Diana Kander

Diana is the New York Times Bestselling Author of All In Startup, a novel outlining lessons for launching successful products through the story of a struggling entrepreneur competing in the World Series of Poker. Diana and her family escaped from the Soviet Union when she was 8-years-old. By the time she was an American citizen,

Alexandra Lozano

Alexandra Lozano is an award-winning immigration attorney and founder of Alexandra Lozano Immigration Law PLLC. Her book Be the CEO of Your Law Firm provides a blueprint for solo-practice attorneys to get in control of their firms, their finances and their lives. The founder and CEO of the Association of Mother Immigration Attorneys (AMIGA), Alexandra

Pierre Rabhi

Pierre Rabhi, born in Algeria, is a French farmer, writer and philosopher. His book, The Power of Restraint, proposes a way of life that more fully respects both humankind and nature. He works to promote agroecology throughout the world, particularly in Africa, fostering autonomy, food safety and security for local communities. He has created many associations,

Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. He set up the first two-year, full-time permaculture course in the world at Kinsale Further Education College in Ireland, as well as the first ecovillage development in Ireland to be granted planning permission. He is the co-author of The Transition Starts

Vandana Shiva

An icon worldwide for the ecological revolution and a leader of the alter-globalization movement, Vandana Shiva has made teaching by example the basis of her work. Walking the back roads of India alone in the late 1980s in search of traditional seeds threatened by industrial agriculture, she returned leading a procession of 500,000 demonstrators –

Michael Delman

Massachusetts Distinguished Educator Michael Delman is founder and CEO of Beyond BookSmart, the first organization to apply Dr. James Prochaska’s Transtheoretical Model of Change to help students improve academic performance. He is the author of Your Kid’s Gonna Be Okay (2018), distilling years of wisdom on the executive function skills children need in the age