Social scientist, futurist and co-founder with her husband Dr. J.J. Hurtak of The Academy For Future Science, an international organization working in over fifteen countries. Dr. Desiree Hurtak is also an environmentalist and an author of several books. Her most recent work, co-authored with her husband, is entitled Overself Awakening which has already been translated into 6 languages, as well as The 72 Names of the Myriad Expressions of the Divine Mother. Her most recent book co-authored with her husband and Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher entitled Mind Dynamics in Space and Time. Desiree has worked extensively in both Egypt and Mexico. She hosted a panel at the United Nations Rio+20 Summit (2012) where she presented The Academy’s work with the Indigenous peoples of Brazil, focusing on Youth and Sustainable development. She also presented at the UN DPI Climate Forum, New York (2007) and was a participant at the UN World Summit for Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002). She also lectured at The Parliament of the World’s Religions in Melbourne (2009) and Salt Lake City (2015) and now Toronto (2018) as part of her work is to bring together a greater interfaith dialog. To this end, she was one of the co-founders of the Committee for Spiritual Values and Global Concerns (New York). She is also an Evolutionary Leader which allows for a dynamic networking of key critical thinkers from United Nations and other major academic institutions. Dr. Desiree Hurtak has been a film producer with the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, a public access TV station. She has a Masters Degree in International Relations from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. from The New School University, in the area of Public Policy. She has worked extensively in Egypt and Mexico recording acoustic testing of many ancient structures and was part of the exploration in 1997 that found the “Tomb of Osiris” on the Giza Plateau. She and her husband are well known for their media work including “The Light Body”, “The Voice of Africa“ and “Initiation” from which they have won 14 national and international film awards. She was a scientific consultant for Sidney Sheldon’s bestseller of an alien encounter entitled The Doomsday Conspiracy (1992) and recently was part of a film entitled Wisdom of the Wayshowers, which includes many leading futurists including Apollo 14 Astronaut, Edgar Mitchell speaking about the existence of the life beyond Earth and a musical CD Sacred Name Sacred Codes with Steven Halpern. Desiree has appeared on numerous films and radio presentations including The Deepak Chopa Show and Coast to Coast Radio. Source: hurtak.com