Mitch Resnick

Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

Cameron Esposito

Stand-Up Comic, Actor & Writer Known for "Take Me As Your Wife" & the "Queery" Podcast

Warsan Shire

Award-Winning Poet' Displacement & Belonging Advocate; Author of "Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth"

Julia Alvarez

Award-Winning Poet, Novelist & Essayist

Naomi Simson

CEO of RedBalloon

KRS-One

Rapper, Author & Activist

The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument

Joe Quesada

Chief Creative Officer of Marvel; Comic Book Editor, Writer and Artist

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is an award-winning French actress, artist and dancer.

Linda Descano

President and CEO of Women & Co.; Managing Director at Citi

Helena María Viramontes

Author of "The Moths and Other Stories"

T Cooper

Author of "The Beaufort Diaries," "Lipshitz Six, Or Two Angry Blondes" and "Some of the Parts"

Sabrina Chap

Writer, Performer and Mental Health Activist

David Lynch

American Filmmaker, Television Director and Musician; "The Elephant Man" and "Blue Velvet"

Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Samantha Shannon

Author, "The Bone Season"

Adelle Waldman

Adelle Waldman’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and other publications.

Michael J. Cahill

Writer-Producer for independent corporate, documentary and commercial production.

Amanda Walsh

Amanda has starred as a series regular in the ABC comedy Sons and Daughters and appeared on the big screen in films such as Disturbia and The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Charles Bock

Best-selling Author

Deborah Feldman

New York Times Bestselling Author of "Unorthodox" and "Exodus"

Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.