Kate Reed is a Boston-based designer connecting humans, computers, and the natural world through wearable interfaces; she serves as Design Director of Arch Mission and is Artist in Residence at the 3DExperience Lab. You can catch her work at biometric.io.

Ben Soltoff is Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) and Ecosystem-Builder at the Martin Trust Center, focused on the world’s most pressing problems, particularly climate change. 

Jason Sydoriak is an Economist & Transportation Planner at the Volpe Center focused on Transit Oriented Design (TOD), and is co-organizer of the New England RSA Fellows.

Alex Zhuk is cofounder, President and Director of Perennial, which builds technology to unlock soil as the largest sink to reduce global warming.

Dr. Marissa Grunes is a literary scholar, science writer and Harvard PhD currently living at McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica. She has held several postdoctoral fellowships has been published in Nautilus, The Boston Review, and elsewhere.

Dr. Catherine Walker (PhD) is a Glaciologist and Planetary Scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution working on polar, ocean and planetary exploration. 

Kieran Setiya is a Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Setiya is a co-editor of Philosophers' Imprint.

Jill Kubit is the director and co-founder of DearTomorrow. and a founding member of the Our Kids’ Climate global climate-parent collaboration

William M. Bulleit is an emeritus professor of structural engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering at Michigan Tech

Dr. Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and senior director of programs of the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Biomedical Systems Engineer and serves on The Maintainers Advisory Committee.

Donna Riley is Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education and Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University.

Tona Rodriguez-Niki is a Professor of Civil Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles, and a Fellow with The Maintainers.

Kai Whiting is a co-author of Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living In. He is a researcher and lecturer in sustainability and Stoicism based at UCLouvain, Belgium.

Martin Elvis is a Senior Astophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. In addition to his contributions to the science of deep space objects, Dr. Elvis has a passion for near earth objects.

Danny Warshay is beloved teacher and mentor of entrepreneurship at Brown University, and the Author of See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success (2022).

Mark S. Cohen, Ph.D., is a Professor emeritus at UCLA in the departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, Psychology, Biomedical Physics and Bioengineering.

Kerry Tribe is an award-winning visual artist and experimental documentarian born in Boston and based in Los Angeles, whose solo work has been featured in many venues around the world.

Dr. Sudeep Agarwala is a synthetic biologist at Ginkgo Bioworks, and he is fascinated by how microbes can be engineered to produce different compounds.

Anastasia Ostrowski is a PhD student and design researcher at the MIT Media Lab.

Katherine Ouellete is a writer, communications specialist, and open learning advocate at MIT Open Learning.

David Colby Reed is a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab, and a member of the Space Enabled research group.

Dr. Ye Tao developed the MEER Framework (Mirrors for Earth’s Energy Rebalance) while serving as a Principal Investigator at the Rowland Institute at Harvard between 2016 and 2021.

Cristina Parreño Alonso studies and teaches architecture from a deep time perspective, and she explores these ideas in her teaching, her design and in exhibited works in public spaces.

Andrew H. Knoll is a geologist and Professor of Natural History at Harvard University, and the author of: A Brief History of Earth (02021).

Preston is the founder and Chief Scientist of the Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative (RaDVaC), the first-ever open-source vaccine project.

James Hughes, Ph.D. is a bioethicist and sociologist, and the Executive Director of the (IEET), which he co-founded with philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2004

Paul Kirshen is a professor in the School for the Environment at UMass Boston. He has thirty years of experience as principal investigator on complex, interdisciplinary research related to climate variability.

Andrew L. Russell is a Professor of History and dean of the College of Arts and Science at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, co-founder of the Maintainers research network and conferences, and co-author of The Innovation Delusion.

Lee Vinsel is a professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech, a co-founder of The Maintainers, and co-author of The Innovation Delusion.

A creative artist, Peter Dean runs the creative design company Novogram, and the poster company Kite. Among others, he designed an Invitation poster for Stephen Hawking's Time Traveller’s party.

Michael Ogden is an award-winning Creative Director. He has successfully developed original concepts across multiple platforms.

Vincent Ialenti is currently a Research Associate at Cal Poly Humboldt's Department of Environmental Studies, formerly an Assistant Research Professor at George Washington University, and a MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellow at University of British Columbia

Bina Venkataraman is and Editor with the Boston Globe, and is the author of The Optimist’s Telescope, named a best book of the year in 2019.

Dr. Kerry Emanuel is a prominent meteorologist and climate scientist who specializes in moist convection in the atmosphere, and tropical cyclones.

Georgie Friedman is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects include large-scale video installations, single and multi-channel videos and several photographic series.

Kishore Varanasi, a principal at the Boston-based firm CBT, is an urban designer, strategist, and educator who specializes in developing authentic design solutions for cities at all scales.

Florian is a leading researcher on the biochemistry of viral infection, vaccines and therapeutics.

Emilia Javorski, MD, MPH, is the Director of Grants & Multistakeholder Engagements at the Future of Life Institute, and was previously names by Forbes as 30 Under 30 in Healthcare.

Joe Levine earned his PhD in Biology at Harvard University, and after teaching at Boston College, dedicated his life to improving science education and public understanding of science

Eleanor Murphy is the Director of Philanthropy and Engagement with Acumen, where she builds relationships to secure the resources needed to scale social enterprises and develop leaders tackling issues of poverty and injustice.

Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. Roman studied at the universities of Oxford, London, and Essex, and founded the world’s first Empathy Museum.

NICOLE L’HUILLIER is a transdisciplinary artist from Santiago, Chile, currently based in Boston, MA. She specalizes on installations, performances, sculptures, compositions, and multiple transductions.

NATHAN MINER lives and works in Boston, MA. Over the past decade, Miner has exhibited in many galleries, alternative art spaces and universities,

Dr. Anton Howes is the head of innovation at the Entrepreneurs Network, and Historian in Residence at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

Curt Newton is Director of MIT OpenCourseWare, which freely shares materials from thousands of MIT courses. Curt also serves on the steering team of 350 MA and is a trained Climate Reality Project Leader.

William Powers is an author, journalist, and technologist, and author of the New York Times’s 2010 bestseller Hamlet’s BlackBerry.

Rajendra Sisodia, PhD, is the F.W. Olin Distinguished Professor of Global Business at Babson College and author of Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2014).

Fredo Darling is a Creative Director and Freelance Media Producer, and has been in love with science and history for most of his life.

George Gantz is a member of Long Now Boston and helps curate the Long Now Boston Conversation Series. As a grandfather of 9 he takes the long term seriously.

Robin Harper an electronic technician in automated testing, an electrical engineer in image analysis, and a technical writer, and his goal is to make humanity's tribal nature widely understood.

Nathan Towianski is a Business Consultant working on Distributed Autonomous Organizations and collaborative business models and software.

Abraham (Avi) Loeb is an esteemed astronomer, having published 4 books and over 700 papers on a wide range of topics, including black holes, the first stars, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the universe.

Kirk F. Bosma, PE, is a Senior Coastal Engineer and Team Leader of the Coastal Sciences, Engineering & Planning team at Woods Hole Group.

Nir Eisikovits is an associate professor of philosophy and founding director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, working on the impact of AI of our everyday experiences. 

Jimena Canales is an expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences, working for a better understanding of science and technology in relation to the arts and humanities.

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based, multi-disciplinary artist, of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent.

Dr. Hyunjun Park is Co-Founder and CEO of CATALOG, a company on the leading edge of DNA data storage.

Nova Spivack, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Arch Mission Foundation, is a tech entrepreneur, investor and futurist with a career spanning more than two decades.

Safi Bahcall is a second-generation physicist, a biotech entrepreneur, and former public-company CEO. He is the author of the 2019 NYT Bestseller — Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries.

Stewart Brand is Co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of the Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founded the Hackers Conference and The WELL.

Esther Dyson is a writer, investor and commentator, a Board Member of the Long Now Foundation, and the Founder of Wellville for equitable well-being.

Co-founder, President and Executive Director of Revive & Restore, founded in 2012. An entrepreneur active in both the for-profit and nonprofit worlds, Ryan founded DNA Direct (medical genetics) and Direct Medical Knowledge (consumer health website).

Katherine Collins is Head of Sustainable Investing at Putnam, Founder of Honeybee Capital Foundation and author of the book, The Nature of Investing.

Bryan Agurcia has an undergraduate degree in exercise physiology, a Masters in gerontology and 30 years experience in human performance.

Guadalupe Babio graduated in 2018 by the School of Architecture of Madrid, and joined the City Science group at MIT as a Research Fellow.

Malcolm Burwell is a technologist and entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of the UltraConductive Copper Company, which was series-A funded in 2018.

Jennifer Clifford is a microbiologist and plant pathologist by training and occupation. She direct the BosLab in Somerville MA and serves on the Steering Committee of Long Now Boston.

Christopher Fry moved to Boston in 1973 to attend Berklee College of Music and has worked in technical capacities at a variety of Labs and start-ups.

Christopher Haines is an Architect specializing in regenerative design for building renovations and urban spaces.

Mark Hediger is the Principal at MEH Associations, forging actionable drug-discovery solutions at the interfaces of modern biology, chemistry, physics and technology..

Henry Lieberman is Research Scientist at MIT, and has been a manufacturer of fine intellectual property for the last 40 years

Seth Rhoades is the founder of Robur Health, a biotechnology company focused on augmenting human health span. He is a trained scientist in pharmacology and clinical informatics, and passionate about the applications of new advances in technology.

Bruce Blumberg is a Principal UX Engineer at Universal Robots, the world’s leading collaborative robot manufacturer.

Dennis Grishin is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder (with George Church and Kamal Obbad) of Nebula Genomics. His academic record includes fellowships from Harvard and the German National Academic Foundation.

Scott Chimileski is a photographer and microbiologist serving as a Research Fellow at the Kolter Lab for Microbiology and Immunology at the Harvard Medical School. Scott’s images have been widely published

Roberto Kolter is the Director of the Kolter Lab for Microbiology at the Harvard Medical School. Professor Emeritus of microbiology at Harvard and past president of the American Society for Microbiology.

Robin Chase is a leading transportation entrepreneur and the co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar.

Richard Mallah is the Director of AI Projects, Future of Life Institute, and has over fifteen years of experience leading AI research and AI product teams in industry.

Lucas Perry is a Project Coordinator for the Future of Life Institute, focused on enabling and delivering existential risk mitigation efforts.

Barry Bluestone is a Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University, and served as founding director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy from 1999 to 2015

Peter Rose, FAIA, FRAIC, is a recognized leader in the architectural design profession. Since beginning his practice in 1978, Rose has received numerous awards for residential, institutional, and urban design projects.

Tamara Roy, BA, MA, AIA Leed AP, is a principal with Stantec Architects and past President of the Boston Society of Architects.

Juan Enriquez is a popular public presenter and a prolific writer. He teaches about the economic and political impacts of life sciences, future brain technologies, as well as the rise and fall of countries. Juan was founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project.

oren J. Samons II, a Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, specializes in the history of Greece in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C., with particular interests in Athenian politics and imperialism.

Dr. Nikolay Anguelov is Assistant Professor in the department of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He has a Ph.D. in Policy Studies from Clemson University.

Dan Borelli is an Artist and Director of Exhibitions at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design (GSD). His art practice focuses on environmental justice, contaminated communities, and how research-based art can address shared traumas.

Alex Murray is a wine educator and sommelier and and serves on the wine staff at Legal Seafoods.

Tenzin Samdo was a beloved bartender and master mixologist in the greater Boson area.

Michael Hawley was an educator, computer scientist, musician and photographer who served as impresario of EG (https://www.egconf.com) and taught at MIT.

Nathaniel A. Raymond is Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Ethan Zuckerman is Director, Center for Civic Media and Associate Professor of the Practice at MIT’s Media Lab, and the author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection,

Taylor Milsal is a Managing Partner at Cotor, Inc., focused on developing technical and marketing solutions for business problems, and was a Co-Founder and CEO Milsal McCaull.

Mary has been fascinated with biology since spending summers engrossed by the Hampton Beach tide pools. This led to degrees in Microbiology, Plant Cell Biology, and a PhD in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology.

Timothy Phillips is a pioneer in the field of conflict resolution and peace and reconciliation initiatives. The co-founder of Beyond Conflict, he has advised national and intenational organizations and governments around the Globe..

Danny Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and writer who is particularly known for his work in computer science. He is also the designer of the 10,000 Year Clock of the Long Now.

Kim Novick a creative director and executive producer whose practice is dedicated to the social impact space.

An award-winning reporter, documentary filmmaker, and professor of journalism, David Abel has covered war in the Balkans, unrest in Latin America, national security issues in Washington D.C., terrorism in New York and Boston, and climate change and poverty throughout New England. Abel is the producer, director, writer, and cinematographer for Inundation District, a 2023 feature-length film that explores a neighborhood Boston spent billions to build, despite warnings about climate change.

Riley Black (she/they) has been heralded as “one of our premier gifted young science writers” and is the award-winning author of Skeleton Keys, My Beloved Brontosaurus, Written in Stone, When Dinosaurs Ruled, and The Last Days of the Dinosaurs. A science correspondent for Smithsonian and regular contributor to publications like National Geographic and Slate, Riley is a widely-recognized expert on paleontology. She is the winner of the 2023 AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books as well as the 2024 Friend of Darwin Award from the National Center for Science Education.

Richard Fisher is a Senior Journalist with the BBC in London, writing and commissioning feature-length stories for the website BBC.com, and the author of The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time (Wildfire, March 2023).

Laura Forlano, a Fulbright award-winning and National Science Foundation funded scholar, is a writer, social scientist and design researcher. Currently, Forlano is Professor in the department of Art + Design at the College of Arts, Media, and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University.