Garry Trudeau

American Cartoonist, Creator of Doonsebury, and Executive Producer

Danielle Feinberg

Director of Photography at Pixar Animation Studios; STEM Advocate & Supporter of Girls Who Code

Tracy K. Smith

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, 22nd Poet Laureate of the U.S. & Acclaimed Memoirist; Professor at Harvard University

'Here and Now, Elsewhere and Before: A Talk and Reading on Poetry and Time'

Hilton Als

Novelist & Journalist Focusing on Cultural Topics

Colm Toibin

Award-winning Irish Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Playwright, Journalist, Critic and Poet; Author of "Brooklyn"

Francoise Mouly

Art Editor of The New Yorker; Co-Founder & Co-Editor of Raw Books & Graphics

Luis Rodriguez

Official Poet Laureate of Los Angeles; Poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist.

Maira Kalman

Author and illustrator