LEGENDS - BIG THINK+

As part of my Creative Director / Producer role with Big Think+, I led the development and creation of a new series to interview experts of have had an outsized impact on their respective fields.

Ep 1: Judith Butler

Author, Gender Trouble, Bodies that Matter, Who’s Afraid of Gender
Judith Butler is a post-structuralist philosopher and queer theorist. They are most famous for their notion of gender performativity, but their work ranges from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist and sexuality studies, to 19th- and 20th-century European literature and philosophy, Kafka and loss, mourning and war.

Ep 2: Frans de Waal

Author, Chimpanzee Politics, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist
Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal is a Dutch/American behavioral biologist and primatologist known for his work on the behavior and social intelligence of primates. His first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982), compared the schmoozing and scheming of chimpanzees involved in power struggles with that of human politicians.

Ep 3: Bessel van der Kolk

Author, The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk MD spends his career studying how children and adults adapt to traumatic experiences and has translated emerging findings from neuroscience and attachment research to develop and study a range of treatments for traumatic stress in children and adults.

Ep 4: Chip Conley

Author, The Rebel Rules: Daring to Be Yourself in Business, Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder

Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy, the first midlife wisdom school and New York Times bestselling author, reflects on the dynamics of age, wisdom, and curiosity in the ever-evolving world.

Ep 5: Temple Grandin

Author, Visual Thinking, The Autistic Brain, Animals in Translation

Temple Grandin is an American academic and animal behaviourist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behaviour. She is a fierce proponent of the idea that there are many types of thinkers and that society must strive to accept all of them, drawing from her own experience with autism.