Speakers/Mentors

Entertainment

Jada Pinkett Smith

Actress, producer, director, author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and humanitarian

Garth Brooks

World Record holding singer/song writer and Best-Selling author

Michael Papajohn

Actor and stuntman in over 100 movies such as Spiderman and Jurassic World

Les Stroud

World record holder, Survivorman of SMTV, Discovery and Science Channel

Trisha Yearwood

Platinum-selling, multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM Award winning vocalist, Emmy Award winning and Best Selling author

Angelina Alexon

New POP singer that is exploding on the music scene. Her vocal range, tone and power has been compared to Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and is fluent in 5 languages and sings in 7

Aradia

Singer/Songwriter

Paul Bedard

Star of Animal Planet’s Gator Boys

Jason Evans

Emmy nominated producer specializing in travel, adventure, science, and educational content

Christopher Sean

Actor, Hawaii Five-O, Star Wars Resistance, Days of Our Lives

Mary-Mitchell Campbell

Award-winning Broadway conductor, music director, composer, and arranger

Jessica Vosk

Broadway actress most famous for her leading role as Elphaba in Wicked

Lee Shorten

Asian American Film, Television and Theatre Actor, known for Man in the High Castle

Jenny Beavan

Ten-time nominee and two-time Oscar Award-Winning Costume Designer (Cruella, Sherlock Holmes, Mad Max: Fury Road)

Stewart Reynolds (Brittlestar)

Comedian who has developed branding videos for Disney, ESPN, Subway, CBC, Walmart, and KFC

Heidi Shepherd

Creator and lead singer for the band, Butcher Babies

Tal Anderson

Netflix: Atypical, Prime Video: As We See It

Peter Freestone

Former Live-In Personal Assistant of Freddie Mercury

John Henson

Actor & Host: ABC, Disney & Cooking Channel

Dr. Pardis Sabeti

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year and Most Influential People in the World

Dr. Philip Zimbardo

Prof. Emeritus at Stanford University, Creator of the Standford Prison Experiment and Lucifer Effect, and The Heroic Imagination Project

Dr. Kira Radinsky

One of GE’s eight chosen women that have changed the world

Dr. Esther Ngumbi

Author. Researcher. Mentor. Educator. Motivational Speaker. Hunger Activist. Consultant.

Tamara Robertson

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineer and Science Communicator.

Jayde Lovell

Host of ScIQ

Host of ScIQ, winner of “The Next MacGyver” television production competition by the National Academy of Engineering

Ed Rosenthal

NASA Space and Technology Hall of Fame

Dr. Tracy Fanara

Environmental Health Program-Mote Marine Laboratory

Ridhi Tariyal

Founder/Creator of NextGen Jane

Dr. Raf Ratinam

Medical illustrator and creator of 3D print modeling in hand surgery simulations

Stephanie Abrams

Meteorologist for the Weather Channel

Nigel J. Hetherington

graduate of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and is the co-author with Dr. Kent Weeks of The Valley of the Kings Site Masterplan.

Dr. Christian Brechot

President of Global Virus Network

Dr. Sabrina Sholts

Curator of Biological Anthropology, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Dr. Ann Koga

Immunologist and Microbiologist at the College of Idaho

Dr. Scott Michael

Dr. Michael serves on the editorial board of Virology Journal and is a Course Director for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute SEA-PHAGES program

Dr. Sharon Isern

Dr. Isern is a member of the National Institutes of Health Vaccines Against Microbial Diseases Study Section and was Course Director for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (SEA-PHAGES) Program

Kelly Cordeira

Epidemiologist in CDC’s Epidemiology Workforce Branch

Molly Kemball

Project Coordinator, Sabeti Lab, Broad Institute of MIT/Harvard

Dr. Thomas Hildebrandt

Professor, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

Dr. Sam Wasser

Director, Center for Conservation Biology, University of Washington

Dr. Paula Kahumbu

Chief Executive Officer of Wildlife Direct

Dr. Janina Scarlett

Clinical Psychologist, Author, Speaker, and Creator of Superhero Therapy

Alex Iszatt

CSI, Criminologist, and Crime Writer

Dr. Clara Rodriguez-Rondon

Geologist, Co-founder & vice-chair of GeoLatinas, O&G Regional Exploration & Salt Tectonics Technical Leader

Rasha Dayee

Syrian pharmacist of Arab International University (AIU)

Kseniya Simonova

Winner of Ukraine‘s Got Talent and Golden Buzzer America’s Got Talent: Champions

Carl Hiaasen

Best-Selling and award winning author.

Elsa Charretier

Marvel, DC, and Star Wars Illustrator.

Kristen Visbal

Creator and sculptor of the Fearless Girl statue on Wall Street

Tiffany Shlain

World renown and award-winning documentarian and creator of 50/50Day

Eric Jacobs

Award winning photographer and artist

AJ Jacobs

Author, journalist, lecturer and human guinea pig. He has written four New York Times bestsellers that combine memoir, science, humor and a dash of self-help

Dan Povenmire

Co-creator of the Disney’s number one animated series Phineas and Ferb

Jeremy Whitley

American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of the award-winning series

Abdi Nor Iftin

Somali refugee and author of the book Call Me American

Nita Wiggins

Author, Award-Winning Journalist, Professor at L’Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris

Tracy Blom

Self-published Children’s Author

Sonia Purnell

Award-winning & Best Selling biographer and journalist of A Woman of No Importance (Photo: Charlie Hopkinson)

Kate Brooks

World Renown and Award Winning Filmmaker/Photographer

Jennifer Wright

Best-Selling Author, Columnist, Speaker

Pic credit: Eric T White

Mirjana Milosevic (KiKa)

One of the world’s top makeup artists and body paint illusionists and lives in Serbia

Tomasz Opasinski

Award-Winning Creative Director: Heading over 700 Movie, TV, and Video Game Poster/Cover Design Campaigns

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, and The Daughters of Kobani (2021).

Craig Tracy

World Bodypainting Champion and expert judge on the hit network TV show SKIN WARS

Dr. Kathryn Sullivan

Astronaut, former head of NOAA, current head of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Paul Molnar

Paul Molnar was born in 1929 in Rákospalota, a suburb of Budapest, Hungary. Following the outbreak of the war, Paul and his family came under increasing persecution by the pro-German Hungarian government