transformative inventions of the 20th century, Freinkel writes about the intersection of science, culture, and the environment, and the issues that arise from humans’ seemingly ceaseless effort to control the natural world.
Saleem H. Ali
Author of Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future, and professor of environmental planning and conflict resolution at the University of Vermont, Dr. Saleem Ali, named one of eight “Revolutionary Minds in the World” by Seed magazine, is a leading advocate for cross-cultural environmental pragmatism.
Robert Glennon
Author of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, Glennon, the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, addresses America’s onrushing water shortage, and provides a provocative solution in the form of a market-based system that values water as both a commodity and a fundamental human right.
James G. Workman
Award-winning journalist and author of Heart of Dryness, James G. Workman has devoted his life to helping solve, the overriding paradox of our time: Water conservation is, ironically, unsustainable. But, why? A former advisor shaping national and global policy under Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, Workman addresses this riddle in a compelling multimedia program.
Elizabeth Royte
Author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, and Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte addresses the staggering impact of waste and consumption on the environment, the economy, and our public water supplies.
Ben Hewitt
Author of the critically acclaimed The Town That Food Saved and the forthcoming Making Supper Safe, Ben Hewitt, a diversified, small-scale farmer, shows how regionalized agriculture and food production holds the potential to reinvigorate our bodies, communities, and economies.
Susan Freinkel
Award-winning author of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, in which she explores one of the most transformative inventions of the 20th century, Freinkel writes about the intersection of science, culture, and the environment, and the issues that arise from humans’ seemingly ceaseless effort to control the natural world.
Robert Levine
The Internet was going to move us into the “information economy” – but information is worth less than ever. In Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, acclaimed journalist and former Exec. Editor of Billboard, Levine, lays out how the media business can save itself (in spite of itself).
Jeffrey M. Stibel
In his book Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet, Stibel, a brain scientist, entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, demonstrates how the Internet has effectively replicated the human brain, and how the future of business lies in leveraging the understanding of these similarly complex networks.
James R. Chiles
Author of the acclaimed book Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology, Chiles helps organizations assess risk, avoid catastrophe and increase efficiency.
David Zweig
A writer, scholar, musician, and documentarian, Zweig’s work delves into the connections between our culture and our experiential reality. His acclaimed novel, Swimming Inside the Sun, spawned the groundbreaking theory “Fiction Depersonalization Syndrome,” which addresses our increasing isolation, despite our being more technologically-connected than ever.
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column "How the World Works" - a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics.
Kayla Williams
Author of the memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Williams addresses the shifting role of women in society, the changing demands on today's military, and the treatment/reintegration of veterans.
Brandon Friedman
Author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War, Friedman is currently Director of New Media at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served from ’07-’09 as Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org and as editor of the blog VetVoice.
Robert Glennon
Author of Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, Glennon, the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, addresses America’s onrushing water shortage, and provides a provocative solution in the form of a market-based system that values water as both a commodity and a fundamental human right.
James G. Workman
Award-winning journalist and author of Heart of Dryness, James G. Workman has devoted his life to helping solve, the overriding paradox of our time: Water conservation is, ironically, unsustainable. But, why? A former advisor shaping national and global policy under Bruce Babbitt and Nelson Mandela, Workman addresses this riddle in a compelling multimedia program.
Elizabeth Royte
Author of Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, and Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte addresses the staggering impact of waste and consumption on the environment, the economy, and our public water supplies.
Robert Levine
The Internet was going to move us into the “information economy” – but information is worth less than ever. In Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, acclaimed journalist and former Exec. Editor of Billboard, Levine, lays out how the media business can save itself (in spite of itself).
Logan Smalley
Director of the multi-award-winning documentary “Darius Goes West,” which chronicles the epic cross-country road trip he and 10 others took with Darius Weems, a friend stricken with fatal Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Smalley is a change agent for a new generation.
Jeffrey M. Stibel
In his book Wired for Thought: How the Brain Is Shaping the Future of the Internet, Stibel, a brain scientist, entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, demonstrates how the Internet has effectively replicated the human brain, and how the future of business lies in leveraging the understanding of these similarly complex networks.
Emily Liebert
Award-winning writer, editor and author of Facebook Fairytales: Modern-Day Miracles to Inspire the Human Spirit, Liebert examines the positive power and untapped potential of the social networking revolution, beginning with 25 true stories of hope and triumph reaching across cultures -- all resulting from Facebook connections.
Brandon Friedman
Author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War, Friedman is currently Director of New Media at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He served from ’07-’09 as Vice Chairman of VoteVets.org and as editor of the blog VetVoice.
Andrew Leonard
A Senior writer at Salon.com, Leonard writes the hybrid blog/column "How the World Works" - a venue for exploring the interconnections between globalization, energy policy, economics, the environment, technology and politics.
Valerie Boyd
Award-winning author of the acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, and the forthcoming Spirits in the Dark: The Untold Story of Black Women in Hollywood.
Liza Donnelly
Author and staff cartoonist for The New Yorker, Liza Donnelly's personal journey to success in a field dominated by men fuels her passion to expose cultural stereotypes, working with international cartoonists as editor of World Ink, a site dedicated to political cartoons from around the world.
Kayla Williams
Author of the memoir Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Williams addresses the shifting role of women in society, the changing demands on today's military, and the treatment/reintegration of veterans.
Joan Garry
Former Executive Director of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), Garry is widely recognized as one of the most vocal, passionate and effective civil rights leaders in America.
