Deborah, an ordained interfaith minister, is the founder of the  Garden of Light, Director of the  Evolutionary Leaders Circle, a project of the  Source of Synergy Foundation, and Vision Keeper at  Unity.Earth. She represented  May Peace Prevail on Earth International at the United Nations for more than 20 years.

Robert is an author, educator, and developmental psychologist, is a 2017 Nautilus Book Award winner for The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness.  He is also the author or co-editor of eight other books, including Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future (2020), Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969 (2019), Mystic Journey: Getting to the Heart of Your Soul’s Story (2012), and The Gift of Stories (1995). He is professor emeritus at the University of Southern Maine, director of Story Commons, founder of the Piscataqua Peace Forum, a member of the Evolutionary Leaders, and deeply committed to assisting the evolutionary impulse toward wholeness and unity. www.robertatkinson.net

Diane Marie is the Founder and President of The Source of Synergy Foundation. She was the Initiator with Deepak Chopra of one of its main projects, the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. She served as Founding Chairperson of the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns at the United Nations in New York. She was a recipient of the Spirit of the United Nations, the Golden Rule and the PEMAC Peace Awards.

Desiree Hurtak Ph.D. MSSC a social scientist, futurist, and environmentalist, is president of the Foundation for Future Science, which assists communities and individuals in many developing countries, and is also the vice president and co-founder of the Academy for Future Science. She is an author of several books, including Overself Awakening, coauthored with her husband, J. J. Hurtak, which seeks to bring insights and understanding of our true potential in life.

James J. Hurtak Ph.D., Ph.D. a social scientist and futurist, co-founded the Academy for Future Science (AFFS), an international NGO, to foster cooperation between science and consciousness through social projects and dialogue. He is the author of numerous books showing how science and religion need not be mutually exclusive, as well as The Book of Knowledge. He holds two PhDs, one from the University of California and a second from the University of Minnesota.

Joan Borysenko is a world- renowned expert in the mind-body connection. A licensed psychologist and Harvard Medical School–trained cell biologist, she synthesizes cutting- edge science with deep humanity. A New York Times bestselling author of seventeen books, she has work that has also appeared in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal and on public television and numerous websites. She is president of Mind-Body Health Sciences, LLC, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Gordon approaches organizational, social, and cultural change as “learning our way into the future” together; he described this in his doctoral dissertation, From Man- power to Mindfulness: The High-Tech Culture of Emergence and Its Implica- tions for Education. He assisted Rachael Kessler in founding the PassageWorks Institute, a leading catalyst in humanizing education. With his wife, Joan Borysenko, he codeveloped the Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry and coauthored Your Soul’s Compass.world- renowned expert in the mind-body connection.