Wisdom Keeper Week with Krista Tippett

Krista Tippett

Krista Tippett is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, and New York Times bestselling author. She created the groundbreaking public radio show and podcast On Being, which pursues deep thinking, moral imagination, social creativity, and joy towards the renewal of inner life, outer life, and life together. It has won the highest honors in broadcast, Internet and podcasting, and been downloaded over 450 million times. The On Being Project, which Krista founded in 2013, also engages “quiet conversations” to accompany the generative people and possibilities within this tender, tumultuous time to be alive. She received the National Humanities Medal at the White House in 2014 for “thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence. On air and in print, Ms. Tippett avoids easy answers, embracing complexity and inviting people of every background to join her conversation about faith, ethics, and moral wisdom.”

Krista grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, worked as a young journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, and later received a Master of Divinity from Yale. She is the author of three books, most recently Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.

Joe Henry

In a career spanning 40 years, Joe Henry has left an indelible and unique imprint on American popular music. As a songwriter and artist, Henry is celebrated for his exploration of the human experience. A hyper-literate storyteller, by turns dark, devastating, and hopeful, he draws an author’s eye for the overlooked detail across a broad swath of American musical styles — rock, jazz, folk and blues — rendering genre modifiers useless.

Henry has collaborated with many notable American artists on his own body of work, from T Bone Burnett, Daniel Lanois, and Van Dyke Parks on one side of the spectrum, to Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, Jason Moran, Brad Mehldau, and Bill Frisell on the other. A three-time-Grammy-winning producer, Henry has made records for Bonnie Raitt, Hugh Laurie, Lisa Hannigan, Joan Baez, Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint, Harry Belafonte, Salif Keita, Rhiannon Giddens, and Solomon Burke among many others.

Additionally, Henry has taken his musical talents to film and television. He has scored music for the films Jesus’ Son, Knocked Up, and Motherhood, as well as produced tracks for the film by Todd Haynes, I’m Not There.

Henry’s 16th solo album “All The Eye Can See” was released in 2023; and September of 2025 saw the release of “Life And Time” ––Henry’s collaborative project with the legendary songwriter from Nashville, Mike Reid.8

Haleh Liza Gafori

Haleh Liza Gafori is a translator, performance artist, poet, vocalist, and educator born in NYC of Iranian descent. Her acclaimed translations of poems by the 13th century sage Rumi have been published in two volumes Gold (2022) and Water (2025) by New York Review Books/NYRB Classics. 

A bicultural woman with ears tuned to the music of contemporary American free verse and to the subtleties of the original Persian text, Gafori aims to transmit the whirling movement and leaping progression of thought and imagery in Rumi’s poems, offering poems that urgently and tenderly dialogue with our times.

Sharing her passion for Rumi’s poetry and the liberating messages that pulse through them, Gafori has lectured and offered workshops across the country and abroad at universities and institutions including Stanford University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the Academy of American Poets.

As a performance artist, Gafori presents Rumi’s poetry in cross-media events that weave translations, original text, and musical compositions sung in Persian and English, revealing the often unheard and astonishing rhythm and wordplay of Rumi’s original text. She has performed at New York Public Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Bradford Literary Fest, Lincoln Center, and elsewhere.

Gafori is a 2024 MacDowell fellow, and the recipient of a 2023 New York State Council on the Arts. Her translations and her original writings have been published by various journals and presses including Harvard Review, Columbia University Press, Paris Review, the Brooklyn Rail, Literary Hub, and others.  

Jessica Anne Schwartz

Jessica Anne Schwartz is an artist who lives and works between New York and Paris. Her work of the last three decades has been widely acquired and is held in both private and public collections. Her art practice has been featured in The Paris Review, Artists Magazine, London Art Roundup, and other publications.

Her work emerges from an intricate fusion of immediate sensory perception and modulated creative expression, rooted in a lifelong synaesthesia in which sound, color, and sensation all intertwine. In her world, sensory boundaries dissolve—sound takes on color and form, emotions become tactile, and silence carries resonance. Such heightened sensory interpenetrations shape a body of work that is diverse yet cohesive, and informs her belief in the inherent value of every human interaction.

Guided by a receptivity to her environment, Schwartz draws insight from found objects, landscapes, and intangible moments—such as the quiet history held within a spoon, or the rhythms of a pile of horseshoes in a Yellowstone moraine that began directing her hand. She often describes herself as a vessel through which these entities and their histories live – yielding paintings, drawings, sculptures, and land-based installations that feel both immediate and timeless. Her various series—ranging from drawings that arise from on the synaesthetically distinct impressions of voices as varied as those of Richard Feynman, Alan Watts, Oliver Sacks and James Baldwin though the music of Chopin and Mozart and on out through the plein air internal landscapes of “Paintings from a Place Called Mathilda” as well as other such coherently variegated lieus d’esprit–are distinct yet interconnected, reflecting a lifelong inquiry into the intricate braidings of perception and narrative.

At its center, Schwartz’s work is devoted to creating and sharing a democratic beauty to foster a more profound human connection. Her mind weaves and rearranges sensory inputs, manifesting a brave and inviting new world for its audience. This process and its outcomes are both mysterious and empathic.

Elise Bohaty

Elise Bohaty is a medical intuitive. She believes the mind and body are connected and therefore should be treated as one. Her approach is to design an individual program based on your needs, by looking for the root causes of imbalances to help you bring your body back into homeostasis (balance) and health.

She considers herself a body detective. Uncovering and solving problems within requires deep listening and intuitiveness to help facilitate and begin the healing process. And she believes that to truly be of service to others, a practitioner needs to be committed to doing their own inner work as well.

Elise’s foundational approach is based on functional healing and nutritional therapy. She has extensive training as a Functional Nutritional Therapist and she is a Restorative Wellness Practitioner. She began as a massage therapist in 1987 and over the years has training in other modalities such as cranio sacral therapy, integrative rehab therapy, myo fascial release neuro muscular therapy, to name a few. Her success and effectiveness is the culmination of 37 years of experience of caring and healing for others to help you.