The Human Initiative is founded on the belief that humanity’s purpose is to reach beyond Earth and create new worlds. Survival in those worlds will not depend on technology alone, but on the strength of our societies. To prepare for that future, we bring together people from across the globe to help shape the social foundations on which humanity’s next chapter will be built. This is not only an invitation to contribute to rigorous scholarship, it is also a rare chance to live, for a brief time, in a community designed as a model of humanity’s future beyond Earth.