Tim O'Brien

Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist for "The Things They Carried"

Virginia Postrel

Author & Columnist; Writes on The Intersection of Commerce & Culture

Marina Adshade

Author of "Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love"

Nik Bonaddio

Founder and CEO of Big Brain; Founder and Former CEO of numberFire

Dave Zirin

NYT Best-Selling Author & Sports Columnist

Jeffrey Israel

Author & Jewish Studies Professor at Williams College

Cory Doctorow

Science Fiction Author, Tech Activist & Co-Editor of Boing Boing

Kenneth Roth

Executive Director at Human Rights Watch

David Bellos

Translator

Andrew Cohen

Founder, EnlightenNext

Robyn Meredith

Foreign Correspondent and Author, "The Elephant and the Dragon"

Edward Tenner

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

Lisa Witter

Partner and Chief Change Officer, Fenton

Interview Lisa Witter (English)

Julie Klausner

Podcaster, Comedy Writer-Performer, "Difficult People," and Author of "I Don't Care About Your Band"

Amanda Russell

Digital Marketing & Branding Strategist, Professor (UCLA), Author, Youtube Influencer

Lucy Alibar

The movie that Alibar cowrote, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah; at Cannes in May, where it was given a 15-minute standing ovation, it scored the Camra dOr prize for best first feature.

Paul Rieckhoff

Founder and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA); Author, "Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq"

Neil Giuliano

Gay Rights Activist & President and CEO of Greater Pheonix Leadership

Joel Klein

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

Kurt Andersen

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