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
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 […]
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 […]
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, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), specializing in integral ecology, environmental humanities, religion and ecology, integral theories and philosophies, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, archetypal cosmology, Romanticism and German Idealism. Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in […]
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone is a pioneering author, Jungian psychotherapist, and leader in the international Jewish Renewal Movement who brings together Kabbalah, depth psychology, and the re-integration of feminine wisdom traditions within Judaism. Raised in an Orthodox home in St. Louis and sister to radical feminist Shulamith Firestone, Rabbi Tirzah embarked on a spiritual odyssey that […]
Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution whose work has generated a vast online following through his writings and frequent appearances at conferences, radio shows, and podcasts. Graduating from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, Eisenstein spent ten […]
Nipun Mehta
Nipun Mehta is the founder of CharityFocus (now ServiceSpace), a fully volunteer-run organization that has delivered millions of dollars of web-related services to the nonprofit world for free while building a global community of 285,000 members dedicated to compassionate action and gift economy principles. Originally pursuing a Computer Science and Philosophy degree at UC Berkeley […]
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist, and spiritual thought leader who has been a leader in spiritual and religiously progressive circles for over three decades, authoring 14 books including four #1 New York Times bestsellers that have influenced a contemporary generation of seekers. Her mega-bestseller “A Return to Love” contains the widely quoted […]