Her Dad is a best-selling nonfiction author. Her brother and sister are world-class poker players. Katy became a hedge fund executive — and then gave in to her passion: writing. She is a poet and memoirist. Widely published, Katy is the author of several books and loves teaching at Columbia.

Mike Lawrence was accepted into Peabody Conservatory without knowing how to read music, Mike is a documentary film maker.  He once got tipsy drinking gin with Julia Child.  He interviewed Francis Ford Coppola at Fellini's offices at Cinecitta.  Filmed Steve Jobs and Stewart Brand speculating on the future of libraries.  He once lived in the Koinonia intentional community.

Graham Kerr is an internationally known culinary and television personality, award-winning author, and master of metaphorical speaking. His focus is on serving people who want to make healthy, creative, lifestyle changes and believes that the only lasting changes are the ones that we enjoy. His life goal is “to help to convert habits that harm into resources that heal.” Met Treena, my first love at eleven; Dover Sole to Chief Justice, forgot plate; Appeared on New Zealand TV, 100 rating, 50 sets in use; Began Galloping, hit by vegetable truck; Learned every third heart beat a child dies, pulled U-Turn; Planted first garden, nothing died; caught up in web . . . are spiders coming?

James Earl Jones said, “David Hume Kennerly is like Forrest Gump, except he was really there.” The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam War photos and President Ford’s White House photographer, he also has a good sense of humor, and is an old dog learning new digital tricks.

Grandson of industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (of steel, motor, shipbuilding and healthcare), ours is a prolific guitarist and expeditionary diver. Credits? Over 250 albums, dozens of TV shows & films, and a Grammy for Beautiful Dreamer. As a research diver with the US Antarctic expeditions, he finds himself a hundred feet below the Antarctic ice every year, and was the cinematographer for two Werner Herzog films. Ask him which ones.

Pablos Holman is a futurist, inventor and notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. Pablos consults on invention and design projects that assimilate new technologies — making wild ideas a bit more practical and vice versa. Previously, Pablos helped build the world's smallest PC; spaceships at Blue Origin; artificial intelligence agent systems; and the Hackerbot, a WiFi-seeking robot. Pablos is working at the Intellectual Ventures Laboratory where a wide variety of futuristic invention projects are under way including a fission reactor powered by nuclear waste; a machine to stop hurricanes; a system to reverse global warming; and a device that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers to help eradicate malaria.

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The Hobart students qualify for free breakfast and lunch.  Few speak English as a first language.  Many come from troubled homes.  Yet they learn to excel.  Each April, they produce a Shakespeare play so professionally that they routinely wow — well, everyone.  They have traveled the world and performed at the Supreme Court, at the Lakota Indian Reservation and at the Globe Theater.

As a child, David Hillis loved to find new animals in the jungles of Belgian Congo. Having failed to grow up, he now studies the evolution of life and applies this avocation in unusual ways, from murder cases to new technology for health care. He also raises Texas Longhorn cattle at his Double Helix Ranch.

Argye Beth Hillis lives on a horse farm, where her family boards horses and cares for abandoned animals, from cats to horses. She feeds the animals and rides or runs before work (as Professor of Neurology). Previous jobs have included speech therapist, ice cream scooper, and pea-picker for Green Giant.

Danny Hillis is an inventor, scientist and engineer. He is a co-founderof Applied Minds, and previously was Vice President R&D at Walt DisneyImagineering, and a co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp. where he pioneered development of parallel computers and disk arrays. He is the designer of a 10,000-year clock.