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Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" and "The Giver"

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

CEO of THIS Inc. & Best-Selling Author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less"

Director of Fashion at YouTube

Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications get to those who need it most. He has published on a wide range of subjects such as global justice and human rights.

Career & Business Strategist; Author of "Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One"

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Author of "All You Can Ever Know;" Contributing Writer for The Atlantic; Asian-American Activist

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

NYT Bestselling Author Known for "Esperanza Rising" & "Becoming Naomi León"

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Serial Entrepreneur, New York Times Best-Selling Author & Venture Capital Investor

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

International Bestselling Novelist & Screenwriter, Known for "The Notebook"

Co-Founder of Care4th LLC & Author of New York Times #1 Bestseller "Tribal Leadership"