James Steinberg

Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State

Dana Gioia

Poet; Former Chairman, National Endowment of the Arts

John E. Deasy

Superintendent-in-Residence of The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems

Arne Duncan

Managing Partner at Emerson Collective; Former U.S. Secretary of Education

Melody Barnes

Executive Director Karsh Institute of Democracy at UVA, Professor at the Miller Center & Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council

Stephen Lewis

Celebrated Humanitarian and Former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa

Charles J. Ogletree

Legal Theorist / Mentor / Activist

Joel Klein

Lawyer, Author & Former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education

Lloyd Howell

Lloyd W. Howell, Jr. serves as Booz Allen Hamilton?s U.S. Government Capability Development Leader for Organization and Strategy (OS) and focuses on the organization design, organizational efficiency, strategic human capital, learning systems, and change

Austan Goolsbee

Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2010-2011) and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Jonah Edelman

Advocate for Public Education, CEO of Stand for Children

Steven Brill

Award-Winning Journalist and Author

Darren Walker

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

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Bill Gates

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

John Wood

Founder & Board Co-Chair of Room to Read; Former Microsoft Marketing Executive

Kurt Andersen

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

Connie Yowell

Senior Vice Chancellor for Educational Innovation at Northeastern University

Tobias Wolff

Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University

Claude Steele

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Joseph Nye

Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology (1977-1979)

Sendhil Mullainathan

Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth & Founder of ideas42

Dalia Mogahed

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

Noah Feldman

Harvard Law Professor, Artificial Intelligence & Ethics Thought Leader

Paul Ewald

After years of studying illness from the germs' point of view, microbiologist Paul Ewald believes that Big Pharma is wrong about some very big issues. What's right? The leader in evolutionary medicine posits radical new approaches.

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

Stuart Brown

Founder and President of The National Institute for Play

Carol Adelman

Carol Adelman is a senior fellow and director of Hudson's Center for Science in Public Policy, specializing in international development, foreign aid, trade and global health.

Larry Rosenstock

Founder & CEO of High Tech High; Former Lecturer at the Harvard School of Education

Michael L. Lomax

President and Chief Executive Officer, UNCF