Kathleen Hanna is a punk singer, writer, artist, and frontwoman of the influential bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Her memoir Rebel Girl was an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. She is a leading voice in the feminist movement and has been named one of the best live performers of our time. Follow @mskathleenhanna on Instagram, @thekathleenhanna on TikTok, and subscribe to Future Windows on Substack.

Annabella Pitkin is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, philosophy, and literature, and associate professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Lehigh University. Her research explores themes of renunciation, power, and the bodhisattva ideal. She is the author of Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint about the life of the meditator-poet Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (1895–1977). She is on the editorial committee of the Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya, and is a member of the review committee for the Rubin Institute.

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She was among the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 50 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of 14 books, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Sharon’s podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed eight million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond.

adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship, and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination, and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation. adrienne is the New York Times bestselling author and editor of several published texts, a ritual singer-songwriter, co-generator of the Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, and co-creator and host of the How to Survive the End of the World podcast with Autumn Brown.

Valarie Kaur is a renowned social justice leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, faith leader, mother, and bestselling author of See No Stranger, Sage Warrior, and World of Wonder. She leads the Revolutionary Love Project, building a movement to reclaim love as a force for justice. A daughter of Punjabi Sikh farmers in California, Valarie earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School and holds several honorary doctorates. She lives in Los Angeles in a multigenerational family.

Myisha Cherry is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She writes about the role of emotions and attitudes in our moral and public lives. Her books include The Case for Rage, Failures of Forgiveness, and the forthcoming How to Love. She is also the director of the Emotion and Society Lab, and hosts the UnMute Podcast, where she interviews philosophers about the social and political issues of our day. Myisha has written for the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Salon, and New Philosophers Magazine, and her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Essence, and Publisher’s Weekly.