New Speakers

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.

Amy McGrath

U.S. Marine Corps veteran and founder of Honor Bound, Inc.

Jeff Tweedy

Grammy Award-winning musician and frontman of Wilco

Ed Yong

Pulitzer Prize winning science staff writer for The Atlantic

Nicola Yoon

#1 New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist

More New Speakers

Kristin Henning

Professor of Law at Georgetown Univeristy and author of The Rage of Innocence

Dr. Matt McCarthy

Bestselling author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic and Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

Chanel Miller

Artist, activist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Know My Name

Suzanne Simard

Leader of The Mother Tree Project and Professor of Forest Ecology

Charlie Warzel

Award-winning technology reporter and co-author of Out of Office

C Pam Zhang

Debut novelist of How Much of These Hills is Gold and National Book Foundation 2020 5 Under 35 Honoree