Vanessa Ochs

Author of "Inventing Jewish Ritual", Winner of 2007 National Jewish Book Award, Professor of Religious Studies at University of Virginia

Jeannette Walls

Best-Selling Author of "The Glass Castle," an Amazon "Top 10 Books of the Decade"

Gail Wilensky

Economist, Healthcare Policy Reform Expert & Senior Fellow at Project Hope

Dennis Avery

Former Director, Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute

David Shipler

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Former Foreign Correspondent of The New York Times, Online Writer for The Shipler Report

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Uri Dadush

Senior Associate and Director, Carnegie's International Economics Program

Katherine Berman & Sophie LaMontagne

Co-founders of Georgetown Cupcake; Stars of the hit series "DC Cupcakes" on TLC; Best-selling Authors

George Ayittey

Economist, Authority on the development of Africa, Author