Billy Collins Two-time US Poet Laureate, dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by the New York Times
Wade Davis National Geographic Explorer in Residence, Ethnographer, Writer, Photographer and Filmmaker
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!”.
Doris Kearns Goodwin A Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer, presidential historian, former sports journalist and political commentator.
Anthony Ray Hinton Author, Social Commentator who spent 30 years on Alabama’s death row for a murder he did not commit
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
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
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.
Simon Winchester, O.B.E. Simon Winchester is the author of several works of travel writing, history, and acclaimed biography, including The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998).
