Mary Fons

Quilting Expert, Freelance Author and Popular Blogger

Kip Thorne

Nobel Prize Winning Theoretical Physicist & Author, "The Science of Interstellar"

Tom Kizzia

Alaskan Writer and Journalist; "Pilgrim's Wilderness"

Ntozake Shange

Fearless poet, playwright and Obie Award-winning author has given women and girls of color honest, inspiring visions of themselves — she motivates audiences to find the strength and courage to “walk like a lion”

Lisa Dodson

Award winning author of The Moral Underground: A Silent Movement for Economic Justice which shares stories of the ordinary citizens who bend the rules to help the working poor in our deeply divided economy.

Greg McKeown

CEO of THIS Inc. & Best-Selling Author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less"

Will Allen

Pioneer in the Urban Farming Movement, Author & Founder of Growing Power

David Thornburg

Award-Winning Futurist, Author & Educational Consultant

Ruby Payne

Founder of aha! Process, Inc. & Author of "A Framework for Understanding Poverty"

Amy DuBois Barnett

Chief Content Officer, theGrio.com & EVP Digital, Entertainment Studios

Elizabeth Cohen

Senior Correspondent for the CNN Health, Medical, & Wellness Unit

Elizabeth Cohen - CNN news story on baby formula shortage

B. Gentry Lee

Chief Engineer for Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Rick Ridgeway

Environmentalist, Mountaineer, Expedition Author, Former VP of Environmental Initiatives & Special Projects at Patagonia

Dean Karlan

Behavioral Economist, Social Entrepreneur & Author

Leonard Mlodinow

Theoretical Physicist, Author, Recognized for Groundbreaking Discoveries in Physics

Todd Henry

Founder of Accidental Creative, Author of "The Accidental Creative," "Die Empty" & "Louder than Words"

Scott Schuman "The Sartorialist"

Founder, The Sartorialist

Rye Barcott

Co-Founder & CEO of With Honor, Veteran and Author of "It Happened on the Way to War"

Gary Hirshberg

Co-Founder & Chief Organic Optimist of Stonyfield Farm

Robin Wright

Foreign Policy Analyst, Journalist & Author of "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World"