Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard, noted author, futurist & social architect, is dedicated to understanding and communicating humanity’s potentials for a positive future. She is a founding member of the World Future Society, the Society for the Universal Human and the co-founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.
Barbara had an extraordinary life, being the daughter of toy magnate Louis Marx, she was raised in New York during its heyday. This included meeting some of the Twentieth Century’s most illustrious people, such as then President Dwight Eisenhower.
She graduated from Bryn Mawr College, cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science, and studied at “L’Ecole des Sciences Politique” and the Sorbonne in Paris. In the 1960’s, after having raised 5 children, Barbara reignited a fire which had started in her teens: she was drawn to the lure of a positive future for the Earth and its people.
In 1970, she co-founded the Committee for the Future in Washington, D.C. to bring positive options into the public arena for discussion and action. She also designed and co-produced twenty-five SYNCONS (synergistic convergences).
These cutting edge interactive conferences brought together a wide range of people to focus on win-win solutions for social challenges. Shortly thereafter, she created the “Theatre for the Future” a multi-media presentation of the evolutionary story of creation with a vision of a long-range human future. She co-chaired and designed large Soviet-American Citizen summits, created a team-building process called “Rings of Empowerment”, and developed “Evolutionary Circles”, a small group process for inner work and spiritual growth which focuses on the basic ideas of conscious evolution and co-creation. In 1984, Barbara made history when her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States.
Her books include “The Hunger of Eve, The Evolutionary Journey” and her latest book “Conscious Evolution: The Great Awakening-- A Spirit-Motivated Plan of Action for the 21st Century.”