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Scientist, Educator, Founder & Professor in Microbiome and Virome Sciences

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Founding Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Professor at Princeton University

Alex Epstein

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

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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

Daniel Okrent

Journalist, Best-Selling Author & Former New York Times Public Editor

Martha Nussbaum

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

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Geneticist, Anthropologist, Author, Entrepreneur, Adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Francis Fukuyama

Global Affairs Thought-leader and Professor; Author and Global Economy Expert

Defying Authoritarianism with the Resilient Power of Democracy

Esther Dyson

Executive Founder of Way to Wellville

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Multimedia Journalist

Nicholas Lemann

Dean, Columbia Univ. School of Journalism

Susan Schneider

NASA-Baruch Blumberg Chair at the Library of Congress , Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist & Author of "Artificial You: AI and the Future of the Mind"

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Pardis Sabeti

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Daniel Dennett

Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University

Carol Gilligan

Human Condition Psychologist & Ethicist; Founder of Difference Feminism

Michael Gazzaniga

President of the Cognitive Neuroscientist Institute & Author of "Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience"

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

George Rupp

President & CEO, International Rescue Committee

Farnaz Fassihi

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Alan Weisman

Journalist / Author

Rob Huebel

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John Harbison

Composer; Institute Prof. of Music, MIT

Ronen Bergman

Investigative Journalist

Jacques Pépin

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David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker

Michael Walzer

Professor Emeritus, The Institute for Advanced Study

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Peter Rojas

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President, PETA