MARISSA BODE Marissa Bode is making her feature film debut starring as Nessarose Thropp, Elphaba's sister and the Wicked Witch of the East in the blockbuster Universal motion picture WICKED, opposite Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Bode is making history for being the first wheelchair user to play the character, Nessarose. As a trailblazer for [...]
BETHANY JOY LENZ ABOUT THE PROGRAM Experience an unforgettable lecture with actor and bestselling author Bethany Joy Lenz, offering an honest, witty, and deeply inspiring look into her personal journey.Bethany opens up about her struggles with mental health, depression, and anxiety during her rise to fame as one of the main leads of the popular [...]
Judy Wood It’s impossible to ignore the cosmic shift American society is currently under going concerning women and their fighting back against sexual violence. Attorney Judy Wood assisted in changing the law of asylum nationwide, allowing women to be designated a protected class – saving the lives of not only her clients, but thousands of [...]
Nick Stein Presents “Border Wars: From Mayhem to Mindfulness” As every college student will tell you, it’s the teacher that makes all the difference. If the messenger is effective, the message comes through. On college campuses across the country, many have heard of the benefits of secular mindfulness and meditation but few have taken it [...]
George Silano A Film Lost and Forgotten... UNTIL NOW. In December of 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. opened his home for the first and only time to television host, Arnold Michaelis, legendary interviewer, who spent four days recording Dr. King and his wife, Coretta, in a uniquely intimate setting, revealing these historic figures' most [...]
Charlie Savage Savage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington correspondent for the New York Times. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, Savage graduated from Harvard College and earned a master’s degree from Yale Law School as part of a Knight Foundation journalism fellowship. He has been covering post-9/11 issues-including national security, individual rights and the rule of [...]
Evan Peters Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning Actor Evan Peters has gained wide recognition for playing multiple roles over ten seasons in Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series American Horror Story, from 2011 to 2021. His performance as Detective Colin Zabel in the HBO crime miniseries Mare of Easttown (2021), starring opposite Kate Winslet, won him [...]
David and Jessie Peterson Languages Creator for HBO's Game of Thrones and the motion pictures DUNE and DUNE: PART TWO Presenting “THE ART of LANGUAGE INVENTION” Though language creation is more than 900 years old, it has been brought to the forefront in recent years due to the popularity of shows like the award-winning HBO [...]
Kathleen Neal Cleaver Kathleen Neal Cleaver has spent her life participating in the human rights struggle. She started alongside her parents in the 1950’s civil rights protests in Alabama. By 1966, Kathleen Neal dropped out of Barnard College in New York to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) where she served in its Campus [...]
Jussie Smollett Jussie Smollett stars as the talented son Jamal Lyon in FOX's music industry award-winning show EMPIRE, from producer / director Lee Daniels. His role allows him to blend both his acting and musical skills in the high-octane fueled drama. Smollett recently confirmed in a backstage interview with Ellen DeGeneres that he was gay, [...]
