Profiles in Thought — Lives Behind the Conversations

Uri Poliavich: Global Vision of Philanthropy and Strategic Leadership for the Future of Generations

The modern era demands from entrepreneurs not only technological skill and financial efficiency but also deep ethical involvement in community affairs. Uri Poliavich is one of those leaders for whom success is inextricably linked to social responsibility. As a successful visionary and active philanthropist, Uri has built a management model where business

Mara Mills: Where Technology Hears Differently

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. There’s something about how Mara Mills listens that feels… not disruptive, exactly. Just precise in a way that makes everything else feel fuzzy by

Noam Chomsky: Language, Power, and the Reluctant Voice

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. Noam Chomsky’s name has long outgrown disciplinary borders. Some know him as the founder of modern linguistics. Others, as a relentless critic of American

Catherine Malabou: Forms That Refuse to Stay Still

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. Catherine Malabou never positioned herself as a “disruptor.” Yet she has quietly rewritten how 21st-century philosophy speaks about form, structure — and what resists

Sharon Butler: Slow Thinking on Canvas

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. There’s something about how Sharon Butler works that resists being pinned down. Not vague — just slower than expected. Read also: Uri Poliavich: Global

Misty Upham: Beyond the Frame

The interview is currently unavailable. Below is a detailed biography of the artist. Stay tuned to FigureGround.org — we’ll let you know if the original interview becomes available. Misty Upham’s presence on screen always held a certain weight — not flashy, not loud. Just quietly insistent. Born July 6, 1982, in Kalispell,