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
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
Chris Myers is an American sportscaster from Miami, Florida. Myers has been a sportscaster for over 30 years and over the course of his career he has covered huge events from several different sports such as the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Olympics, the Daytona 500, The Masters, the U.S. Open, and more. Myers began his... read full bio
American author, teamwork and leadership specialist, keynote speaker, consultant, and thought leader Mike Robbins is known for his many talents. He is a respected specialist in several sectors thanks to his varied background and experience. The New York Yankees were impressed by Mike Robbins' early athletic prowess and selected him in the first round of the high school draft. He made... read full bio
Judy and Dennis Shepard are human rights activist who were the parents of the late Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old that was a student at the University of Wyoming. Matthew was beaten and pistol-whipped in Laramie, Wyoming. He died six days later in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado and the case gained attention country wide as it was... read full bio
Jean Brownhill is the founder and CEO of Sweeten, a company that matches people to vetted general contractors and provides support throughout the process. Brownhill has earned her degree in architecture from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and is a Loeb Fellow from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she co-founded the African American... read full bio
Lauren Speed-Hamilton and Cameron Hamilton gained fame after appearing in the Netflix reality series “Love Is Blind,” which has earned them their own spin-off series. The Netflix series Love Is Blind is a show where singles approach dating in a less conventional way by agreeing to marry the person they’re dating blindly, without ever having seen them. Together, Lauren and... read full bio
Omarosa Manigault Newman, also known as just Omarosa, is an American reality television personality, writer, and former political aide to President Donald Trump. Omarosa gained popularity after being a contestant on the first season of the reality series, “The Apprentice,” which led to her working with Trump as the president and director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison.... read full bio
Dan Harmon is an American writer, producer, actor, and comedian who is best known for creating and producing the television series Community and for co-creating the animated television series Rick and Morty. Harmon is also known for being one of the primary writers on the television series Community. His hometown is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he attended Glendale Community College, which... read full bio
