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Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1

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

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

Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM

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

Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises

Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting

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

Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist

Eric Bronner
Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School

Daniel Stid
Executive Director, Lyceum Labs

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

James B. Milliken
Chancellor, The University of Texas System

Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress

David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project

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

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

Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies

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

Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author

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

Joel Fields
Writer & Producer

Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels

Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos

Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development

Jim Hornthal
Chairman, Zignal Labs

Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList

Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue

John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant

Adam Sher
President, ITV America

Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

James Impoco
Editor in Chief, Message Lab

Nido Qubein
President, High Point University

Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

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

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

Daniel Goetz
Founder and CEO, GoodPop

David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor

Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL

Ilana Redstone
Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur

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

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

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

Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks

Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders

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

Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL

Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure

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

Alia Braley
Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue

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

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

Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

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

Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind

Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE

Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America

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

Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist

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

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

Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America

Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company

Paul Hobby
Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.

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

Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals

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

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

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

Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up

Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

Isaac Saul
Founder, Tangle

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

Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media

Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist

Laura Chen
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy

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

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

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

Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks

Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA

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

Sharon McMahon
America’s Government Teacher

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

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

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

Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company

Nuseir Yassin
Founder and CEO, Nas Company

Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author

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

Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution

Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate

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

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

Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project

Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2

Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis

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

Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund

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

Benji Backer
Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition

Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward

Xavier Gutierrez
President & CEO Arizona Coyotes

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

Geoffrey Baym
Media & Communication Professor, Temple University

Fernando Szew
Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment

Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability

Andy Hanauer
President & CEO, One America Movement

Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist

Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M

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

Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures

Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation

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

Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur

Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC

Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict

Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries

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

Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host

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

Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat

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

Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners

Pano Kanelos
President, UATX

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

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

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

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

Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist

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

Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments

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

Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools

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

Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer

Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun

Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management

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

Brad Porteus
Founder and Executive Director, Bridge Pledge

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Alyssa Farah Griffin

Vidyha Ramalingam
Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE

Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern

John Burnett
Retired NPR Correspondent

Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties

Sanda Balaban
Executive Director, Project Pericles

Shamil Idriss
CEO, Search for Common Ground

Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group

Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple

Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group

Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink

Riaz Patel
Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect

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

Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple

Mary Matalin
Political Strategist, Author, Television and Radio Host

Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender

Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist

Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute

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

Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in

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

Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent

Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies

David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku

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

Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker

Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist

April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels

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

Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA

Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur

Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory

Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause

Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink

Tara McGowan
CEO & Founder, Good Information

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

Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts

June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat

Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content

Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility

Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together

Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion

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

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

Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University

Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project

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

Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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

Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico

Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.

Mark Selleck
Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation

Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace

Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation

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

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

Jamie Siminoff
Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring

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

Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

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

Nathan Lockwood
Executive Director, Rank The Vote

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

Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation

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

Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur

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

Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author

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

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

David Eisner
President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group

Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman