Summer Jam

Patrisse Cullors

Artist, organizer, and freedom fighter Patrisse Cullors is the founder of Dignity and Power Now, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and director of truth and reinvestment for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. She has worked tirelessly promoting law enforcement accountability all across the nation, producing and directing a theatrical piece titled Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied. Her vision has earned her numerous honors, including Good magazine's 2016 Good 100, the Politico 50, and Fortune's World's Greatest Leaders.

James Mills

James Edward Mills is a 2014 Fellow of the Mountain & Wilderness Writing Program of the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada and the 2016 recipient of the Paul K. Petzoldt Award For Environmental Education. As a freelance journalist and an independent media producer in a career that spans more than 20 years, he specializes in sharing stories about outdoor recreation, environmental conservation, and practices of sustainable living. He has worked in the outdoor industry since 1989 as a guide, outfitter, writer, and photographer. He is the author of the book “The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors” and a contributor to several outdoor-focused print and online publications such as National Geographic Adventure, Rock & Ice, Alpinist, SUP, Elevation Outdoors, Women’s Adventure, the Clymb.com, Park Advocate, High Country News, Appalachia Journal, The Guarding, Outside Magazine and Land & People.

José González

José G. González is the Founder of Latino Outdoors, a K-12 public education teacher, environmental education advisor, and university adjunct faculty. He is also an illustrator and science communicator. His commentary on diversity and outdoor equity has been featured by High Country News, Outside Magazine, Earth Island Journal, and Latino USA, among others. He engaged in collaborations with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, U.S. Department of Interior, and the National Park Service during the Obama Administration. He has been recognized with several honors, including the National Wildlife Federation Environmental Educator Award, Grist Magazine “Grist 50”, and The Murie Center Spirit of the Muries.

Dr. Carolyn Finney

Carolyn Finney, PhD is a storyteller, author and a cultural geographer. The aim of her work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on their representation of difference, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action. Carolyn served on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board for eight years, assisting the National Park Service in building relationships of reciprocity with diverse communities. Her first book, “Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors” was released in 2014 (UNC Press). Her current projects include a performance piece about John Muir entitled, “The N Word: Nature Revisited” and a new book that journeys into understanding the complicated relationship between race, land and belonging.

Zina Saro-Wiwa

Zina Saro-Wiwa is a British-Nigerian artist working in video, photography, installation and social practice. She works between New York, London and the oil-producing Niger Delta region of Nigeria where she was born. Zina produced and directed the seminal 2009 documentary This Is My Africa which aired on HBO in 2010-2012 featuring Lupita Nyongo, Chiwetel Ejiofor and John Akomfrah. Zina believes in art as an instrument of profound social and spiritual transformation, and uses her practice to re-imagine histories and shape futures. She is the founder of Boys’ Quarters Project Space, a contemporary art gallery that she opened in 2014 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria where she regularly curates and programs exhibitions that explore the relationship between self and environment. In 2017, she started Mangrove Arts, a foundation which uses contemporary art and indigenous crafts to foster creative engagement with the concept of Environmentalism. Saro-Wiwa is one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Global Thinkers of 2016 recognized for her work in the Niger Delta and she was Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn 2016-2017. She is a Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts.

Matthew Lieberman

Matthew Lieberman is considered a pioneer of the field of social neuroscience. He is the bestselling author of Social: Why our brains are wired to connect, and has published more than 200 articles featured in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and more. Dr. Lieberman won the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (2007) and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Career Trajectory Award (2015). Science magazine named him one of the “Top 50 Science Stars of Twitter.” He is regularly asked to make nominations for the Nobel Prize in economics. He is currently working on his next book, Lenses: How our seeing shapes our identity, drives social connection, and makes the world seem crazy. In 2018, he founded Resonance Inc. helping businesses and employees to thrive through advanced mobile neuroscience techniques.

IN-Q

Summit-favorite, IN-Q (or IN-Question), is the stage name of Adam Schmalholz, an American songwriter and National Poetry Slam champion from Los Angeles, California. Schmalholz describes his poetry as a reflection of his own experiences and life lessons.

From The Sun

From The Sun is a no-boundaries band hailing from Ogden, UT. Their creativity and talent blend funky beats with shredding guitars to keep you dancing.

Matt FX

Matt FX is a DJ and record producer best known as the music supervisor of Comedy Central's BROAD CITY. A born and raised New Yorker, he has also served as a host on his own Food Network digital series IN THE MIX WITH MATT FX, the live music show MTV WONDERLAND as well as Spotify's original podcast UNPACKED. Referred to by Forbes as a 'musical polymath' and VICE as an NYC 'nightlife institution,' Matt has garnered acclaim everywhere from the New York Times to Shanghai's 'Modern Weekly,' a style-focused magazine with a weekly circulation of over a million readers across Mainland China.

Leiti Hsu

Travel entrepreneur and show host Leiti Hsu's magical superpower is connecting people. She does this for a living on the culinary front for brands, startups and tourism boards. From fine dining to hole-in-the-walls, she’s your go-to global food expert—an Asian woman millennial Bourdain-Oprah. She's earned the ear of top chefs, beverage pros, restaurateurs and hoteliers around the world.

Leiti cofounded Journy, a personalized travel planning service, which has planned trips for 15,000+ travelers since launch in 2016; they plan more trips in a week than traditional luxury travel agencies do in a year. Menlo Ventures-backed, Journy was named a Travel & Leisure Best App 2017.

She also created the food media company Word of Mouth, which began as a nonprofit radio show on Heritage Radio Network. WoM tells stories about life through the lens of food. Journy and Word of Mouth combined now reach over a million in audience.

Rahul Vohra

Rahul is the founder and CEO of Superhuman, the fastest email experience in the world. Users get through their inbox twice as fast — and many see "inbox zero" for the first time in years! Previously, he founded Rapportive, the first Gmail plugin to scale to millions of users. Rapportive was acquired by LinkedIn.

Emily Brennan

Emily Brennan is a breathwork facilitator and 500 RYT. Her breathing techniques offer healing and unlocked potential. She has produced wellness experiences for Habitas, SXSW, Sanctuary and Summit, among many others. She currently resides and teaches in Austin, Texas.