AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins leads the world's largest nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization, harnessing the power and passion of almost 2,000 staff members, 60,000 volunteers and numerous strategic partners. Since heading the organization in 2014, she has transformed AARP into a leader in social change, dedicated to empowering people to choose how they live and age. Jenkins has been describe..

Dr. Laura L. Carstensen is Professor of Psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy at Stanford University where she serves as founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity (2007) and the principal investigator for the Stanford Life-span Development Laboratory. In addition to her role as professor of psychology, she served as the Barbara D. Finberg director of ..

The Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute is the brainchild of Dr. Philip Pizzo, former dean of the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Pizzo has devoted much of his distinguished medical career to the diagnosis, management, prevention and treatment of childhood cancers and the infectious complications that occur in children whose immune systems are compromised by cancer and AIDS. He has also been..

Dr. Andrew Scott is Professor of Economics at London Business School and a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He has previously held positions at Harvard University, London School of Economics and Oxford University. His research and advisory work focuses on the short- and long-term forces that affect governments and business, and he has served as ad..

Stephen Johnston is co-founder of Aging2.0 a global innovation platform for aging and senior care. He is also CEO of Fordcastle, an innovation consultancy, and a member of the Future Agenda, the world's largest open foresight initiative. Co-author of Growth Champions (Wiley, 2012), a book about sustainable corporate growth, Johnston is a leading thinker on the application of new technologies and w..

Born in 2001 in Hackensack, NJ, Matthew Whitaker grew up surrounded by music. His love for playing music first began at the young age of 3, after his grandfather gave him a small Yamaha keyboard. At age 9, Matthew began teaching himself how to play the Hammond B3 organ. Four years later, he became the youngest artist to be endorsed by Hammond in its more than 80-year history. At just 10 years old,..

A global leader in cancer research and health disparities, Otis Brawley is a leading voice in the thoughtful development of cancer screening strategies and ensuring their effectiveness. As a dedicated teacher, he will train the next generation of physicians and researchers to reduce the threat of cancer. With the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship at Johns Hopkins University, he continues his w..

Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade is a hematology oncologist, associate dean for Global Health and Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. She also serves as director of the University of Chicago Hospital's Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics. An expert in cancer risk assessment and individualized treatment for the most aggressive for..

Dr. Olivera Finn is University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Professor of Immunology and Surgery and Founding Chair of the Department of Immunology, the position she held from 2001 to 2013. She has been a Leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute since 1991. After receiving her PhD in Immunology at Stanford University in 1980 and completing her postdoct..

Dr. Ken Anderson graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical School, trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and completed hematology, medical oncology, and tumor immunology training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He serves as chief of the Division of Hematologic Neoplasia, director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center, and vice chair of the Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine..

Dr. George Prendergast was appointed President and CEO of the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR) in 2004. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received his BA magna cum laude with Distinction in Biochemistry in 1983. He obtained his MS in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1984 and his PhD in Molecular Biology from Princeton University ..

(Charles Yang, Ranaan Meyer, Nick Kendall) The groundbreaking, category-shattering trio Time for Three (Tf3) transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy and jazz idioms forming a blend all its own. The members ” Nicolas (Nick) Kendall, violin; Charles Yang violin; and Ranaan Meyer, double bass ” carry a passion for improvisation, composing and arra..

Dr. David Skorton led as the 13th Secretary of the Smithsonian. Dr. Skorton oversaw 19 museums and galleries, 20 libraries, the National Zoo and numerous education and research centers, including the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and the Smithsonian Science Education Center. He was responsible for a..

Lee Rainie is the Director of Internet and Technology Research at Pew Research Center. Under his leadership, the Center has issued more than 650 reports based on its surveys that examine people's online activities and the Internet's role in their lives. The American Sociological Association gave Rainie its award for excellence in the reporting on social issues, in 2014 and described his work as..

Brad Myles serves as Executive Director and CEO of Polaris, a global leader in the fight to eradicate human trafficking and to restore freedom to survivors. For over a decade, he has devoted himself to combating human trafficking and modern slavery on a local, national, and global scale. Myles' early efforts focused on directly serving survivors, researching local human trafficking markets, and he..

Dr. Elizabeth Hausler is a skilled brick, block and stone mason with an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Colorado, and a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before graduate school, she spent five years in the engineering consulting industry for Peterson Consulting in Chica..

Sara DeWitt oversees day-to-day development of PBS Internet sites for kids and families, including the Kidscreen- and Webby Award-winning pbskids.org website, PBS KIDS streaming video services, the PBS KIDS portfolio of educational apps for children, and the PBS KIDS for Parents digital experiences. The preschool (pbskids.org) and early elementary school age (pbskidsgo.org) websites, which now ser..

Sydney Morris is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators For Excellence (E4E), a teacher-led organization that seeks to ensure teachers' voices are meaningfully included in the policy decisions that impact their classrooms and professions. Launched in 2010, E4E has grown into a national movement of 25,000 educators with chapters in Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Minnesota and New York. ..

Dr. Arthur Benjamin is both a professor of mathematics and a magician. He has combined his two loves to create a dynamic presentation called Mathemagics, where he demonstrates and explains his secrets for performing rapid mental calculations faster than a calculator. He has presented his high-energy talk for thousands of groups throughout the world. The Smallwood Family Professor of Mathemat..

Amar C. Bakshi is an artist whose work focuses on how to integrate technology into environments and across pronounced distance to create new forms of digital-physical public spaces that challenge and subvert existing norms. In particular, he works to connect members of diverse communities who would likely not otherwise meet in intimate environments to create their own meanings. Portals are spaces..