Kwame Alexander

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Erica Jong

Feminist, Social Critic, Poet & Author of "Fear of Dying"

Jerry Craft

New York Times Bestselling Graphic Novelist Known for "New Kid," "Class Act" & "School Trip"

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Lancelot Schaubert

Novelist of "Bell Hammers," Editor, Performer, Artist Chaplain

Benjamin Lerner

Novelist, Poet, Critic & Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College

Lynn Vavreck

Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA & Political Columnist for the New York Times

Why Our Politics Are Stuck In 2016 | FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast

Erwin McManus

Author, Speaker, Futurist and Innovator

Unlock the Power of Communication: Exploring the 7 Frequencies

Alexis Hope

Designer & Researcher at MIT Media Lab, Expert in Creativity, Innovation & the Future of Work

Roosevelt Montás

Senior Lecturer in the Center for American Studies at Columbia University

Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz

Cultural leader, Oral Historian and Documentarian

Veronica Barassi

Anthropologist & Professor in Media and Communication Studies

Erika Lee

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"

Jeremy Nobel

Founder & President at The Foundation for Art and Healing; Faculty, Harvard Medical School

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Markus Gross

Director of Disney Research; Professor of Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

Joseph Luzzi

Cultural Commentator, Writer & Professor

Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Dr. Luis Martínez-Fernández

Professor of History at the University of Central Florida

Robert M. Edsel

Author and Founder & President of the Monuments Men Foundation

John and Doris Naisbitt

Futurists and Authors, China’s Megatrends, The 8 Pillars of a New Society

Freida Lee Mock

Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Director, Screenwriter & Producer; Co-Founder of the American Film Foundation

David Whyte

Poet, Author, Naturalist & Organizational Thinker

Linda Greenhouse

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist; Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School

Leigh & Leslie Keno (The Keno Brothers)

Leslie and Leigh Keno are experts in antiques. As trusted appraisers, they've often appeared on "Antiques Roadshow" and starred in the FOX series "Buried Treasure."

Sara Mearns

Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet & Mental Health Advocate

Review: Alexei Ratmansky Unleashes the Pain of War at City Ballet

Carol Dweck

Leading Researcher in the Field of Motivation, Author & Professor of Psychology at Stanford University

Mohsen Mostafavi

Architect & Educator; Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design

N. Scott Momaday

Kiowa Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist & Poet

House Made of Dawn

Rasheed Sabar

Co-Founder & CEO of Correlation One

Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Professor of History; Director of the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America at Brown University

Why Are There So Many Asians in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Hill Harper

Best-Selling Author, Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist & Actor; Best Known For "CSI: NY" & "The Good Doctor"