Alan Weisman

Journalist / Author

Sylvester James Gates, Jr.

Theoretical Physicist Known for Supersymmetry

George Rupp

President & CEO, International Rescue Committee

Philip Weiss

Writer; Founder, Mondoweiss

Richard Wrangham

Primatologist, Harvard

Lionel Tiger

Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University

Neelam Deo

Diplomat; Former Consul General of India

Jeffrey Zeldman

Founder, Happy Cog

Sarah Lyall

Writer-At-Large for The New York Times; Reporting on the 2020 Election

Laurence Gonzales

Author of the Bestseller "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why" & its Sequel, "Surviving Survival"

Marc Eckō

Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Marc Ecko Enterprises, Author of Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out

Eric Foner

Prominent Historian & Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University

Robert Putnam

Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Author of "Our Kids"

Farnaz Fassihi

Senior Writer, Former Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal

Richard Dowden

Director, Royal African Society

Jay Smooth

Acclaimed Hip Hop Culture Critic & Host of "The Ill Doctrine"

Timothy Patrick McCarthy

Award-Winning Scholar, Educator & Human Rights Activist; Faculty Member at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and John F. Kennedy School of Government

Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom

Arne Glimcher

Chairman, PaceWildenstein Galleries

Robert Lacey

Author, "The Kingdom"

Reynold Levy

Philanthropist, Businessman, Author & Former President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Robin Hood Foundation