2021:
Elise Dudley |Planting Seeds of Food Sovereignty Through Gardening
Margaret Oakes |To Gender or Not to Gender: Questions of Gendering in Shakespeare
Tiffany O’Donnell |Be EXTRA! You Say You’re an Ally for Gender Equity. But Are You?
Daniel Reece |Hope, Inspiration, and Rethinking Business: Social Enterprise in Denmark
Olivia McGuirt|Children’s Mathematics: Creating a New Generation of Learners
Sinclair Gibson |Is Advocacy the Solution to Disproportionate Health Outcomes?
2020:
Mary Sturgill |Kindness in the Midst of Chaos
Samantha Donaldson | Restoring Faith in Our Government
Lorenzo Barberis | Diversity: the Key to Collective Intelligence in the Age of AI
Craig Metcalf | Health is Our Greatest Wealth
Megan Squire | Using Data Science to Understand Online Hate
Hailey Pierce | The Camaraderie of Shared Experience
Johanna Toruño | Queer Visibility & Public Art
Tim Christensen | Photography: Science & Art
Kenia Flores | Rising Above Low Expectations with a Disability
Jackie Faustin | MindFULL Social-Emotional Learning
2019:
Mark Gunnells | How Horror Movies Taught Me Empathy
Stephanie Schuttler | How Kids Can Save Wildlife
Kartikeya Singh | Coalitions For Change
Dana Sturtevant & Hilary Kinavey | Body Trust is a Birthright
David Tolbert | The Struggle for Justice Around the Globe
Olivia Larner | Confronting the Invisible
Srikripa Chandrasekaran | Of Lice and Men: Scientists as War Heroes
Lisa Keys | How to Celebrate a Life
Nomonde Gila | The Future of Feminism: The Power Behind Educating African Girls
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2018:
John Lanier | Watch Your Language
Alexis Myers | Will America Ever Embrace Racial Ambiguity?
Dr. J. Aaron Simmons | The Failure of Success
Sam Fowler | Wasted: Exposing the Family Effect of Addiction
Dr. Judy Stuart | Four-Letter Words
Adnan Sultan | Why Innocent People Plead Guilty
Dr. Shane Purcell | Direct Primary Care: Remaking the Health Care System
Quincy Mix | Choosing Humility in a Self-Centered Age
Dr. David Moffett | 121 Seconds: The Eclipse @ Furman
Noelle Warner | Video Games: The Future of Storytelling
Matthew Morris | Identity and Autonomy: The Future of Autonomous Transportation
Jennifer Thompson | The Butterfly Effect: Do I Matter?
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2017: Uncharted Territory
Matt Stewart | How We Are Preparing the Next Generation
Kristen Murdaugh | Talking About Talking: The Science of the Voice
Zach Hughes | Poetry and the Problems with Pornography
Julie Wayne | One Turn on Earth: Lessons from the Boardroom to the Dinner Table
Ben Clagett | Step(s) in the Right Direction
Clare Ruble | Flying Out of the Pigeonhole with Comic Relief
Dr. Christopher Blackwell | Information Technology: The First 2,500 Years
Lynne Waheeba | The Luckies of the Unlucky
Cindy Monteith | The Power of Your Story
Ken Nwadike Jr. | Become the Leader They Are Searching For
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2016: Go Big
Lexie Harvey | The Busy Identity
Mark Wexler | Just Business: Modeling a Path to End Modern-Day Slavery
Glen Courtright | Bugs Save the World
Susan Bennett | Accidentally Famous: The Story Behind the Original Voice of Siri
Ray Garner | Space and Culture: Inextricably Linked
Adrienne Burris | The Curious Incident of Syndrome Publishing
Tindall Ouverson | Bokashi: a Small Solution for a Big Problem
Timothy Hanks | Soft Nanotechnology: Big Ideas from Nature
Cam Pascual | Couch to Community: How to Turn Ideas into Movements
Patrick Tuttle | In Order to Go Big, You Need Two Hands
Eiho Baba | Chinese Philosophical Texts with a Sensitivity to Underlying Assumptions
Scott Henderson | When Two Rights Make a Wrong
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2015: Shatter
Tabitha Colter | The Devil is in the Details – But So is our Humanity
Cheryl Stowe | Don’t Tell Me I Can’t: Disability in a Modern World
Fred Payne | The aTaxi Transforming Transportation
Pam Dorr | The Naked Truth of Pie
Adam Johnson | The Pitfalls of Masculinity in the Military and at Home
Scott Boylston | I Love Bottom Feeders
Tami Blumenfield | What Can We Learn from the Na? Ideas about Family and Relationships
Janet Kwami | Rethinking Digital Inequity: Lessons from Ghana
Cengiz Sisman | Mending the Already Shattered World
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2014: Stories
Chris Mohney | Why Stories Have No Value
Andrew Forsthoefel | Catalyzing Connection
Luke Christie | Raise Your VOICE
David Wilcox | Singer-Songwriter
Jonathan Gottschall | The Storytelling Animal
Felicia Pride | We’re All Characters in Life’s Great Narrative
Michael Margolis | The Stories We Choose to Live
Justin Wheeler | Changing the Narrative
Jimmy Neil Smith | Seven Billion Stories, Seven Billion Dreams
Sarah Worth | Narrative Knowing
Will Crooks | Style as Narrative
2013: Redesigning Education
David Blake | Jailbreaking the Degree
Ethan Bodnar | Shaping Education
Christian Long | Framing a Mindset to Redesign Education
Elizabeth Long Lingo | Design for Creative Practice
Alan Webb | The Power of Relationships
Danny Stillion | Essentials for Lifelong Learning
Cynthia Lawson | Universities without Classrooms
Ben Shapiro | Bridging Spaces for Learning: Education and Design