Speakers

New Speaker Priya Parker

Facilitator, strategic advisor, and acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering

New Speaker Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the critically-acclaimed bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste

New Speaker Dr. Mona Hanna

Physician, scientist and activist who exposed the Flint water crisis

New Speaker Tommy Orange

MacArthur Fellow, bestselling novelist and author of There There and Wandering Stars

New Speaker Ta-Nehisi Coates

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Message

New Speaker Cheryl Strayed

Author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir Wild and "Dear Sugar" columnist

Kaveh Akbar

Poet and author of the National Book Award-nominated novel Martyr!

Samara Bay

Public speaking expert, leadership consultant, professor, and author of Permission to Speak

Brit Bennett

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

Porter Braswell

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

Lauren Smith Brody

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

Rosa Brooks

American law professor and author of Tangled Up in Blue

Bill Burnett

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

John Carreyrou

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller Bad Blood

Ed Catmull

Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and author of Creativity, Inc.

Ron Chernow

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton

Richard A. Clarke

America’s first czar of cybersecurity and counter-terrorism, and author of The Fifth Domain.
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