When journalist Anjan Sundaram travelled to Rwanda in 2009, he encountered a repressive government that targeted and imprisoned the journalists he worked with. His experience opened his eyes to the courage needed to report on the stories and people that can easily hide from the world’s collective consciousness. Sundaram offers his Brief but Spectacular take on covering the forgotten.

When Sean O’Sullivan first imagined “cloud computing” as a way to run software not loaded onto a computer, the feedback he received was, “Why would you want to do that?" Now as an investor, it is that moment of disbelief that he finds to be the best starting point for conquering what seems off-limits. O'Sullivan offers his Brief but Spectacular take on making the impossible inevitable.

"When you lose a child, it creates a hole in your heart...that is never filled," says Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who gave a captivating speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Khan offers his Brief but Spectacular take on dignity and patriotism, while offering the story of his son's sacrifice and the legacy he left behind.

As a survivor of sexual assault, Jessica Ladd found the process of reporting the incident “more traumatic than the assault itself.” By creating an online reporting system, she is now helping survivors document their experiences, even if they’re not ready to go to the authorities. Ladd offers her Brief but Spectacular take on empowering survivors of sexual assault.