Edward Tenner

Smithsonian Institution Distinguished Scholar & Author of "Why Things Bite Back" and "Our Own Devices"

Drew Gilpin Faust

President of Harvard University

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Professor of History, Race & Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School; Author of "The Condemnation of Blackness"

Linda Alvarado

Community Leader; Education Advocate; CEO of Alvarado Construction & National Women's Hall of Famer; First Latino Owner of a Major League Baseball Team

Ephren Taylor

CEO and Entrepreneur

Debbie Sterling

Tech Engineer & Founder and CEO of GoldieBlox; Advocate for Women in STEM

Patrice C. Washington

Personal Finance Expert Known as the Money Maven

Andrew Cohen

Founder, EnlightenNext

Rusty Wallace

Professional NASCAR Driver

Mark Whitacre

Executive Director of t-factor of Coca Cola Consolidated, Inc. & Subject of Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant"

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

Tiffany Shlain

Founder of The Webby Awards; Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, Internet Pioneer & Futurist

Eric Foner

Prominent Historian & Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University

An Phung

Multimedia Journalist

Tim O'Brien

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist for "The Things They Carried"

Ingrid Newkirk

President, PETA

Reihan Salam

President of the Manhattan Group for Policy Research; Former Executive Editor of National Review

Nell Irvin Painter

Award-winning scholar and writer

Calvin Trillin

Author, Columnist, Humorist & Political Satirist

Peter Rojas

Co-founder of Gizmodo and of Engadget