All-In Call with special guest Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson

Is a professor of history at Boston College and an award-winning author, she has  explored critical periods of American history, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the Gilded Age and the evolution of the Republican Party. Reaching over 1.5 million readers daily with her wildly-popular newsletter Letters from an American, she has earned a reputation as one of the most trusted voices in American public life. 

Bridging academic rigor and public discourse with insight and precision, Cox Richardson offers accessible yet profound commentary on American politics. Her most recent book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, was hailed by The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer as “a vibrant, and essential history of America’s unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals.” Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets.  

Bill McKibben

is the co-founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. His latest book is Here Comes The Sun lifts up the state of the world’s energy economy and the global potential of solar energy. It provides the evidence and analysis that supports the work of clean energy and solar campaigning and Sun Day, a national day of action to advance clean energy.

Akaya Windwood

facilitates transformation. She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty for the Just Economy Institute, and is founder of the New Universal, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn. She was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years, and directs the Thriving Roots Fund, which supports young womxn’s finance and philanthropic learning and leadership based in generosity and interconnectedness. She received the 2020 Vision Award from Middlebury College and was one of Conscious Company’s 30 World Changing Women of 2018. She is an Ella Award recipient from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and served on the Alameda County Human Rights Commission. Akaya is deeply committed to working for a fair and equitable global society while infusing a sense of purpose, delight, and wonder into everything we do.