Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action, the largest grassroots group fighting gun violence in the U.S. Known as the "summoner of women’s audacity," she has been named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, a Forbes 50 over 50 Changemaker, and a Glamour Woman of the Year. She recently organized the largest Zoom gathering in history, mobilizing over 200K voters and raising over $11 million in support of Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign. Watts is an active board member of Emerge America, one of the nation’s leading organizations for recruiting and training women to run for office.
Tom Zeller Jr. is an American journalist, former New York Times reporter and columnist, and current editor in chief of the digital science magazine Undark. His debut book, The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Condition (HarperCollins/Mariner in July, 2025), is part memoir, part scientific whodunnit, and ultimately the author's quest for the origins of his own headaches. Along the way, it becomes a journey into the inner workings of the human nervous system and an illuminating look at the nature of pain itself. At times harrowing, and at others, hilarious, the book has been heralded as "required reading for anyone with a head." (—Mary Roach)
Tom was born in northeastern Ohio, studying English and Political Science at Cleveland Stat
