Art Spiegelman

Spiegelman is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MAUS: A Survivor's Tale, a graphic novel based on his father's experience as a concentration camp survivor. Spiegelman continues to produce politically challenging material, having worked as an illustrator for Harper's Magazine and the New Yorker. His most recent book, In the Shadow of No Towers, was written after experiencing the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre from his Lower Manhattan apartment.

Carol Off

Celebrated as an award-winning investigative reporter for CBC television and radio, Carol Off's latest book Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet reveals how the African cocoa industry is largely fueled by child trafficking. Off's past coverage--ranging from Yugoslavia to Rwanda to female refugees in Canada--has challenged audiences, often leading to social change as governments respond to her detailed investigations.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Cullis-Suzuki is heavily involved in social and ecological issues, and passionate about encouraging young Canadians to speak out for their future. She is pursuing a Master's project in ethnoecology which draws on perspectives from the natural world, traditional beliefs, science, social trends and the politics of interests on Canada's West Coast.

Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon

Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of the award-winning book The Ingenuity Gap, is the director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on issues ranging from 21st century threats to global security and the links between environmental stress and violence in developing countries.

Dr. Samantha Nutt

Chosen by Maclean's as one of "12 Canadians Making a Difference," Dr. Nutt is a medical health professional who has worked with War Child Canada, the United Nations, and various NGOs by helping children in war-torn countries. With more than ten years of field experience, Dr. Nutt has numerous postgraduate degrees and is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

Wade Davis

Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and was named one of the "Explorers of the Millennium." Equipped with a Harvard PhD in ethnobotany, he's engaged in numerous adventures worthy of ABC 20/20's description of him as a real-life Indiana Jones. His best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow, chronicles his research on zombies among the secret societies of Haiti.

Angela Davis

A self-professed radical feminist and activist, Davis is a member of the American Communist Party and associated with the Black Panthers, actively combating political and social issues by strongly advocating prison abolition and prisoner rights. She's been featured on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List and a 16-month incarceration led to the "Free Angela Davis" campaign with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Rolling Stones all releasing songs about her.

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader is a pioneer in consumer advocacy as a lawyer and author. Most famous for his damning report on the car industry's lack of safety features in his book Unsafe at Any Speed: the Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, Nader has founded several well-known organizations like the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) who now have chapters all over the world.

David Suzuki

David Suzuki is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster, now chair of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is well known to millions as the host of CBC television's popular science series, "The Nature of Things." An internationally respected geneticist, Suzuki was a full professor at the University of British Columbia from 1969 until his retirement in 2001.

Lewis Lapham

Lewis Lapham is well-known as the former editor of Harper's Magazine. He's also written several books on American politics after getting his start in journalism through various positions at the San Francisco Examiner and the New York Herald Tribune. Lapham is currently the host of the PBS series "America's Century."