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Architect; Entrepreneur; Founder & CEO of Cheekd

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Children's Book Author; President & CEO at Compendium Inc.

Ed Gavagan

Owner of PraxisNYC

Cesar Kuriyama

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

Linda Darling-Hammond

CEO of Learning Policy Institute & Founder of the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education; Leader of President Obama’s Education Policy Transition Team

Ashley Whittaker

Renowned Interior Designer & Bestselling Author of "The Well-Loved House"

Melissa Baron

Author of "Twice in a Lifetime"

Deanna Van Buren

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

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

Jon Kolko

Author, Writer, Designer, Director, Founder.

Julian Baggini

Julian Baggini is the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience. He is the author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosophers' Magazine.

Jon Bergmann

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Bart Knols

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Don Levy

Media, Entertainment, and Technology Executive & Advisor

Jake Barton

Principal & Founder of Local Projects

Edwin Schlossberg

President & Principal Designer, ESI Design

Ali Carr-Chellman

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

Scott Berkun

Bestselling Author of "Making Things Happen" & "The Myths of Innovation"

Ellis Cose

Award-Winning Journalist & Author

Mitch Teemley

Writer, Filmmaker & Humorist; Best Known for his Multi-Award-Winning Feature Films "Healing River" & "Notzilla"

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Leah Scheier, MD

Novelist & Pediatrician

Tamara Day

Host of Magnolia Network's "Bargain Mansions"

Erik Therwanger

Founder of Think GREAT, Author of "The Think GREAT Collection" & Former U.S. Marine

Unleash Your Business Warrior: Military Tactics for Business Victories

Tatanka Means

Native American Actor & Stand-Up Comedian

Anita Archer

Educational Consultant, Author of "Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching"

David Mead

Pop Singer-Songwriter

Temple Grandin

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

TEMPLE GRANDIN on the Three Kinds of Kids

Kym Worthy

First African-American Woman to Serve as a County Prosecutor in Michigan

Carol Geary Schneider

Fellow, Lumina Foundation; Former President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Bianca Lager

CEO of Fundamentals At Work