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Former NASA Astronaut, Professor of Engineering; Director of AeroSpace Technology, Research & Operation at Texas A&M University
Greg Chamitoff is a professor of Aerospace Engineering and the Director..
Researcher, Consultant & Mars One Astronaut Candidate
Dianne McGrath is a leader, team player, project manager and creative problem solver..
NASA Astronaut & Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D.,M.P.H. is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine..
The Professors: Nationally Recognized Educators
When it comes to friendship, you probably wouldn’t give Drs. Richard White....
Theatre Director & Professor
Anna D. Shapiro most recently directed the world premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis's play.
Artist , Fashion Designer & Professor; Contestant on Season 12 of "Project Runway"
Justin LeBlanc never planned to be a fashion designer.
Visual Artist; Best Known for her Room-Size Tableaux of Black Cut-Paper Silhouettes that Examine America's Racial and Gender Tensions
Kara Walker is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper....
Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Financial Equity Educator
Chris Brummer is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute's Center for Financial Markets and a professor of law
Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Barton (“Buzz”) Thompson is the McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environmen..
President of the Social Science Research Council
Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Founder & Executive Director of the Accountability Counsel; Environmental & Human Rights Activist
Natalie Bridgeman Fields is executive director of Accountability Counsel...
Ecosystem Ecologist & Chief Scientific Advisor to the UN's Trillion Tree Campaign
Thomas Ward Crowther is a British scientist specializing in ecosystem ecology.
Co-Founder of Hector, Designer & Urban Planner
Damon Richis a designer and urban planner creating strategies to help residents..
Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics; Director, Columbia University; Columbia Consortium for Risk Management
Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky has worked extensively in the United Nations Kyoto Protocol process..
Daniel Pauly is the principal investigator at the Sea Around Us Project, which studies the impact of the world's fisheries on marine ecosystems. The software he's helped develop is used around the world to model and track the ocean.
Dr. Daniel Pauly is a French citizen who completed his high school and university studies in Germany..
Environmental Anthropologist
National Geographic's 2011 Explorer of the Year, Kenny Broad is an anthropologist and a National Geographic...
Professor for Environmental Economics, University of Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Reimund Schwarze is head of the research group on “climate change and extreme events” ..
Dean, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
Lynn Goldman is dean of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
An American neuroscientist and popular science author. He is the director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke, Virginia and is also a professor in the department of ph
Montague’s work particularly focuses on computational neuroscience – the connection between physical mechanisms present in real neural tissue.
Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan
Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan.
Professor and Research Chair in Sustainable Finance; Senior Fellow at the Centre for National Governance Innovation
Olaf Weber joined the Centre for National Governance Innovation (CIGI) as a senior fellow in March 2015.
International Program Director of Stand.earth, Chair at Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty & Author of "This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge"
Tzeporah Berman BA, MES, LLD (honoris causa) has been designing environmental campaigns and working on environmental policy in Canada.
Co-founder & Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Fania Davis is a leading national voice on restorative justice, a quickly emerging field which invites a fundamental shift.
Associate Professor of History at Smith College, Expert on The History of Race, Citizenship & Slavery
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor specializes in 19th-century U.S. history and race. Her first book, Colored Travelers.
Activist & Sexuality Educator
Ericka Hart is a Black Queer Femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker, and award-winning sexuality educator.
Author of "Heads of the Colored People"
Nafissa Thompson-Spires earned a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University..
Psychologist, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant
Dr. Kira Hudson Banks has been working to support individuals and groups to understand themselves.
World Record Breaking Gold Medal Olympian & Civil Rights Icon Famous for Black Power Salute at the Olympics
Tommie Smith began life quietly, born to Richard and Dora Smith on June 6, 1944 in Clarksville.
Assistant Professor at Princeton University, Writer & Activist
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.
Professor, Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability; Director, "Carbon Nation"
Peter Byck is the director, producer and writer of "Carbon Nation." Byck has also just joined the faculty at Arizona State University.
Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Melissa Creary, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management.
History Professor Specializing in African American & United States History
Peter Jeffrey Boykin was born on August 22, 1976 to the Honorable Ulysses W. Boykin III. and Mrs. Pamela T. Boykin.