Opening minds and showcasing new voices -- it's all part of the job description for Studio Museum in Harlem director and chief curator Thelma Golden.

Anand Varma's photos tell the story behind the science on everything from primate behavior and hummingbird biomechanics to amphibian disease and forest ecology.

Frederic Kaplan seeks to digitize vast archives of historical information to make maps that move -- through time.

Bernie Dunlap is a true polymath, whose talents span poetry, opera, ballet, literature and administration. He is the president of South Carolina’s Wofford College.

Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation, a center for social innovation, social enterprise and public policy that pioneers ideas in fields such as aging, education and poverty reduction. He’s the founder of the think-tank Demos, and the author of "The Art of Public Strategy."

Andrew Stanton has made you laugh and cry. The writer behind the three "Toy Story" movies and the writer/director of "WALL-E," he releases his new film, "John Carter," in March.

The most decorated track and field Olympian in history, Allyson Felix is now taking her talents to the business world.

Farish Ahmad-Noor believes that we can never truly escape history but we need not be victims of it either.

Sanford Biggers creates art that upends traditional narratives about topics ranging from hip hop to Buddhism to American history.

Tracy Edwards MBE battled against the odds (and the sea) to become the first woman to win the Yachtsman of the Year Trophy.

Eric Dyer is an artist and educator who brings animation into the physical world with his sequential images, sculptures and installations.

Nina Jablonski is author of Skin: A Natural History, a close look at human skin’s many remarkable traits: its colors, its sweatiness, the fact that we decorate it.

Rachel Sussman is on a quest to celebrate the resilience of life by identifying and photographing continuous-living organisms that are 2,000 years or older, all around the world.

Becky Barker aims to create awareness around how important tattooing can be for the healing process.

Craig Richard’s lifelong struggle to quiet the noisy squirrels in his head while falling asleep led to his explorations into the sleepy-bliss sensation of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR).

Kees Moeliker writes and speaks about natural history, especially birds and remarkable animal behavior, as well as improbable research and science-communication-with-a-laugh.

Kio Stark explores the myriad ways encounters with strangers impact our lives.

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor writes, teaches and engages questions on race and racism in the US.

Dwinita Mosby Tyler specializes in the development and delivery of leadership, equity, diversity, cultural responsiveness and inclusion training programs and strategies.

Former Georgia House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams made history in 2018 when she earned the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia.

The Vicar of St David's Church, Exeter, in the UK, is unafraid to take on some of religion's tougher issues.

Rahul Mehrotra is an architect working in India who focuses on institutional buildings and conservation of historic places. He is also a professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

Photographer Rick Guidotti sees a rich beauty in our genetic diversity and works to expose that vision to everyone.

Chee Pearlman creates conversations among designers -- think of her as as the host of a worldwide, perpetual salon.

Thomas Thwaites is a designer "of a more speculative sort," he says.

With a rich voice and an equally rich sense of history, Rhiannon Giddens animates American folk tradition with her electrifying song interpretations.

Inspired by Nigerian history and tragedies all but forgotten by recent generations of westerners, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels and stories are jewels in the crown of diasporan literature.

Antonio Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. His work has had a major influence on current understanding of the neural systems, which underlie memory, language, consciousness.

One of the best known and most renowned scientists in history, Richard Feynman pioneered quantum mechanics. His knack for accessible explanations made him a popularizer of physics of equal distinction to laypeople.

Art historian and critic Sarah Lewis celebrates creativity and shows how it can lead us through fear and failure to ultimate success.