Zainab Salbi
Loung Ung
Jamie Metzl
Art Miles Mural Painting Experience
Michael Sheldrick

Zainab Salbi

Bestselling Author, TV & Podcast Host, Commentator, Women's Rights & Environmental Activist

• Founder, Women for Women International

• Co-founder, Daughters for Earth

• Author, Freedom Is An Inside Job

Loung Ung

Activist and Author of the bestseller
First They Killed My Father.

Co-writer of the Netflix Film by Angelina Jolie, based on her book.

Superconvergence: How The Genetics, Biotech, And AI Revolution Will Transform Our Lives, Work, And World

Jamie Metzl

Technology Futurist & Geopolitics Expert

Author: Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World

Founder, OneShared World

Visual Voices:
The Art Miles
Mural Painting
Experience

An Interactive Event
To Bring People Together.

From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook For Influencing and Implementing Change In A Divided World

Michael Sheldrick
Co-Founder, Global Citizen

Author, FROM IDEAS TO IMPACT:
Influencing and Implementing
Change in a Divided World

Highlighted Speakers

Zainab Salbi

“One of the 25 Women Changing the World” — People. One of the “100 leading global thinkers” — Foreign Policy Magazine. The Iraqi-American humanitarian, bestselling author, TV Host, and media commentator, is a co-founder of Daughters for Earth. The organization supports women around the world who are most impacted by climate change and are very often the frontline warriors fighting to protect our future. She founded Women for Women International at the age of 23. Since 1993, the organization has helped over 550,000 marginalized women rebuild their lives in 8 conflict areas. She is the author of several books including, Freedom is an Inside Job: Owning Our Darkness And Our Light To Heal Ourselves And The World.

Loung Ung

Loung Ung is a bestselling author three books, activist and co-screenplay writer of the Netflix Original Movie directed by Angelina Jolie based on her memoir, First They Killed My Father, now streaming in 190 countries. Loung provides an eyewitness account of the Cambodian genocide, her survival, and life as a refugee in the U.S. from the age of ten. An eloquent speaker, she interweaves themes of leadership, activism, healing and resiliency. In these challenging times, she inspires hope as she delivers an empowering message of our ability to overcome adversity to create change in our lives and in the world.

Temple Grandin

The most accomplished and well-known adult with autism in the world. The bestselling author, innovator & animal scientist was subject of the HBO feature film “Temple Grandin,” starring Claire Danes. Her TED Talk "The World Needs All Kinds Of Minds," has been viewed almost 5 million times. Dr. Grandin is sought after globally to speak about her experiences with autism, cattle handling and the humane treatment of animals. She has been featured widely in the global media. Time Magazine named her one of the world's 100 most influential people.

Art Miles Mural Painting Experience

THE ART MILES MURAL PROJECT, 25 Years • 5,000+ Murals • 500,000+ People • 100+ Nations, brings a totally interactive mural painting experience to your community. VISUAL VOICES: The Art Miles Mural Painting Experience features our noted muralist who works with the sponsoring organization in advance of your event to design the mural concept to address an issue your group or community cares about. Our muralist designs and outlines the mural on a 5' x 20' canvas to prepare for your event where your community members contribute their collective brush strokes to complete the mural that remains for your community to display for years following the event. Inquire about the Art Miles Mural Touring Exhibitions.

Jack Brewster

Information Devolution: How Cellphones, Social Media , and AI Shape Politics and Us - A multimedia program: We have more access to information than ever before, but are we truly better informed or better at engaging in meaningful conversations? Jack Brewster, CEO of Newsreel, an app designed to make news accessible for young people and the digitally exhausted, explores how the internet and social media are reshaping the way we interact and consume news, and the profound impact this has on our politics. Jack brings a wealth of experience to his presentations, including appearances on BBC News, bylines in The Wall Street Journal, and research on QAnon, AI, and misinformation on ChatGPT’s propensity to spread misinformation was cited by The New York Times and The Washington Post. Until recently, Jack was the Enterprise Editor for NewsGuard where he broke the story uncovering the source of the viral false claim that Haitian migrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. SEE FULL BIO.

Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, RN, Ph.D. (Ret.)

The highest ranking officer to challenge the military’s anti-gay regulation in Federal Court, won a historic decision which was followed by the implementation of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell.” Col. Cammermeyer presents an illustrated talk, “A Lived History: In Pursuit of LGBT Rights & Social Justice.” Col. Cammermeyer interweaves her own life experiences with the legal and political struggles which contributed to social justice for gays and lesbians serving in the military and for same sex couples to marry — also addressing the current challenges being faced in these troubling times of rising anti-gay and anti-diversity sentiment and policies. Her autobiography Serving in Silence was made into an Emmy Award-winning NBC television movie in which she was portrayed by Glenn Close. It was executive produced by Barbra Streisand.