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NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

CEO of THIS Inc., Social Innovator & NYT Best-Selling Author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less"

Director of Fashion at YouTube

Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications get to those who need it most. He has published on a wide range of subjects such as global justice and human rights.

Bestselling Author, Film Adaptations Creator, Philanthropist

Career & Business Strategist; Author of "Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One"

Best-Selling Author, Former Actor, Business Development Expert

Journalist; Editor and Writer at TIME MAGAZINE. Author of 8 books, including APOLLO 13.

Journalist & Best-Selling Author of "Chasing the Scream"

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Author of "All You Can Ever Know;" Contributing Writer for The Atlantic; Asian-American Activist

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" & "The Giver"

Director of Mental Training for the St. Louis Cardinals & Best-Selling Author

Pioneer of the Flipped Class Movement & Bestselling Author of "Flip Your Classroom"; Member of the TED-Education Advisory Board

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

#1 New York Times Best-Selling Author, Digital Creator, VidCon Co-Founder & Entrepreneur

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, "The Virgin Suicides," "Middlesex," and "The Marriage Plot"

Legendary Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist; Associate Editor, The Washington Post & Author of 23 Bestsellers

Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)