5

Senior Director of the International Strategic Response team at Meta, and former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, Office of Legislative Affairs

William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Co-author of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics.

Editor-at-large at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Provost Professor of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California

Author, podcast host, and anchor of MSNBC’s "American Voices with Alicia Menendez"

Co-chef and co-owner, Prairie Grass Cafe

Writer, director, performer, creative director, provocateur, and entrepreneur

New York Times bestselling poet, essayist, and cultural critic

Professor at Northwestern University, Co-Director of Northwestern’s Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and Faculty Founder of Design for America