Bill Moyers

Award-winning Televison Journalist

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Daniel Weiss

President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Patricia Frazier

National Youth Poet Laureate, Filmmaker & Activist

Cameron Bailey

Co-Director of the Toronto International Film Festival

John Knapp

John C. Knapp, Ph.D., is founding director of Samford University’s Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership.

Robert Lo Bue

Director of the Visions Theatre Play on Addiction and Recovery President of Visions Recovery, Inc.

Yo-Yo Ma

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

Maxine Hong Kingston

Novelist / Poet

Erika Lee

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

Julian Chambliss

Educator, Writer & Researcher

John Waters

Cult Filmmaker, Actor, Writer & Visual Artist

Clyde W. Ford

Psychotherapist, Mythologist & Author of "Of Blood and Sweat"

Propaganda

Poet, Political Activist, Academic & Emcee

Anna Wintour

Global Editorial Director of Vogue & Chief Content Officer at Conde Nast

Simon Van Booy

Novelist, Playwright, Philosopher

Jeremy Nobel

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

Project UnLonely

Thomas Levy

Archaeologist

Danae Ringelmann

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

Markus Gross

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

Jen Stark

Multi-medium Contemporary Artist

Peter Doolittle

Cognition Expert & Professor of Educational Psychology

Janina Fels

Professor of Medical Acoustics at RWTH Aachen University

Joel K. Shapiro

Clinical Associate Professor and Executive Director for the Program on Data Analytics at Kellogg

Lance Rhoades

American Indians in Cinema: Portrayals and Participation, Onscreen and Behind the Scene

John Shoven

buzz and barbara mccoy senior fellow member of the working group on economic policy.

Michael Thelwell

Professor of Literature and Writing; Civil Rights Activist

William Drenttel

Publisher, Design Observer.

Sandra Glahn

professor, Christian Education and Pastoral Ministries, at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS)

Daniel Greenstein

Director of Education, Postsecondary Success, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation