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Jeff Selingo

Journalist and New York Times bestselling author

Melissa Korn

Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Rosalind Wiseman

Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer, Cultures of Dignity

Charlie Kuhn

Co-Founder and CEO, Cultures of Dignity

Kahran and Regis Bethencourt

Founders, CreativeSoul Photography

Natalie Y. Moore

Award-winning journalist and author and senior lecturer and director of audio programming at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University

Dilip V. Jeste, MD

Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care; Estelle and Edgar Levi Memorial Chair in Aging; Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging; Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at UC San Diego; Co-Director of the UCSD-IBM Center on Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living

Howard C. Nusbaum, Ph.D.

Stella M. Rowley Professor of Psychology and Director/Founder of the Center for Practical Wisdom, The University of Chicago

Eben Kirksey, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Deakin University

Britt Wray, Ph.D.

Science writer, broadcaster, and researcher

Lisa Heffernan

Co-founder, Grown and Flown

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Author, "How to Raise an Adult" and "Real American"

David Epstein

Science writer and best-selling author

Joy Hurd

Head of Lake Forest Country Day School

Maggie Smith

Award-winning author and poet

Megan Stielstra

Award-winning essayist

Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D.

Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Temple University

John Duffy, Psy.D.

Clinical psychologist and author of three parenting books

Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D.

Child psychologist and Director of the Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health at the University of Minnesota

Renee Dominguez, Ph.D.

Clinical psychologist and Executive Director, Family Service Center of Wilmette, Glenview, Northbrook and Kenilworth