Jake Wood runs Team Rubicon, a nationwide nonprofit that provides military veterans with the opportunity to continue their service by responding to natural disasters and global crises.

Through his charity HALT, Jeremy Forbes aims to break through the stigma attached to mental health, raise awareness through education and empower men to open up conversations around mental health and suicide prevention.

As a member of the California Highway Patrol with assignments including patrolling the Golden Gate Bridge, Sergeant Kevin Briggs and his staff are the last barriers between would-be suicides and the plunge to near-certain death.

Kevin Toolis's wide-ranging command of culture and history blends meaning and connection with death as part of life.

Sophie Andrews is the CEO of The Silver Line, a 24-hour phone line that provides social connectivity for isolated senior citizens in the UK and receives approximately 1,500 calls per day.

Dan Pallotta is on a focused mission to change the way the donating public thinks about giving.

Sue Klebold has become a passionate agent working to advance mental health awareness and intervention.

Kristen Ashburn's photographs bring us face-to-face with real people in desperate circumstances. Taking us to the intimate spaces of her subjects -- the victims of war, disaster, epidemic -- she elicits the sublime sadness and resolve of human beings in suffering.

Sheena Iyengar studies how people choose (and what makes us think we're good at it).

Nikki Webber Allen is working to create a safe space for honest conversations about mental health in communities of color.

Dr. George Blair-West is an author, researcher and doctor specializing in psychiatry.

As Director of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli led the Obama Administration’s drug policy efforts to diminish the consequences of substance use through evidence-based prevention, treatment and recovery support services.

Aparna Pallavi researches and writes about uncultivated foods available in India's forest, Indigenous people's knowledge and culture around them.

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