Ben Bowler
Ben Bowler describes himself as a unity activist and spiritual entrepreneur, and his path bears that out. Raised in Australia, he moved to Thailand in 2006 to volunteer along the Thai-Burma border, an experience that led him and his wife Jildou to found Blood Foundation two years later, supporting Burmese communities through interfaith and education […]
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 […]
Robert Atkinson
Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., is an author, speaker, and developmental psychologist bridging storytelling, transformation, and the evolution of consciousness with an all-embracing vision. He is a 2017 Nautilus Book Award winner for The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness, and a co-editor of the award-winning Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and […]
Ian MacKenzie
Ian MacKenzie is a passionate artist dedicated to weaving visions of the possible, believing that if we can’t envision a future that works for all life, we are more likely to hold on to the familiar even when it’s clear it has become obsolete. Over the last 15+ years, he has used a variety of […]
Valarie Kaur
Valarie Kaur is a civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, faith leader, and author rooted in the Sikh farming communities of California’s Central Valley, where her family has lived for more than a century. Her grandfather gave her Sikh wisdom through stories and songs that showed the way of the sant-sipahi—the sage-warrior—where the sage loves […]
Andrew Weil, M.D.
Andrew Weil, M.D., is the physician most responsible for bringing integrative medicine into mainstream awareness—and for insisting that the word “integrative” actually mean something. Trained at Harvard in biology and medicine, he spent years studying medicinal plants, traditional healing systems, and cultural approaches to health across the Americas and Africa before concluding what conventional medicine […]
Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is a recognized global visionary who has spent more than 40 years committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger, empowering women and girls, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. The breadth of her work ranges from working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to guiding refugees in Ethiopian camps to protecting threatened Amazon […]
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 […]
Brett KenCairn
Brett KenCairn is the Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team, where he coordinates the city’s nature-based solutions work. Brett has worked across the western U.S. in community-based initiatives in rural, Native American, and other marginalized communities, and is […]
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles for over thirty years about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with three—including How to Change […]
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad in the pages […]
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Williams has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She has testified before Congress […]
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a double bassist and composer raised in the mountains of Western Canada, where nature became his primary inspiration and the common thread between his life and music. His three solo albums—Alpine, Flying, and Voyage—reflect his experiences carrying his 150-year-old double bass to remote locations including woods, beaches, deserts, Antarctica, and Tuva. During […]
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 […]