Seeing possible new worlds by looking at the current world through different lenses

Linda Glenn is an ethicist, futurist, educator and attorney-at-law with over 30 years of experience in private and public sectors across multiple industries including exponential technology, healthcare, government, education, business ethics and futures forecasting. She is an internationally renowned thought leader, keynote speaker, writer, seminar developer/presenter, with a large body of published work in peer-reviewed journals. She is frequently quoted in the media for her thoughtful, incisive views. She is currently serving as a lecturer and the Founding Director of the Institute for Applied Ethics and Emerging Technologies at Crown College, University of California Santa Cruz.   She also holds faculty appointments at California State University Monterey Bay, and the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical Center; she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and their rescue dogs.   You can see more about her background at her at LinkedIn.

Marilyn Patton lecturers at Crown College, University California, Santa Cruz. She earned her B.A. in English at Stanford University and her Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz. She taught Literature and the Arts at Stanford, American Studies at UCSC, and both writing and literature in Silicon Valley. Her doctoral work was on cannibalism in literature with its political, religious, anthropological and psychosexual implications. Published articles include an article on Melville's self-referentiality in as well as " The Politics of the Body" and "Tourists and Terrorists," both on the writings of Margaret Atwood. Her most recent publication is a chapter in on teaching the plays of El Teatro Campesino. Her reading interests include Asian and Asian-American writing, science fiction, the origins of the universe, and theater. In this disenchanted world, where do we look for magic?