Erika Lee

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"

Rosie Rios

Former Treasurer of the United States; CEO of Red River Associates

H.W. Brands

Educator, Author & Historian

Daniel James Brown

New York Times Bestselling Author of "The Boys in the Boat"

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

Daniel Okrent

Journalist, Best-Selling Author & Former New York Times Public Editor

Spencer Wells

Geneticist, Anthropologist, Author, Entrepreneur, Adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Esmeralda Santiago

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Historical & Transcultural Novels and Memoirs

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Esther Dyson

Executive Founder of Way to Wellville

An Phung

Multimedia Journalist

Nicholas Lemann

Dean, Columbia Univ. School of Journalism

Ned Blackhawk

Professor of History & American Studies at Yale; Author of "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History"

Pardis Sabeti

Infectious Disease Expert & Professor at Harvard University

Mark Updegrove

Author; Historian; President & CEO of the LBJ Foundation

Carol Gilligan

Human Condition Psychologist & Ethicist; Founder of Difference Feminism

Arthur Herman

Renowned Historian, NY Times Bestselling Author & Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Alan Weisman

Journalist / Author

Rob Huebel

Actor, Comedian & Writer; Known for his Role in "Children's Hospital" and "Transparent"

John Harbison

Composer; Institute Prof. of Music, MIT