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Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation

Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender

Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management

Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList

Tali Farhadian Weinstein
Prosecutor, Processor, & Legal Analyst, NBC News & MSNBC

Michael Tennant
Founder & CEO, Curiosity Lab; Creator, Actually Curious

Keith Grossman
CEO, Enterprise, Moon Pay; & Former CEO, Time

Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises

Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America

Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple

Ryan Holiday
Writer, Media Strategist, & Creator, Daily Stoic

Xavier Gutierrez
President & CEO Arizona Coyotes

Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist

Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content

Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools

Holly Jacobs
Executive Vice President, US Alternative & Syndication Programming, Sony Pictures Television (SPT)

Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE

James Impoco
Editor in Chief, Message Lab

Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation

Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist

John Maxwell
Bestselling Author, Speaker, Coach, & Leadership Expert

Vance Cryer
Senior Manager, Weapons Integration & Business Development, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control

Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple

Rabbi Elan Babchuck
EVP, Clal; Founding Director, Glean Network

Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media

Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

Paul Hobby
Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.

Jose Andres
Chef & Owner, ThinkFoodGroup; & Founder, World Central Kitchen

Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments

Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks

Jamie Siminoff
Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring

Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur; Investor; Owner, Dallas Mavericks; & Star, ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank

Tom Oppenheim
Artistic Director and President, Stella Adler Studio of Acting

Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat

Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author

Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels

Laura Lauder
Co-Founder, Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund

Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward

Sanda Balaban
Executive Director, Project Pericles

Tom Bernstein
President & Co-Founder, Chelsea Piers, L.P.

Geoffrey Baym
Media & Communication Professor, Temple University

Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility

Daryl Davis
Musician, Actor, Author, and Co-Founder of Prohuman Foundation

Nido Qubein
President, High Point University

Scott Budnick
CEO, 1Community; Founder, Anti-Recidivism Coalition

Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory

Tim Shriver
Chairman, Special Olympics International; & Co-Founder, UNITE

Barbara Corcoran
Founder, The Corcoran Group; & Star, ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank

Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together

Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

Simran Jeet Singh
Author, The Light We Give; Executive Director, Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program

Gary Lauder
Co-Founder, Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund

Nathan Otto
Co-Founder, Pine Creek Renewables; & Founder, Safe Conflict Project

George Atallah
Assistant Executive Director of External Affairs, NFL Players Association

Daniel Goetz
Founder and CEO, GoodPop

John Wood Jr.
National Ambassador, Braver Angels; Opinion Columnist, USA Today

Vidyha Ramalingam
Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE

Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC

Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company

Mark Selleck
Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation

Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw

Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos

June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat

Suzanne Firstenberg
Social Practice Artist; Creator, In America: Remember

Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun

Deb Roy
Professor & Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication; Co-Founder & CEO, Cortico

Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM

John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant

Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project

Alan Alda
Award-Winning Actor, Bestselling Author, & Advocate for Science Communication

Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict

Joel Fields
Writer & Producer

Garry Kasparov
Former World Chess Champion & Chairman, Renew Democracy Initiative

Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause

Alice Marie Johnson
CEO, Taking Action for Good; Criminal Justice Reform Advocate; & Author

Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist

Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders

Benji Backer
Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition

Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in

Jenna Arnold
Entrepreneur; Author; Co-Founder, Organize; & National Organizer, Women’s March On Washington

Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M

Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur

Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals

April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels

James B. Milliken
Chancellor, The University of Texas System

Dominic Packer
Psychology Professor, Lehigh University; & Co-Author, The Power of Us

will.i.am
Musician, Tech Entrepreneur, & Philanthropist

Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue

Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up

Alison Goldsworthy
Founder & CEO, The Depolarization Project; & Author, Poles Apart

Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host

Michelle Gadsden-Williams
Managing Director & Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Blackrock

Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
Author; Minister, Middle Church

Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress

Sanyin Siang
Founding Executive Director, Fuqua / Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics, Duke University

Fernando Szew
Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment

Tim Urban
Co-Founder & Writer/Illustrator, Wait But Why

Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist

Bion Bartning
Co-Founder and Board President of the Prohuman Foundation

Mike Jacobson
Co-Founder, Center for Science in the Public Interest

Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company

Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2

Jeff Orlowski
Founder & Filmmaker, Exposure Labs — Chasing Ice / Chasing Coral / The Social Dilemma

Clara Tsao
Co-Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

Krista Tippett
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The On Being Project

Kristin Frank
Media & Data Expert; CEO, AdPredictive; Past COO, MTV; Director, BCOV & GAIA

Laura Chen
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy

Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink

Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation

Rev. DeForest B. Soaries
Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens

Robert (Bob) Brown
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, B&C Associates, Inc.

Lori Greiner
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Producer, National Best Selling Author, Humanitarian, & Star of ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank

Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1

Jason Alexander
Actor, Writer, Composer, Director, & Producer

Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund

Barry Poznick
President, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Unscripted Television & Orion Scripted Television

Scott Cooper
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran & Community Leader

Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind

Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure

Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group

The Honorable Karl Rove
Senior Advisor & Deputy Chief of Staff, President George W. Bush

Jim Hornthal
Chairman, Zignal Labs

Aaron Dorfman
Founder and Executive Director, A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy

Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist

Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman

Kevin Schmiegel
Lieutenant Colonel, USMC (Ret.); CEO & Founder of ZeroMils

Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern

Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting

Farah Pandith
Author of How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Alyssa Farah Griffin

Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA

Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Leon Ford
Survivor of Police Brutality, Activist, Writer, Entrepreneur, & Change-Maker

Brad Porteus
Founder and Executive Director, Bridge Pledge

Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America

Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University

Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures

Dhani Jones
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, NFL Linebacker, Author, Host, & Explorer

Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies

John (Jack) Brennan
Chairman Emeritus & Senior Advisor, Vanguard

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author

Ed Latimore
Writer, Retired Boxer, & Self-Improvement Enthusiast

Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis

Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School

David Einhorn
President, Greenlight Capital; & Founder, Einhorn Collaborative

Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group

Riaz Patel
Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect

Joe Lonsdale
Founding Partner, 8VC; & Co-Founder, Palantir

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue

Shelly Sethi
Practicing Physician, Author, & Speaker on Integrative Health & Wellness

Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink

Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author

Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize–Winning Historian & Writer, The Atlantic

Daymond John
Founder & CEO, FUBU; New York Times Bestselling Author; Star of ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank; & Founder & CEO, The Shark Group

Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project

Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist

Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur

Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace

Andy Hanauer
President & CEO, One America Movement

Mary Matalin
Political Strategist, Author, Television and Radio Host

Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

Chris Bail
Professor & Executive Director, Polarization Lab, Duke University

Rev. Jen Bailey
Founder & Executive Director, Faith Matters Network

Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.

Ilana Redstone
Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur

Arthur Brooks
Leadership Professor, Harvard; Social Scientist; Bestselling Author; & Columnist, The Atlantic

Joe Cobbs
Sports Business Professor, Northern Kentucky University; & Co-Founder, Know Rivalry Project

Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development

James Carville
Political Strategist, Author and Commentator; Host of Politics War Room Podcast

Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies

Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion

Jay Van Bavel
Psychology Professor, NYU; & Co-Author, The Power of Us

Nathan Lockwood
Executive Director, Rank The Vote

David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor

Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute

Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico

Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group

Jon Adam Ross
Managing Director & Co-Founding Artist, Inheritance Theater Project

Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC

David Eisner
President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project

Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation

Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability

Madeline Levine
Co-Founder, Challenge Success, Stanford Graduate School of Education; New York Times Bestselling Author

Wes Moore
Governor of Maryland, Combat Veteran, Social Entrepreneur, & Former CEO, Robin Hood

Steven Olikara
Founder of Millennial Action Project; former U.S. Senate candidate; featured in The Reunited States documentary

Isaac Saul
Founder, Tangle

Eric Bronner
Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation

John Burnett
Retired NPR Correspondent

Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist

Ann Sarnoff
Former Chair & CEO, Warner Bros & Warner Media Studios & Networks Group

Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer

Laura Lindenfeld
Dean, School of Communication & Journalism, Stony Brook University

Kathy Roth-Douquet
Co-Founder & CEO, Blue Star Families

Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker

Katie Couric
Journalist, Author, and co-Founder of Stand Up To Cancer

Shamil Idriss
CEO, Search for Common Ground

Dr. Maria Zalewska
Media & Holocaust Scholar; Executive Director, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation

Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA

Tess Winston
Washington Post Guest Contributor & graduate, Stanford Law School

Sharon McMahon
America’s Government Teacher

Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent

Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL

David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku

Dr. Bernice King
CEO, King Center; Human Rights Leader; & Social Change Advocate

Daniel Stid
Executive Director, Lyceum Labs

Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries

Alia Braley
Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Lydia Winkler
Co-Founder & COO, RentCheck; Founder, REEPNow

Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks

Jason Marsh
Executive Director & Editor-in-Chief, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley

Nuseir Yassin
Founder and CEO, Nas Company

Karith Foster
CEO & Creator, Inversity Solutions, L.L.C.

Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts

Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate

Jesus Mantas
Global Managing Partner, IBM; & Independent Director, Biogen

Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur

Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties

Adam Sher
President, ITV America

Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Award-Winning Author & Scholar of Extremism & Radicalization, American University

Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners

Akiko Cooks
Community Organizer & Co-Founder, #1865 No Racism in Schools

Tara McGowan
CEO & Founder, Good Information

Pano Kanelos
President, UATX

Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL

Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution