Candice Olson

Candice Carpenter Olson is the Founder and Co-Executive Producer of Frontiers of Knowledge, an event which convenes leading cosmologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, origin of life scientists, and physicists—to explore emerging universe stories that restore our sense of wonder and wholeness. She has been a producer for decades—of an Emmy-winning documentary series on world religions, of companies designed to deliver deeper social connectedness and new kinds of education, and of over 100 public programs in Aspen, Colorado on a broad range of topics, including a 17-part series on psychedelics in 2023. She is a published author and has spoken at major convenings such as TED and Davos and co-designed a program with Harvard Business School and the Harvard School of Divinity on the concept of “Enoughness,” exploring what meaning that concept could possibly have in the context of late capitalism. She has a BA from Stanford, an MA from Union Seminary at Columbia, and spent a post-grad year at Harvard University. Through these academic journeys, Candice has been following particular threads in intellectual history, religious studies, biology in the broadest sense, philosophy, and consciousness studies, and is currently a doctoral student at the California Institute of Integral Studies in Philosophy, Consciousness and Cosmology.