Ross Szabo is the CEO of Human Power Project, a company that creates cutting-edge mental health curriculum for people of all ages. He’s an award winning speaker, co-author of Behind Happy Faces; Taking Charge of Your Mental Health and a social pioneer. Ross has spoken to over 1 million people about his experiences with bipolar disorder and reached millions more in media appearances. He received the 2010 Didi Hirsch Removing the Stigma Leadership Award, 2012 Changing Minds Award, is featured in Scientific American’s Psychology textbook and had his advocacy work entered into the Record of Congress.

You can read more about Ross here.

Cartoonist Ellen Forney is the author of NYT bestseller Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, and the 2012 “Genius Award” winner in Literature from Seattle’s The Stranger. She collaborated with Sherman Alexie on the National Book Award-winning novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, created the Eisner-nominated comic books I Love Led Zeppelin andMonkey Food, and has taught comics at Cornish College of the Arts since 2002. She grew up in Philadelphia and has lived in Seattle, Washington since 1989. Ellen swims and does yoga, and fixes things with rubber bands and paper clips.

You can read more about Ellen here.