Michael York

Award-Winning Actor

Dee Snider

Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Wally Lamb

Best-Selling Novelist & Educator

Karen Gillan

Actress, Known for Her Role as Amy Pond on "Doctor Who" & Nebula in "Guardians of the Galaxy"

Herbie J Pilato

Author / Producer / Consultant

Sebastian Faulks

Novelist, Journalist, and Broadcaster

William D. Adams

Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Thomas Mallon

Author of "Watergate"

BC Biermann

Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies & Studio Arts, University of Missouri Saint Louis, The Heavy Projects

Stephen Jay Greenblatt

Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Marcus Lyle Brown

Marcus Lyle Brown is an American film and television actor.

Tonea Stewart

Actress; Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Alabama State University

Cameron Bailey

Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival

Yo-Yo Ma

Grammy Award-Winning Cellist, Founder & Artistic Director for the Silk Road Project

John Waters

Cult Filmmaker, Actor, Writer & Visual Artist

Simon Van Booy

Novelist, Playwright, Philosopher

Danae Ringelmann

Founder, Indiegogo; Lodge & Farm Owner; Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum

Peter Doolittle

Cognition Expert & Professor of Educational Psychology

Valerie June

Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Poet & Actor

Dr. Jeffrey Ogbar

‎Founding Director, Center for the Study of Popular Music at University of Connecticut

David Biale

Leading Scholar of Jewish Intellectual & Cultural Life; Author & Three-Time Winner of the National Jewish Book Award

Alice McDermott

Celebrated Author, Pulitzer Prize Finalist & Former Professor For Distinguished Teaching In The Humanities at John Hopkins University

Elizabeth Alexander

Renowned Poet Known For Inauguration Poem "Praise Song for the Day"

The privilege of perspective ft. Elizabeth Alexander

Joshua Bell

Grammy-winning Violinist & Conductor

Quiara Hudes

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Known for "In The Heights;" Author Known for "My Broken Language"

Mark Anthony Neal

Author, Cultural Critic, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies

Rafael Campo

Physician, Poet & Scholar

Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016

Art Alexakis

Musician, Singer-Songwriter & Guitarist; Front Man of the '90s Rock Band "Everclear"