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Presidential Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, BET News Correspondent, Human Rights Activist & Author

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Co-Founder & CEO of The Future Project; Youth Empowerment & Education Advocate

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Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health

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Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

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Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Jeff Jarvis

Leader in the Development of Online News & Blogging; Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY

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Founder & Executive Director of L.O.V.E. Mentoring; Social Entrepreneur; Changemaker

Shawn Rene Zimmerman

International Fitness Cover Model & Fitness Champion

Frank Wu

President of Queens College, City University of New York; Author of "Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White"

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

Kathryn Edin

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Wendy Kopp

CEO of Teach For All & Founder of Teach For America; Childhood Education Advocate

Scott Steinberg

CEO of TechSavvy Global, Strategic Innovation Consultant, Best-Selling Author & Host of "Next Up"

Carvens Lissaint

International Award-Winning Poet, Actor & Singer

Chris Bashinelli

National Geographic Explorer & TV Host | United Nations Moderator | Arab-American Diversity Speaker | Expert on Human Connection & Humanity in Business

Kevin Hines

Brain/Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Activist, Best-Selling Author, Multi-award Winning Filmmaker & Subject Matter Expert

Daniel Pipes

Foreign Policy Expert & President of The Middle East Forum

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