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Tim Riley

From Censorship In The Arts to Do The Beatles Still Matter? — web producer, campus speaker, music critic, and pianist Tim Riley brings an incisive critical perspective to the underlying class, race, and sexual orientation themes of the free speech debate,

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Randy Potts

Grandson of the evangelical crusader Oral Roberts — shares his intimate story of coming out in the televangelist community as he overcame bullying, isolation, shame.

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Charles Neblett

Original Civil Rights Movement Freedom Singer – Civil and Human Rights Activist.

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Enrique Morones

Immigration is one of the most hotly-debated issues of our time. Internationally-acclaimed immigrant and undocumented alien-rights activist and founder of Border Angels, he brings to the forefront stories of those often forgotten in this fight for social

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Annie Leonard

American Proponent of Sustainability and a Critic of Excessive Consumerism

San Francisco, CA, USA

Jon Leiberman

Reporter; Television Producer; Host of Sirius XM's "A Hard Look with Jon Leiberman;" Vice President & Executive Producer, SAP

New York, NY, USA

Charles Kimball

Middle East expert and analyst on world religions, Islam, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, and the intersection of religion and politics in America.

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Danny Kennedy

Danny Kennedy– a passionate activist, successful cleantech entrepreneur, noted author and recognized opinion leader on global environmental issues.

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Charles Johnson

National Book Award Winner (Middle Passage), Charles Johnson has also been prolific in non-fiction, writing history (Africans in America), biography (Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.), and countless essays and reviews.

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Arsalan Iftikhar

Founder, TheMuslimGuy.com; Senior Editor, The Islamic Monthly

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Lewis Hyde

Scholar, essayist, translator, and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, and the cultural commons.

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Emily Hunter

A force behind youth environmental activism, journalist/activist/filmmaker Emily Hunter calls for advocacy and action in her campaign “Activism 2.0″.

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Claudia Dreifus and Andrew Hacker

Authors of the highly acclaimed ‘Higher Education?” — Renowned sociologist, Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer, Claudia Dreifus — confront American Higher Education and the lost sight of its primary mission: the education of today’s youth.

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Susan Douglas

Smart, witty, prize-winning author, columnist, feminist scholar, and cultural critic who deciphers the media’s impact on society. She chronicles the widening gap between the images of women in the mass media and their everyday lives.

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Lisa Dodson

Award winning author of The Moral Underground: A Silent Movement for Economic Justice which shares stories of the ordinary citizens who bend the rules to help the working poor in our deeply divided economy.

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Gail Dines

Scholar, activist, and social critic who takes an unflinching look at hypersexualization and pornography.

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Tim DeChristopher

Climate & Environmental Activist; Founder of Peaceful Uprising

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Curt Ellis

FoodCorps Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Mount Holly, VT, USA

Lorene Cary

Highly respected African-American author, educator, and social activist who – for over 25 years – has worked to deliver stories that the world needs to hear: from autobiographical to historical to fictional.

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Steve Brodner

Professional and award-winning political cartoonist and art journalist.

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