Dr. Allie Ticktin is a licensed occupational therapist with a specialty in sensory integration and early childhood development. Allie founded Play 2 Progress after recognizing the power of social play to facilitate individual progress.

Kevin Tracey, MD, is a neurosurgeon, scientist, entrepreneur, and leader in the fields of vagus nerve stimulation and inflammation. He is president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health and a professor of Molecular Medicine and Neurosurgery at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Tracey has appeared on 60 Minutes and has been interviewed and profiled in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and other major media.

Cassandra Vieten, PhD is a university professor, licensed clinical psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, and internationally recognized workshop leader and public speaker. She is Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, and works at the Centers for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Diego, where she serves as the Director of the Center for Mindfulness, while also being a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Cassi is co-founder and Psychology Director at the Psychedelics and Health Research Initiative at UCSD.

In addition, Cassi is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and she is Senior Advisor at the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation. Cassi is a blogger at Psychology Today, and is an internationally recognized workshop leader and keynote speaker, most recently at the American Psychological Association, and the Esalen Institute.

The Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock serves as the Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta. He also has served at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church of Birmingham, the Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City, and Baltimore’s Douglas Memorial Community Church. The Rev. Dr. Warnock holds degrees from Morehouse College and Union Theological Seminary, and is the author of The Divided Mind of the Black Church. In January 2021, Dr. Warnock became Georgia's first Black senator.

Lead singer of 5-time Grammy Award-winning girl-group TLC, Watkins is also the national spokesperson for sickle cell disease.

Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson is a veterinary epidemiologist with over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 70 patents. Stephanie discovered the health benefits of C15:0 ( the first essential fatty acid to be found in over 90 years) while working for the U.S. Navy to continually improve the long-term health of Navy bottlenose dolphins.  Stephanie is the world’s leading expert on C15:0, and she and her research have been featured on NPR’s Science Friday, The New York Times, Inverse, BBC, National Geographic and more,  and she has  has received numerous awards, including the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Award for Innovations in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Boehringer Ingelheim’s Innovation Award, and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in Wellness Honoree.

Caroline Webb is a management consultant and executive coach who, after many years as a partner at McKinsey, founded Sevenshift in 2012, an advisory firm that shows clients how to use insights from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to improve their professional lives. A frequent speaker at major conferences and a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Huffington Post, she and her work have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, The Economist, and Financial Times. Her book How to Have a Good Day (Crown) shows readers how to use the power of behavioral science to transform the quality of everyday work and life.

A founder of and leader in the field of theory of mind since its inception, Wellman is the the Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he has taught for more than 30 years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published several critically acclaimed books about theory of mind and psychology.

John C. “Jay” Wellons is the Cal Turner Chair and Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

Alden Wicker is an award-winning journalist and sustainable fashion expert who’s written investigative pieces and deep dives on innovation, materials, and consumer trends for The New York Times, Vogue, Wired, the Cut, Vox, Vogue Business, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, Quartz, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Glamour, Popular Science, Newsweek, Refinery29, and more.

Daniel Willingham is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1992. He is the author of Why Don't Students Like School?, When Can You Trust the Experts?, Raising Kids Who Read, and The Reading Mind.

Everett Worthington is professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, a leading member of the American Association of Christian Counselors and the author of numerous books on forgiveness, most recently Moving Forward: Six Steps to Forgiving Yourself and Breaking Free from the Past (WaterBrook Multnomah).

Emma Young is an award-winning science and health journalist and author. She has a degree in psychology from the University of Durham and 20 years’ experience working on titles including the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald and New Scientist, for which she worked as a senior online reporter in London and Australasian Editor in Sydney. Now employed by the British Psychological Society as a Staff Writer, she also freelance articles and writes books.A regular contributor to Mosaic and New Scientist, her work is carried widely by other media outlets, including BBC online and The Atlantic.As E.L. Young, Emma is also the author of a series of science-based thrillers for children.Emma’s awards include Feature of the Year, awarded by UK Medical Journalist’s Association, 2017; Australian Health Journalist of the Year (2010), Writer of the Year at the Australian magazine industry Bell Awards and a European Online Journalism award for best news story.

Growing Young author Sergey Young has been an investor and venture capitalist for twenty years, with a multi-billion portfolio under management. Founder of the Longevity Vision Fund, he is an Advisory Board Member at UK's Parliamentary Group on Longevity, a member of the Forbes Technology Council and Development Sponsor of the Age Reversal XPRIZE.

Justin Zorn is a writer, policy maker, and mindfulness teacher. A Harvard and Oxford-trained specialist in economic and environmental policy, he has served as legislative director to three Members of Congress, a Fulbright Scholar, a Truman National Security Fellow, a Senior Adviser to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and has written for The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and CNN.