Dr. Afiya Fredericks

Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of the District of Columbia; Growth Mindset Expert

Alex Epstein

Founder, Center for Industrial Progress Author, Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet

Alexa Clay

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Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Martha Nussbaum

Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago

Carl Pope

Senior Advisor to UN Envoy for Cities and Climate; Former CEO and Chairman of the Sierra Club

Glenn Loury

Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences & Professor of Economics at Brown University

Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

David M. Kennedy

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

Nicholas Lemann

Dean, Columbia Univ. School of Journalism

Pardis Sabeti

Infectious Disease Expert & Professor at Harvard University

Daniel Dennett

Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University

Lisa Randall

Award-Winning Physicist & Author

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

George Rupp

President & CEO, International Rescue Committee

A.C. Grayling

Best-Selling Author & Leading Commentator on Education, Philosophy, Corporate Ethics and Biomedicine

George Kohlrieser

Organizational, Clinical & Police Psychologist; Former Hostage Negotiator

Farnaz Fassihi

Senior Writer, Former Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal

Alan Weisman

Journalist / Author

Dov Zakheim

Fmr. Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)

Sharon Gannon

Co-Founder, Jivamukti Yoga

John Harbison

Composer; Institute Prof. of Music, MIT