Kim Ghattas is a Dutch-Lebanese journalist and author who has worked for the BBC and an author. Ghattas was born in raised in Beirut and was living there amidst the Lebanese civil war. Being in the middle of the chaos is what gave her the urge to be a journalist when Ghattas was a teenager. Ghattas went on to begin... read full bio
Kendrick Perkins is an American former professional basketball center from Beaumont, Texas. Perkins began his career playing high school basketball where he helped his school to four consecutive district championships as well as one state championship. After the end of his senior season, Perkins was selected to the McDonald’s All-American Game and was considered a five-star recruit by Rivals. He... read full bio
Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist and author based out of Brooklyn, New York. Over the course of her career, Eban has been a contributor to Vanity Fair, Fortune magazine, and several other national magazines. Eban’s work focuses on homeland security and public health issues such as gun trafficking, interrogations by the CIA and pharmaceutical counterfeiting. Eban has studied at... read full bio
Justin Simien is an American filmmaker, author, screenwriter, and actor from Houston, Texas. He is best known for his debut feature film, “Dear White People,” which earned him the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the Sundance Film Festival. Simien was born in Houston, Texas and while growing up he studied at the High School for the... read full bio
Joseph Telushkin is an American rabbi, writer, and lecturer who is a best-selling author that has published over 15 books on Jewish ethics and literacy. He is best known for his New York Times best-selling book ‘Rebbe.’ Telushkin was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and he began his studies at Yeshiva of Flatbush where he met Dennis Prager. Telushkin became... read full bio
Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist who is best known for his novels “Everything Is Illuminated,” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” and “Here I Am.” Foer was born in Washington, D.C. and while a teenager, he traveled to Israel on a Bronfman youth fellowship. Foer went on to study at Princeton University where he took a writing course with... read full bio
Jeffrey Robinson is an American best-selling author and speaker from Long Beach, New York. Robinson began his career selling articles and stories to magazines before he was even 15 years old. He went on to earn his B.A. from Temple University in Philadelphia and from there, began writing for television and radio before working as a staff writer at KYW-TV3.... read full bio
Jeff Flake is an American politician who has previously served as the United States Senator from Arizona. Flake was born in Snowflake, Arizona, and he has earned his B.A. in international relations and his M.A. in political science from Brigham Young University. Flake went on to take a two-year leave of absence and served as a missionary for The Church... read full bio
Hope Jahren is an American geochemist and geobiologist who works at the University of Oslo in Norway. She is known for her work using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests dating to the Eocene, which has earned her several awards such as the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union. Jahren was born in Austin, Minnesota, and... read full bio
Erica Keswin is a best-selling author, workplace strategist, and founder of The Spaghetti Project. Keswin has earned her B.A. in Political Science and Government from the University of Vermont and has gone on to earn her M.B.A. in Organizational Leadership from Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Upon graduating, Keswin went on to begin working as a consultant for Hay Group... read full bio
Eric Whitacre is an American composer, conductor, and speaker, from Reno, Nevada. Whitacre is best known for his choral, orchestral, and wind ensemble music and he has previously been appointed as Los Angeles Master Chorale’s first artist-in-residence at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. While growing up, Whitacre studied piano and joined a marching band in middle school. He went on... read full bio
Elizabeth Chambers is an actress and television personality who is best known for playing Kathryn in the film “The Game Plan”. Chambers is the wife of popular American actor Armie Hammer. Chambers made her acting debut in an episode of the television series “Going to California.” Since then, her television credits have gone on to include “Shark,” “Moonlight,” “SuperNews!,” “Criminal... read full bio
David Makovsky is a foreign policy scholar, author, and journalist, who is currently the Ziegler distinguished fellow and director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy Project on the Middle East Peace Process. He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in the Middle Eastern studies program. Makovsky earned... read full bio
Daniel Markovits is currently the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School as well as the Founding Director of the Center of the Study of Private Law. Markovits has earned his B.A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude from Yale University and went on to be awarded an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the L.S.E. and a... read full bio
Daniel C. Kurtzer is an American former diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Egypt under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and former U.S. Ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. Kurtzer was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and he earned his B.A. from Yeshiva University before going on to earn his Ph.D. from... read full bio
Dan Gillerman is an Israeli ambassador who has previously been the 13th Israel Ambassador to the United Nations and a Senior Advisor to Blackstone Israel as well as a member of Blackstone’s International Advisory Board. Gillerman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and he studied politics, economics and law at Tel Aviv University as well as the Hebrew University of... read full bio
Damien Chazelle is a French-American film director, producer, and screenwriter who is best known for his work on films such as “Whiplash,” “La La Land,” and “First Man.” Chazelle was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a French father and Canadian-American mother. Chazelle was raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and although Chazelle always had a passion for filmmaking, he spent... read full bio
Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster who is currently the play-by-play commentator of the XFL on FOX, and the play-by-play commentator for the Seattle Seahawks preseason football. Menefee is also host of Fox NFL Sunday. Menefee was born in Atlanta, Georgie, and he earned his B.A. from Coe College where he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity and... read full bio
Cody Keenan is an American speechwriter who was previously the White House Director of Speechwriting under President Barack Obama. Keenan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he earned his B.A. from Northwestern University before going on to earn his M.P.P. from Harvard University. Keenan began his career interning in the mailroom of Ted Kennedy’s senate office before he moved up... read full bio
Christopher Wylie is a Canadian data consultant who has previously worked at Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, which is led by Alexander Nix. Wylie rose to fame after he released documents that prompted the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which showed the secret workings behind Cambridge Analytica. Wylie gave The Guardian documents that showed Cambridge Analytica had unauthorized possession of... read full bio
