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Author / Filmmaker

Josh Lieb

Executive Producer, "The Daily Show"

Julia Bolz

Women's Rights Activist

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Jason Kottke

Designer of Silkscreen Typeface, Lifetime Achievement Award Blogger

Jonathan Safran Foer

Bestselling Author of "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

Nicholas Carr

Writer on the Intersection of Technology, Economics & Culture; Author "The Shallows" & "The Glass Cage"

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

Maria Popova

Editor of Brain Pickings; Author of "Figuring"

Ricky Gervais

Award-Winning English Comedian & Actor; Known for "The Office" and "Extras"

Jonathan Haidt

Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University, Stern School of Business; Author of NYT Bestseller "The Righteous Mind"

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Esther Dyson

Executive Founder of Way to Wellville

Andrew Carmellini

Award-Winning Chef & Restaurateur

Marc Bessler

Obesity Expert, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Benji Goldsmith

Student, Hunter College High School; Composer

Richard Gelles

Dean of The School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Kupperman

Comic Artist

Noam Chomsky

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT & Foreign Policy Author

Kay Redfield Jamison

International Authority & Researcher On Mental Illness

Thom Filicia

Interior & Product Designer Known for "Queer Eye for The Straight Guy"

Gloria Estefan

Grammy Award-Winning Latin Musician

Joseph Zuckerman

Professor & Chair, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NYU’s Hospital for Joint Diseases

Jennifer Rubell

Food & Entertaining Writer; Cookbook Author

Tom Freston

Principal, Firefly3; Former CEO, Viacom Inc.

Adam Platt

Restaurant Critic, New York Magazine

Donald Rubin

Co-Founder, Rubin Museum of Art

Kadam Morten

Buddhist Teacher

Jonathan Ames

Author / Creator, "Bored to Death"

James Sherman

Founder & CEO, Shermans Travel Media

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Editor & Publisher of The Nation