Featured Speakers
Nicholas Meyer
Director & Writer, “The Day After”
Jill Hruby
Former Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security & Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration
Charles Oppenheimer
Founder & Co-Executive Director, The Oppenheimer Project, grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Steve James
Documentary filmmaker, “A Compassionate Spy” and “Hoop Dreams”
W.J. Hennigan
Correspondent, New York Times Opinion
Lesley M.M. Blume
Journalist & Author, “Fallout”
Blythe Terrell
Executive Editor, “Science Vs” podcast
Maynard Okereke
Founder and host, “Hip Hop Science”
Nicole Sweeney
Executive Producer, Complexly’s “SciShow”
Ira Helfand
Past President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Nate Matteson
Producer, “Station Eleven,” “The Bear,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”
Luke Matheny
Luke Matheny, Oscar-winning Director & Writer
Michael Russell Gunn
Director and Writer, "The Brink of War"
Mackenzie Knight-Boyle
Senior Research Associate, Federation of American Scientists
Kate Langrall Folb
Program Director, Hollywood Health & Society, The Norman Lear Center
David Singer
Creator of the fiction podcast, “Incoming”
Aparna Mukherjee
Executive Director, The Society of Environmental Journalists
Jeff Gipe
Documentary filmmaker, “Half-Life of Memory: America’s Forgotten Atomic Bomb Factory”
Dr. Heather Williams
Director, Project on Nuclear Issues and Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department
Yasmeen Silva
Co-Creator, US Nuclear Impacts Map & Campaign Director, Union of Concerned Scientists
Hamza Chaudhry
AI and National Security Lead, Future of Life Institute
Christine E. Wormuth
President and CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Melissa Bumstead
Founder, Parents Against the Santa Susana Field Lab (PASSFL)
Joel Grover
Investigative journalist, previously with KNBC






































