Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence is an attorney, political activist, and Founder of Equal Citizens, an organization dedicated to reforms that achieve citizen equality. He is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard and was named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries.

Kaj Larson

Kaj Larson

Kaj is a Navy SEAL and Emmy award-winning journalist whose work has appeared on CNN, VICE, HBO, and Netflix. He is known for reporting on in conflict zones such as Afghanistan and Northern Nigeria and for being the first person waterboarded on national TV.

Jody Armour

Jody Armour

Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. Armour’s expertise ranges from personal injury claims to claims about the relationship between racial justice, criminal justice, and the rule of law.

Abby Martin

Abby Martin

Abby is an investigative journalist, founder of Media Roots, and creator of the documentary series The Empire Files. Her latest documentary, Gaza Fights for Freedom is out now on Vimeo.

Marcus Eriksen & Anna Cummins

Marcus Eriksen & Anna Cummins

Marcus Erikson and Anna Cummins are the Co Founders of the 5 Gyers Institute and published the first ever global estimate of the total amount of plastic in the worlds oceans. in 2013 they published the discovery of microbeads in the Great Lakes, which became the cornerstone for a US-based campaign to eliminate plastic microbeads from cosmetics, resulting in the Microbead-Free Waters Act.

Matt Taibbi

Matt Taibbi

Matt is a writer for Rolling Stone who has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports. Taibbi has authored several books, including of Insane Clown President, The Divide, Griftopia, and The Great Derangement.

Ron Finley

Ron Finley

Ron (AKA the gangster gardener) is a Los Angeles-based proponent of urban gardening and is known for giving a TED talk on guerilla gardening that has been seen by over 3 million people.

Captain Paul Watson

Captain Paul Watson

Paul founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-poaching and direct action group focused on marine conservation. He was also the subject of the show Whale Wars on Discovery Channel.

Lydia Ponce

Lydia Ponce

Lydia is an indigenous activist and Director of Community Engagement at SoCal350. Lydia leads protests against dirty energy companies around the country. This year, she interrupted JPMorganChase CEO, Jamie Dimon, on a panel calling out the bank for being the #1 funder of dirty energy on the planet.