Ermias Kebreab
Ermias Kebreab is a professor of animal science and associate dean for global engagement at UC Davis, where he also directs the World Food Center. Raised in Eritrea with a lifelong love of milk, he has built a career at the intersection of livestock productivity and environmental sustainability. His research took an unexpected turn toward […]
Joan Borysenko, PhD
Joan Borysenko, PhD is a distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine and world-renowned expert in the mind/body connection whose work has been foundational in an international healthcare revolution recognizing the role of meaning and spiritual dimensions of life as integral to health and healing. After graduating magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and earning her […]
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic, where his work has fundamentally shaped public understanding of biology, ecology, and the hidden complexity of life. Born in Malaysia and raised in Britain, Yong has spent his career finding the stories inside science that change how people see themselves and […]
Ferris Jabr
Ferris Jabr is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Becoming Earth won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Oregon Book Award, with reviewers describing it as an “electrifying” and […]
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly wants you to see planet Earth the way you’d see a person waking up—slowly becoming aware of itself, through us, at exactly the moment it may need that awareness most. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kelly has spent decades tracing how human consciousness is evolving in response to the crises of […]
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A […]
Gregg Braden
Gregg Braden is a five-time New York Times best-selling author, scientist, educator and pioneer bridging science, social policy and human potential who, from 1979 to 1991, worked as a problem solver during times of crisis for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco Systems, where he became the first Technical Operations Manager leading development of the global […]
Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures,” which won both the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize for its groundbreaking exploration of fungal networks and their profound influence on life on Earth. Sheldrake […]
Bruce H. Lipton
Bruce H. Lipton is a cell biologist, bestselling author, and internationally recognized authority in bridging science and spirit who formerly served as Associate Professor of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine (1973-1982) and Research Fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine (1987-1992). His early laboratory research focused on muscular dystrophy and the […]
Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets is a speaker, author, mycologist, medical researcher, and entrepreneur considered an intellectual and industry leader in fungi research covering habitat preservation, medicinal applications, and sustainable production methods. He lectures extensively worldwide to deepen understanding and respect for organisms that literally exist under every footstep, presenting research on how mushrooms can enhance both human […]
Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus is a biologist, author, innovation consultant, and self-proclaimed “nature nerd” who popularized the field of biomimicry through her groundbreaking 1997 book “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature,” which named an emerging discipline that emulates nature’s designs and processes to create healthier, more sustainable solutions. Since the book’s release, Benyus has evolved the practice of […]
Kurt Johnson
Dr. Kurt Johnson has worked in professional science and comparative religion for over 40 years while serving on many international committees, particularly at the United Nations, where he has served on the Executive Committee of the UN NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns and co-founded the NGO Forum 21 Institute. As part of […]