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

Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks

Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund

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

Brad Porteus
Founder and Executive Director, Bridge Pledge

Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist

Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School

Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners

Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks

Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender

Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Alyssa Farah Griffin

Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos

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

Andy Hanauer
President & CEO, One America Movement

Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun

Daniel Stid
Executive Director, Lyceum Labs

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

Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA

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

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

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

Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability

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

Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises

Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico

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

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue

Nido Qubein
President, High Point University

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

Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author

Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2

Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content

Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company

Sanda Balaban
Executive Director, Project Pericles

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

Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group

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

Mary Matalin
Political Strategist, Author, Television and Radio Host

Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind

Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies

Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis

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

Geoffrey Baym
Media & Communication Professor, Temple University

Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist

Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company

Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur

Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer

Joel Fields
Writer & Producer

Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman

Brian Rudolph
Co-Founder and CEO, Banza

Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development

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

April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels

Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur

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

Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur

Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA

Xavier Gutierrez
President & CEO Arizona Coyotes

Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting

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

Malynda Hale
Singer, Actress, Activist

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

Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals

Ilana Redstone
Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur

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

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

Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host

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

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

Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause

Vidyha Ramalingam
Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE

Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure

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

Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

Fernando Szew
Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment

Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries

Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist

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

Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList

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

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

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

Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together

John Burnett
Retired NPR Correspondent

Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL

Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group

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

Liz Lanza
Founder, Bee Kind

Nathan Lockwood
Executive Director, Rank The Vote

Jamie Siminoff
Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring

Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC

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

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

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

Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Laura Chen
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy

Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion

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

Hanae Baruchel
Senior Change Leader, Ashoka

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

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

Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group

Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker

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

Libby Prosch
Co-Founder, Sandbox

Musa al-Gharbi
Sociologist, Stony Brook University

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

Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw

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

Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation

Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace

Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation

Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink

Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist

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

Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project

Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM

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

Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate

Alia Braley
Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Jim Hornthal
Chairman, Zignal Labs

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

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

Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink

David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor

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

Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward

Isaac Saul
Founder, Tangle

Eric Thompson
Founder, Framechange

Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts

Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress

Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author

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

Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation

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

Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist

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

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

Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project

Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility

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

June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat

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

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

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

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

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

David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku

Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution

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

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

Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat

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

Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures

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

Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict

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

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

David Eisner
President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC

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

Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL

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

Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute

Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple

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

Joshua Darr
Associate Professor of Communications, Syracuse University

Tara McGowan
CEO & Founder, Good Information

Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue

Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments

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

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

Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies

James Impoco
Editor in Chief, Message Lab

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

Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple

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

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

Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent

Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management

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

Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools

Sharon McMahon
America’s Government Teacher

David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project

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

Nuseir Yassin
Founder and CEO, Nas Company

Paul Hobby
Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.

Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels

James B. Milliken
Chancellor, The University of Texas System

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

Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media

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

Adam Sher
President, ITV America

Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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

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

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

John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant

Daniel Goetz
Founder and CEO, GoodPop

Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE

Pano Kanelos
President, UATX

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

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

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

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

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

Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America

Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist

Benji Backer
Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition

Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up

Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern

Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders

Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist

Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University

Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties

Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

Mark Selleck
Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation

Riaz Patel
Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect

Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation

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

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

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

Eric Bronner
Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America

Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in

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

Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.

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

Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M

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

Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1

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