Maysoon Zayid

Palestinian-American Actress, Writer, Comedian, Disability & Anti-Cyber Bullying Advocate

Linda Sarsour

Award-Winning Racial Justice & Civil Rights Activist; Community Organizer

Alaa Murabit

Architect of the Sustainable Development Goals, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Gates Foundation Director & UN High level Commissioner

Parag Khanna

Managing Partner at FutureMap; Strategic Advisor to Governments & Global Companies; Bestselling Author; TED Speaker

Nicholas Burns

Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy & International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

Andrea Mitchell

Host of MSNBC’s ”Andrea Mitchell Reports” & Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News

Marty Makary, M.D.

Healthcare Futurist, Johns Hopkins Surgeon & Professor of Public Health

Sara Minkara

Founder & CEO of Empowerment Through Integration

Fawzia Koofi

Former Member of the Afghan Parliament; International Advocate for Women's Rights

2023 Hands Lecture: Fawzia Koofi on What Next for Afghan Women

Asra Nomani

Journalist & Author, Women's Rights Activist

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Dan Abrams

Chief Legal Affairs Anchor at ABC News & Founder of Abrams Media

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Foreign Policy Expert, Author & CEO of New America Foundation

Hoda Kotb

Award-Winning Broadcast Journalist, Television Personality, Author & Co-Anchor of NBC News' TODAY

Malala Yousafzai

Youngest-Ever Nobel Prize Winner; Advocate for Girls' Education & Women's Equality; Author of the International Bestseller "I Am Malala"

Gail Harris

Highest Ranking African American Woman in the US Navy

Shirin Ebadi

Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Iranian Activist & Lawyer

André Aciman

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

Mariane Pearl

Widow of Journalist Daniel Pearl

Roya Hakakian

Iranian Poet, Journalist & Author