Member of Arcade Fire and Advocate for the People of Haiti
When Marika Anthony-Shaw found herself in the spotlight, she saw an opportunity to shine that light on a cause close to her heart--the people of Haiti. Anthony-Shaw and her band, Arcade Fire, have used their fame as Grammy Award winners to drum up support for Haiti to the tune of $500,000 in donations... More
Holocaust survivor and human rights activist Inge Auerbacher spent three years as a child imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where out of 15,000 children, barely 1 percent survived. Following her emigration to the United States in 1946, she received a BS in chemistry... More
Lost Boy of Sudan Featured in the Film God Grew Tired of Us
Born in war-torn Southern Sudan, Dau is one of 27,000 boys driven from their villages when the northern Arab government attacked the ethnic minority population in 1987. For the next five years, Dau led groups of displaced boys across Sudan for hundreds of miles facing starvation, disease, and violence... More
Sean Carasso, the barely-30 social entrepreneur, freedom fighter, industry innovator, and humanitarian, has spent the last four years running toward a goal most call impossible. Sean spent his mid-20s traveling the world with businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, John Paul Dejoria, and with... More
Thirty-Ninth American President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Regarded as one of the most influential statesmen of our time, Jimmy Carter aspired to create a government of competence and compassion as the 39th US president. Successful in the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal treaties, and SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, he may be most notable for his... More
West Memphis Three Storytellers and Documentarians
There were many who stood by his side through his 18 years on death row, including such high-profile artists as actor Johnny Depp, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines, and former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins. His soul-shaking story has also been the subject of three... More
Civil rights and diversity speaker Morris Dees is the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit group specializing in lawsuits involving civil rights violations, domestic terrorism, and hate-motivated crimes. Dees and his associates have successfully battled and dismantled a series... More
Dr. Haleh Esfandiari is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Prior to coming to the Wilson Center she taught Persian language, literature, and the women's movement in Iran at Princeton University and was a former deputy... More
Former Australian Foreign Minister and Global Policy Expert
The Hon. Gareth Evans was one of Australia's longest serving foreign ministers and is president emeritus of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, an independent global conflict prevention and resolution organization. He served as the group's president and CEO from 2000 to... More
Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care services and has undertaken research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer... More
