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2025 Speakers

Purposeful Agency
Kathy Pham

Civic Technologist

Kathy is an adjunct lecturer in product management at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a fellow at the MIT Media Lab, and...

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Human Complexity
Sandra Matz

Behavioral Scientist

Sandra is a behavioral data scientist at Columbia Business School, investigating how digital footprints reveal psychological trait...

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Cultural Evolution
Kaleda Denton

Evolutionary Biologist

Kaleda is an evolutionary biologist who holds an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research explores ...

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Linguistic Flexibility
Jennifer Hu

Computational Linguist

Jennifer is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University and a former Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kemp...

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Explanation Seeking
Tania Lombrozo

Cognitive Psychologist

Tania is a professor of psychology at Princeton University, where she also directs the Program in Cognitive Science and co-leads t...

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Ideological Thinking
Leor Zmigrod

Political Neuroscientist

Leor is an award-winning cognitive scientist whose research on ideological extremism bridges the fields of psychology, neuroscienc...

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Conscientious Defiance
Sunita Sah

Organizational Psychologist

Sunita is an award-winning organizational psychologist at Cornell University, conducting groundbreaking research on defiance, advi...

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Embracing Vulnerability
Tracy K. Smith

US Poet Laureate

Tracy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, U.S. Poet Laureate, professor at Harvard University, and Chancellor of the Academy of Amer...

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Musical Connection
Elizabeth Margulis

Musical Neuroscientist

Elizabeth is a professor of music at Princeton University and the Director of its Music Cognition Lab, which explores how music sh...

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