From bestselling authors and award-winning journalists to world-changing activists and business mavens, these new speakers are a who’s who of important voices, offering fresh perspectives on a wide range of topics.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras Author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree and National Book Award finalist The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Hernan Diaz Author of finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award In the Distance and Booker Prize-nominated Trust
Dr. Thomas Fisher Emergency room physician and author of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
Dr. Thomas Insel Neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and national leader in mental health research, policy, and technology
Protected: Jason De León Anthropologist, professor, and author of The Land of Open Graves and Soldiers and Kings
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin Author of Becoming Heroines, activist, and founder and CEO of The Gaia Project for Women's Leadership
Leila Mottley Author of Oprah’s Book Club selection Nightcrawling and former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland
D.J. Vanas Member of the Ottawa Tribe, author of The Tiny Warrior and host of the PBS special Discovering Your Warrior Spirit
Michelle Zauner Frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast and author of New York Times bestselling Crying in H Mart