Meet The Builders
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Riaz Patel
Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect

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

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

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

Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries

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

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

Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group

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

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

Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies

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

Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC

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

Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos

Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM

Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises

Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America

Liz Lanza
Founder, Bee Kind

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

David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project

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

Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2

Musa al-Gharbi
Sociologist, Stony Brook University

Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation

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

Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink

Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.

Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple

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

Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward

Andy Hanauer
President & CEO, One America Movement

Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern

Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA

David Eisner
President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University

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

Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host

Adam Sher
President, ITV America

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

Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author

Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL

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

John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant

Hanae Baruchel
Senior Change Leader, Ashoka

Mark Selleck
Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation

Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman

Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList

Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict

Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation

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

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

Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause

Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent

Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL

Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

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

Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks

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

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

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

Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker

Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group

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

Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media

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

Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties

Eric Thompson
Founder, Framechange

Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist

Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts

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

Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution

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

Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur

Brian Rudolph
Co-Founder and CEO, Banza

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

Jamie Siminoff
Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring

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

Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals

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

Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple

Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion

Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure

Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace

Nathan Lockwood
Executive Director, Rank The Vote

Benji Backer
Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition

Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility

Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project

Mary Matalin
Political Strategist, Author, Television and Radio Host

Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group

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

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

Xavier Gutierrez
President & CEO Arizona Coyotes

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

Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist

Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels

Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

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

Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink

Isaac Saul
Founder, Tangle

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

Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Sanda Balaban
Executive Director, Project Pericles

Ilana Redstone
Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur

Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company

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

John Burnett
Retired NPR Correspondent

Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist

Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation

Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate

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

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

Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw

Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments

Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist

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

Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer

Tara McGowan
CEO & Founder, Good Information

Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M

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

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

Sharon McMahon
America’s Government Teacher

Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat

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

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

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

Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC

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

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

David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor

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

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

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

Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project

Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author

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

Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE

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

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

Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis

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

Fernando Szew
Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment

Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun

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

Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur

Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund

Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1

Paul Hobby
Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.

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

Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels

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

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

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

Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company

Nido Qubein
President, High Point University

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

Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist

Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures

Jim Hornthal
Chairman, Zignal Labs

Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America

Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders

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

Vidyha Ramalingam
Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Alyssa Farah Griffin

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

Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA

Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author

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

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

Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools

Daniel Stid
Executive Director, Lyceum Labs

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

Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in

James B. Milliken
Chancellor, The University of Texas System

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

Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management

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

Libby Prosch
Co-Founder, Sandbox

David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku

Pano Kanelos
President, UATX

Alia Braley
Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur

Eric Bronner
Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender

Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together

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

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

Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute

Geoffrey Baym
Media & Communication Professor, Temple University

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

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

Malynda Hale
Singer, Actress, Activist

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

Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress

Joshua Darr
Associate Professor of Communications, Syracuse University

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

Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks

Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School

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

Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind

Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue

Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist

Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting

Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist

Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory

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

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

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

James Impoco
Editor in Chief, Message Lab

Daniel Goetz
Founder and CEO, GoodPop

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

Brad Porteus
Founder and Executive Director, Bridge Pledge

Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners

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

Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico

Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content

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

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

Nuseir Yassin
Founder and CEO, Nas Company

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue

June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat

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

Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability

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

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

Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up

Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation

Joel Fields
Writer & Producer

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

Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies

Laura Chen
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy

Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development

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

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