Barbara Marx Hubbard was a humanist, futurist, author, and worldwide speaker on the subject of human consciousness evolution. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College with a degree in Political Science, Barbara had a lifelong passion for social and planetary evolution, maintaining that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if newly emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises. 

Barbara Marx Hubbard did not like the molds that she herself, as well as others, were expected to fit, and consequently she questioned what would actually make people happy and life easier. In the 1970s she started speaking at futurist conferences about her findings and soon became a sought-after contributor  in the movement. This resulted in her greater involvement in speaking at, and then creating, her own conferences. As her passion grew, Barbara dedicated her life to the consciousness movement that believed in the potential today's humans had for achieving a better society and came up with the concept of "birthing" a new humanity. In 1998, Barbara Marx Hubbard wrote and published a successful book entitled Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, which expounded on her futurist ideas about creating a better society and what the conscious mind could accomplish with an awareness of its power. Barbara went on to create several organizations, including the Committee for the Future, Women of Vision in Action, The Alliance for the Advancement of Conscious Evolution, as well as 7 others.