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Laurie Rosenwald

Illustrator, artist, designer, and book creator

Risa Mickenberg

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

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, creator of the 1619 Project, Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, and founder of Howard’s Center for Journalism and Democracy

Carol Anderson, Ph.D.

Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies, Emory University

Claudia Rankine

Professor of Creative Writing, New York University. Award-winning poet and 2016 MacArthur Fellow.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

President and CEO at New America

Alicia Menendez

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

Billy Porter

Award-winning actor, singer, director, composer, playwright, and author

Jamal Jordan

Mixed-media documentarian, journalist, and educator

George F. Will

Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist on politics and domestic and foreign affairs for The Washington Post

Peter W. Tragos

Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, New Trier High School D203, Winnetka, IL

Rainesford Stauffer

Writer, essayist, and author

Luisa Struck

New Trier High School Class of '22

Lisa Miller, Ph.D.

Professor in the clinical psychology program at Teachers College, Columbia University

Steven C. Rockefeller, Ph.D.

Author, essayist, and professor emeritus of religion at Middlebury College

Dawn Turner

Award-winning journalist and author

Heidi Stevens

Chicago-based writer and Director of External Affairs for the University of Chicago’s TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health

Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Adam Harris

Staff writer for The Atlantic and author, The State Must Provide

Questlove

Drummer, DJ, producer, culinary entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, and member of The Roots

Hanif Abdurraqib

New York Times bestselling poet, essayist, and cultural critic