Scott Dikkers

Founder of The Onion.com & Best-Selling Author

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan

The First Openly Transgender Official Appointed to Serve in the White House

John Lee Dumas

Host of EntrepreneurOnFire

Richard DeMillo

Director, Center for 21st Century Universities

Peter Bach

Director of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Center for Health Policy & Outcomes

K'wan Foye

Urban fiction author

Lauren Acampora

Author, "The Wonder Garden"

Sarai Walker

Author, "Dietland"

Aline Ohanesian

Author, "Orphan's Inheritance"

Jami Attenberg

Author; Known for "Saint Mazie" and "The Middlesteins"

Erika Swyler

Author, "The Book of Speculation"

Mary Norris

Copy Editor for The New Yorker; Known for "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Copy Queen"

Philip Connors

Author of "All The Wrong Places"

Tara Brach

Author & Mindfulness Teacher; Host of the "Tara Brach" Podcast

Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness

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'

Elevate Dance Crew

Jazz/HIp-Hop/Contemporary based Dance Group

Brad Gooch

Author of "Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the 70s and the 80s"

Bill Pennington

Journalist, Sportswriter and Author Known for "Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius"

Thomas Kunkel

Journalist and Author Known for "Man in Profile"

Jamie Brickhouse

Author of "Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir"

Jacob Soll

Historian of Early Modern Europe Who is Researching the Origins of the Modern State; Author of "The Reckoning"

Sally McKenney

Cookbook Author, Baker

Jocelyn Delk Adams

Food Blogger, National TV Personality & Bestselling Cookbook Author Known for "Grandbaby Cakes"

Allie Brosh

Blogger, "Hyperbole and a Half"

Madeline Stuart

First Professional Model with Down Syndrome

Madeline Stuart, World's 1st Professional Model w/ Down Syndrome ...

Lisa Petrilli

COO and CMO of the To Be A Woman Global Empowerment Platform, Author of "The Introvert's Guide to Success in Business & Leadership"

Alli Polin

Founder and CEO of Break the Frame

Shawn Murphy

CEO & Co-founder of Switch and Shift; Author of "The Optimistic Workplace"

James Gustave Speth

Environmental Lawyer and Advocate

Chava Willig Levy

Lecturer, Editor and Author; Known for "A Life Not With Standing"