Van Jones

CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN host, Emmy Award-winning Producer & NY Times Best-Selling Author

Xernona Clayton

Civil Rights Leader, Broadcast Executive, Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington

Chief Environmental Research Scientist at Environmental Health Research Associates, LLC.

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

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Clayborne Carson

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Esther Dyson

Executive Founder of Way to Wellville

Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder & Former Executive Chairman of LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock

Ken Burns

Historian & Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

Jagdish N. Bhagwati

International Trade Theorist

Lidia Bastianich

Celebrity Chef, Author, Host of "Lidia's Kitchen"

William Easterly

Professor of Economics at New York University; Co-Director, Development Research Institute

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

Jimmy Carter

Former United States President (1977-1981), Author

Alan Dershowitz

Harvard Law School Professor; Leading Expert in Civil Rights

Alaina E. Roberts

Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

Peter van Manen

Electronic systems expert

Ric S. Sheffield

Author on Gender, Race & Ethnicity; Professor of Legal Studies and Sociology at Kenyon College

Keith Beauchamp

Emmy-Nominated Documentary Filmmaker

Christine Walker, MPPA

Founder of the Chasing Hope Foundation; Author, Professor & Expert on Public Policy

Bill George

Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, Best-Selling Leadership Author & Former CEO of Medtronic

Gillian Caldwell

CEO of Global Witness

Jonathan Haidt

Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University, Stern School of Business; Author of NYT Bestseller "The Righteous Mind"

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of M...

Julia Bolz

Women's Rights Activist

Carol Gilligan

Human Condition Psychologist & Ethicist; Founder of Difference Feminism

Melissa Chiu

Museum Director, Asia Society

Channing Gerard Joseph

Queer Culture Historian; 2022 TED Global Visionary; Award-Winning Journalist & Writer

Christopher Marquis

Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, University of Cambridge; Author of "The Profiteers", "Better Business" & "Mao and Markets"

Christopher Marquis on Social Entrepreneurship