Rick Smolan, CEO of Against All Odds Productions, is a #1 New York Times best-selling author with more than five million copies of his books in print.  

A former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer, Smolan is best known as the creator of the "Day in the Life" book series.  

His global photography projects, which feature the work of hundreds of the worlds leading photographers and combine creative storytelling with state-of-the-art technology, are regularly featured on the covers of prestigious publications around the globe including Fortune, Time, and GEO. 

His latest book, "THE GOOD FIGHT: AMERICA'S ONGOING STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE", is a powerful reminder of how much progress America has made over the past 100 years against hatred, bigotry, racism, misogyny, homophobia and injustice and what's at risk right now. 

The book has won numerous awards including The Independent Book Publishers “Freedom Fighter” Award and Ben Franklin Association awards for “History" and “Politics and Current Events”.  CBS did this terrific segment on the book.

People Magazine chose it as one of the "10 Best Books of the Year, and TED sent a copy to all 1,500 members as the official TED BOOKCLUB selection.

What sets this book apart from other books on racism and social justice is that the book comes with a free app that enables readers to point their phones at 60+ photographs in the book to trigger powerful short streaming videos

Smolan has spoken at INK, TED, The Davos World Economic Forum, The Ford Foundation, The Wired Health Conference, TEDMED, Techonomy, DLD in Munich, IdeaCity in Canada. His TED talk "Natasha's Story: An American Homecoming" has been watched by more than a million people. 

"AMERICA 24/7", a NY Times bestseller, enabled thousands of Americans to create a national family album during one ordinary week, and was featured as one of Oprah Winfrey's "Favorite Things.

“THE HUMAN FACE OF BIG DATA" focused on humanity's new ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time. The project, sponsored by EMC, Cisco and SAP resulted in a large format book, an iPad app which won a WEBBY award, and an award-winning PBS TV special. The book was delivered to 10,000 key influencers in 50 countries in a single day courtesy of FedEx.  

In 2015 the Oscar Winning Producers of "The Kings Speech" released TRACKS based on Smolan National Geographic cover story about 27-year-old Robyn Davidson's 1,700 mile nine-month solo camel trek across the treacherous Australian Outback. In the movie Robyn Davidson was portrayed by Mia Wasikowska ("Stoker", "The Kids are Alright", "Alice in Wonderland"). Smolan was portrayed by Adam Driver, (Kylo Ren in Star Wars).  

Fortune magazine describes Smolan's company, Against All Odds as “One of the 25 Coolest Companies in America.”