Edward Albee

Playwright

H. Carl McCall
Former Director of NYSE Vice
Chairman, Healthpoint

Mitch Albom
Author, tuesdays with Morrie Sports
Columnist

Annie McKee
Managing Director, Teleos Leadership
Institute Faculty, University of
Pennsylvania Author, Primal Leadership

Sherman Alexie
Author Poet Screenwriter

Jon Meacham
Managing Editor, Newsweek Author,
Franklin and Winston

Ken Auletta
Author Media Columnist, The New
Yorker

Michael Melvill
First Civilian Astronaut, SpaceShipOne
VP & GM, Scaled Composites

Brian Binnie
Civilian Astronaut, SpaceShip One
Program Business Manager & Test Pilot,
Scaled Composites

Joel Meyerowitz
Photographer, The World Trade Center
Archive

Anthony Bourdain
Chef Author, Kitchen Confidential TV
Host, A Cook's Tour

Jonathan Miller
Theater & Opera Director Physician
Author

Richard Boyatzis
Author, Primal Leadership Professor

N. Scott Momaday
Native American Scholar Poet Author

Avraham Burg
Former Speaker of the Knesset Geneva
Accord Negotiator

Edmund Morris
Biographer, Theodore Rex and Dutch: A
Memoir of Ronald Reagan Writer

James Burke
Science Historian Author TV
Host/Writer/Producer Connections

Walter Mosley
Mystery Writer Novelist Social
Commentator

Henry Cisneros
Housing Innovator Former Secretary of
HUD Four-Term Mayor of San Antonio
Former President of Univision

Sylvia Nasar
Professor, Columbia University
Economist Author, A Beautiful Mind

Nora Ephron
Film Director Screenwriter Author

Charles Osgood
Anchor, CBS Sunday Morning Creator,
The Osgood File

Susan Estrich
Law Professor Author Legal & Political
Commentator

Elaine Pagels
Author, The Gnostic Gospels Professor
Scholar

Jules Feiffer
Cartoonist Author Playwright

Harold Prince
Tony Award-Winning Theater Director

Bruce Feiler
NPR Commentator Author, Abraham
and Walking the Bible

Anna Quindlen
Novelist Social Critic Newsweek
Columnist

Thomas Friedman
Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York
Times

Joan Rivers
Comedian TV Host CEO and Founder,
Joan Rivers Worldwide

Carlos Fuentes
Statesman Author Scholar

Douglas Rushkoff
Author Social & Media Theorist
Professor of Communications, NYU

Carol Gilligan
Psychologist Educator Author, In a
Different Voice and The Birth of Pleasure

Burt Rutan
CEO, Scaled Composites Aerospace
Engineer, SpaceShipOne

Daniel Goleman
Psychologist Author, Emotional
Intelligence

Oliver Sacks
Neurologist Author, Awakenings and
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

Andrew M. Greeley
Priest Author Sociologist Professor

Barry Scheck
Attorney DNA Expert Co-Founder, The
Innocence Project

Brian Greene
Physicist & String Theorist Author, The
Elegant Universe

Eric Schlosser
Author, Fast Food Nation Journalist

Jeff Greenfield
CNN Senior Analyst

Joel Siegel
Film Critic Entertainment Editor, Good
Morning America

David Halberstam
Journalist Author Historian

Anna Deavere Smith

Playwright Actor Professor

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Economist Author, Creating a Life:
Professional Women and the Quest for
Children

Paul Solman
Business and Economics Correspondent,
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Arianna Huffington
Columnist Author Political
Commentator & Satirist

Susan Sontag
Fiction Writer Essayist Cultural Critic

John Irving
Novelist Screenwriter

James B. Stewart
Author Editor-at-Large & Columnist,
Smart Money

Kay Redfield Jamison

Author Professor of Psychiatry Mental
Health Advocate

Andrew Sullivan
Essayist, TIME Editor,
andrewsullivan.com Columnist

Erica Jong
Author, Fear of Flying Feminist Social
Critic Poet

Julie Taymor
Theater, Opera & Film Director

Jamaica Kincaid
Writer Novelist

Robert Thurman
Author Scholar President, Tibet House

Joe Klein
Political Commentator, CNN Columnist,
TIME

Ronan Tynan
Irish Tenor Physician Champion
Disabled Athlete

Thomas Krens
Director, Guggenheim Museums
Worldwide

Terry Waite
Author Humanitarian Hostage
Negotiator

Robert Krulwich
ABC News Special Correspondent

Wendy Wasserstein
Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright

Louise Leakey
National Geographic Explorer-inresidence Paleoanthropologist

Andrew Weil
Author, Spontaneous Healing Physician

Meave Leakey
Paleoanthropologist Zoologist

Richard Leakey
Conservationist Paleoanthropologist
Activist

Naomi Wolf
Author, The Beauty Myth Feminist
Social Critic
B. D. Wong
Tony Award-winning Actor Author

David H. Levy
Science Editor, Parade Magazine Comet
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Fareed Zakaria
Editor, Newsweek International
Columnist Analyst, ABCNEWS

Camryn Manheim
Emmy Award-winning Actor Author

Danah Zohar
Management Educator Physicist
Philosopher