Barbara Marx Hubbard was born Barbara Suzanne Marx in Manhattan, New York on December 22, 1929. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1951. She was a futurist, spiritual thinker, author, and proponent of New Age ideas. She founded an organization called the Committee for the Future and organized synergistic convergence conferences at which representatives of disparate groups would exchange perspectives and ideas. She was a frequent speaker at seminars and conventions. Her book, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, was published in 1998. She died after a brief illness on April 10, 2019 at the age of 89.