Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Van Jones

CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN host, Emmy Award-winning Producer & NY Times Best-Selling Author

Michael Lewis

Best-Selling Author of "The Fifth Risk", "Moneyball", and "The Big Short"

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Carol Gilligan

Human Condition Psychologist & Ethicist; Founder of Difference Feminism

Julia Bolz

Women's Rights Activist

Rasika Welankiwar

Writer

Jason Kottke

Designer of Silkscreen Typeface, Lifetime Achievement Award Blogger

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

Jennifer Rubell

Food & Entertaining Writer; Cookbook Author

Caroline Hirsch

Owner, Carolines on Broadway

Melissa Chiu

Museum Director, Asia Society

Bonnie Timmerman

Casting Agent; Author

James McManus

James McManus is a novelist and free-lance journalist who writes with a scholarly insight and an edgy style.

Dana Gioia

Poet; Former Chairman, National Endowment of the Arts

Ricky Gervais

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

Andrew Carmellini

Award-Winning Chef & Restaurateur

Ken Burns

Historian & Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Lidia Bastianich

Celebrity Chef, Author, Host of "Lidia's Kitchen"

Josh Lieb

Executive Producer, "The Daily Show"

Adam Platt

Restaurant Critic, New York Magazine

David Maine

Author

Alaa Al Aswany

Author

Ryan McGinness

Artist

Hilda Huang

Pianist

Alan Gilbert

Music Director of the New York Philharmonic

Marilynne Robinson

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Noam Chomsky

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT & Foreign Policy Author

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

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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