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A six-time IndyCar winner, runner up on Dancing with the Stars and sought-after motivational speaker, James Hinchcliffe returns to Andretti Autosport for the next three races of the season. A recent article with AP News highlights Hinchliffe’s career and his outstanding success with Andretti Autosport. He is extremely excited to return to the sponsorship and pick up where he left off, saying, “Being able to start the new year with…my reunion with Andretti Autosport just really makes it feel like the momentum is going our way.” Hinchliffe won his first IndyCar title back in 2013 with Andretti.

A legendary news anchor and the best-selling author of What Unites Us, APB speaker Dan Rather is now taking on a different role behind the camera as the executive producer of the new film, Human Nature. In Human Nature, Rather tells the story of the biggest tech revolution that has occurred in modern history and how it will forever change medicine. The groundbreaking discovery of CRISPR led to the ability to control a person’s building blocks of life, such as curing life-threatening diseases and designing our own children. The film shows the approach of all parties involved surrounding the discovery, from scientists to families to bioengineers and others. Human Nature is set to hit theaters next month.

The creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why and one of the most watched TED speakers ever, APB speaker Tim Urban recently joined Ezra Klein on his podcast to discuss how our current technological advancements and political situation will impact our future.

Former Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) and APB speaker Gro Harlem Brundtland weighed in on the coronavirus epidemic, drawing parallels to the SARS epidemic that originated in China in 2002. Brundtland was at the helm of the WHO when the global threat of SARS arose, and her clearheaded leadership during a time of hysteria helped curtail and contain the spread of the disease.

Known as one of the most influential experts on the science of high performance, APB speaker David Epstein uses past journalism experiences as a senior writer at Sports Illustrated along with research from his New York Times best-selling novel The Sports Gene to analyze the performance of Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes II. In an article from The Washington Post, Epstein attributes Mahomes II’s success to his talents as a multi-sport athlete. Epstein said that several studies have shown athletes who play multiple sports require less time to become elite in the game they ultimately choose. “[This] seems particularly to be true for athletes who play multiple ‘attacking’ sports.” 

The founder and CEO of Amesite Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered software company that delivers engaging and cost-effective online college and university courses, and former CEO of one of MIT’s 50 Smartest Companies, Sakti3, speaker Ann Marie Sastry recently explained the important role AI plays in our daily lives in interviews with Yahoo Finance and Squawk Box.

Known as The New York Times bestselling author of both Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World and The Sports Gene, APB speaker David Epstein is gaining major recognition from former NFL star and current Fox Sports analyst Tony Gonzalez.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who garnered national attention for his role in uncovering the Watergate scandal, APB speaker Carl Bernstein has revealed the inner workings of government and politics for decades. Renowned worldwide for his unique commentary, reporting, and analysis for CNN, Bernstein recently caused a viral sensation when he called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “Midnight Mitch.”

February is Black History Month, and this year’s theme is “African Americans and the Vote” in honor of the centennial of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote, and the sesquicentennial of the 15th amendment, which granted black men the right to vote. Voting is the foundational promise of true democracy and our APB speakers Ilyasah Shabazz, Melissa Harris-Perry, Andrew Gillum and Admiral Michelle Howard have all fought tirelessly to realize the vision of justice, equality and freedom for our country. During this Black History Month, they all provide perspective on how far we have come and how far we have left to go:

Former President of Ireland and APB speaker Mary Robinson is the Chair of the Elders, an independent group of global leaders working for peace and human rights, founded originally by Nelson Mandela. In her capacity as Chair of the eminent council, she recently took part in the annual unveiling of their signature "doomsday clock" in Washington, D.C. Used as a metric that measures the existential and global level of threat to humanity, the 2020 clock is set at 100 seconds to midnight, which is the closest to midnight it has been since 1947. This is a sobering wake-up call to pressing issues of our time, notably climate change and nuclear arms controls.