Arianne Cohen

The Sex Diaries Project on Campus

What’s really going on behind closed doors on your campus?
Arianne Cohen spent six years collecting 3,500 anonymous seven-day sex diaries from people all over North America and the world – including college towns. In The Sex Diaries Project On Campus, she takes you on a tantalizing tour through the sometimes shocking, always entertaining real diaries of college students, creating a compelling portrait of sex and sexuality on campus today that will forever change how you look at relationships.

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Rebekka Armstrong

HIV+ Playboy Playmate, Body Builder and Fitness Expert

At the age of 18, Rebekka became a Playboy Playmate after being chosen to be Miss September 1986, a culmination of her childhood dream. For the next four years, she led an exciting life as a Playmate, traveling, modeling, and attending star-studded parties. However, she was often tired and bruised easily. At the age of 22, she was diagnosed with HIV.

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Dr. Phil Plait

Bad Astronomy

Astronomer Phil Plait talks about Bad Astronomy with a humorous look at popular science myths and misconceptions.
Phil’s latest talk is ‘Where Has Our Curiosity Taken Us?‘ – all about Mars and the Curiosity rover.

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Dr. Terrence Roberts

Lessons from Little Rock

All the seats at the hamburger joint were reserved for white patrons, so 13 year old Terrence Roberts ordered food to go. While waiting, he impulsively sat down at the counter and then realized a hush had fallen over the place. Suddenly everyone seemed to be looking at him threateningly. He canceled his order and left. As he walked home, Roberts remembers wondering “what it would take for (him) to be treated like a real human being.”

Two years later, in 1957, he volunteered to be one of the ‘Little Rock Nine’ who desegregated Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Loung Ung

Author, Cambodian Landmine Actvist

Loung is a survivor of the killing fields of Cambodia, one of the bloodiest episodes of the twentieth century.

She was five years old when the Khmer Rouge invaded Phnom Penh. Over the next three years, Loung lost half of her family, including both parents, and spent time in a camp for child soldiers. After the war was over, she and her older brother relocated to Vermont, where she grew to adulthood. Today she is an internationally best-selling author and a well-known human rights activist.

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Eliaichi Kimaro

A Lot Like You:

The Culture We Inherit and the Legacies We Choose

A first-generation American goes in search of her identity and discovers that the cycle of gender violence she’s been working hard to break in the US is part of her history and culture on another continent. A Lot Like You raises questions about the cultures we inherit and what we choose to pass down, and reveals how bearing witness can break silences that have lasted lifetimes…

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Amanda Koster

Imagine What You Can Do

The Power of Citizen Journalism

Amanda Koster is an internationally acclaimed photographer with a passion for finding and sharing stories of real people, human rights, cultural diversity and global equality. She asks you to ‘Imagine What You Can Do’ with the tools at your disposal to make a difference in peoples’ lives.

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