Wael Ghonim believes that the Internet can be the most powerful platform for connecting humanity, if we can bring civility and thoughtful conversations back to it.

Through his journalism, Peter Schwartzstein shines a global spotlight on climate change.

Laura Boushnak is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer whose work focuses on women, literacy and education reform in the Arab world.

Like a modern-day Indiana Jones, Sarah Parcak uses satellite images to locate lost ancient sites. The winner of the 2016 TED Prize, her wish is to protect the world’s shared cultural heritage.

Angélique Parisot-Potter traces her sense of justice to her father, a 260-pound wrestler who told her that no matter your size, you must look out for others.

In her reporting and writing, Leslie T. Chang explores the lives of workers in China, focusing on the experience of women.

A pioneering graphic designer in Egypt, Ghada Wali has designed fonts, brands and design-driven art projects.

Béatrice Coron has developed a language of storytelling by papercutting multi-layered stories.

Janine di Giovanni reports from war zones around the world.

By traversing the globe and digging through archives to recover records of aggression, radicalization and conflict, Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah educates and trains audiences in innovative dispute management techniques.

Jill Heinerth explores underwater caves deep inside the earth.

TED Prize winner Jehane Noujaim is a gutsy filmmaker whose astonishing documentaries reveal the triumphs and hardships of courageous individuals.

Meklit Hadero is an Ethiopian-American singer-songwriter living the cultural in-between, both in her own luminous compositions and as a co-founder of the Nile Project.

Author and entrepreneur Rob Reid writes speculative fiction for Random House.

Monika Bulaj’s stunning, painting-like photographs blur religious and cultural divisions, exploding stereotypes. She is a TED Fellow.

Morgan Spurlock makes documentary film and TV that is personal, political -- and, above all, deeply empathetic.

Philippa Neave is senior advisor on the UN's Lexicon of Electoral Terminology.

Rana Abdelhamid is an internationally acclaimed community organizer, first-degree black belt, public speaker and social entrepreneur focused on mass mobilization, international solidarity and the empowerment of marginalized communities.

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