Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Hill Harper

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

Catherine Crier

Acclaimed Author, Former Judge, Award-Winning Journalist & Television Broadcaster

Randy Cohen

Writer, Known for "The Ethicist"

LeVar Burton

Literacy Advocate & Actor Known for "Roots," "Star Trek" & "Reading Rainbow"

Holly George-Warren

Two-Time Grammy Nominee & New York Times Best-Selling Author, Known for "The Road to Woodstock"

Mark Salzman

Award Winning Author Best Known For His Memoir "Iron and Silk"

Saul Williams

Spoken Word Artist

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Angela Davis

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Bradley Cooper

Actor Known for "Silver Linings Playbook," "Serena" & "American Sniper"

Angela Bassett

Award-Winning Actress & Co-Founder of Bassett/Vance Productions

Dolores Barclay

Author, Professor at Columbia School of Journalism & Former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press

Tim Tharp

is a published author of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Tim Tharp include The Spectacular Now, Knights of the Hill Coun

Anthony B. Pinn

Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University

Meade Palidofsky

Founder and Artistic Director, Storycatchers Theatre

Harry Elam

Professor in the Humanities, Vice President for the Arts, & Senior Vice Provost for Education at Stanford University; Theatre Director

Aaron J. Lawler, PhD

Assistant Professor of Humanities

C. L. Max Nikia

President University of Southern California

Marjorie Garber

William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies Harvard University

Wilfred McClay

Award-winning Educator and Author; GT and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty; Distinguished Scholar

Thomas Bender

University Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at New York University.

Krista Terrell

President at Arts & Science Council

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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

Adele Chatfield-Taylor

president of the American Academy

Rachel Goslins

Director of the Arts & Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution

Jennifer Quinto

Cultural Speaker, Advocate for Culturally Responsive & Trauma Responsive Organizations

Damien M. Pwono

Director

Mary Flanagan

Professor in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College; Founder, tiltfactor

Stanley Fish

Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University in Miami.