Chava Willig Levy

Lecturer, Editor and Author; Known for "A Life Not With Standing"

N. Katherine Hayles

Postmodern Literary Critic

Mark F. Twight

Alpine Mountaineer & Founder of Gym Jones

Mimi Pond

Illustrator/Cartoonist known for work in The Simpsons, National Lampoon, NY Times

Lucy Calkins

Robinson Professor in Children's Literature; Founding Director of the Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University's Teachers College

Alex Webb

Photographer with Magnum Photos

Ellen Forney

Cartoonist & Author of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian"

Danielle Bochove

Business and Financial Television Host

Kyi May Kaung

Speaking Truth to Power--

Liam Dryden

Scottish Internet Personality; Known as a Part of the Band Chameleon Circuit and as Kai in "Chronicles of Syntax"

Paula Vogel

Pulitzer Winning Playwright for "How I Learned to Drive" and Tony Award Nominated "Indecent"; Former Head of the Yale School of Drama Playwriting Department

Patricia Reilly Giff

Two-time Newbery Honor Winning Author of "Lily's Crossing" and "Pictures of Hollis Woods"

R. Dwayne Betts

Founder of Freedom Reads, Poet, Author, Memoirist & Teacher

Michael Nagler

Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature

Gerald Vizenor

Writer, Scholar & Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Award-Winning Voice in Chicana Literature, Feminist & Activist Poet

Jane Yolen

Author, Editor & Writer of Fantasy, Science Fiction & Children's Books

Julian Baggini

Julian Baggini is the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is the author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosophers' Magazine.

Nancy Kruse

Nancy Kruse, President of The Kruse Company in Atlanta GA, is the best known and most widely quoted menu analyst in the restaurant industry.

Sahar Delijani

Iranian Author Best Known for "Children of the Jacaranda Tree"

Jill McCorkle

Short Story Writer & Novelist

Harold McGee

Renowned and Award-Winning Chemist & Author on Food and Cooking

John C Comisi, DDS, MAGD

Speaker, Author, Key Opinion Leader. President & CEO of Dental Care with a Difference ®, PC, Where "Knowledge brings Health ®"

M.T. Anderson

Novelist, Winner of the National Book Award

Michael Perelman

Sex Therapist

Stephen Jay Greenblatt

Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Dr. Ruth Simmons

President of Prairie View A&M University & Former President Emerita of Brown University

Up Home: One Girl's Journey

Neal Gabler

Author, Cultural Historian and Television Commentator

Sanford Levinson

W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair Professor of Government, The University of Texas School of Law

Magnus Larsson

Sustainable Architect & TED Talker; Seeks to Turn Harsh Landscapes into Habitable Structures