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Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up

Ilana Redstone
Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur

Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur

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

Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE

Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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

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

Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw

Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos

Daniel Stid
Executive Director, Lyceum Labs

Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host

Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur

Brian Rudolph
Co-Founder and CEO, Banza

David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project

Nuseir Yassin
Founder and CEO, Nas Company

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

Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku

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

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

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

Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker

James B. Milliken
Chancellor, The University of Texas System

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

Vidyha Ramalingam
Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE

Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute

Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties

Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility

Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company

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

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

Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue

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

Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist

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

Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools

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

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

Mary Matalin
Political Strategist, Author, Television and Radio Host

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

Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together

Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

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

Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts

Joel Fields
Writer & Producer

Andy Hanauer
President & CEO, One America Movement

Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group

Nido Qubein
President, High Point University

Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure

Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate

Jamie Siminoff
Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring

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

Laura Chen
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy

Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School

Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis

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

Brad Porteus
Founder and Executive Director, Bridge Pledge

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

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

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

Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist

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

Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress

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

Benji Backer
Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition

Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL

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

Riaz Patel
Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect

Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1

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

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

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

Mark Selleck
Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation

Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting

Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks

Hanae Baruchel
Senior Change Leader, Ashoka

Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders

Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL

Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author

Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat

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

James Impoco
Editor in Chief, Message Lab

Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun

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

Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation

Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist

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

Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project

Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies

Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward

Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures

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

Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation

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

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

Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer

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

Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2

Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks

Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation

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

Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman

Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M

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

Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico

Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group

Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind

Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM

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

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

Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple

Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises

Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation

Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict

John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant

Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA

Paul Hobby
Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.

Geoffrey Baym
Media & Communication Professor, Temple University

Daniel Goetz
Founder and CEO, GoodPop

Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion

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

Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist

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

Joshua Darr
Associate Professor of Communications, Syracuse University

Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media

Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern

Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple

Jim Hornthal
Chairman, Zignal Labs

Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project

Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue

Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

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

Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals

Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development

Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur

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

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

Sharon McMahon
America’s Government Teacher

Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University

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

Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist

Alia Braley
Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Libby Prosch
Co-Founder, Sandbox

Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.

Isaac Saul
Founder, Tangle

Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments

Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution

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

Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability

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

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Alyssa Farah Griffin

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

Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America

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

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

Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender

April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels

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

Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in

Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause

Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels

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

Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation

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

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

Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies

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

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

Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace

Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink

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

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

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

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

Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

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

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

David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor

Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund

John Burnett
Retired NPR Correspondent

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

Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC

Musa al-Gharbi
Sociologist, Stony Brook University

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

Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory

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

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

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

Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC

Pano Kanelos
President, UATX

Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries

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

Liz Lanza
Founder, Bee Kind

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

Adam Sher
President, ITV America

Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company

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

Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management

Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist

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

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

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

Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA

Tara McGowan
CEO & Founder, Good Information

Malynda Hale
Singer, Actress, Activist

Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group

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

June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat

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

Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent

Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList

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

Fernando Szew
Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment

Xavier Gutierrez
President & CEO Arizona Coyotes

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

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

Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author

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

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

Eric Bronner
Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Sanda Balaban
Executive Director, Project Pericles

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

Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink

Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America

David Eisner
President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content

Eric Thompson
Founder, Framechange

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

Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist

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

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author

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

Nathan Lockwood
Executive Director, Rank The Vote

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