Bart Vargas is an award-winning visual artist whose work can be found in collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Brian Kelly is an architect and professor. His teaching focus is in the areas of beginning design, design thinking and architectural representation theory.
Buey Ray Tut is Executive Director at Aqua-Africa, a nonprofit organization that builds wells and micro-democracy in East Africa.
Ferial Pearson is an educator and author of The Secret Kindness Agents: How Small Acts of Kindness Really Can Change The World.
Jeff Snell is Director, Psychology and Neuropsychology Services at QLI, an organization that works with individuals and families whose lives have been affected by brain injury, spinal cord injury or stroke.
Kaitlyn Hova is a San Francisco-based neuroscientist, musician and code engineer. She has performed with musical heavyweights such as Rod Stewart, Mannheim Steamroller, Mary J. Blige, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Josh Groban.
Kenneth Bé is Head of Paintings Conservation at Ford Conservation Center and an enthusiast of the lute.
Laura Jana is a pediatrician and early childhood expert, now collaborating with MIT Media Lab on global health technology innovation. She co-founded The Dr. Spock Company and has written two parenting books.
Matt Waite is founder of the Drone Journalism Lab, the first drone program at a journalism school in the world. He has been a reporter and was principal developer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, PolitiFact.
Wendy Hamilton grew up in a household headed by her autistic mother. Her family’s story has been featured in Autism Asperger’s Digest and the book, “Different, Not Less” by Dr. Temple Grandin.
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