Charles Eisenstein is a speaker and writer who focuses on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His viral short films and essays online have established him as a genre-defying social philosopher and counter-cultural intellectual. Charles graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in mathematics and philosophy and spent the next 10 years as a Chinese–English translator. He is the author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Sacred Economics, and Ascent of Humanity.