Deanna Van Buren

Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

Manuel Lima

Interaction Designer, Information Architect & Design Researcher; Founder of VisualComplexity.com

Erik Spiekermann

Typographer & Designer; Founder of Galerie P98a; Partner at Edenspiekermann

Lori Cheek

Architect; Entrepreneur; Founder & CEO of Cheekd

Cesar Kuriyama

Director, Producer & TED Speaker; Known for 1 Second Everyday

Yang Liu

Chinese-German Artist & Designer

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Architect & Author of "A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America"

Damon Davis

Activist, Multimedia Artist, Musician & Filmmaker; Director of Whose Streets?

Don Levy

Media, Entertainment, and Technology Executive & Advisor

Alexa Meade

Mixed-Media Painter & Installation Artist

Jake Barton

Principal & Founder of Local Projects

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

Mixed Media Artist, Ted Senior Fellow

Deanna Marsigliese

Animation Art Director & Illustrator at Pixar Studios

Walter Hood

Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at UC Berkeley

Greg Lutze

VSCO Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer

Wayne Hemingway

English Fashion Designer and Co-Founder of Red or Dead

James Patten

TED Fellow, Interaction Designer, Inventor & Visual Artist

Michael Murphy

Innovative Architect; Trustee Emeritus and Co-Founder at MASS Design Group

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

Ed Gavagan

Owner of PraxisNYC

Khoi Vinh

Senior Director of Design at Adobe & Former Design Director for The New York Times

Bob Mankoff

Cartoon & Humor Editor; Humorist; President, CartoonCollections[.]com; Founder of The Cartoon Bank

Ali Carr-Chellman

Former Teacher; Now An Instructional Designer and Author on Effective Instruction on Learning

Karim Rashid

Renowned Cultural & Industrial Designer, Creativity & Innovation Expert, TV Host

Jen White-Johnson

Artist, Designer, Educator & Disability Rights Activist

Timothy Jacob Jensen

Industrial Designer & Professor

Alicia Eggert

Interdisciplinary Artist

Vince Kadlubek

CEO & Co-Founder of Meow Wolf

Alexis Hope

Designer & Researcher at MIT Media Lab, Expert in Creativity, Innovation & the Future of Work

Dread Scott

Artist Known for Controversial Exhibit "What Is the Proper Way to Display A U.S. Flag"

Jen Stark

Multi-medium Contemporary Artist