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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.
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.
Ofir Drori
Ofir Drori is the founder of The Last Great Ape Organization (LAGA), an NGO devoted to conservation and wildlife law enforcement. Drori's memoir The Last Great Ape chronicles his journey to Africa and his development as an indefatigable and courageous activist.
Ophira Edut
Ophira Edut is an author and body image activist. She is the editor of Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty & Body Image (www.loveyourbody.org), a book used widely as college curriculum.
Jodie Evans
Jodie Evans has been a peace, environmental, women's rights and social justice activist for forty years. Evans is co-founder 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.
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.
Maja Kazazic
Maja Kazazic's life changed forever in the summer of 1993. Two years into the Bosnian War, a mortar shell landed in her courtyard, critically injuring her and killing five of her friends.
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.
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 is an eco-warrior in action. She launches legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes to raise awareness for environmental and human rights abuses. Alcohol Awareness Matters
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. Body Image Matters
Ophira Edut
Ophira Edut is an author and body image activist. She is the editor of Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty & Body Image (www.loveyourbody.org), a book used widely as college curriculum. Disability Matters
Maja Kazazic
Maja Kazazic's life changed forever in the summer of 1993. Two years into the Bosnian War, a mortar shell landed in her courtyard, critically injuring her and killing five of her friends.
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. 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. Conservation, Environment & Sustainability Matters
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.
Ofir Drori
Ofir Drori is the founder of The Last Great Ape Organization (LAGA), an NGO devoted to conservation and wildlife law enforcement. Drori's memoir The Last Great Ape chronicles his journey to Africa and his development as an indefatigable and courageous activist.
Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson is an eco-warrior in action. She launches legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes to raise awareness for environmental and human rights abuses. Event Moderation Matters
Leonard 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 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.
Ophira Edut
Ophira Edut is an author and body image activist. She is the editor of Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty & Body Image (www.loveyourbody.org), a book used widely as college curriculum.
Jodie Evans
Jodie Evans has been a peace, environmental, women's rights and social justice activist for forty years. Evans is co-founder 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.
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 is an eco-warrior in action. She launches legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes to raise awareness for environmental and human rights abuses. 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 Matters
Marc 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.
Ophira Edut
Ophira Edut is an author and body image activist. She is the editor of Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty & Body Image (www.loveyourbody.org), a book used widely as college curriculum.
Michael Eisen
Michael Eisen is the co-author of Empowered YOUth: A Father and Son's Journey to Conscious Living. He is also an inspirational speaker and the founder of the Youth Wellness Network (YWN), an organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering youth across the globe to live happier and more positive lives.
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 Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy But Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy But Does and The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (published in 21 countries).
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Christiane Northrup, M.D., is a visionary pioneer and the world's leading authority in the field of women's health and wellness. A board-certified OB/GYN physician who graduated from Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Northrup was also an assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN at Maine Medical Center for 20 years. Recognizing the unity of body, mind, and spirit, Dr. Northrup helps empower women to tune into their innate inner wisdom to transform their health and truly flourish.
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 Matters
Daniel 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 Matters
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.
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.
Michael Eisen
Michael Eisen is the co-author of Empowered YOUth: A Father and Son's Journey to Conscious Living. He is also an inspirational speaker and the founder of the Youth Wellness Network (YWN), an organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering youth across the globe to live happier and more positive lives.
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 Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy But Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy But Does and The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (published in 21 countries). Media Matters
Leonard 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 Matters
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.
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. Money Matters
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. 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 Matters
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.
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.
Maja Kazazic
Maja Kazazic's life changed forever in the summer of 1993. Two years into the Bosnian War, a mortar shell landed in her courtyard, critically injuring her and killing five of her friends.
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 Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy But Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy But Does and The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (published in 21 countries). 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.
Ophira Edut
Ophira Edut is an author and body image activist. She is the editor of Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty & Body Image (www.loveyourbody.org), a book used widely as college curriculum.
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 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.
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 Matters
Jodie Evans
Jodie Evans has been a peace, environmental, women's rights and social justice activist for forty years. Evans is co-founder 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.
Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson is an eco-warrior in action. She launches legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes to raise awareness for environmental and human rights abuses. Photojournalism 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.
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 Matters
Kim Rosen
Kim Rosen has awakened listeners around the world to the power of the poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities. Resilience Matters
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.
Michael Eisen
Michael Eisen is the co-author of Empowered YOUth: A Father and Son's Journey to Conscious Living. He is also an inspirational speaker and the founder of the Youth Wellness Network (YWN), an organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering youth across the globe to live happier and more positive lives.
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.
Maja Kazazic
Maja Kazazic's life changed forever in the summer of 1993. Two years into the Bosnian War, a mortar shell landed in her courtyard, critically injuring her and killing five of her friends.
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 Matters
Marc 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.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is one of the leading happiness researchers in the world and the author of The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy But Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy But Does and The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (published in 21 countries).
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 Matters
Kim Rosen
Kim Rosen has awakened listeners around the world to the power of the poetry to heal and transform individuals and communities. Youth Matters
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.
Ophira Edut
Ophira Edut is an author and body image activist. She is the editor of Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty & Body Image (www.loveyourbody.org), a book used widely as college curriculum.
Michael Eisen
Michael Eisen is the co-author of Empowered YOUth: A Father and Son's Journey to Conscious Living. He is also an inspirational speaker and the founder of the Youth Wellness Network (YWN), an organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering youth across the globe to live happier and more positive lives.
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 Matters
Ofir Drori
Ofir Drori is the founder of The Last Great Ape Organization (LAGA), an NGO devoted to conservation and wildlife law enforcement. Drori's memoir The Last Great Ape chronicles his journey to Africa and his development as an indefatigable and courageous activist. |
