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

Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1

Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation

Vidyha Ramalingam
Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE

Benji Backer
Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition

Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development

Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA

Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies

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

Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis

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

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

Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress

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

Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation

Brian Rudolph
Co-Founder and CEO, Banza

Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList

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

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

Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility

Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos

Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Alyssa Farah Griffin

Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink

Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern

Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist

Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2

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

Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders

Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in

Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University

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

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

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

Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures

Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL

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

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

Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries

Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises

Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author

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

Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation

Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies

John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant

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

David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku

Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur

Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink

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

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

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

Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist

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

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

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

Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure

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

Joshua Darr
Associate Professor of Communications, Syracuse University

Jim Hornthal
Chairman, Zignal Labs

Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman

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

April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels

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

Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur

Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.

Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute

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

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

Alia Braley
Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

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

Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL

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

Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico

Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM

Tara McGowan
CEO & Founder, Good Information

Danielle Rugoff
Civic Entrepreneur; Founder, Purple Lexicon; Builders National Ambassador

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

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

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

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

Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together

Daniel Goetz
Founder and CEO, GoodPop

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

Charles Blain
Writer, Public Policy Entrepreneur, Commentator & Analyst

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

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

Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M

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

Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent

Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple

Paul Hobby
Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.

Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company

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

Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender

John Burnett
Retired NPR Correspondent

Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America

David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor

Eric Bronner
Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation

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

Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host

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

Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace

Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist

Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion

Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools

Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA

Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments

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

Jesus Mantas
Independent Director, Biogen

Andy Hanauer
President & CEO, One America Movement

Amy Robbins
CEO & Co-Founder, Alexo Athletica

Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind

Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC

Xavier Gutierrez
President & CEO Arizona Coyotes

Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management

Musa al-Gharbi
Sociologist, Stony Brook University

Libby Prosch
Co-Founder, Sandbox

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

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

June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat

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

James B. Milliken
Chancellor, The University of Texas System

Nathan Lockwood
Executive Director, Rank The Vote

Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project

Ilana Redstone
Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur

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

Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue

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

Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media

Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist

Pano Kanelos
President, UATX

Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist

Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners

Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun

Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker

Geoffrey Baym
Media & Communication Professor, Temple University

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

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

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

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

Daniel Stid
Executive Director, Lyceum Labs

Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward

Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up

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

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

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

Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting

Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist

Fernando Szew
Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment

Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory

Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties

Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks

Dr. Melva K Wallace
President and CEO, Huston-Tillotson University; Solutionist; Higher Education Futurist

Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund

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

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

Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate

Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation

Malynda Hale
Singer, Actress, Activist

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

Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat

Mark Selleck
Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation

Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content

Joel Fields
Writer & Producer

James Impoco
Editor in Chief, Message Lab

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

Liz Lanza
Founder, Bee Kind

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

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

Nuseir Yassin
Founder and CEO, Nas Company

Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution

Brad Porteus
Founder and Executive Director, Bridge Pledge

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

Laura Chen
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy

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

Sanda Balaban
Executive Director, Project Pericles

Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks

Sharon McMahon
America’s Government Teacher

Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group

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

David Eisner
President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC

David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project

Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause

Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability

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

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

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

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

Hanae Baruchel
Senior Change Leader, Ashoka

Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group

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

Isaac Saul
Founder, Tangle

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

Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group

Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict

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

Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels

Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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

Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company

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

Adam Sher
President, ITV America

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author

Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur

Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

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

Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author

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

Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple

Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist

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

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

Jamie Siminoff
Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring

Mary Matalin
Political Strategist, Author, Television and Radio Host

Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School

Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts

Riaz Patel
Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect

Chris Anokute
Co-CEO, Executive Director, LAAMP (Los Angeles Academy of Artist and Music Production)

Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals

Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

Eric Thompson
Founder, Framechange

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

Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer

Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project

Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Nido Qubein
President, High Point University

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

Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE