Cynthia Li, MD, is a physician, author, and speaker. Currently, she has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine, and serves as faculty for the Healer’s Art program at the University of California San Francisco Medical School.&...

Dr. Amir Hussain is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on world religions. With a specialty in Islam, he focuses on contemporary Muslim societies in North America. In both 2008 and...

Carrie Newcomer is an American performer, singer, songwriter, recording artist, author and educator. The Boston Globe described her as a “prairie mystic” and Rolling Stone wrote that she is one who “asks all the right questions.&rdq...

Rabbi Ariel Burger is the founding director and senior scholar of The Witness Institute, a new project to empower emerging leaders, inspired by the life and legacy of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, to become morally empowered people who will i...

Rob Lippincott is birthright member of the Religious Society of Friends, striving to bring Quaker values to the world of business and the process of learning.

He is a lifelong learner and entrepreneur in digital, spiritual and actual worlds. He ha...

Pastor Ben McBride is a national leader with expertise in police-community trust building, gun violence prevention, faith based community organizing, and training in equity, diversity and inclusion. A native of San Francisco, he is a spiritual leader...

Chip Conley is an iconic boutique hotelier and entrepreneur who helped Airbnb's founders turn their fast-growing tech start-up into a global hospitality brand.  After selling the hospitality company he had started at age 26 as a rebel entrep...

Silence is the answer. And silence arises when we are willing to let go of everything we have built up so far, and continue from there. Not to want to perform to become what we pursue-- but to become who we are. – Gert van Leeuwen

As a young...

“Everything we see and touch consists of matter rearranged by information and energy. Everything is in connections and bonds. Life, mind, and love, our human nature, have been created in partnership with the rules that run the world.”

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“Every one of those animals in every painting of Noah’s ark, deemed worthy of salvation, is in mortal danger now and their flood is us.” - Carl Safina

Dr. Carl Safina is an ecologist, one of the world’s leading conservation...