Rhiannon Giddens

Grammy-Winning & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Folk Singer Reclaiming African-American Musical Traditions

Svetlana Kim

Speaker, Radio Talk Show Host, Author, Certified Hypnotherapist (CHt), and "Vibrational Meditation" Instructor.

Alan Dershowitz

Harvard Law School Professor; Leading Expert in Civil Rights

Emma Watson

Actress, Model & Activist; UN Women Goodwill Ambassador; Co-Founder of the HeForShe Campaign

Naima Coster

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Pat Mitchell

Editorial Director & Host of TEDWomen; Co-Chair of the Women's Media Center; Former President of CNN Productions & PBS

Judge Lynn Toler

TV Personality, Lawyer, Author, & Former Arbitrator on "Divorce Court"

Ric S. Sheffield

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

Helen Egger

Founder, WonderLab & Chair of the Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU Langone Health

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Stacy London

Stylist, Author, Magazine Editor, Known for her role as Co-Host of TLC's "What Not to Wear"

Nicholas Carr

Writer on the Intersection of Technology, Economics & Culture; Author "The Shallows" & "The Glass Cage"

Roxy Azari

Spoken Word Artist, Slam Poet & Social Justice Activist

Clifton L. Taulbert

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

Sonia Sanchez

Renowned Scholar, Poet, Playwright & Activist

Evelyn Hu-DeHart

Professor of History; Director of the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America at Brown University

Why Are There So Many Asians in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Erica Jong

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

Judith Viorst

Poet, Writer & Children's Author

James Patterson

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

Sebastian Junger

Award-Winning Journalist, Documentarian, New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Perfect Storm" and "On Homecoming and Belonging"

Holly Robinson Peete

TV Personality & Autism Advocate

Diane Rehm

Radio Talk-Show Host

Gene Luen Yang

National Ambassador for Young People's Literature & Chinese-American Graphic Novelist

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

Kenji Yoshino

Professor at NYU School of Law & Author; Director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

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Marie Osmond

Singer, Host, TV Personality & Author of "Behind The Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression"

Lois Smart

Mother of Elizabeth Smart; Activist, Author, and Educator

Audrey Watters

Journalist Specialized in Education Technology News and Analysis

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.

Rachelle Lefevre

Rachelle Lefevre is a Canadian actress. She played the vampire Victoria Sutherland in the first two films of the Twilight saga

Terry McMillan

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