After accomplished stints as a journalist, author and diplomat, and studying theology at Yale Divinity School, Krista Tippett was struck by a significant gap in the media landscape—a lack of deep, intelligent conversations to explore the spiritual, ethical and moral aspects of human life. What began as a national public radio show in 2003 evolved into the multiple award-winning podcast “On Being” (“wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive.”)
Gifted with insatiable curiosity, profound relational intelligence, a poetic sensibility, and an ability to unearth revelatory ideas to live by, Krista creates spaces where wisdom can emerge. With her interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral whole systems overview, she’s hosted luminaries as disparate as Mary Oliver, Thich Nhat Hahn, Isabel Wilkerson and Desmond Tutu, among many more. Join us for a rare intimate, live interview with her friend, insightful strategist, philanthropist and activist Azita Ardakani.
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March 28th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Featured Afternoon Session
Krista Tippett, Host of On Being
Krista Tippett, a Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, bestselling author, and former journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, later studied theology at Yale Divinity School and eventually launched Speaking of Faith, which became On Being, a weekly national public radio show in 2003, that grew to over 400 stations across the U.S. and has received the highest honors in broadcasting, the Internet, and podcasting. In 2011, she created the Civil Conversations Project, and then The On Being Project. Among her many honors, she is a prestigious National Humanities Medalist, has received a Four Freedoms Medal of the Roosevelt Institute, holds honorary doctorates including from Yale and Middlebury College, and has published three books: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living; Einstein’s God; and Speaking of Faith.
Activist and Entrepreneur
Azita Ardakani is a serial entrepreneur, social activist and human centered communication expert. Azita created Lovesocial in 2010, an award winning creative agency which developed human driven campaigns and strategies mapping organizational community behavior. In 2016 she launched Honeycomb Portfolio, an experimental investment vehicle. Honeycomb is driven by nature's intelligence and is looking to bridge our entrepreneurial, social and emotional economic frame by deferring to nature.