Speakers

Youngest of the Little Rock Nine, civil rights advocate, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee

New York Times-bestselling memoirist and author of The Tao of Martha

Bestselling author of Defending Jacob, former district attorney

First woman to lead a major motion picture studio, former President of 20th Century Fox, and former Chairman of Paramount Pictures

American journalist, media personality, and author of Detroit: An American Autopsy

New York Times-bestselling author of The Surrendered and Native Speaker

Political journalist and author of This Town and Big Game

Author of the New York Times-bestselling book, Ghettoside

Author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir The Rules Do Not Apply

National Book Award-winning poet, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus

World-renowned architect and expert in urban design

Celebrated short story writer of Get in Trouble

Educator, poet, and author of Lift Off

New York Times-bestselling author of We Were Liars

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War and Vietnam War historian

President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, political scientist, and author of Cool It

Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

Financial journalist and bestselling author of The End of Wall Street

Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author

Food and agricultural economist, author of The Food Police