Academic Speakers

Political Scientist & Economist; Professor at Georgetown University

Poet, Political Activist, Academic & Emcee

Hawaiian Transgender Teacher & Community Leader

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

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

Bestselling Author, Professor of Business at NYU

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

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

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

Associate Professor of Education & Social Work and Co-Chair of the Rossier School of Education PhD Program at the University of Southern California

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

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

Independent Climate Consultant

Princeton Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer; Author of "Star Power: American Democracy in the Age of the Celebrity Candidate"

Scholar, Activist, and Professor

Former Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico

Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Cambridge

Author, Academic, Journalist, Economic & Political Commentator

Associate Professor of Strategy & Business Policy at HEC Paris