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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 justice issues. He founded the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization...
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 Yale Law School in 1980. She began her career in...
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 health outcomes and shorter life expectancy than their white counterparts...
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 older brother taught her to read, and after that her...
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 change through positive psychology can lead to a happy and...
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 over 140 countries and recently heralded by The New York...
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 transformation and justice since her critically acclaimed book, Being Black:...
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 her. She realized that when she believed her stressful thoughts,...
