Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

Tonya Lewis Lee

Author, Producer, Filmmaker & Entrepreneur; Women's Health Activist

Tonya Lewis Lee on the Black maternal mortality crisis

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

Dana Gioia

Poet; Former Chairman, National Endowment of the Arts

Darren Walker

President of the Ford Foundation; Chair of the US Alliance on Impact Investing

HOW Insights — NEW

Charles J. Ogletree

Legal Theorist / Mentor / Activist

Sonia Nazario

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & Journalist; Author of "Enrique’s Journey"

Dalia Mogahed

President and CEO, Mogahed Consulting, LLC; Author, "Who Speaks for Islam?"

Jonathan Kozol

Educator & Social Justice Advocate

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Linda Ellerbee

Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

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

Sherman Alexie

Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, and Performer

Sandy Speicher

Education Lead, IDEO

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Clay Shirky

Expert on New Technology & Social Media, & How They Shape Culture; Professor & Distinguished Writer in Residence, NYU

Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune

Juan Williams

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Fox News Political Analyst, Co-Host of "The Five" & Award-Winning Columnist

Iris Krasnow

Best-Selling Author & Relationship Expert

John Legend

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Victoria Rowell

Actress, Producer, Director, Writer, American Ballet Theatre Alum & Founder of Rowell Foster Children's Positive Plan (RFCPP)

Spike Lee

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Kathy Ireland

CEO & Chief Lifestyle Designer of Kathy Ireland Worldwide; Supermodel & Health Advocate

Kathy Ireland - Anatomie interview

Judge Glenda Hatchett

Former Juvenile Court Judge & Star of "Judge Hatchett" and "The Verdict"

Noël Jones

Writer, Slam Poet, Former member of the 2000 National Poetry Slam Champion Team NYC-Urbana

Porochista Khakpour

Author of "The Last Illusion"

Sonia Nassery Cole

Filmmaker and Philanthropist

Lakshmi Karan

Executive Director, Genentech Foundation and Director, Global Strategy, at Riders for Health

Dan Savage

Advice Columnist & Host of the "Savage Lovecast" Podcast; LGBTQ Activist