Diane Prince Johnston

CEO & Founder of Winnie & Kat; Fashion Entrepreneur

Necar Zadegan

Iranian-American Actress Best Known for her Role as First Lady Dalia Hassan in "24" and as Dr. Gina Bandari in "Emily Owens, M.D."

Dr. Ruth Simmons

President of Prairie View A&M University & Former President Emerita of Brown University

Up Home: One Girl's Journey

Gregory Maguire

Award-winning, Best-selling Author of the Wicked Years Novels

Leigh Branham

Keeping People Who Keep You In Business

Judith Viorst

Poet, Writer & Children's Author

David M. Kennedy

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian & Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University

Mary Karr

Poet, Essayist, & Memoirist; "Viper Rum," "The Devil's Tour," "Abacus," "The Liars' Club"