Charles Eisenstein is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity, has a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Yale, lived a decade in Taiwan as a translator, and has been a college instructor, yoga teacher, and construction worker. He is an author, most recently of Climate — A New Story, as well as of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible; The Ascent of Humanity; Sacred Economics; and The Yoga of Eating.