Meet The Builders
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Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility

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

Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project

David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor

Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur

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

Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA

Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America

Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in

Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue

Nathan Lockwood
Executive Director, Rank The Vote

Brad Porteus
Founder and Executive Director, Bridge Pledge

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

Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM

Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises

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

James Impoco
Editor in Chief, Message Lab

Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer

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

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

Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

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

Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur

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

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

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

Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat

David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku

Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.

John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant

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

Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting

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

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

Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE

Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList

Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies

Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School

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

Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause

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

Brian Rudolph
Co-Founder and CEO, Banza

Libby Prosch
Co-Founder, Sandbox

Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent

April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels

Hanae Baruchel
Senior Change Leader, Ashoka

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

Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist

Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company

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

Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur

Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties

Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks

Riaz Patel
Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect

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

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

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

Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw

Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America

Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress

Pano Kanelos
President, UATX

Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC

Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University

Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures

Jesus Mantas
Independent Director, Biogen

Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group

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

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

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

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

Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1

Jim Hornthal
Chairman, Zignal Labs

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

Nido Qubein
President, High Point University

Charles Blain
Writer, Public Policy Entrepreneur, Commentator & Analyst

Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

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

Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink

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

Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict

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

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

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

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

Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content

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

Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts

Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development

Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory

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

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

Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation

Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue

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

Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies

Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders

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

Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure

Musa al-Gharbi
Sociologist, Stony Brook University

Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels

Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners

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

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

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

David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project

Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink

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

Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist

Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico

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

Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA

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

Andy Hanauer
President & CEO, One America Movement

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

Ilana Redstone
Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur

Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group

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

Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker

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

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

Geoffrey Baym
Media & Communication Professor, Temple University

Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple

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

Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up

Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward

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

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

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

Malynda Hale
Singer, Actress, Activist

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

Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL

Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management

Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis

Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund

Vidyha Ramalingam
Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE

Isaac Saul
Founder, Tangle

Liz Lanza
Founder, Bee Kind

June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat

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

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

Jamie Siminoff
Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring

Nuseir Yassin
Founder and CEO, Nas Company

Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

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

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

Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman

Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind

Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation

Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools

Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals

Sanda Balaban
Executive Director, Project Pericles

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

Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist

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

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

Sharon McMahon
America’s Government Teacher

Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist

James B. Milliken
Chancellor, The University of Texas System

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

Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author

Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute

Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun

Adam Sher
President, ITV America

Tara McGowan
CEO & Founder, Good Information

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author

Joshua Darr
Associate Professor of Communications, Syracuse University

Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos

Laura Chen
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy

Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation

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

Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL

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

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

Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability

Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group

Daniel Stid
Executive Director, Lyceum Labs

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

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

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

Eric Bronner
Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project

Mark Selleck
Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Alyssa Farah Griffin

Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host

Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace

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

Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media

Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist

Eric Thompson
Founder, Framechange

Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC

Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company

Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

David Eisner
President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

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

Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M

Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender

Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple

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

Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion

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

Paul Hobby
Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.

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

Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist

Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation

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

Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern

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

Xavier Gutierrez
President & CEO Arizona Coyotes

Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks

Daniel Goetz
Founder and CEO, GoodPop

Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist

John Burnett
Retired NPR Correspondent

Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together

Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries

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

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

Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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

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

Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

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

Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate

Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments

Fernando Szew
Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment

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

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

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

Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2

Amy Robbins
CEO & Co-Founder, Alexo Athletica

Benji Backer
Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition

Mary Matalin
Political Strategist, Author, Television and Radio Host

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

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

Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution

Alia Braley
Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

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

Joel Fields
Writer & Producer

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

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