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Susie Wise, Ph.D.

Designer, author, and educator at the d.school at Stanford University

Morgan Vien, MA

Founder and CEO of Design for Emergence

Luma Mufleh

Founder of Fugees Family, Inc.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Tony-nominated producer, and author of the bestseller Dear America.

Theresa Brown, Ph.D., BSN, RN

Nurse and bestselling author

Danielle Ofri, MD, Ph.D.

Physician at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at New York University

Todd Kashdan, Ph.D.

Professor of psychology, George Mason University, and bestselling author

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D.

Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and two-time New York Times bestselling author

Dana Suskind, M.D.

Pediatric cochlear implant surgeon and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago

Angela Duckworth, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO of Character Lab, and the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor at the University of Pennsylvania

Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the Sleep and Cognition (SaC) Lab

Karen Dobkins, Ph.D.

Professor of psychology and neuroscience at University of California, San Diego and the director of the Human Experience and Awareness Lab (HeaLab)

Christine Porath, Ph.D.

Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business

Douglas R. Conant

Founder and CEO of ConantLeadership

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D.

Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and two-time New York Times bestselling author

Curtis Sittenfeld

New York Times bestselling author

Juliette Kayyem

Faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project and Security and Global Health Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Gretchen Rubin

Five-time New York Times bestselling author

Susan Cain

Author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books Quiet and Bittersweet

Amy J. C. Cuddy, Ph.D.

Social psychologist, professor, and New York Times bestselling author of Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges