Michelle Saahene
Wellness, progress and justice activist focusing on healing within a system of institutional racism. Michelle creates spaces for dialogue on racial healing, growth and learning.
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Mike Duncan
American political history podcaster and author. His award winning series, “The History of Rome,” remains a legendary landmark in the history of podcasting.
Betsy Gaines Quammen
Author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West. Environmental historian and writer with a background in international conservation work, land issues, science denialism, and anti-government agitation in the American West.
Mariama White-Hammond
Through her environmental and social justice advocacy, Rev. White-Hammond reforms racial divides within communities and empowers individuals to make change for the greater good.
Vien Truong
One of the country’s foremost policy innovators and solutions architect on building an equitable green economy. Truong served as CEO of the Dream Corps, and led Green For All.
Angela Shelton
Be Your Own Hero! Angela Shelton shares heartwarming and hilarious real-life stories about moving from a life of child sexual abuse, rape and domestic violence hardships to activist, artist, performer, writer, and award-winning filmmaker.
Paul Watson
Co-founder of the Greenpeace Foundation, Marine wildlife conservation and environmental activist, Captain of Animal Planet’s WHALE WARS & Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Daniel H. Wilson
Award-winning SciFi author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and AI & Robotics Expert, Wilson was selected to write, “The Andromeda Evolution” with the Michael Crichton estate, which marked the 50th anniversary of “The Andromeda Strain”.
Jeffery Renard Allen
Award winning American poet, essayist, short story writer, and novelist. Winner of the P.E.N. Discovery Prize and a Whiting Writer’s Award.
Christine McKinley
STEM activist, mechanical engineer, musician, host of Discovery Channel’s Decoded, and author of Physics For Rock Stars. Her musical Gracie and the Atom won a Portland Drammy for Original Score.
Shola Lynch
Award-winning filmmaker, scholar, and film curator of documentaries: Free Angela & All Political Prisoners and Chisolm ’72-Unbought and Unbossed
Richard Morse
“With my music, I’m providing a safe haven for folks as the government fails…There are times when the Haitian people can’t speak out. But I can write a song.”
Charles Johnson
National Book Award winner for Middle Passage, Dr. Charles Johnson writes captivating novels that address issues of being African-American in today’s U.S. society.
Suzan Shown Harjo
President of The Morning Star Institute. Poet, writer, lecturer and policy advocate, who has helped Indigenous peoples protect sacred places and recover more than one million acres of land.
Robert Kirshner
Part of the Nobel-Award winning research team on “cosmic expansion” — takes his audience inside the world of dark energy, exploding stars, and the accelerating universe.
Derrick Pitts
NASA’s first Astrobiology Ambassador & Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director at the Franklin Institute. His motto: Eat, breathe, do science. Sleep later.
Steven Strogatz
An award-winning researcher, teacher, and communicator, Strogatz finds math in places where you’d least expect it & uses it to illuminate life’s mysteries, big and small