Bill Shannon dances - on four legs. Born with a bilateral hip deformity, this ingenious performance artist's work will challenge your notions of disability.

Zainab Salbi, co-founder and president of Women for Women International, gives a voice to what she calls the "backline" of war-the often unheard and ignored experiences of women and their efforts to survive the terrifying consequences of the frontline.

Jonathan Harris is redefining the idea of what it means to tell a story. Take a ride through an arctic whale hunt and plunge headfirst into the feelings Harris finds running rampant in cyberspace as he describes what he calls "storytelling platforms."

Through a series of chemical reactions and a re-imagining of intellectual property practices, Jay Keasling and his partners at One World Health expect to have effective, affordable malaria pills in the hands of African children in a few years. Inspired? There's more. Watch as Keasling describes the boundless possibilities of metabolic engineering and non-profit biotechnology.

Ecologist and leading biodiversity conservationist Dr. Sarah Otterstrom illustrates the power of collaboration to combat climate change. Through partnerships, employment generation and environmental education for communities in western Nicaragua, Otterstrom finds ways to sequester carbon and return pastureland to native forest, creating an environment that benefits wildlife and people alike.

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