Juan Williams

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

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune

Sonia Nazario

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

Van Jones

CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN host, Emmy Award-winning Producer & NY Times Best-Selling Author

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

Roland Martin

Award-Winning Journalist & Media Personality, Author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith"

Don Lemon

Emmy Award-Winning News Anchor & Journalist, Author of "This Is The Fire"

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Shashi Tharoor

Diplomat & Author; Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General

Rebecca MacKinnon

Founding Director of Ranking Digital Rights

Spencer Wells

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

Kevin Powell

Writer, Humanitarian, President of BK Nation

Eric Etheridge

Author, Journalist & Photographer

Kurt Andersen

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

Montel Williams

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

Calvin Trillin

Author, Columnist, Humorist & Political Satirist

Stephen A. Smith

Sports Journalist, Analyst & Talk Show Host Known for "First Take"

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Tavis Smiley

Broadcaster, Author, Publisher, Advocate, and Philanthropist

Bobby Seale

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Diane Rehm

Radio Talk-Show Host

Parag Khanna

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

Ellis Cose

Award-Winning Journalist & Author

Linda Chavez

Political Commentator, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity & Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center

Donna Brazile

Veteran Political Strategist, Best-Selling Author & Former Interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Michael Beschloss

Presidential Historian, New York Times Columnist & Best-Selling Author

Bertice Berry

Sociologist, Author and Educator

Roberto Lovato

Author of the New York Times Editor's Choice Memoir "Unforgetting"

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas