Connie Yowell

Senior Vice Chancellor for Educational Innovation at Northeastern University

Tracy K. Smith

Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, 22nd Poet Laureate of the U.S. & Acclaimed Memoirist; Professor at Harvard University

'Here and Now, Elsewhere and Before: A Talk and Reading on Poetry and Time'

Kenneth J. Sufka

Award-winning Teacher and Researcher, College “A-Grade” Expert

John C. Goodman

President & CEO of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research; Former CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis

Ruth Chang

Professor of Philosophy, Author and Editor

General Anthony Zinni

Former United States Marine Corps General & Former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command

Dr. Jerry LeMieux

President of Unmanned Vehicle University; Drone Expert

William Poole, Ph.D.

Senior Advisor, Merk Investments and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute

Makoto Fujimura

Artist, Writer & Speaker Known for his "Slow Art"

Tom Coburn

Renee Engeln

Psychologist & Body Image Researcher at Northwestern University, Body and Media Lab Director

Richard D. Wolff

Author, Economist & Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ashley Merryman

With Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman is the co-author of NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children.

Peter Bach

Director of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Center for Health Policy & Outcomes

Cameron Munter

US Ambassador to Pakistan (2010-2012) and Serbia (2007-2009); Academic and Tactical Expert in Domestic and Foreign Affairs

Henry Giroux

Scholar and Cultural Critic

Miguel Nicolelis

Leading Neuroscientist At the Nicolelis Laboratory at Duke University

Curtis J. Bonk

Curt Bonk is Professor at Indiana University and adjunct in the School of Informatics. He is also President of CourseShare

Dr. Beth Harry

Professor and Chair, Department of Teaching and Learning

George Siemens

Writer, Theorist & Researcher, Originator of Connectivism Theory