Academics Speakers

Poet, Political Activist, Academic & Emcee

Bestselling Author, Professor of Business at NYU

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

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

Professor of Medicine & Head of the Division of Health Care Policy at University of Colorado; Geriatrician Researching Care Transitions

Co-Founder & CEO of The Future Project

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

Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

Award-Winning Journalist and Author

Behavioral Scientist, Expert on Decision Making; Professor, Cornell University

Professor of American History, Yale University; Director of the Gilder-Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition

Molecular Animator & TED Fellow

Middle East Expert & Human Rights Activist

Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

Professor of Sociology at Duke University & Author of "Racism without Racists"

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Architect & Educator; Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design

Founding Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Professor at Princeton University

Writer, Theorist & Researcher, Originator of Connectivism Theory

Mother of Mindfulness Theory; Social Psychologist; Authority on Leading and Living Boldly; Harvard University Professor