Rudy DeFelice: It’s Only Life After All
Rudy DeFelice is a recovered large-firm lawyer turned entrepreneur. His talk “It’s Only Life After All: A Vision for Blending Life and Career in a ‘Post-Balancing Act’ World” digs deeper into the work-life balance.
Lisa Kristine: Photos that Bear Witness to Modern Slavery
For the past two years, photographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the world, documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images, miners in the Congo, brick layers in Nepal, illuminating the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide.
Chris Barry: Giving the Gift of Life through Organ Donation
Dr. Chris Barry is a transplant surgeon and researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center. In this talk, he discusses the power of modern transplant surgery to touch people’s lives. He also talks about the obstacles that prevent our society from realising its true potential to help others through organ donation. His talk resounds with a […]
Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir: Rewriting Iceland’s Constitution
What better example of a country’s democratic resilience in the face of financial collapse than the move to toss its Constitution and bring on a handful of citizens to rewrite it from scratch? University of Iceland Political Science Professor Silja Ómarsdóttir was one of 25 people asked to revise Iceland’s most important document after the […]
Matthew Spitzer: The Unformed Idea or Practices of Individual Conscience
Dr. Matthew Spitzer, brings to the audience his story on community collaboration of health and wellness around the world.
