Greg Epstein
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RYAN BUSSE, a former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it has fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point. Busse provides consulting services to progressive organizations with the aim of undoing the country's dangerous radicalization. He lives in Montana.
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Clancy Martin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He is also a happily married father of five children. His latest book, How Not to Kill Yourself is a portrait of the suicidal mind – his own – and in it he provides both a personal account of the multiple attempts he had made to end his life but also the positive strategies he has devised to safeguard his future and that of others.
Virtual
Gary Marcus, author of Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence we can trust and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU. Also Jane Rosenzweig, Director of the Harvard Writing Center, a past staff editor at The Atlantic and fiction writer at The New Yorker.
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Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. His books include Mountains Beyond Mountains, Strength in What Remains, The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, Hometown and A Truck Full of Money.
First Parish Church in Cambridge
Deborah Korn, PsyD, an internationally renowned expert in EMDR, is the co-author of a new book on the subject “EVERY MEMORY DESERVES RESPECT”. Michael Baldwin (the book’s co-author) is a branding and communication professional in New York, who credits EMDR with saving his life after decades of unsuccessful therapy..
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Artist Peter Sacks is an expatriate of South Africa and is currently presenting his first solo museum exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.
Virtual
SIAN HARDING, a leading authority in cardiac science, is Emeritus Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology at Imperial College London. She served as Special Advisor to the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on Regenerative Medicine. Physician and poet, Dr. Fady Joudah practices Internal Medicine at St Luke’s Baylor Medical Center in Houston, TX.
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David L. Sloss is an educator, author, and national security expert. His latest book, Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare focuses on Russian and Chinese information warfare. Sloss is currently Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. Before entering academia, in 2008, he spent nine years in the federal government, working on U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations and nuclear proliferation issues.
Arsenal Center for the Arts
David L. Sloss is an educator, author, and national security expert. His latest book, Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare focuses on Russian and Chinese information warfare. Sloss is currently Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. Before entering academia, in 2008, he spent nine years in the federal government, working on U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations and nuclear proliferation issues.
Arsenal Center for the Arts
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