Sylvan Dieckmann

Sylvan Dieckmann is a computer scientist, visual effects artist and professional photographer who lives in London, United Kingdom. In the field of visual effects, he has worked on a number of films including the Oscar-winning Gravity, The Hobbit, World War Z, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, X-Men and many others. However, nature photography is his first and main love, and following exhibits…

Rick Clugston

Rick Clugston, Ph.D. directs the Spirituality and Sustainability Project of Forum 21, based in New York City, and is directing an interfaith outreach initiative on worship and sustainability for the Anskar Foundation for Historic Preservation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both projects seek to promote spiritual growth and sustainable community development. He is also the Co-Director of the…

Bayo Akomolafe

Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden - and their mother, his wife and "life-nectar", Ijeoma. "To learn the importance of insignificance" is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive and completely partial. Bayo was born in…

Maria Lago

Maria Lago is an accomplished artist whose work has featured prominently in private collections, museums and galleries in Europe and the United States. A long-time New York resident, Maria Lago is originally from Asturias, in Northern Spain and the magic and mystery of her art work is greatly influenced by the pre-historic caves paintings of the region.Each work is a thick mixture of materials…

Riane Eisler

Riane Eisler, JD is President of the Center for Partnership Studies and internationally known as a systems scientist, attorney working for the human rights of women and children. She is the author of groundbreaking books including The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 27 foreign editions, and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Dr. Eisler has received…

Margaret Flowers

Margaret Flowers, co-director of Its Our Economy, is a Maryland pediatrician. After graduation from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1990 and completion of pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Flowers worked first as a hospitalist and then in private practice. She left practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for a single payer health care system at both the…

John L. Petersen

President and Founder, The Arlington Institute John L. Petersen is considered by many to be one of the most informed futurists in the world. He is best-known for writing and thinking about high impact surprises—wild cards—and the process of surprise anticipation. His current professional involvements include the development of sophisticated tools for anticipatory analysis and surprise…

John Grim

John Grim is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University, where he has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. He teaches in the joint MA program in religion and ecology and is co-founder and co-director the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale with his wife, Mary Evelyn Tucker. With…