Mallary Jean Tenore
Mallary is Executive Director of Images & Voices of Hope (ivoh). In this role, Mallary runs ivoh’s website, plans events, develops new programs, fundraises, and more. She has also led the growth of a new storytelling genre called Restorative Narrative — stories that show how people and communities are making a meaningful progression from despair to resilience.
Mallary believes the media…
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is regarded as one of the leading pioneers, innovators and practitioners in the field of peacebuilding in the world today. For nearly 20 years he has worked across all continents and many of the most challenging war zones and crisis situations in the world at the invitation of governments, international agencies, and communities affected by war. He is before all else a…
Shahzor Ali Memon
Shahzor Ali Memon is an avid changemaker who has started a lifelong journey in reaching out to underprivileged communities. At 18 years old and just a high school graduate, Shahzor has mentored many marginalized students in remote villages of Pakistan. Recently, Shahzor recruited other ambassadors for a venture called Youth for Enlightenment and Welfare (YEW), which he fundraises for schools that…
Dennis Kucinich
Having been elected to Cleveland’s City Council at age 23, Dennis J. Kucinich was well-known to Cleveland residents when they chose him as their mayor in 1977 at the age of 31. At the time, Kucinich was the youngest person ever elected to lead a major American city.
In 1978, Cleveland’s banks demanded that he sell the city’s 70 year-old municipally-owned electric system to its private…
Medard Gabel
Medard Gabel is the former executive director of the World Game Institute, a UN-affiliated NGO. He worked with Buckminster Fuller for 12 years where he learned the power and utility of whole systems thinking, global perspectives and a good sense of humor. Mr. Gabel has been designing, developing, and delivering experiential educational programs since 1970. He is currently the CEO of…
Alnoor Ladha
Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change, and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules(TR), a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers, and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty, and climate change. TR started in 2012 as a time-bound…
John Fullerton
John Fullerton is the founder and president of Capital Institute and a recognized New Economy thought leader and public speaker. He is also an active impact investor through his Level 3 Capital Advisors.
Previously, he was a managing director of JPMorgan where he managed multiple capital markets and derivatives businesses around the globe and then ran the venture investment activity of…
Ken Wilber
According to Jack Crittenden Ph.D., author of Beyond Individualism, “the twenty-first century literally has three choices: Aristotle, Nietzsche, or Ken Wilber.” If you haven’t already heard of him, Ken Wilber is one of the most important philosophers in the world today. He is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages. Ken…
Kosmos Global Ambassador Project
Hello,
I’m Shahzor Ali Memon. I’m just a typical teenager who has high hopes and new ideas to create a better world. I have been part of Kosmos for a year and my experience as a Kosmos Global Ambassador has been very enlightening in creating the peace process in my community. I thank the Kosmos community for making me part of their network and encouraging me to step forward to be a young…
AIM2FLOURISH
Epiphany is defined as a “sudden and striking realization.” But it doesn’t work that way with me. My epiphanies sometimes simmer gently for years, particularly one that emerged in the aftermath of a class I took on Appreciative Inquiry, taught by its guru, Professor David Cooperrider. Because I was a journalist long outraged by the corporate malfeasance I exposed as a network correspondent, David…