Hugh Christopher Brown

Born in Toronto, Hugh Chris Brown is a singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist, recording engineer, producer, head of a record label, activist and founder of the Pros and Cons Program. His Pros and Cons music program mentors inmates through all aspects of making music, from writing, to recording and releasing it. Beyond his own music, Chris has performed, collaborated with and recorded for many…

Jenny Whiting

Dr Jenny Whiting is based at the University of Sydney working for Microscopy Australia (formerly AMMRF), the national network for microscopy infrastructure, involving eight universities through the Federal Government’s NCRIS program. The focus of her role is to build engagement and communicate the impacts and benefits of Microscopy Australia to researchers, stakeholders, industry and the public.…

Cornelia Reynolds

Cornelia Reynolds is devoting her retirement to bee conservation. A lifelong gardener, she retired in 2017 as executive director of Noyo Food Forest, a local farm to school nonprofit. She is currently studying entomology—bugs and bees an unpursued interest since childhood—and developing a pollinator sanctuary on an acre in Mendocino County, California. She is chair of Fort Bragg Bee City USA, and…

Jeremy Lent

Jeremy Lent is author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, which investigates how different cultures have made sense of the universe and how their underlying values have changed the course of history. His new book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, was published in Spring 2021 (New Society…

Lukas Herrmann

Lukas Herrmann is an action researcher and PhD student with Heidelberg University, Germany. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Social Neuroscience, and published on the contemplative training of perspective-taking and empathy. He studied psychology in Freiburg and Berlin (Humboldt University), Germany, and is a trained family therapist. As a facilitator and trainer, Lukas’ interest is to…

Adrian Wagner

Doctoral candidate of Thomas Hübl’s AIS Graduate Program, social worker, political scientist, and cofounder of Teal Wave Consulting. In his dissertation, Adrian is researching the Pocket Project with awareness-based action research methods based on Presencing and Theory U. As part of the Institute for Integral Global Competence, he is engaged in the preparation of the first Global Social…

Emmett Wheatfall

Emmett Wheatfall is a poet and playwright. His poetry collection As Clean as a Bone (2018) was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book of the Year and Da Vinci Eye awards. The collection’s title references an admonition by James Baldwin, the late great black intellectual, who said, "You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." For more information about Emmett, visit…

Laurel Radzieski

Laurel Radzieski is the author of Red Mother (NYQ Books, 2018). Her poems have appeared in Rust + Moth, Atlas and Alice, Really System, Glintmoon, and elsewhere, including on roadsides and a street sign in Wisconsin. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College and has been a Writer-in-Residence at the Wormfarm Institute. Laurel lives with a cat and a husband in northeastern…