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Jane McGonigal, Ph.D.

Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and two-time New York Times bestselling author

Curtis Sittenfeld

New York Times bestselling author

Juliette Kayyem

Faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project and Security and Global Health Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Gretchen Rubin

Five-time New York Times bestselling author

Susan Cain

Author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books Quiet and Bittersweet

Amy J. C. Cuddy, Ph.D.

Social psychologist, professor, and New York Times bestselling author of Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Thomas Fisher, M.D., MPH

Emergency medicine physician at The University of Chicago Medical Center

Natalie Y. Moore

Award-winning journalist and author, and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University

Mónica Guzmán

Journalist, entrepreneur, and author

Eric Liu

Co-founder and CEO of Citizen University, and director of the Aspen Institute’s Citizenship and American Identity Program

Paul A. Laudicina

Chairman emeritus of Kearney and founder of its Global Business Policy Council

Nicole Isaac

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

John A. List, Ph.D.

Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago

Steven D. Levitt, Ph.D.

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

Arthur Brooks, Ph.D.

William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School

Jeffrey Goldberg

Editor in Chief, The Atlantic

Robert Frank, Ph.D.

H. J. Louis Professor Emeritus of Management and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management

David Wallace-Wells

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

Michael Heller

Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School

James Salzman

Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Law and the UCSB School of Environment

Barton Gellman

Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The Atlantic