Masterful storyteller and internationally acclaimed literary powerhouse with two dozen books and 79 million copies in print.

Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Stanford University, Author

Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Humorist, Columnist

Two-time US Poet Laureate, dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by the New York Times

Allison Crowther established the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust to assist young people to become exemplary adults through education, health, recreation, and character development, in honor of her son, Welles, who perished while assisting other people evacuating the burning World Trade Center on 911

National Geographic Explorer in Residence, Ethnographer, Writer, Photographer and Filmmaker

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!”.

Internationally renowned illustrator, designer and visual storyteller. Author/designer of children’s books and 7 US Postage stamps including the 2006 Love stamp.

A Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer, presidential historian, former sports journalist and political commentator.

Leader in Science Policy in the US, Author, Undersecretary for Science for President Obama, Theoretical Physics Professor at CalTech then NYU

Acclaimed Author, Finalist National Book Award in Fiction and Professor at Princeton University

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

Tom Rinaldi, winner of 16 Sports Emmy Awards and 7 Edward R. Murrow Awards for his reporting for FOX New and ESPN

Luis J. Rodriguez believes a writer can change the world.

Daniel M. Russell‘s book, The Joy of Search: A Google Insider’s Guide to Going Beyond the Basics, explains how to frame search queries so they will yield information and describes the best ways to use such resources as Google Earth, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia. It was published by MIT Press in September 2019.

Strock writes the ‘Next Nationalism’ on Substack and hosts the ‘Serve to Lead’ podcast.

Bari Weiss is a journalist and the author of “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” which won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.