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David Sedat

David Sedat

Before retiring from his post as field director at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Copán Project, archaeologist David Sedat led the team that discovered the royal tomb of the founder of the ancient Maya city of Copán,...
John Barczyk

John Barczyk

As he was moving his daughter into her college dormitory, John Barczyk realized it was the place he read about in the newspaper where a student had fallen to her death after a party. At 53, he decided to use his lifelong expertise in advertising to engage young people...
Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand

Technology has brought breathtaking change to modern life, but it’s also left us with a collective attention span shrinking precipitously, and that, to Stewart Brand is a risk to civilization. Known for creating the Whole Earth Catalogue, Brand, 67, co-founded...
Kevin McDonald

Kevin McDonald

Years of substance abuse culminating in serious heroin addiction landed McDonald in a Los Angeles jail cell charged with armed robbery in 1979. He was released into a unique San Francisco-based recovery program, got clean, and eventually rose to one of the top posts...