Gregory Maguire

Award-winning, Best-selling Author of the Wicked Years Novels

Melinda French Gates

Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Melinda French Gates' Brief But Spectacular take on making birth ...

Juan Williams

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

Dr. Ian Smith

Doctor, New York Times Bestselling Author, Medical Contributor & Host of "The Doctors"

Dr. Michio Kaku

World-Renowned Futurist & Theoretical Physicist

Daymond John

"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

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

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

David France

Director of Oscar-nominated documentary "How to Survive a Plague"; Award-winning Journalist, Best-selling Author

Charles R. Scott

National Geographic-featured Family Adventurer and United Nations Climate Hero

Bill Gates

Co-Founder of Microsoft; Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Tim Wise

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

Clay Shirky

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Renowned African Novelist & Speaker

Earvin “Magic” Johnson

Basketball Hall of Famer, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist & Motivational Speaker

Bakari Sellers

Author, Attorney, Political Commentator & Youngest African American Elected Official in the U.S.

John Legend

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Jeff Jarvis

Leader in the Development of Online News & Blogging; Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY

Steve Wozniak

Co-Founder of Apple Computer, Inc.

Montel Williams

Emmy Award-Winning Talk Show Host; Multiple Sclerosis Survivor; Health Equity & Veteran Advocate

Judith Viorst

Poet, Writer & Children's Author

Alvin Poussaint

Psychiatrist, Media Consultant & Author

Tony Plana

Actor & Director Known for "Ugly Betty;" Supporter of Comprehensive Immigration Reform; Advocate for Alzheimer's Disease

Cynthia Nixon

Actress Known for her Role as Miranda Hobbes on HBO's "Sex and the City"; Former Candidate for Governor of New York

Ralph Nader

Consumer Advocate, Lawyer & Author; Former Independent Presidential Candidate

Andrea Mitchell

Host of MSNBC’s "Andrea Mitchell Reports" & Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News

Andrea Mitchell - Celebrating 15 years of "Andrea Mitchell Reports"

Lisa Leslie

WNBA Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist & Author of "Don't Let the Lipstick Fool You;" Coach of Ice-Cube's BIG3 Basketball League

Tonya Lewis Lee

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

Tonya Lewis Lee on the Black maternal mortality crisis

Frans Johansson

Innovation Expert & Author of "The Medici Effect"