Robert Emmons is one of America’s foremost psychologists, a professor at the University of California/Davis and author of Thanks: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier (Houghton Mifflin) and Gratitude Works! (Jossey-Bass).

Carla Fernandez is a community builder and experience designer helping healing ideas enter culture. Through her work co-founding The Dinner Party, Carla is transforming the isolation felt through grief and loss into a source of connection, friendship and forward motion for thousands of 20-40 somethings nationwide. Her work has been featured in New York Times, Good Morning America, O Magazine, and as a case study in over a dozen books. She is an NYU Reynolds Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship, an Annenberg Innovation Lab Senior Fellow and was named one of the most interesting Angelenos by LA Weekly.

A journalist whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Runner’s World, and elsewhere, Flanagan has coached high-school girls cross-country teams in Summit, New Jersey, for nearly two decades. She is a lifelong athlete and regularly participates in media and on panels discussing youth sports and coaching.

Maureen Foley is the screenwriter of two highly acclaimed films, Home Before Dark (winner of the Best American Independent Film at the International Film Festival) and American Wake. She is the co-author of The Book of Illumination and The Ice Cradle (Three Rivers Press), both part of The Ghost Files series.

Brett Forrest is a national security reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Prior to the WSJ, he was a long-time magazine writer. He is the author of one previous book and a producer of an Emmy-Award-nominated documentary.

David France is a veteran investigative journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New York Times, and GQ, and is the author of Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church (Broadway Books) and Morning in America (Knopf). The Showtime adaptation of “Our Fathers” was nominated for multiple Emmys and a Writers Guild of America Award. His work also inspired the Peabody Award–winning film “Soldier’s Girl” and the controversial Showtime series “Thanks of a Grateful Nation.”

Dr. Marisa Franco is a former professor, a psychologist, and a friendship expert. She has been a featured expert in major outlets such as The New York Times, Vice, and The Chicago Tribune. She speaks on building relationships in the workplace and writes about connection on her blog Platonic Love for Psychology Today.

Dr. Valerie Fridland is a professor of sociolinguistics at the University of Nevada in Reno. An expert on the relationship between language and society, her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and she is co-author of the book Sociophonetics by Cambridge University Press. She also writes for Psychology Today and lectures for The Great Courses.

Jeffrey Froh is a Professor at Hofstra University and an expert on gratitude. He is the co-author of Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character (Templeton Press).

Rene Germain is a young British journalist and influencer whose blog ‘Black and Great’ about the successful career jouneys of Black talent from across the worlds of entertainment, sport, finance, law and medicine is the inspiration for her first book.

Dr. Arline T. Geronimus is a professor at University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Over 30 years ago, she coined the term “weathering” to describe the effects of systemic oppression on the body. She has served as an expert panelist and consultant for President Obama’s Health Care Advisory Committee, the US Civil Rights Commission, the MacArthur Foundation, the Aspen Institute, and the Ford Foundation, among many others.

Jen Golbeck is a Professor at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies and companion to six rescued golden retrievers. She studies the intersection of psychology, social media, and artificial intelligence at work, and, with her husband, runs a social media empire @theGoldenRatio4 to bring her dogs’ stories of joy and recovery to the world.

Dr. Sheryl Gonzalez Ziegler is a licensed psychologist and nationally recognized expert on the mental healthof tweens, teens and their families. She is the author of Mommy Burnout (Dey Street, 2018), the founder of the online puberty course for kids and their caregivers Start with the Talk™ and host of the podcast Dr. Sheryl’s Podcouch.

Ian Graham was Director of Research at Liverpool Football Club during the club’s most successful period since the 1980s. Whilst he was in this position, Liverpool won the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and FIFA World Club Cup (all in 2019), as well as the Premier League (in 2020). He now owns and runs Ludonautics, a sports consultancy.

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Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo are the founders of Highly Sensitive Refuge and Introvert, Dear, two of the largest websites for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and introverts. Together, they have helped hundreds of thousands of HSPs around the world live happier and more fulfilling lives.

Dr. Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College with a special focus in neuroendocrinology, developmental psychology, anthropology, education—and children's natural ways of learning and the life-long value of play, about which he has published dozens of academic and popular articles. He is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences on play, education, and child development, a founding member of the nonprofit Alliance for Self-Directed Education and a founding board member of the nonprofit Let Grow. He is the author of an internationally acclaimed college introductory psychology textbook (Psychology), and of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life (Basic Books, 2013), which has been published in 18 languages.

Linda Gregerson is the author of eight books of poetry and the winner of many awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Kingsley Tufts Award, an American of Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a finalist nomination for the National Book Award. The New York Times calls Gregerson “a storyteller at heart,” and the Los Angeles Review of Books praises “her remarkable ability to make imagination feel appropriate.” Reviewing Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, The New Yorker described her work as “dauntless, serrated.” Her new collection, Canopy, will be published in 2022. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.Linda Gregerson is the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Cate Osborn is an ADHD advocate, certified sex educator and intimacy coach, content creator, and performer. Alongside Erik Gude, they co-host the podcast Cate and Erik’s Infinite Quest.  

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Erik Gude is an artist, performer, and former chef known for his educational and funny TikToks on ADHD. Alongside Cate Osborn, he co-hosts the podcast Cate and Erik’s Infinite Quest.

Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik, a highly lauded, queer somatic therapist specializing in treating trauma and PTSD within the LGBTQ+ community, whose popular newsletter, workshops, and Instagram @somaticwitch reaches thousands of people each month. She has been featured insuch publications as The New York Times, Well & Good, Vice, Nylon and many others

Ericka Hart, M. Ed, is a sex educator, breast cancer survivor, model and racial/social/gender justice disrupter who has been teaching at schools, universities, and other institutions for over a decade.

Gabrielle Hartley, Esq is a leading online divorce mediator and lawyer based in New York City and Massachusetts and is author of Better Apart with Elena Brower. She is the co-chair of The American Bar Association Mediation Committee.

Chris Hayes is the Emmy-winning host of MSNBC’s All in With Chris Hayes and the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Twilight of the Elites and, most recently, A Colony in a Nation.

Dr. Jennifer J. Heisz is an expert in brain health. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University and directs the NeuroFit Lab, which supports her research program on the effects of exercise for brain health. Dr. Heisz received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Brain Health and Aging at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Hospital. Dr. Heisz is regularly invited to speak at international scientific conferences and her research on exercise and brain health receives widespread media coverage via international media outlets such as New York Times, NBC, BBC, CNN, CBS News, and National Geographic.

Josiah Hesse is an investigative journalist who covers breaking marijuana news, politics, economics and culture for such publications as Vice, The Guardian, Esquire, Politico and more.

A professor of psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia, Bill von Hippel has presented his research on neuroscience and social intelligence at conferences and colloquia around the world. His work has been covered by the New York Times, The Economist, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, TIME, and elsewhere.

Heather Hirsch, MD, MS, NCMP is the lead physician and clinical program director for the menopause and midlife clinic at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and she also serves as faculty at Harvard Medical School. Her research has been published in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, Menopause, and The Journal of Women’s Health. She has been featured on NPR’s All Sides with Ann Fisher, Harvard Business Review’s Women at Work, and interviewed by such outlets as Women’s Health, HealthCentral.com, and the AARP’s TheGirlfriend.com.

Jacqueline Holland received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.

Alex is a London-based writer, podcaster and producer writing across print and audio mediums. His work centres around positive masculinity, mental health awareness and the liberating power of reading and writing. He became a Mental Health First Aider with Mental Health First Aid England in October 2020.

An editor at VanityFair.com, Homans has written and edited for Esquire, Harpers, and The New York Observer. He was formerly the executive editor of New York magazine.

Nicholas Humphrey is a world renowned psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. His interests are wide ranging. He studied mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey in Rwanda, he was the first to demonstrate the existence of ‘blindsight’ after brain damage in monkeys, he proposed the celebrated theory of the ‘social function of intellect’, and he is the only scientist ever to edit the literary journal Granta.

He has been Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, New York, and School Professor at the London School of Economics. He is currently a Senior Member of Darwin College, Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the New College of the Humanities.

Dr. Thomas R. Insel is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who is currently Executive Chair and Co-Founder of NEST Health in California. He served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health beginning in 2002, then in 2015 led a mental health team at Google’s emerging life science company, Verily; and, after launch, went on to co-found Mindstrong Health. In 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom tapped Dr. Insel to serve as the “mental health czar” of California.

The least interesting thing about Jimmie James is that he is the only person ever to play all of Golf Digest’s Top 100 Courses in the US in a single year. He rose from abject poverty in Jim-Crow East Texas of the 1960s to become a top executive with Exxon-Mobil.

Sandeep Jauhar, MD, Ph.D., is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New England Journal of Medicine, and author of the acclaimed memoirs Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation and Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

Sharlee Jeter is the president of the Turn 2 Foundation, which was established by her brother, baseball legend Derek Jeter. The Foundation has successfully channeled fundraising power into results as demonstrated by its signature initiative, Jeter’s Leaders, a leadership development program for high school students. Sharlee also oversees the children’s division of Jeter Publishing, which has published New York Times bestsellers The Contract and its follow up, Hit & Miss. Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Sharlee currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her son Jalen.

Faith Jones is an attorney specializing in U.S. and international corporate law. A former associate at Skadden, Arps and Walton & Walton LLP, she advocates for women’s rights, coaches entrepreneurs, and speaks on issues of self-ownership, accountability, and responsibility.

Amy Jones's first novel, We're All in This Together, was a national bestseller, won the Northern Lit Award, was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and named a "Best Book of the Year" by the Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire. Her debut collection of stories, What Boys Like, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award and was a finalist for the ReLit Award. Her fiction has won the CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction, appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, and been selected as Longform's Pick of the Week. Originally from Halifax, she lived in Thunder Bay for many years before moving to Toronto.

Menachem Kaiser is the author of the memoir Plunder: Family Property and Nazi Treasure. Plunder was named one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of the Year and a Best Read of 2021 by the Christian Science Monitor. In its rave review, the daily New York Times called the book “a twisting and reverberant and consistently enthralling story.” The Christian Science Monitor hailed it as “a fascinating and thought-provoking read.” As the New York Times Book Review described Plunder, “This is weird, complicated territory — by which I mean it’s fantastic.” Kaiser won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for Plunder.

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Kaiser holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Graduate Fellowship from the Wexner Foundation, an organization that fosters Jewish leadership across all disciplines. Kaiser’s work has appeared in TheWall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, New York magazine, and Tablet Magazine. His new book is forthcoming from HarperCollins.

Bonnie J. Kaplan, PhD is a Professor Emerita in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Canada. She has degrees from University of Chicago, Brandeis, and has done faculty research in neuorophysiology at Yale. She has published widely on the biological basis of developmental disorders and mental health, especially the contribution of nutrition to brain development and brain function. She was awarded, in 2019, the prestigious Dr. Rogers Prize, a national award given in Canada for research in complementary, alternative, or integrative health.

Dr. Manu Kapur is Professor and Chair of Learning Sciences and Higher Education at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he directs the Future Learning Initiative and researches human cognition, instructional technology, and learning sciences. He has worked with Singapore’s Ministry of Education to implement a curriculum based on his theory of Productive Failure on a national scale. Dr. Kapur's research has been featured in international publications including TIME, NPR, New York Times, and Times Higher Education, and he has given scores of presentations about Productive Failure to academics, business leaders,students, teachers, policymakers, and nonprofits.

Alegra Kastens is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the the founder of the Center for OCD, Anxiety, and Eating Disorders in New York.  Fueled by her own lived experience with OCD and eating disorders, she is a passionate educator who shares her expertise online as a contributing writer for Psychology Today, VeryWell Mind, and other publications, and on her successful Instagram advocacy platform @AlegraKastens.

Joe Keohane is an American journalist. He has worked for or contributed to such esteemed publications as Esquire, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. A writer and a top editor, he has covered everything from politics, to business, to technology and social science around the world, and his work has been anthologized in several textbooks. He currently works as Executive Editor of Medium.com. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter.

Kasley Killam, MPH, is a Harvard-trained social scientist and the founder of Social Health Labs, which leads initiatives to improve well-being through connection and community. Her ideas have been featured in major outlets such as the New York Times,  Washington Post,  Scientific American, and Psychology Today. Kasley is a frequent speaker for audiences like Google and Stanford University and an advisor to organizations across sectors on how to alleviate loneliness.

Angela Jia Kim is the founder of the multimillion dollar skincare brand, Savor Beauty + Spa. A highly recognized skin and self-care expert, Angela and her brands have been featured in The New York Times, Elle, Goop, Glamour, Allure, and Well+Good.

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Eliza Kingsford is a psychologist and weight loss expert who is nationally recognized as an expert in her field. She is a sought-after speaker who regularly presents to groups across the country and appears in the national media, including national television shows such as on Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.

David Kirby is a writer, activist, and longtime journalist. He is a contributor to The New York Times and author of the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and The Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy, as well as Animal Factory and Death at SeaWorld (St. Martin’s).

Jaime M. Knopman, MD, FACOG is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist who serves as the Director of Oocyte Cryopreservation (aka egg freezing) for CCRM Fertility, a global pioneer in fertility science, research and treatment with 34 locations across the United States and Canada. Dr. Knopman, who has published several sentinel papers, has been named to the Super Doctors Rising Stars list, to New York magazine’s Top Doctors list in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, as a Castle Connolly Exceptional Woman in Medicine in 2020, and as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

William J. Kole is a veteran reporter, foreign correspondent, and former New England editor at The Associated Press.  His storied career has included covering Dr. Kevorkian’s suicide machine, acting as AP’s lead writer in Paris following Princess Diana’s death, and winning a Society of American Business Editors & Writers award for his investigation into the exploitation of illegal immigrants by Walmart.

Erica Komisar is the author of the award-winning Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters. A psychoanalyst and parent guidance expert, her work has been featured in Parents Magazine, on Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, and she frequently writes for the Wall Street Journal.

Wendy is the Co-founder and Director of the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR), a charity organization founded by Wendy and her donor-conceived son Ryan to assist individuals conceived as a result of sperm, egg, or embryo donation that are seeking to make contact with others with whom they share first-degree genetic ties. Wendy has co-authored 25 papers on donor-conception and she and Ryan have appeared on 60 Minutes, Oprah, GMA, The Today Show, CNN, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, and many other news shows and publications around the world. She is a producer of “Generation Cryo,” a 6-part Docu-series for MTV and for “Sperm Donor: A Documentary” for the Style Channel.

Dr. Leah Lagos’s 10-week heart-rate variability program has been embraced by some of the world’s top Olympic athletes, CEOs and international hedge-fund executives Dr. Lagos is a Licensed Psychologist in the State of New York and Board Certified in Biofeedback.

Brad Lamm is a board-certified interventionist and a nationwide expert on complex trauma, addiction and recovery. Following publication of How to Help the One You Love (St. Martin’s), Brad became a regular contributor to The Dr. Oz Show and published a book on the obesity crisis, Just 10 Lbs (Hay House). His latest book, Quit Vaping, is out from Penguin Life.

Natalie Lampert is a Fulbright fellow and independent journalist who has written about egg freezing, abortions, and women’s health for The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and Slate.

Amy Larocca is an award-winning American journalist. She spent 20 years working at New York Magazine as both Fashion Director and Editor at Large. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Town & Country and the London Review of Books, among others. She lives with her family In New York and North London. How to Be Well will be published by AA Knopf in 2025.

Ian Leslie is an author and speaker who lives in London, where he combines careers in writing and advertising. His book Born Liars was hailed as ‘consistently startling and fascinating’ by the Daily Mail and was BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’. His book Curious was described by Tyler Cowen as ‘a beautiful and fascinating tribute to one of mankind’s most important virtues.’ He writes about ideas, culture and politics for a range of publications in the UK and US and is the author of a widely read and influential Substack newsletter called ‘The Ruffian’.

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Dr. Morgan Elyse Levine, PhD, is a professor at Yale University in the School of Medicine, a core leader for Yale’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and a “rising star” in the field of aging and longevity science. Dr. Levine serves on the Scientific Advisor Boards of major companies, including Elysium, Life Epigenetics, and Humanity and her research has been featured in major news outlets, including: The Guardian, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, Good Housekeeping Magazine, and many others. She has also been profiled on CNN and is featured on the Netflix docuseries Goop Lab.

Barbara K. Lipska, a neuroscientist, is the director of the Human Brain Collection Core at the National Institute of Mental Health.