Robert Lacey

Author, "The Kingdom"

Louis-Philippe Loncke

European Adventurer 2016, Explorer, Motivational Speaker, Entrepreneur, Management Consultant

Nicholas Lemann

Dean, Columbia Univ. School of Journalism

Black Joe Lewis

American Blues, Funk and Soul Artist Influenced by Howlin' Wolf and James Brown

David Fiske

Expert on life of Solomon Northup

Christine Giri

Training Curriculum Developer at Health Net; Expert on Productivity & Time Management

Jean Pfaelzer

Professor of English, Asian Studies, Women’s Studies American Studies at the University of Delaware.

Richard Miniter

Author of 3 New York Times Best Sellers, Former Wall Street Journal Editorial Writer, and President of the American Media Institute

David Blight

Professor of History; Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University

Live Lecture: Yale Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Blight

Jurnee Smollett

Actress & Singer

Douglas Maughan

Cyber Security Division Director Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate Department of Homeland Security

Dr. Ronald Ferguson

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

Janice M. Sellers

Genealogy researcher and lecturer extraordinaire

Frances Jensen

Neurologist & Neuroscientist, Expert on Brain Development

Jennifer Healey

Senior Research Scientist, Intel Labs

Susan Petersen

Writer, speaker, genealogist specializing in sharing family history via technology

Morgan G. Ames

Research Scientist, Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, Department of Informatics, UC Irvine

Shenggen Fan

Director-General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA

Nigel Brandon

Director of the Sustainable Gas Institute (SGI)

Marc Brackett

Director at Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Rafael Yuste

Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Columbia University

Leslie Brinkley Lawson

Forensic genealogist, passionate about genealogy and reuniting families.

Carl June

Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies & Translational Research Translational Research, Abramson Cancer Center

Peter Girguis

Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard; Adjunct Research Engineer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Jamila Lyiscott

Tri-Tongue Orator Known for her TED Talk "3 Ways to Speak English"

John Hattie

Leader in Education

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Drug-Resistance Economist, Founder & Director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP)

Brenda Laurel

Independent Scholar & Consultant; Founder of the Graduate Design Program at California College of the Arts

Celinda Lake

President of Lake Research Partners, Leading Political Strategist for the Democratic Party & Author

Ernie Goss

An economist with a finger on the national and global economic pulse.