Jeffrey Brown Senior Correspondent and Chief Arts Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, serving as co-anchor, moderator, and field reporter, covering national and international issues.
David Crane David Crane is a lecturer in Public Policy at Stanford University and president of Govern for California.
Esi Edugyan Esi Edugyan is the author of two Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning books, Washington Black (2018) and Half-Blood Blues (2011).
Alex Filippenko Filippenko is an Astrophysicist on a Nobel Prize winning team, as well as the 2007 Gruber Cosmology Prize, 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics to all team members. He was voted the “best professor at UC Berkeley 9 years!”.
Pedro Irazoqui, Ph.D. Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins, Whitney School of Engineering. Pioneer in wireless implantable devices for treatment of epilepsy, glaucoma, depression, PTSD
Steven Johnson Steven Johnson is a thought leader of today’s interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to innovation.
Gordon Lithgow, Ph.D. Dr. Lithgow sheds light on the mechanisms of aging by identifying agents that extend lifespan or prevent age-related disease.
Michael McFaul McFaul is a leading expert on international relations, Russian politics, American foreign policy, and democratic development around the world.
John McReynolds An early interest in food and wine led John McReynolds to the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, where he received a scholarship sponsored by Julia and Paul Child.
Caitlin O’Connell, Ph.D. Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Scientific Consultant, Author, specialist in elephant communications
Dr. Ramon Resa Acclaimed Author and Physician, “Out of the Fields: My Journey from Farmworker Boy to Pediatrician” has for over 35 years taken care of children like himself as a child
John Burnham Schwartz What best characterizes a John Burnham Schwartz novel is a quote from Reservation Road, the 1998 novel that cemented his reputation and was made into a screenplay…
Michael Shellenberger Michael Shellenberger’s just released Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All has been called, “an extremely important book,” by none other than historian Richard Rhodes, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
Dr. Gary Small Dr. Gary Small invented the first brain scan that allows doctors to see the physical evidence of brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease in living people.
Anne Snyder Anne Snyder is determined to make the world a better place through the lost art of building character and encourages us to join her mission.
Trudi Trueit “I’m a writer of middle grade fiction because middle school was a tough time for me. I was a brainy, awkward, and shy kid…So if I can make it a bit easier for a reader, if he/she can find something to identify with in my books, then that’s all the reward I need.”
Jose Antonio Vargas Vargas won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for his contributions to three Washington Post articles about the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007.
Justin Wangler and Tracey Shepos Cemani Author-chefs Justin Wangler and Tracey Shepos Cemani have partnered with farmer Tucker Taylor, a world-renowned expert in sustainable culinary gardening, to celebrate the simple good taste of the farm-to-table lifestyle.
