Academic Speakers

Bestselling Author, Professor of Business at NYU

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

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

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

Political Scientist & Economist; Professor at Georgetown University

Poet, Political Activist, Academic & Emcee

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

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

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

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

Pharmaceutical Health Services Researcher & Accessible Healthcare Advocate; Professor at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Science, UC San Diego

CEO & Founder of The Learning Future

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

Associate Professor of Strategy & Business Policy at HEC Paris

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

Award-Winning Journalist & Author

Professor in American Politics, Author & Podcaster

Middle East Expert & Human Rights Activist

Chair of the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History

French Art Historian