Bayo Akomolafe is a celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual and essayist. He is author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my daughter on humanity’s search for home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The lions of Africa speak. Bayo is founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species. He is host of the post-activist course/festival/event ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. Among many honorary appointments, he is a Member of the Club of Rome, a Fellow for the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, and an Ambassador for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.