Story Musgrave, M.D.

Retired NASA Astronaut; Physician & Professor at Art Center College of Design

Sonia Sanchez

Renowned Scholar, Poet, Playwright & Activist

Pamela Ryckman

Keynote Speaker, Journalist and Author of "Stiletto Network"

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Award-Winning Author & Poet; Founder of Cedar Tree

Terry McMillan

New York Times Best-Selling Author Known for "Waiting to Exhale" & "How Stella Got Her Groove Back"

Chris Bliss

Commentator, American Satirist and Variety Performer

Clifton L. Taulbert

Author, Business Consultant, & Speaker; Best Known for "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored"

Lawrence Krauss

Theoretical Physicist, Author & Professor

Sherman Alexie

Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Performer

Dana Gioia

Poet; Former Chairman, National Endowment of the Arts

Augusten Burroughs

American Writer Known for his New York Times Bestselling Memoir Running with Scissors

David Bellos

Translator

Chris Hedges

Foreign Correspondent & Author

William Powers

Best-Selling Author of Hamlet's BlackBerry

Philip Yancey

Christian Author

David M. Kennedy

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian & Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University

Magnus Larsson

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

Judith Viorst

Poet, Writer & Children's Author

Robyn Meredith

Foreign Correspondent and Author, "The Elephant and the Dragon"

Orson Scott Card

Science Fiction Novelist; Best Known for his "Ender's Game" Series

Gary Thomas

Marriage, Pro-Life and Motivational Speaker

Sally Osberg

President and CEO, Skoll Foundation

Anita Diamant

Fiction & Non-Fiction Author; Best Known for "The Red Tent" and "The Boston Girl"

Erica Jong

Feminist, Social Critic, Poet & Author of "Fear of Dying"

Alex Michel

Digital Media Executive & Television Personality; Known as the First Star of ABC's "The Bachelor"

Lydia Davis

Acclaimed fiction writer and translator

Edwin Schlossberg

President & Principal Designer, ESI Design

Susan Herman

Constitutional Law Scholar; Former President of the American Civil Liberties Union

Judith Butler

Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Jabari Asim

Author, Poet, Playwright, & Associate Professor at Emerson College