As director of the hit film "Rio" and the internationally popular Ice Age movie franchise, Carlos Saldanha's films have grossed close to a billion dollars worldwide. With a background in computer science and a natural artistic sensibility, he found New York City the perfect locale to merge these skills and become an animator. Carlos Saldanha has assisted in creating Blue... read full bio
Steven Johnson is the host of the BBC TV/PBS series, “How We Got to Now,” and is the best-selling author of the book “Wonderland” and “How We Got to Now.” Johnson was born in Washington, D.C. and he has earned his B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University and his M.A. in English Literature from Columbia University. Johnson is a popular... read full bio
Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality. Professor Davis’ teaching... read full bio
Food Network personality Geoffrey Zakarian is a master of modern American cuisine. He owns multiple restaurants throughout New York City of which the New York Times granted three star ratings. On the Food Network, Geoffrey lends his culinary expertise as a judge on the competition series, Chopped. He competed alongside fellow Food Network Stars in The Next Iron Chef where... read full bio
Travon Free is a writer, director, producer, comedian, and five-time Emmy Award winner. Two Distant Strangers, Travon's debut short film, was written and co-directed and took home the Oscar for Best Live Action Short. Most recently, Travon co-directed the HBO documentary BS HIGH, which was co-produced by Adam McKay and Michael Strahan and focused on the Bishop Sycamore High School... read full bio
Through his investigative reporting, Chris Hansen sheds light on issues of the day whose impact is felt by many. Best known as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, Hansen began his breakthrough stories on online sexual predators back in 2004. Since then, his investigations have exposed over 250 men who target young kids over the Internet, raising awareness of the issue... read full bio
Dylan Lauren, CEO & Founder of Dylan’s Candy Bar, was immersed from an early age in the worlds of design, art and fashion. While Dylan has created a strong niche for herself as an expert in the candy world, she is also hailed as influential entrepreneur in New York City. Dylan has won the prestigious Fashion Group International for Retail... read full bio
Born in New York City, Wallace Shawn is a Jewish actor. His father is a journalist and his mother is a well-known and veteran editor of The New Yorker. Allen Shawn, his brother, pursued a career as a composer. Wallace received his education at Magdalen College at Oxford and Harvard University, where he majored in history. Wallace was a Fulbright... read full bio
A reality television judge known for his intransigence with sentencing and his direct, no-frills method of addressing plaintiffs (an approach he refers to as tough love), Washington, D.C., native Joe Brown grew up in South Central Los Angeles as the child of two dedicated and diligent schoolteachers. Brown graduated from Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, then attended UCLA as... read full bio
Jeff Zucker is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of media giant NBC Universal. Throughout his 24+ years with the company, he has served as an award-winning news producer, entertainment executive, and business leader. A five-time Emmy Award winner, Zucker is a member of the board of directors of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Temple Emanu-El,... read full bio
After publishing a collection of short stories, Adora started giving writing workshops at neighborhood schools. She later started speaking out at education conferences in favor of student voice. She gave a TED talk titled "What Adults Can Learn from Kids." The speech has been translated into more than 40 languages and has amassed over 5 million views on TED.com alone.... read full bio
Carole began her career as a journalist with ABC News and is most known for her involvement on Bravo's hit drama-based reality series, The Real Housewives of New York City. She covered overseas stories in Cambodia, Haiti, and India while employed by the documentary unit Peter Jennings Reporting. During the Gulf War, she was also based in Israel. She was... read full bio
David P. Norton is both the director and founder of several organizations specializing in systems and processes to improve the execution of business strategy. He has founded and built a series of professional service firms during the course of his career, each focused on leading edge issues of management, from information technology and knowledge management to the discipline of strategy... read full bio
David Kamp is a writer of humor, lyrics, novels, and articles. His most recent book, Sunny Days, is a chronicle of the intelligent children's television age between Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers. His other works include the humor book series "Snob's Dictionary" and the nationally acclaimed The United States of Arugula, which is an account of American cuisine. As a longstanding... read full bio
American Pickers is an American reality television series that premiered on in January 2010 on History Channel. The show follows Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz as they travel around the greater Midwestern United States as well as the eastern and southern U.S. in a Mercedes Sprinter, buying antiques and collectibles. They work with Danielle Colby-Cushman, who runs the office of... read full bio
Stephen Attenborough is the Commercial Director for Virgin Galactic, a company mainly owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group which is on track to become the world's first passenger carrying commercial spaceline. Stephen joined Virgin Galactic as the company's first full time employee to put in place the commercial foundations of the business. He now leads a team in London... read full bio
The creator of Cobra Beer, Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE, DL, is also the chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India and the chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited, a joint venture. The Cobra series has received a total of 110 Gold medals in the Monde Selection, one of the most prestigious quality awards for beer in the world, placing it... read full bio
Anil K. Gupta is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and globalization. He is currently the Chaired Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, and is based at the Institute's Asia campus in Singapore. He is also the Michael Dingman Chair in Global Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at... read full bio
Noah Glass is a software developer, best known for his early work launching Twitter and Odeo, a podcasting company. He worked on several projects with Marc Canter, founder of Macromind which later became Macromedia, birthplace of Shockwave and later Flash animation & multimedia software. Glass developed an application that allowed a user to enter an audio blog entry from a... read full bio
Ms. Smith has guided Fortune 50 CEOs through difficult decisions, counseled presidents and world leaders through international crises, and assisted in managing the reputations of some of the most well-known people in the world for more than 25 years. She established Smith & Company in 1993. It is a strategic advice firm with offices in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New... read full bio
