Rosa “Rosie” Gumataotao Rios is best known for being the 43rd Treasurer of the United States under the Presidency of Barack Obama. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Rios was raised by a single mother with nine kids. She worked full-time throughout her years in high school at the Alameda... read full bio
Freeman Hrabowski, also known as Freeman A. Hrabowski III is a mathematician, educator, and advocate. He is also co-author of several books. His research, leadership, expertise and vision are integral in universities, schools, and community groups in the country. He has been President of the University of Maryland for nearly 30 years and has transformed the commuter college into an... read full bio
Robert Greene is an American international best-selling author who is best known for his work such as ‘The 48 Laws of Power’, ‘The Art of Seduction’, and ‘The 33 Strategies of War’. Greene grew up in Los Angeles, California, and he studied at the University of California, Berkeley before going on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a... read full bio
James Redfield is an American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer who is best known for his New York Times Best-Selling novel ‘The Celestine Prophecy’. His novel has been one of the most successful self-published books of all time and the novel has also been made into a film. Redfield was born in Birmingham, Alabama and he majored in sociology... read full bio
Tom Gruber is an American inventor, author, entrepreneur and American computer scientist who is best known for co-founding Siri Inc. Gruber studied both psychology and computer science at Loyola University New Orleans where he earned a double major B.S. and graduated summa cum laude. He later went on to earn his M.S. in computer and information science from the University... read full bio
Sally Rooney is an Irish author from Dublin, Ireland. She gained popularity after the release of her debut novel, ‘Conversations with Friends’ which was followed by her second novel, ‘Normal People’. Rooney was born in Castlebar and she later studied English at Trinity College Dublin where she was elected a scholar. She went on to also earn her Master’s degree... read full bio
Joy Buolamwini is a Ghanaian-American digital activist and computer scientist who is based out of the MIT Media Lab. She is founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, which is an organization that challenges bias in decision making software. When Joy was only 9 years old, she had a fascination by Kismet, the MIT robot and from there, she taught herself... read full bio
Toby Merrill is a lecturer on law and she teaches at Harvard Law School. She rose to fame after using litigation to fight the worst student debt ever seen. Americans currently owe around a combined 1.6 trillion dollars and they usually graduate with worthless degrees. Merrill is the founder and director of Harvard Law School’s Project on Predatory Student Lending... read full bio
Amanda Nguyen is an American social entrepreneur, civil rights activist, and the CEO and founder of Rise, a non-governmental civil rights organization. She rose to fame after penning her civil rights and was able to unanimously pass the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights after seeing how broken the criminal justice system was after her own rape. This led to... read full bio
Jessica O. Matthews is a Nigerian-American inventor, CEO and venture capitalist who is the co-founder of Uncharted Power, a full-service power and data infrastructure company which created Soccket. Matthews studied psychology and economics at Harvard College and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. While in college, Matthews alongside her classmate, Julia Silverman, invented Soccket, a soccer ball that can... read full bio
Charlotte Pearce is an entrepreneur who is the CEO and founder of Inkpact, an online platform that connects brands with customers through handwritten notes and gifts. Pearce states that people remember how you make them feel and thinks doing a little can go a long way in building a lasting business relationship, which is in the heart of her business,... read full bio
Seth Goldman is an American businessman who is the former CEO of Honest Tea, which he co-founded with Barry Nalebuff. He is also the executive chairman of Beyond Meat, a plant-based protein company. Goldman grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and went on to study government affairs at Harvard University where he was a student athlete. After graduating, he taught English... read full bio
Nick Friedman is an American entrepreneur who is best known for co-founding College Hunks Hauling Junk and College Hunks Moving alongside Omar Soliman. Friedman grew up in Washington D.C. and went on to study at Pomona College in California where he played basketball for four years. After graduating from college, Friedman worked as an economic research analyst for Marsh and... read full bio
Omar Soliman is an American entrepreneur who has been co-founder and CEO of College Hunks Hauling Junk, a national junk hauling and moving franchise, which is located in Tampa, Florida. Soliman was born and raised in Washington D.C. and started working in business at only 10 years old, helping his mother in her furniture store. He went on to study... read full bio
Mark Bowden is an author, journalist, screenwriter, and teacher. His book Black Hawk Down; A Story of Modern War, is an international bestseller, which spent more than a year on The New York Times bestseller list and was made into a motion picture that earned two Academy Awards. Bowden’s other books include The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958,... read full bio
Doug Rauch is a businessman who was the former President of Trader Joe’s. During his time with Trader Joe’s, Rauch grew the company from a small local chain to a company who has stores nationwide. He was known for being an expert on marketing innovation and crafting corporate cultures. He has shared his leadership with the company to develop a... read full bio
Kate Ancketill is an expert in innovation and is founder and CEO of GDR Creative Intelligence. Over the course of her career she has consultanted companies such as Coca-Cola, Hilton, Macy’s, Tesco, Lego, Capital One, Microsoft and P&G on emerging trends and talks on power of transformative technology for industries such as hospitality and retail. Ancketill’s work with GDR Creative... read full bio
Marga Hoek is a global award-winning author, speaker, and thoughtleader of sustainable business and capital. She is a member of Thinkers50 for having a combination of being a true visionary and for understanding and applying the commercial realities of business. Hoek is also a voice for G7 Climate Change, Cop 23, and G20. She has been featured in Thinkers 50... read full bio
Beverly Gooden is an American victims’ rights advocate who is known for being the creator of the viral hashtag ‘#WhyIStayed’. Gooden was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and while growing up she lived in foster care before being adopted by the Gooden family. Gooden went on to study at Hampton University where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Communications.... read full bio
Stephanie Korey is an American businesswoman who is an executive chairman of the luggage retailer, Away, and the former CEO and current co-CEO of the company. Korey has earned her B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and has gone on to earn her M.B.A. from Columbia Universities’ Columbia Business School. Korey began her career working for the executive development... read full bio
