Hugh Acheson Chef & Restaurateur • Judge, Top Chef • Author, A New Turn in the South
Edward Albee Playwright
Mitch Albom Author, Have a Little Faith • Sports Columnist
Elizabeth Alexander Poet • Chair of African American Studies & Professor, Yale University
Sherman Alexie Author • Poet • Screenwriter
Marin Alsop Conductor • Music Director, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Ken Auletta Author, Googled • Media Columnist, The New Yorker
Maziar Bahari Journalist • Filmmaker and Former Political Prisoner
Richard Boyatzis Author, Primal Leadership & Resonant Leadership • Professor • Emotional Intelligence Expert
Avraham Burg Former Speaker of the Knesset • Author • Peace Advocate
James Burke Science Historian • Author • TV Host/Writer/Producer • Connections
John F. Burns Chief Foreign Correspondent and London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Ric Burns Documentary Filmmaker, Writer & Producer, PBS
Henry Cisneros Housing Innovator • Executive Chairman, CityView • Former Secretary of HUD
Glenn Close Award-Winning Actress
Amy Dickinson Syndicated Advice Columnist, "Ask Amy" • Commentator, NPR
Joan Didion Author, The Year of Magical Thinking
Nora Ephron Film Director • Screenwriter • Author • Journalist
Susan Estrich Legal & Political Commentator • Author • Law Professor
Admiral William Fallon Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired) • Former Commander, U.S. Central Command • Chairman, CounterTack, Inc.
Jules Feiffer Pulitzer Prize-winning Cartoonist • Children's Book Author & Illustrator • Playwright
Bruce Feiler Author, Walking the Bible, Abraham, and The Council of Dads
Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist • Chief Scientific Advisor to Chemistry.com • Professor • Author
Thomas L. Friedman Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times • Author, The World is Flat; That Used to Be Us
Carlos Fuentes Author • Statesman • Scholar
Nancy Giles CBS Sunday Morning Contributor • Comedian • Actress
Carol Gilligan Psychologist • Professor • Author, In a Different Voice and The Birth of Pleasure
Daniel Goleman Author, Emotional Intelligence • Psychologist
Brian Greene Physicist & String Theorist • Author, The Elegant Universe
Jeff Greenfield Journalist • Author, Then Everything Changed • Anchor, Need to Know
John Grogan Author, Marley & Me • Former Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Mireille Guiliano Author, French Women Don't Get Fat • Former President & CEO, Clicquot, Inc.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett President, Center for Talent Innovation • Economist • Author, Top Talent
John Irving Novelist • Screenwriter
Kay Redfield Jamison Author, An Unquiet Mind • Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine • Mental Health Advocate
Jamaica Kincaid Writer • Novelist • Professor
Joe Klein Columnist, Time • Author, Politics Lost
Robert Krulwich Co-Host, NPR Radio Lab • Correspondent, NPR Science Unit • ABC News Special Correspondent
Louise Leakey Paleontologist • National Geographic Explorer-in-residence
Meave Leakey Paleoanthropologist • Zoologist
Richard Leakey Paleoanthropologist • Conservationist • Activist
Nancy Lublin CEO, DoSomething.org • Founder, Dress for Success • Social Media Expert
Patti LuPone Tony Award Winning Actress • Author
Kishore Mahbubani Author, The New Asian Hemisphere • Dean and Professor, National University of Singapore • Financial Times A-List Contributor
Michael Mandelbaum Author, That Used to Be Us • Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Camryn Manheim Emmy Award-winning Actress • Social Activist
Annie McKee Founder, Teleos Leadership Institute • Author, Resonant Leadership & Primal Leadership • Emotional Intelligence Expert
Jon Meacham Presidential Historian • Author, American Lion
Joel Meyerowitz Photographer • Creator, The World Trade Center Archive
N. Scott Momaday Author • Native American Scholar • Poet
Walter Mosley Mystery Writer • Novelist • Social Commentator
Nader Mousavizadeh CEO, Oxford Analytica • Columnist, Reuters
Sylvia Nasar Author, A Beautiful Mind and Grand Pursuit • Knight Professor of Business Journalism, Columbia University
Charles Osgood Anchor, CBS Sunday Morning • Creator, The Osgood File
Elaine Pagels Author, The Gnostic Gospels • Religious Historian • Scholar
Jacques Pepin Chef • Author • Dean, The French Culinary Institute
Harold Prince Tony Award-Winning Theater Director
Anna Quindlen Novelist • Social Critic
Joshua Cooper Ramo Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates • China Specialist • Author, The Age of the Unthinkable
Ruth Reichl Author • Food Critic • Former Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet • Judge, Top Chef Masters
Joan Rivers Comedian • TV Host • CEO and Founder, Joan Rivers Worldwide
Linda Rottenberg CEO and Co-founder, Endeavor
Douglas Rushkoff Author • CNN Commentator • Media Theorist
Burt Rutan Aerospace Engineer, SpaceShipOne • Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Scaled Composites
Michael Sandel Professor, Harvard University • Author, Justice
David E. Sanger Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times • Author, The Inheritance
Barry Scheck Attorney • DNA Expert • Co-Founder, The Innocence Project
Alice Schroeder Author, The Snowball • Columnist, Bloomberg News • Contributing Writer, BusinessWeek
Anna Deavere Smith Playwright • Actor • Professor
Paul Solman Business and Economics Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Andrew Ross Sorkin Author, Too Big To Fail • Financial Columnist, The New York Times • Founder & Editor-at-Large, DealBook • Co-Host, CNBC’s Squawk Box
Eliot Spitzer Former Governor of New York
James B. Stewart Columnist, The New York Times • Author, Den of Thieves
Andrew Sullivan Blogger & Editor, The Daily Dish • Contributing Writer, Newsweek
Ronan Tynan Irish Tenor • Recording Artist • Physician • Champion Disabled Athlete
Terry Waite Humanitarian • Hostage Negotiator • Author, Taken on Trust
Andrew Weil Physician • Author, Healthy Aging & Spontaneous Healing • Director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
Naomi Wolf Author, The Beauty Myth • Columnist, The Guardian • Political Activist
BD Wong Tony Award-winning Actor
Fareed Zakaria CNN Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS • Editor-at-Large, TIME • Columnist, The Washington Post
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Hugh Acheson Chef & Restaurateur • Judge, Top Chef • Author, A New Turn in the South
Edward Albee Playwright
Mitch Albom Author, Have a Little Faith • Sports Columnist
Elizabeth Alexander Poet • Chair of African American Studies & Professor, Yale University
Sherman Alexie Author • Poet • Screenwriter
Marin Alsop Conductor • Music Director, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Ken Auletta Author, Googled • Media Columnist, The New Yorker
Maziar Bahari Journalist • Filmmaker and Former Political Prisoner
Richard Boyatzis Author, Primal Leadership & Resonant Leadership • Professor • Emotional Intelligence Expert
Avraham Burg Former Speaker of the Knesset • Author • Peace Advocate
James Burke Science Historian • Author • TV Host/Writer/Producer • Connections
John F. Burns Chief Foreign Correspondent and London Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Ric Burns Documentary Filmmaker, Writer & Producer, PBS
Henry Cisneros Housing Innovator • Executive Chairman, CityView • Former Secretary of HUD
Glenn Close Award-Winning Actress
Amy Dickinson Syndicated Advice Columnist, "Ask Amy" • Commentator, NPR
Joan Didion Author, The Year of Magical Thinking
Nora Ephron Film Director • Screenwriter • Author • Journalist
Susan Estrich Legal & Political Commentator • Author • Law Professor
Admiral William Fallon Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired) • Former Commander, U.S. Central Command • Chairman, CounterTack, Inc.
Jules Feiffer Pulitzer Prize-winning Cartoonist • Children's Book Author & Illustrator • Playwright
Bruce Feiler Author, Walking the Bible, Abraham, and The Council of Dads
Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist • Chief Scientific Advisor to Chemistry.com • Professor • Author
Thomas L. Friedman Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times • Author, The World is Flat; That Used to Be Us
Carlos Fuentes Author • Statesman • Scholar
Nancy Giles CBS Sunday Morning Contributor • Comedian • Actress
Carol Gilligan Psychologist • Professor • Author, In a Different Voice and The Birth of Pleasure
Daniel Goleman Author, Emotional Intelligence • Psychologist
Brian Greene Physicist & String Theorist • Author, The Elegant Universe
Jeff Greenfield Journalist • Author, Then Everything Changed • Anchor, Need to Know
John Grogan Author, Marley & Me • Former Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Mireille Guiliano Author, French Women Don't Get Fat • Former President & CEO, Clicquot, Inc.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett President, Center for Talent Innovation • Economist • Author, Top Talent
John Irving Novelist • Screenwriter
Kay Redfield Jamison Author, An Unquiet Mind • Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine • Mental Health Advocate
Jamaica Kincaid Writer • Novelist • Professor
Joe Klein Columnist, Time • Author, Politics Lost
Robert Krulwich Co-Host, NPR Radio Lab • Correspondent, NPR Science Unit • ABC News Special Correspondent
Louise Leakey Paleontologist • National Geographic Explorer-in-residence
Meave Leakey Paleoanthropologist • Zoologist
Richard Leakey Paleoanthropologist • Conservationist • Activist
Nancy Lublin CEO, DoSomething.org • Founder, Dress for Success • Social Media Expert
Patti LuPone Tony Award Winning Actress • Author
Kishore Mahbubani Author, The New Asian Hemisphere • Dean and Professor, National University of Singapore • Financial Times A-List Contributor
Michael Mandelbaum Author, That Used to Be Us • Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Camryn Manheim Emmy Award-winning Actress • Social Activist
Annie McKee Founder, Teleos Leadership Institute • Author, Resonant Leadership & Primal Leadership • Emotional Intelligence Expert
Jon Meacham Presidential Historian • Author, American Lion
Joel Meyerowitz Photographer • Creator, The World Trade Center Archive
N. Scott Momaday Author • Native American Scholar • Poet
Walter Mosley Mystery Writer • Novelist • Social Commentator
Nader Mousavizadeh CEO, Oxford Analytica • Columnist, Reuters
Sylvia Nasar Author, A Beautiful Mind and Grand Pursuit • Knight Professor of Business Journalism, Columbia University
Charles Osgood Anchor, CBS Sunday Morning • Creator, The Osgood File
Elaine Pagels Author, The Gnostic Gospels • Religious Historian • Scholar
Jacques Pepin Chef • Author • Dean, The French Culinary Institute
Harold Prince Tony Award-Winning Theater Director
Anna Quindlen Novelist • Social Critic
Joshua Cooper Ramo Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates • China Specialist • Author, The Age of the Unthinkable
Ruth Reichl Author • Food Critic • Former Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet • Judge, Top Chef Masters
Joan Rivers Comedian • TV Host • CEO and Founder, Joan Rivers Worldwide
Linda Rottenberg CEO and Co-founder, Endeavor
Douglas Rushkoff Author • CNN Commentator • Media Theorist
Burt Rutan Aerospace Engineer, SpaceShipOne • Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Scaled Composites
Michael Sandel Professor, Harvard University • Author, Justice
David E. Sanger Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times • Author, The Inheritance
Barry Scheck Attorney • DNA Expert • Co-Founder, The Innocence Project
Alice Schroeder Author, The Snowball • Columnist, Bloomberg News • Contributing Writer, BusinessWeek
Anna Deavere Smith Playwright • Actor • Professor
Paul Solman Business and Economics Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Andrew Ross Sorkin Author, Too Big To Fail • Financial Columnist, The New York Times • Founder & Editor-at-Large, DealBook • Co-Host, CNBC’s Squawk Box
Eliot Spitzer Former Governor of New York
James B. Stewart Columnist, The New York Times • Author, Den of Thieves
Andrew Sullivan Blogger & Editor, The Daily Dish • Contributing Writer, Newsweek
Ronan Tynan Irish Tenor • Recording Artist • Physician • Champion Disabled Athlete
Terry Waite Humanitarian • Hostage Negotiator • Author, Taken on Trust
Andrew Weil Physician • Author, Healthy Aging & Spontaneous Healing • Director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine
Naomi Wolf Author, The Beauty Myth • Columnist, The Guardian • Political Activist
BD Wong Tony Award-winning Actor
Fareed Zakaria CNN Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS • Editor-at-Large, TIME • Columnist, The Washington Post