Tony has worked in and written of policing, of prison re-entry and education while in prison. His is a strikingly articulate and profound voice, and his experience covers work in the Middle East as well. His most recent title is: Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation. (2021)

Tony is a teacher of Black incarcerated students, and he sees education as one way to move from humiliation to humility. He is about claiming the right and experience of resistance of Black people in a systemically racist society in which white people, liberals included, benefit from white privilege.

Tony manages to be fierce while not being full of hatred; he apologizes for nothing but humility and love are also his remarkable attributes.

Tony does not flinch in his vision which can be controversial to white people, and no doubt to some Black people as well.

Mark is a pediatrician who cares deeply about the availability of medical care for all. He was at a commune he started in Canada when he suffered his first mental breakdown. He wrote The Eden Express about the beginnings of falling apart. Then he became a pediatrician, attending the only school that accepted him, Harvard.

He wrote Just Like a Person Without Mental Illness Only More So, about his successive mental breakdowns, and the book includes much about his personal life as well. 

His book The Heart of Caring is recent, and in it, Mark includes much of the wisdom he has gleaned from patients as well as stories of victory and defeat in his work. Always humanizing he speaks of journeys to Haiti and to Honduras, where he learned to value native authenticity. He cannot abide the current medical system which leaves out so many people in need.

In addition Mark probes some of his history with his father Kurt, along with the price of fame in his father’s life.

Mark is testament and gives testimony to the idea that one can be mentally ill and have a productive and passionate life.

And as Niki is inspired by psychological research and social activism, she shows how the game of life can be open ended and open to new and diverse players. Nikki’s more recent research addresses issues of sustainability, values and care for the common good. The question that drives her is how to engage people in creating a more sustainable and equitable society. She has been motivated to research and teach on the area of psychology and sustainability.

Niki Harre is professor of psychology at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand.

Rosalind and her staff, including students, create curriculum for teachers and students including adopting practical methodologies for interpersonal and family relationships. She also concentrates on diversity and on having difficult dialogues in respectful styles.

A baby is brought by a caretaker into a given classroom where the stages of development and the meaning of the baby’s cues are taught to the children. The class becomes attached and better equipped to read the baby’s cues, and a wide variety of children, from autistic to acting out to isolated refugees, are positively influenced by these experiences. Mary, is both full of empathy herself and understands what happens in a world where it is missing. Her conferences include world leaders and her admirers include the Dalai Lama.

She went on to found Healing Justice which proposes and enacts restorative justice, a healing rather than a punitive pursuit. They have services related to victims, exonerees and the families of all parties.

Jennifer has been to hell and back and she has found the capacity to enjoy her family and her commitment to Healing Justice. She herself is a lay therapist who is mightily aware of the systemic racism in our criminal justice system and how often there are instances of false confession and wrongful confession. Jennifer is an activist and a healer, and brings stories of inspiration from the field.

Jim is the author of: How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room.

Ben is the founder of Skipped History, a movement/blog—some entries are for members only-- that uses satire and theater to promote learning about times in history that have been skipped over. Among other topics he is quite expert on various US invasions and invasions across the globe.

Larry has been an impassioned critic of US military torture and collaborated with the ACLU to write The Torture Report. And his editing of Guantanamo Diary allows for the full benefit of Mohamedou Slahi’s spirit and humor, his friendships with peers and with guards. As such the reader does not easily become overwhelmed by the acts of torture described, only because they do not eliminate the other parts of Mohamedou’s human experience. 

For those of us who have revered her father to the extent of putting him on a pedestal, the book is both disturbing and liberating as Sue helps the reader see what we all sacrifice when aiming to be on a pedestal ourselves, or when supporting the fragile ego of the underbelly of fame in others.

The book describes Sue’s trials, including the family’s secret experience of the birth and institutionalization of a child with Downs Syndrome, sharing details which some friends and colleagues considered a betrayal of her parents’ reputation.

The memoir also reveals aspects of health, including her own as Sue blossoms authentically through social work school and into becoming a psychoanalyst.

Evelin Lindner is the founder and Linda Hartling the director of the international Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies group. 

They unite professionals and seekers who are doing research and work in activism to deal with social, psychological and economic efforts at healing global inequalities and urgencies. They have yearly conferences in New York and yearly trips to diverse places in the world where there are meetings and studying of the culture.

Evelin is from Germany and has written a plethora of books regarding inequality. She is a global citizen who lives with diverse citizens who offer her both hospitality and passionate interest. Linda is a psychologist whose specialty has been in humiliation studies. 

Linda and Evelin are fascinating, generous, kind and brilliant. They combine to create programs and to keep communication open between members and new members. They have a publishing company, World Dignity Press, which also published The Human Climate.

The organization has resisted efforts to accept nominations for a Nobel Prize because the do not want to be obligated to commercialize their efforts.