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

Robert Greene

New York Times Bestselling Author of "The 48 Laws of Power," "The Art of Seduction," "The 33 Strategies of War," and "The 50th Law"

Parag Khanna

Managing Partner at FutureMap; Strategic Advisor to Governments & Global Companies; Bestselling Author; TED Speaker

Dan Ariely

Behavioral Economist; Professor at Duke University; Author; Founding Member of The Center for Advanced Hindsight

Rob Riemen

Founder, Nexus Institute

Stephen Jay Greenblatt

Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Peter Thiel

Former CEO and Co-founder of PayPal; Technology Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist

Karen Abbott

Bestselling Author of "Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy"

David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker

Michael Lewis

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

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune

Moby

Musician, DJ, Photographer

Kurt Andersen

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

Calvin Trillin

Author, Columnist, Humorist & Political Satirist

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

David Chang

Founder & Chef of Momofuku Restaurant Group

Cody Adams

Managing Editor of The Floating University.

Jeffrey Israel

Author & Jewish Studies Professor at Williams College

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Spencer Wells

Geneticist, Anthropologist, Author, Entrepreneur, Adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Tim O'Brien

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist for "The Things They Carried"

Noam Chomsky

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT & Foreign Policy Author

Professor Richard Dawkins

Evolutionary Biologist & Best-Selling Author

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Co-Founder & CEO of VaynerMedia

Day Trading Attention: How to Actually Build Brand and Sales in the New Social Media World

Graham Hill

Founder of Life Edited & TreeHugger.com

John Legend

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Sebastian Copeland

Adventurer, Environmental Activist, Award-Winning Photographer, Author, Lecturer & Founder of the Sedna Foundation

Dr. Cornel West

Philosopher, Professor, Political Activist & Author of "Race Matters"; 2024 People's Party Presidential Candidate

Gloria Steinem

Feminist Writer, Activist & Organizer; Co-Founder of New York Magazine & Ms. Magazine