Maria Shriver

Maria Shriver is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author and founder of The Women's Alzheimer's Movement, which funds research into why Alzheimer's disproportionately affects women and has since become part of the Cleveland Clinic. She is the founder of the publishing imprint The Open Field at Penguin Random House and writes the Sunday Paper, a weekly newsletter on meaning and purpose.

A Peabody and Emmy winner, she was an anchor and correspondent at NBC News for decades and executive produced The Alzheimer's Project for HBO. Her advocacy grew out of caring for her father, Sargent Shriver, through his Alzheimer's diagnosis. She has written several bestselling books on grief, transition and finding meaning, including I've Been Thinking and Just Who Will You Be.