Conference speakers

Dr. Ethan Nadelmann conference presentation: Dr. Nadelmann is a leading advocate for legalizing marijuana, ending mass incarceration, and treating drug use and addiction as health care matters rather than criminal… Read more »

Anita Hill Conference Presentation: Our Critical Need to Eliminate Gender Violence and Inequality The youngest of 13 children from a farm in rural Okla­homa, Anita Hill received her J.D. from… Read more »

Mary Bassett Conference Presentation: Pulling Back the Curtain: COVID-19 and Historic Health Inequities Since the beginning of recorded health data in the United States, Black Americans have consistently experienced poorer… Read more »

Tara Westover Conference Presentation: Reconciling with a Traumatic Childhood Tara Westover is an American author. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. An… Read more »

Psychologist Dr. Laurie Santos is an expert on human cognition, its origins, and the evolutionary biases that influence our all-too imperfect life choices. She is also knowledgeable in how behavioral… Read more »

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is the Tony Award winning playwright, activist, and author of the Obie award winning theatrical phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues, published in over 48 languages, performed in… Read more »

Called “the most intriguing African-American Buddhist” by Library Journal, angel Kyodo williams is an author, activist, master trainer and founder of Transformative Change. She has been bridging the worlds of… Read more »

In 1986, at the bottom of a ten-year spiral into depression, rage, and self-loathing, Byron Katie woke up one morning to a state of constant joy that has never left… Read more »