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Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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President & CEO of the Opportunity Institute, Former U.S. Presidential Advisor to Bill Clinton, Co-Founder of Nueva Vista Group

Jonathan Kozol

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Laura Snyder

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Dr. Tierney Thys

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Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

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Lisa Kristine

Internationally Recognized Fine-Art Photographer, Humanitarian & Activist

Marla Spivak

Entomologist; Focused on Practical Applications to Protect Honey Bee Populations

Kathryn Edin

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Claude Steele

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

Peter Girguis

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

James Garbarino

Author, Psychologist, Expert on Violence & Children; Senior Faculty Fellow, Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University

Edward Tenner

Smithsonian Institution Distinguished Scholar & Author of "Why Things Bite Back" and "Our Own Devices"

Dr. Heather Knight

Creative Inventor & Specialist in Human-Robot Interaction

Robert Kriegel

Expert in Sports & Performance Psychology

Dr. Laura Berman

Sex Educator, Therapist & Researcher

Eduardo Bonilla Silva

Professor of Sociology at Duke University & Author of "Racism without Racists"

Bart Knols

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Maria Flynn

Founder & CEO, Ambiologix; Co-Founder & Advisory Board Chair, Digital Health KC; Author, "Make Opportunity Happen"