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Speaker CategoriesActivism Matters
Paula Allen
Paula Allen has been an 'activist with a camera' for more than two decades.
Her compelling photographs capture women around the world in their courageous and often invisible confrontations with violence and oppression. She is currently completing her book, Homecomings, which weaves together the stories of three families who lost relatives and homes in the devastation of
Hurricane Katrina.
Zainab Al-Suwaij
Zainab Al-Suwaij is the co-founder of the American Islamic Congress. A native of Iraq, she participated in the failed internal uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991 and then fled to the United States. After the September 11 attacks, Al-Suwaij left her job as a refugee resettlement advisor to co-found a progressive Muslim organization dedicated to promoting interfaith tolerance and individual rights, at home and throughout the Muslim world. As a Muslim-American woman of traditional background yet progressive orientation, she serves as a bridge across cultures, religious divides, and political differences.
Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, CODEPINK
Benjamin and Evans are activists and co-founders of CODEPINK, a
women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that has been
organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq since
2002. The organization currently has more than 100 chapters throughout the
United States.
Libuse Binder
Libuse Binder is the author of Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties. In her book, Binder provides a timely roadmap for individuals looking to make a difference — from eating locally and reducing waste, to starting a nonprofit organization or finding a career dedicated to helping others.
Jimmie Briggs
Jimmie Briggs is an award-winning human rights activist, journalist, author and the founder of the Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to mobilize young people to stop violence against women and girls in their communities through music, sports and technology.
Simon Deng
Simon Aban Deng is a refugee from Sudan and a survivor of child slavery.
He is a passionate activist who recently trekked 300 miles from United
Nations headquarters in New York City to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to
call for an end to slavery and genocide in Sudan.
Beatrice Fernando
Extreme poverty propelled 23 year-old Beatrice Fernando to look beyond the borders of her native Sri Lanka for a means of financially supporting her young son. Her story is not unique: traffickers often prey on a sense of financial vulnerability, advertising a good job as an avenue out of the desperation of poverty.
Jaimi Lard
Jaimi Lard refuses to let the fact that she has been deaf and blind since birth stop her from having adventures. "Anything is possible — you've just got to go for it," she says. Educating others about what is achievable for people with disabilities is a central part of Jaimi's life.
Sarah Panzau
In the early hours of August 23, 2003, 21-year old Sarah Panzau's life changed forever. She had partied the night away with her friends and, just before dawn, made an irrevocable decision to get into her car and drive home.
Micheline Slattery
Micheline Slattery was born to a prominent political family in Jacmel, Haiti. After being orphaned at the age of five, she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle in a town nearby, where she was forced to work as her extended family's servant, or restavec, as a child slave is commonly called.
Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan has re-energized the nation's anti-war movement with her unflagging desire to meet with President Bush to ask: "What is the noble cause for which my son died in Iraq?"
Bill Wallauer
Bill Wallauer offers a unique impression of life among wild chimpanzees, having spent years following the chimps of Gombe National Park, video camera at the ready.
Nasser Weddady
Nasser Wedaddy is a dynamic Arab Muslim human rights activist who works closely with young reformers in the Middle East on interfaith projects and civil rights campaigns. He guides the Middle East Interfaith Blogger Network, coordinates various campaigns for jailed dissidents, and has led civil rights training conferences across the Middle East.
Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. In 1989, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Wilson insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay.
Ann Wright
On March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.)
and diplomat Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State
Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security
Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country
would be a disaster. She was one among dozens of government insiders and
active-duty military personnel who leaked documents, spoke out, resigned, or
refused to deploy in protest of government actions they felt were illegal.
Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace. Alcohol Awareness MattersSarah Panzau
In the early hours of August 23, 2003, 21-year old Sarah Panzau's life changed forever. She had partied the night away with her friends and, just before dawn, made an irrevocable decision to get into her car and drive home. Career MattersLara Galinsky
Lara Galinsky is the co-author of Work on Purpose, a book that provides readers with a framework for aligning their passions with their talents to achieve personal fulfillment and societal impact through their careers. Disability MattersJaimi Lard
Jaimi Lard refuses to let the fact that she has been deaf and blind since birth stop her from having adventures. "Anything is possible — you've just got to go for it," she says. Educating others about what is achievable for people with disabilities is a central part of Jaimi's life. Domestic Abuse Awareness Matters
Jimmie Briggs
Jimmie Briggs is an award-winning human rights activist, journalist, author and the founder of the Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to mobilize young people to stop violence against women and girls in their communities through music, sports and technology. Environment & Sustainability MattersLibuse Binder
Libuse Binder is the author of Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties. In her book, Binder provides a timely roadmap for individuals looking to make a difference — from eating locally and reducing waste, to starting a nonprofit organization or finding a career dedicated to helping others.
Bill Wallauer
Bill Wallauer offers a unique impression of life among wild chimpanzees, having spent years following the chimps of Gombe National Park, video camera at the ready.
Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. In 1989, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Wilson insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay. Event Moderation MattersLeonard Lopate
Leonard Lopate has been one of WNYC radio's best-loved personalities for 20
years. As host of the Leonard Lopate Show, the acclaimed live daily
interview program now available on XM Radio, he covers a huge range of
topics and provides the best two hours of lively, spontaneous, and unedited
talk in New York City.
Deborah Siegel
Deborah Siegel, Ph.D., is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. Siegel is a writer and consultant who specializes in gender, politics, and the unfinished business of feminism. Siegel comments frequently about myths and realities regarding women, sex, and power from bedroom to boardroom; the history of the women's movement; and feminism today. Gender MattersPaula Allen
Paula Allen has been an 'activist with a camera' for more than two decades.
Her compelling photographs capture women around the world in their courageous and often invisible confrontations with violence and oppression. She is currently completing her book, Homecomings, which weaves together the stories of three families who lost relatives and homes in the devastation of
Hurricane Katrina.
Zainab Al-Suwaij
Zainab Al-Suwaij is the co-founder of the American Islamic Congress. A native of Iraq, she participated in the failed internal uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991 and then fled to the United States. After the September 11 attacks, Al-Suwaij left her job as a refugee resettlement advisor to co-found a progressive Muslim organization dedicated to promoting interfaith tolerance and individual rights, at home and throughout the Muslim world. As a Muslim-American woman of traditional background yet progressive orientation, she serves as a bridge across cultures, religious divides, and political differences.
Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, CODEPINK
Benjamin and Evans are activists and co-founders of CODEPINK, a
women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that has been
organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq since
2002. The organization currently has more than 100 chapters throughout the
United States.
Laura Berman
Dr. Laura Berman is a world-renowned sex and relationship expert. Her new show, "In the Bedroom," premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in January, 2011.
Jimmie Briggs
Jimmie Briggs is an award-winning human rights activist, journalist, author and the founder of the Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to mobilize young people to stop violence against women and girls in their communities through music, sports and technology.
Beatrice Fernando
Extreme poverty propelled 23 year-old Beatrice Fernando to look beyond the borders of her native Sri Lanka for a means of financially supporting her young son. Her story is not unique: traffickers often prey on a sense of financial vulnerability, advertising a good job as an avenue out of the desperation of poverty.
Deborah Siegel
Deborah Siegel, Ph.D., is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild. Siegel is a writer and consultant who specializes in gender, politics, and the unfinished business of feminism.
Manisha Thakor
Manisha Thakor is on a mission to inspire women around the globe to "own your finances & own your life." She is a personal finance expert and a passionate advocate for women and financial independence.
Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. In 1989, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Wilson insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay. Goodness Matters
Mark Matousek
Mark Matousek is the author of Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, in which he explores the complex, yet inescapable, question of how we can know ourselves to be good amidst the hypocrisy, fears, and sabotaging appetites that rifle through our two-sided natures. Health & Wellness MattersMarc Ian Barasch
Marc Ian Barasch is an award-winning writer, editor, television producer and environmental activist. In his most recent book, The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness, Barasch poses vital questions: What if the great driving force of our evolution were actually "survival of the kindest?"
Can we increase our compassion quotient with practice? What can be learned from the study of altruistic personalities? How do empathy and forgiveness produce new strategies for conflict resolution and "social healing?"
Laura Berman
Dr. Laura Berman is a world-renowned sex and relationship expert. Her new show, "In the Bedroom," premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in January, 2011.
Ellen Langer
Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University and the author of Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. The book is being adapted into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Aniston as Langer.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is one of the leading happiness researchers in the world and the author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside where she currently teaches courses in social psychology and positive psychology.
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Christiane Northrup, M.D., is a visionary pioneer in the field of women's
health and wellness. A board-certified OB/GYN physician, Dr. Northrup helps
empower women to tune in to their innate inner wisdom to transform their
health and their lives. Her latest book, Mother-Daughter Wisdom: Creating a
Legacy of Physical & Emotional Health (Bantam 2005) explores how and why the
mother-daughter bond is at the head waters of a woman's health, and was
nominated for a prestigious Quill Award.
Sarah Panzau
In the early hours of August 23, 2003, 21-year old Sarah Panzau's life changed forever. She had partied the night away with her friends and, just before dawn, made an irrevocable decision to get into her car and drive home.
Tal Ben-Shahar
Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer who taught the most popular course at Harvard University on "Positive Psychology," and the university's third most popular course on "The Psychology of Leadership"—with a total of more than 1,400 students. Immigration MattersDaniel DeVivo
Daniel DeVivo believes that films are a powerful resource for popular education and cross-cultural exchange. His first documentary feature, "Crossing Arizona," focused attention on the heightened security in California and Texas that pushes illegal border-crossers into the treacherous Arizona desert in unprecedented numbers — an estimated 4,500 a day. Most are men in search of work, but increasingly the border-crossers are women and children. This influx of migrants crossing through Arizona and the attendant rising death toll have elicited complicated feelings about human rights, culture, class, labor and national security. Leadership MattersTal Ben-Shahar
Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer who taught the most popular course at Harvard University on "Positive Psychology," and the university's third most popular course on "The Psychology of Leadership"—with a total of more than 1,400 students.
Jimmie Briggs
Jimmie Briggs is an award-winning human rights activist, journalist, author and the founder of the Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to mobilize young people to stop violence against women and girls in their communities through music, sports and technology.
Ellen Langer
Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University and the author of Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. The book is being adapted into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Aniston as Langer.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is one of the leading happiness researchers in the world and the author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside where she currently teaches courses in social psychology and positive psychology. Media MattersLeonard Lopate
Leonard Lopate has been one of WNYC radio's best-loved personalities for 20
years. As host of the Leonard Lopate Show, the acclaimed live daily
interview program now available on XM Radio, he covers a huge range of
topics and provides the best two hours of lively, spontaneous, and unedited
talk in New York City. Middle East MattersZainab Al-Suwaij
Zainab Al-Suwaij is the co-founder of the American Islamic Congress. A native of Iraq, she participated in the failed internal uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991 and then fled to the United States. After the September 11 attacks, Al-Suwaij left her job as a refugee resettlement advisor to co-found a progressive Muslim organization dedicated to promoting interfaith tolerance and individual rights, at home and throughout the Muslim world. As a Muslim-American woman of traditional background yet progressive orientation, she serves as a bridge across cultures, religious divides, and political differences.
Nasser Weddady
Nasser Wedaddy is a dynamic Arab Muslim human rights activist who works closely with young reformers in the Middle East on interfaith projects and civil rights campaigns. He guides the Middle East Interfaith Blogger Network, coordinates various campaigns for jailed dissidents, and has led civil rights training conferences across the Middle East.
Ann Wright
On March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.)
and diplomat Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State
Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security
Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country
would be a disaster. She was one among dozens of government insiders and
active-duty military personnel who leaked documents, spoke out, resigned, or
refused to deploy in protest of government actions they felt were illegal.
Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace. Money MattersManisha Thakor
Manisha Thakor is on a mission to inspire women around the globe to "own your finances & own your life." She is a personal finance expert and a passionate advocate for women and financial independence. Morality Matters
Mark Matousek
Mark Matousek is the author of Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, in which he explores the complex, yet inescapable, question of how we can know ourselves to be good amidst the hypocrisy, fears, and sabotaging appetites that rifle through our two-sided natures. Motivation MattersTal Ben-Shahar
Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer who taught the most popular course at Harvard University on "Positive Psychology," and the university's third most popular course on "The Psychology of Leadership"—with a total of more than 1,400 students.
Libuse Binder
Libuse Binder is the author of Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties. In her book, Binder provides a timely roadmap for individuals looking to make a difference — from eating locally and reducing waste, to starting a nonprofit organization or finding a career dedicated to helping others.
Lara Galinsky
Lara Galinsky is the co-author of Work on Purpose, a book that provides readers with a framework for aligning their passions with their talents to achieve personal fulfillment and societal impact through their careers.
Ellen Langer
Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University and the author of Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. The book is being adapted into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Aniston as Langer.
Jaimi Lard
Jaimi Lard refuses to let the fact that she has been deaf and blind since birth stop her from having adventures. "Anything is possible — you've just got to go for it," she says. Educating others about what is achievable for people with disabilities is a central part of Jaimi's life.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is one of the leading happiness researchers in the world and the author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside where she currently teaches courses in social psychology and positive psychology. Multiculture Matters
Paula Allen
Paula Allen has been an 'activist with a camera' for more than two decades.
Her compelling photographs capture women around the world in their courageous and often invisible confrontations with violence and oppression. She is currently completing her book, Homecomings, which weaves together the stories of three families who lost relatives and homes in the devastation of
Hurricane Katrina.
Zainab Al-Suwaij
Zainab Al-Suwaij is the co-founder of the American Islamic Congress. A native of Iraq, she participated in the failed internal uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991 and then fled to the United States. After the September 11 attacks, Al-Suwaij left her job as a refugee resettlement advisor to co-found a progressive Muslim organization dedicated to promoting interfaith tolerance and individual rights, at home and throughout the Muslim world. As a Muslim-American woman of traditional background yet progressive orientation, she serves as a bridge across cultures, religious divides, and political differences.
Simon Deng
Simon Aban Deng is a refugee from Sudan and a survivor of child slavery.
He is a passionate activist who recently trekked 300 miles from United
Nations headquarters in New York City to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to
call for an end to slavery and genocide in Sudan.
Beatrice Fernando
Extreme poverty propelled 23 year-old Beatrice Fernando to look beyond the borders of her native Sri Lanka for a means of financially supporting her young son. Her story is not unique: traffickers often prey on a sense of financial vulnerability, advertising a good job as an avenue out of the desperation of poverty.
Micheline Slattery
Micheline Slattery was born to a prominent political family in Jacmel, Haiti. After being orphaned at the age of five, she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle in a town nearby, where she was forced to work as her extended family's servant, or restavec, as a child slave is commonly called.
Nasser Weddady
Nasser Wedaddy is a dynamic Arab Muslim human rights activist who works closely with young reformers in the Middle East on interfaith projects and civil rights campaigns. He guides the Middle East Interfaith Blogger Network, coordinates various campaigns for jailed dissidents, and has led civil rights training conferences across the Middle East.
Alison Wright
Alison Wright's memoir Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival chronicles her amazing story of surviving a devastating accident in remote Laos to achieving the unthinkable: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, resuming her life as an award-winning photojournalist, and using this second chance at life to give back and serve others. Newsworthy MattersPaula Allen
Paula Allen has been an 'activist with a camera' for more than two decades.
Her compelling photographs capture women around the world in their courageous and often invisible confrontations with violence and oppression. She is currently completing her book, Homecomings, which weaves together the stories of three families who lost relatives and homes in the devastation of
Hurricane Katrina.
Zainab Al-Suwaij
Zainab Al-Suwaij is the co-founder of the American Islamic Congress. A native of Iraq, she participated in the failed internal uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991 and then fled to the United States. After the September 11 attacks, Al-Suwaij left her job as a refugee resettlement advisor to co-found a progressive Muslim organization dedicated to promoting interfaith tolerance and individual rights, at home and throughout the Muslim world. As a Muslim-American woman of traditional background yet progressive orientation, she serves as a bridge across cultures, religious divides, and political differences.
Beatrice Fernando
Extreme poverty propelled 23 year-old Beatrice Fernando to look beyond the borders of her native Sri Lanka for a means of financially supporting her young son. Her story is not unique: traffickers often prey on a sense of financial vulnerability, advertising a good job as an avenue out of the desperation of poverty.
Ellen Langer
Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University and the author of Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. The book is being adapted into a major motion picture starring Jennifer Aniston as Langer.
Mark Matousek
Mark Matousek is the author of Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, in which he explores the complex, yet inescapable, question of how we can know ourselves to be good amidst the hypocrisy, fears, and sabotaging appetites that rifle through our two-sided natures.
Nasser Weddady
Nasser Wedaddy is a dynamic Arab Muslim human rights activist who works closely with young reformers in the Middle East on interfaith projects and civil rights campaigns. He guides the Middle East Interfaith Blogger Network, coordinates various campaigns for jailed dissidents, and has led civil rights training conferences across the Middle East. Peace MattersMedea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, CODEPINK
Benjamin and Evans are activists and co-founders of CODEPINK, a
women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that has been
organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq since
2002. The organization currently has more than 100 chapters throughout the
United States.
Cindy Sheehan
Cindy Sheehan has re-energized the nation's anti-war movement with her unflagging desire to meet with President Bush to ask: "What is the noble cause for which my son died in Iraq?"
Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. In 1989, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Wilson insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay.
Ann Wright
On March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.)
and diplomat Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State
Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security
Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country
would be a disaster. She was one among dozens of government insiders and
active-duty military personnel who leaked documents, spoke out, resigned, or
refused to deploy in protest of government actions they felt were illegal.
Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace. Photojournalism MattersPaula Allen
Paula Allen has been an 'activist with a camera' for more than two decades.
Her compelling photographs capture women around the world in their courageous and often invisible confrontations with violence and oppression. She is currently completing her book, Homecomings, which weaves together the stories of three families who lost relatives and homes in the devastation of
Hurricane Katrina.
Alison Wright
Alison Wright's memoir Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival chronicles her amazing story of surviving a devastating accident in remote Laos to achieving the unthinkable: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, resuming her life as an award-winning photojournalist, and using this second chance at life to give back and serve others. Poetry MattersKim Rosen
Kim Rosen has awakened listeners around the world to the power of the poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities. Politics MattersAnn Wright
On March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Army Colonel (Ret.)
and diplomat Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State
Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security
Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country
would be a disaster. She was one among dozens of government insiders and
active-duty military personnel who leaked documents, spoke out, resigned, or
refused to deploy in protest of government actions they felt were illegal.
Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace. Resilience MattersSimon Deng
Simon Aban Deng is a refugee from Sudan and a survivor of child slavery.
He is a passionate activist who recently trekked 300 miles from United
Nations headquarters in New York City to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to
call for an end to slavery and genocide in Sudan.
Beatrice Fernando
Extreme poverty propelled 23 year-old Beatrice Fernando to look beyond the borders of her native Sri Lanka for a means of financially supporting her young son. Her story is not unique: traffickers often prey on a sense of financial vulnerability, advertising a good job as an avenue out of the desperation of poverty.
Jaimi Lard
Jaimi Lard refuses to let the fact that she has been deaf and blind since birth stop her from having adventures. "Anything is possible — you've just got to go for it," she says. Educating others about what is achievable for people with disabilities is a central part of Jaimi's life.
Sarah Panzau
In the early hours of August 23, 2003, 21-year old Sarah Panzau's life changed forever. She had partied the night away with her friends and, just before dawn, made an irrevocable decision to get into her car and drive home.
Kim Rosen
Kim Rosen has awakened listeners around the world to the power of the poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities.
Micheline Slattery
Micheline Slattery was born to a prominent political family in Jacmel, Haiti. After being orphaned at the age of five, she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle in a town nearby, where she was forced to work as her extended family's servant, or restavec, as a child slave is commonly called.
Alison Wright
Alison Wright's memoir Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival chronicles her amazing story of surviving a devastating accident in remote Laos to achieving the unthinkable: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, resuming her life as an award-winning photojournalist, and using this second chance at life to give back and serve others. Spirituality & Religion MattersMarc Ian Barasch
Marc Ian Barasch is an award-winning writer, editor, television producer and environmental activist. In his most recent book, The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness, Barasch poses vital questions: What if the great driving force of our evolution were actually "survival of the kindest?"
Can we increase our compassion quotient with practice? What can be learned from the study of altruistic personalities? How do empathy and forgiveness produce new strategies for conflict resolution and "social healing?"
Tal Ben-Shahar
Tal Ben-Shahar is an author and lecturer who taught the most popular course at Harvard University on "Positive Psychology," and the university's third most popular course on "The Psychology of Leadership"—with a total of more than 1,400 students.
Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox, a former Dominican priest, is one of the nation's most scholarly and innovative spirituality teachers. In his 27th book, A New Reformation (Inner Traditions, 2006), he echoes the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517 by addressing the corruption and authoritarian tendencies that distinguish today's Christian institutions from the spiritual message upon which they were founded. He offers a new vision of Christianity that values the Earth, honors the feminine, and emphasizes spiritual tolerance.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is one of the leading happiness researchers in the world and the author of The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want. Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside where she currently teaches courses in social psychology and positive psychology.
Kim Rosen
Kim Rosen has awakened listeners around the world to the power of the poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities.
Alison Wright
Alison Wright's memoir Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival chronicles her amazing story of surviving a devastating accident in remote Laos to achieving the unthinkable: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, resuming her life as an award-winning photojournalist, and using this second chance at life to give back and serve others. Spoken Word MattersKim Rosen
Kim Rosen has awakened listeners around the world to the power of the poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities. Youth MattersLaura Berman
Dr. Laura Berman is a world-renowned sex and relationship expert. Her new show, "In the Bedroom," premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in January, 2011.
Jimmie Briggs
Jimmie Briggs is an award-winning human rights activist, journalist, author and the founder of the Man Up Campaign, a global initiative to mobilize young people to stop violence against women and girls in their communities through music, sports and technology.
Sarah Panzau
In the early hours of August 23, 2003, 21-year old Sarah Panzau's life changed forever. She had partied the night away with her friends and, just before dawn, made an irrevocable decision to get into her car and drive home.
Alison Wright
Alison Wright's memoir Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival chronicles her amazing story of surviving a devastating accident in remote Laos to achieving the unthinkable: climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, resuming her life as an award-winning photojournalist, and using this second chance at life to give back and serve others. Wildlife MattersBill Wallauer
Bill Wallauer offers a unique impression of life among wild chimpanzees, having spent years following the chimps of Gombe National Park, video camera at the ready. Work MattersLara Galinsky
Lara Galinsky is the co-author of Work on Purpose, a book that provides readers with a framework for aligning their passions with their talents to achieve personal fulfillment and societal impact through their careers. |
