HUMANITY IN DEEP SPACE

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You are invited to join the emerging conversation surrounding Humanity In Deep Space. This initiative centers on exploring the range of hard problems and interconnected issues (technology, design, health, food, the humanities, planetary ethics, etc.) involved in helping us maintain our humanity as civilization transitions into deep space.

WEBINAR TEAM

Mat Kaplan has begun his 19th year as host and producer of Planetary Radio for The Planetary Society. Planetary Radio is the most popular, independent podcast about space exploration, and is aired by over 120 public radio stations.

Kris Kimel is the lead at Humanity in Deep Space and Co-founder of SpaceTango. Prior to this he started and led a range of entrepreneurial enterprises and initiatives.

Savannah Mandel is an anthropologist whose research has primarily focused on human space exploration. Some of her published topics include: a cultural addendum to the Drake Equation, lunar imperialism, and the social implications of asteroid mining.

Dr. Dean Rader is an award-winning poet who has written, edited, or co-edited eleven books. His work has appeared in publications as varied as The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Best American Poetry.

Shahreen Reza is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mission: Space Food. Her first start-up, PurifAid, developed cleantech using the byproduct of Scotch Whisky to decontaminate industrially polluted water in Europe, and brought it to the villages of Bangladesh to tackle the arsenic water crisis.

Greg Schmidt serves as Director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), located in the NASA Research Park at Ames Research Center. He was Co-founder of the NASA Ames Space Portal, an organization which promotes activities in Entrepreneurial Space and was one of the core team who developed the science of astrobiology in the late 1990s.

Dr. Scott Solomon is a biologist, professor, and science communicator. He has written about evolutionary implications for an interplanetary future and is the author of Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution. He teaches ecology, evolutionary biology, and scientific communication as an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of BioSciences at Rice University in Houston.

Dr. Tiffany Vora is currently the Vice Chair of Digital Biology and Medicine at Singularity University in the heart of Silicon Valley. Previously, she was the Faculty Director of Singularity’s global ecosystem of experts and thought leaders. She is also the founder and co-founder of several startups.