Lori Cheek

Architect; Entrepreneur; Founder & CEO of Cheekd

Megan Kamerick

Immediate past president, Journalism & Women Symposium, producer on New Mexico PBS, independent radio producer.

Gemma Milne

Researcher, Writer, Author of "Smoke & Mirrors," Co-Host of the Radical Science podcast

Katharine Viner

Editor-in-Chief,of Guardian News & Media

Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Award-Winning Columnist

Brian Ross

Contributor to the Huffington Post, Managing Editor for Truth-2-Power.com and pioneering ezine editor of the first sports ezine, MLNSports

Martin Baron

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Executive Editor of the Washington Post

Jared Sichel

Jared is an award-winning journalist and senior writer for the Jewish Journal, one of the largest American Jewish newspapers. The LA Press Club awarded him 3rd prize for 2014 news story of the year for his coverage of the boycott of the Beverly Hills Hote

Sam Stein

White House Correspondent for Politico & MSNBC Contributor

Miriam Pawel

Author of "The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography"

Vann R. Newkirk II

Politics & Policy Staff Writer for the Atlantic

William McGurn

Columnist for The Wall Street Journal; Former Speechwriter for President George W. Bush

Free Expression Festival: A Conversation with William McGurn

Jeremy Cliffe

Berlin Bureau Chief for The Economist

Caryl Rivers

New York Times Best Selling Author; Journalist

David Brock

Journalist, Author & Democratic Political Activist; Founder of Media Matters for America

Greg Kaufmann

Journalist Covering Poverty in America; Contributing Writer at The Nation, Sr. Fellow at Center for American Progress

Oliver Darcy

Deputy Managing Editor for The Blaze

Philip Bump

Politics Writer at The Washington Post