Speakers

Robert Baer

Portrayed by George Clooney in the Academy Award-winning film Syriana, expert on American intelligence and the War on Terror

Matt Bai

Columnist for The Washington Post and author of All the Truth is Out

Emily Ballesteros

Burnout management coach and TikTok influencer, and author of The Cure for Burnout

Annie Barrows

Bestselling novelist of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and children's book author

Joanna Barsh

McKinsey Director Emeritus, bestselling author of How Remarkable Women Lead and Centered Leadership and Grow Wherever You Work.

Andrea Bartz

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers

Shane Bauer

Investigative reporter and author of American Prison

Moustafa Bayoumi

Journalist and author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America

Jim Bell

Award-winning astronomer and author of Postcards From Mars and The Interstellar Age

Adam Benforado

New York Times bestselling author of A Minor Revolution and Unfair

Brit Bennett

Novelist of National Book Award nominated, New York Times-bestselling The Vanishing Half, and National Book Foundation 2016 5 Under 35 Honoree

Dr. Uché Blackstock

Founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, emergency physician, and bestselling author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Deborah Blum

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Poisoner's Handbook and The Poison Squad

Cat Bohannon

Researcher and New York Times bestselling author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Author of the bestselling memoir She's Not There, President of PEN America, and celebrated LGBTQ activist

Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist and bestselling author

Porter Braswell

Executive Chairman and co-founder of Jopwell and author of Let Them See You

Eduardo Briceño

Growth mindset expert, CEO of Growth.how, and author of The Performance Paradox

Lauren Smith Brody

Founder of The Fifth Trimester movement and Co-Founder of the Chamber of Mothers

Arthur C. Brooks

Harvard professor, PhD social scientist, #1 New York Times-bestselling author

Geraldine Brooks

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March and the international bestselling People of the Book

Rosa Brooks

American law professor and author of Tangled Up in Blue

Marc Brown

Award-winning and bestselling author of the popular Arthur series

Pierce Brown

Author of New York Times bestselling Red Rising series

Peter Buffett

Emmy Award-winning musician, author, and philanthropist

Bill Burnett

Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford and co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Ken Burns

Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker

Sarah Burns

Filmmaker and author of The Central Park Five