KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Award-Winning Author, Filmmaker, Research Professor

Scholar, Author, & Educator; Director of The Dakota Institute

Educator, Author & Historian

Renowned Ocean Explorer, Scientist, Retired Navy Officer & Professor of Oceanography

Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

Professor of English at UCLA, Literary Critic & Specialist in Medieval Literature

Author & Historian

Professor at UC Santa Barbara, Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley & Director Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory

Historian, Author & History Professor at Yale University

Founder of Toast Ale, Food Waste Activist, Author

Award-Winning Author & Writer

Pioneer in the Urban Farming Movement, Author & Founder of Growing Power

Professor of History; Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University

Computer Scientist, Climate Tech Investor, Clean Energy Advocate, & Award-Winning Author; co-chair the Energy and Environment program at Singularity University at NASA Ames

Environmentalist, Mountaineer, Expedition Author, Former VP of Environmental Initiatives & Special Projects at Patagonia

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

Historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Rocketeer & Author

Author, Professor & Radio Personality

Cold War Historian & Author