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Read more about Nick’s visit with our students Nick was the kid who hogged the jungle gym at recess. While most kids loved the slide he knew there was no real challenge to the slide. Nick had a goal to go from one side of the monkey bars to the other. A few years and many recesses later Nick managed to get out of school. He knew he didn’t want...

Kate Forsyth is the internationally bestselling author of more than 20 books for children and adults, including The Witches of Eileanan and Rhiannon’s Ride fantasy series for adults, and The Puzzle Ring, The Gypsy Crown, and The Starthorn Tree for children. Her latest book is The Wildkin’s Curse, a fantasy adventure for readers aged 12+. She has won or been nominated for numerous awards, including Best First Novel and a...

Walangari Karntawarra is an Australian Aboriginal elder from Alice Springs who now lives and works in Sydney. He is an international award-winning “Central Western Desert” painter and his colourful and spellbinding works tell the traditional Dreaming Stories of the world’s oldest living culture. Walangari has two university degrees and is also a talented musician, teacher and public speaker. His life and paintings have been featured in many publications and television...

Danish born Jens Honoré has spent his career exploring and observing the world through myriad lenses. His eye for detail and intuitive connection to both his surroundings and subjects create imagery that has garnered distinction and international awards in commercial, editorial and literary categories. Jens earned a Master’s Degree from the Danish School of Photography. He and his family live in New York.

With a passion for art and design, Soren started his career as a graphic designer at a small ad agency, but soon worked his way into Saatchi & Saatchi, Denmark to work on brands such as SONY, P&G, Hewlett Packard and Carlsberg. He was also a part of a European creative team based out of Paris, to help P&G elevate its creativity. In 2000, Soren moved to the US to...

Entrepreneur, researcher, dance teacher, inventor: all of these could be on Jin’s business card, but she prefers to call herself entrepreneur. She has combined her two very different fields of study and interest—dance and mathematics—into one profession. In 2007 she co-founded Movinto Fun and is the innovator behind the unique patented BodyBug, dancing game console.

Scott Atran is a director of research in anthropology at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France. He is also a research associate and visiting professor in psychology and public policy at the University of Michigan, a Presidential Scholar in Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and co-founder of ARTIS Research and Risk Modeling. His books include In God We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion,...

Read a post detailing our time with Mr. Rawet Tobias Rawet devotes his post-retirement years to speaking about his life in Poland during the Holocaust. His story sheds light on what can happen when anti-democratic forces get a foothold in society. Born in Lodz, Poland, in February 1936, Rawet was sent to the Lodz Ghetto in 1940. In 1942, all children under the age of 10 were sent to Chelmno...

Fredrik Härén is an accomplished author and speaker who has delivered more than 1,000 presentations, lectures and workshops across 25 countries, on the topic of creativity, idea-generation and entrepreneurship. He punctuates his messages with a number of amusing examples to help the audience understand the value of thinking in new ways, yet appreciate just how difficult this is to accomplish. Fredrik’s clients include American Express, China Mobile, China Telecom, Ericsson,...

Malin Ah-King is an evolutionary biologist and gender researcher working at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. She received her PhD at the department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Sweden and was then employed at the Centre for Gender Research in Uppsala in the GenNa program, a special venture to bridge the gap between the natural and cultural sciences. Her research aims to 1) problematize the portrayal of biological...