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Gaya is an economist and adjunct professor at Harvard who came from the corporate world, where she led sustainability work at KPMG and Schneider Electric. She has studied fifty years of data on where an economy built on endless growth is heading. Her view: growth will end either way. We still get to choose whether it ends by design or by disaster.

Virgilio is the chef behind Central in Lima, named the World’s Best Restaurant in 2023. His menu follows Peru by altitude, from the ocean floor to the high Andes. With his sister Malena, he runs Mater Iniciativa, which travels the country cataloging plants, animals, and food traditions. His advice: try what you don’t recognize. Eating unfamiliar ingredients is how we keep them alive.

Pamela studies how we feel things through a screen. She teaches at Pratt Institute in New York and has advised Google, IKEA, and the New York Public Library. Her new book, All the Feels: How to Stay Human in the Digital World, draws on thousands of diary entries, messages, and screenshots from people’s emotional lives online.

Francesca was a corporate lawyer, and the only person ever voted out first on Survivor twice, before she became a matchmaker and love coach. She hosts the podcast Dear Franny and wrote How to Find True Love. She teaches love as a practice, starting with small things like a sincere compliment to a stranger.