Parag Khanna

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

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

Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune

John Legend

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Clay Shirky

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

Peter Rojas

Co-founder of Gizmodo and of Engadget

Jeffrey Israel

Author & Jewish Studies Professor at Williams College

Brian Hoffstein

Contributing Writer

Cody Adams

Managing Editor of The Floating University.

Raj Patel

Award-Winning Writer, Food Politics Activist, Filmmaker & Academic

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Majora Carter

Real Estate Developer, Peabody Award-Winning Broadcaster & Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant

An Phung

Multimedia Journalist

Daymond John

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

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

Ricky Gervais

Award-Winning English Comedian & Actor; Known for "The Office" and "Extras"

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

Neil Giuliano

Gay Rights Activist & President and CEO of Greater Pheonix Leadership

Baratunde Thurston

Futurist Comedian, Writer & Cultural Critic

Baratunde In Media

Kenneth Roth

Executive Director at Human Rights Watch

Jeff Jarvis

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

Ingrid Newkirk

President, PETA

Julia Bolz

Women's Rights Activist

Hill Harper

Best-Selling Author, Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist & Actor; Best Known For "CSI: NY" & "The Good Doctor"

Aubrey de Grey

Biomedical Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation; Researcher on Preventing Aging

Blake Mycoskie

Founder of TOMS, Social Entrepreneur & Author of NY Times Bestseller "Start Something That Matters"

Michael Walzer

Professor Emeritus, The Institute for Advanced Study

Steven Mazie

Associate Professor of Political Studies, Bard High School Early College