Aspen Ideas Festival

Cheryl G. Healton is the founding president and CEO of the American Legacy Foundation and has worked for over a decade to further the foundation’s ambitious mission: to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. She has guided the highly acclaimed, national... Read More →

Amir Levine is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Columbia University. He is currently a principal investigator on a research project sponsored by the National Institutes of Health about the epigenetics of addiction. Levine is co-author of Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment... Read More →

Scott Stossel is editor of The Atlantic magazine and the author of the award-winning Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, which The Boston Globe called an “extraordinary achievement” and which Publisher’s Weekly described as “a superbly researched, immensely readable... Read More →

Nora D. Volkow is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at National Institutes of Health. She pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the effects of drugs in the human brain and has demonstrated that drug addiction is a brain disease. She has published more than... Read More →