Curated Stories with Text and Audio for Students

Ron Kovic has devoted his life to fighting for peace and nonviolence.

Dan Eldon inspired Kathy Eldon with his art, his poetry and his life.

The Art Miles Mural Project Joanne Tawfilis teaches respect and understanding through art.

Amy Biehl was a young woman who gave her life to stop apartheid in South Africa.

Mohamed Sidibay speaks out to give a name and a face behind the stories of child soldiers.

Dr. Jeni Stepanek is interviewed by MY HERO's Slater Jewell-Kemker.

Adarsha Shivakumar and Apoorva Rangan Project Jatropha started the nonprofit Project Jatropha which is an alternative to fossil fuel.

Chief Oren Lyons is an internationally venerated advocate for preserving biodiversity.

Dr. Shirley McGreal founded the International Primate Protection League.

Chico Mendes died a martyr defending the rainforests.

David T. Suzuki has been teaching the public about the science of environmentalism for many years.

Fin Donnelly works to keep our rivers and waters clean.

Harrison Ford is an actor, humanitarian and ardent conservationist.

Jim and Jamie Dutcher are wolf conservationists.

John Denver was an American songwriter/singer and activist for the environment.

John Muir advocated preservation, feeling that natural areas promote mental health.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was instrumental in preserving the Florida Everglades.

Mika Vanhanen is the founder and director of Environment Online, a global virtual school for sustainable development

Olivia Bouler Olivia created 500 paintings of her feathered friends to raise funds for Audubon's bird rescue.

Philippe Cousteau continues the work of his father, Jacques Cousteau, through Earth Echo International.

PRETOMA works to protect ocean resources in Costa Rica.

PRETOMA works to protect ocean resources in Costa Rica.

Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, was the mother of the environmental movement.

Robin Emmons is an organic farmer who has created a foundation to fight hunger.

Surfrider Foundation is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of our world's oceans, waves and beaches.

Tuy Sereivathana is a Cambodian environmentalist who solves conflicts between elephants and people.

Jack Johnson is a musician who encourages kids to take care of the environment.

Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace developed the world's first computer program while struggling with her own personal hardships. (12/10/1815)

David D. Ho discovered a successful way to treat people with AIDS.

Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian particle physicist.

Franklin Chang Diaz is a Costa Rican and American veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions.

Gwynne Rowley Shotwell is the president of SpaceX, the company that made the Dragon space craft.

Gustave Eiffel was the French engineer who built the Eiffel Tower.

Her story was hidden for decades: Katherine Johnson plotted multiple flight courses for NASA, including the Apollo 11 spacecraft, the first spaceship to reach the moon.

Madame Curie received the Nobel Prize for her discovery of Radium.

Alan Turing was a brilliant scientist and mathematician who laid the theoretical groundwork for the first computer.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, cosmologist and science communicator.

Rosalind Picard is internationally known as a leader in envisioning and creating innovative technology.

Albert Baez was a prominent Mexican American physicist and pacifist.

Andrea Mia Ghez is an astrophysicist best known for her discoveries about the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Archimedes of Syracuse was an early Greek mathematician, astronomer and inventor.

Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban scientist who discovered the cause of yellow fever.

Cristina Diaz: Biologist studies intertidal and tropical sponges.

Dr. France Cordova is a renowned astrophysicist who has broken gender and cultural barriers.

Merieme Chadid is an astronomer from Morocco who did research at the South Pole.

Jack St. Clair Kilby was an electrical engineer and inventor and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. (11/8/1923)

George Washington Carver was born an African American slave but became a renowned scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor.

Galileo Galilei was an astronomer and inventor, the first to use a telescope to observe the stars and planets. (b. Feb 15, 1564)

Lene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist at Harvard who was able to stop a beam of light.

Gertrude B. Elion developed the AIDS drug, AZT.

Langston Hughes did not confine himself to revealing just the cadences of black music to his readers. Rather, he wanted his audience to taste the whole of the African-American experience.