Academic Speakers

Native Hawaiian Transgender Teacher, Award-Winning Filmmaker, Cultural Practitioner & Community Leader

Innovation Leader, NYU Professor, Best-Selling Author & Keynote Speaker on Disruption

Actress, Literacy & Academic Advocate, Best Known for her Role as Ginger Grant on 1960s TV Show "Gilligan's Island"

Co-Founder & CEO of The Future Project; Youth Empowerment & Education Advocate

Professor of Economics & Executive Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research

Professor of International Affairs & Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Political Scientist & Economist; Professor at Georgetown University

Poet, Political Activist, Academic & Emcee

Foremost Authority on Leadership & Organizational Adaptability; Founding Director of Center for Public Leadership; Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School

Leading Scholar of Jewish Intellectual & Cultural Life; Author & Three-Time Winner of the National Jewish Book Award

Investment Advisor; Investor at Vibe Capital; Founder of Carry; Former Founder and CEO of Teachable Which He Sold for $250M

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

UN & TEDx Speaker; Founder of Sharing to Empower; Researcher, Advocate & Changemaker for Gender Equality

Senior Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management & Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group

IG Patel Professor of Economics, Expert in Climate Change, Former World Bank Chief Economist

Middle East Expert, Human Rights Activist, Political Analyst

Physician, Clinical & Molecular Geneticist

Chief Scientist at Carbon Direct & Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA

Independent Climate Consultant; Authority on Climate Action & Sustainability

Co-Founder, Chief Scientist & Architect of SNHU's Human Systems; Founding Director & Professor at the Center for Change & Complexity in Learning; Originator of Connectivism