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Judith Rodin is president of The Rockefeller Foundation since 2005. She was previously president of University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University. Rodin was the first woman to lead an Ivy League institution and the first woman to serve as The Rockefeller Foundation’s president in its nearly 100-year history. She was one of Crain’s 50 Most Powerful Women in New...

Gwen Ifill is moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week” and co-anchor and managing editor of “PBS NewsHour.” Before joining PBS in 1999, she was chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News, White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a political reporter for The Washington Post. Ifill authored The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the A...

John Lewis has served since 1987 as the US Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district, which includes much of Atlanta. A longtime civil rights leader, he organized sit-ins and participated in the first Freedom Rides as a college student. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington. H...

Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. He has consulted for the last three American presidents, the last three British prime ministers, and the last French president, among other leaders and activists. He has written 14 books, including, most recently Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. His 2010 book, co-author...

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher, cultural theorist, and author. He teaches philosophy and law at New York University. He previously taught at Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, and the University of Ghana and lectured often at universities in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. He is the author of In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture and editor, wi...

Strobe Talbott is president of the Brookings Institution, a position he has held since 2002. He served in the US State Department from 1993 to 2001, first as ambassador at large and special advisor, then as deputy secretary of state for seven years. Talbot was previously a foreign affairs reporter and columnist for TIME magazine for 21 years. He chairs the Foreign Affairs...

Nicholas Burns is the Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he leads the Future of Diplomacy Project and programs on the Middle East and South Asia. He is a member of Secretary of State Kerry’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, director of the Aspen Strategy Group, and a senior counselor...

Danah Boyd is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research; a research assistant professor in media, culture, and communication at New York University, and a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is founder and president of the Data and Society Research Institute and author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Boyd is on the...

Jonathan Capehart is an opinion writer for The Washington Post and a member of its editorial board. He hosts the “Cape Up” podcast at the paper and is an MSNBC contributor. Capehart was deputy editorial page editor of the New York Daily News from 2002 to 2004, and served on its editorial board from 1993 to 2000. In 1999, he and the board won the Pulitzer Prize for Editoria...

Robert H. Frank is the HJ Louis Professor of Management and a professor of economics at Cornell University Johnson School of Management. His Economic View column has appeared in The New York Times for more than a decade. Frank is the author of many books, including Passions Within Reason, The Economic Naturalist, Success and Luck, and the forthcoming Under the Influence. H...

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which is being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria. In addition to her clinical practice, she writes The Atlantic's weekly “Dear Therapist” advice column and contributes regularly to The New York Times. A contributing editor for The Atlantic, Gottlie...

Alfre Woodard is an actor, director, and producer. Her work as an actor has earned her an Oscar nomination, four Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards, and a Golden Globe. She was most recently Emmy nominated for HBO’s True Blood. Woodard directed and produced Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales, which won the 2010 Audiobook of the Year and garnered a 2010 Grammy Award nom...

James Bennet is president and editor in chief of The Atlantic. Under Bennet, who was named editor in 2006, The Atlantic has increased its editorial reach and impact while returning to profitability for the first time in recent history. Adweek and Ad Age named Bennet editor of the year in 2012 and 2009, respectively, and the magazine has been honored with the National Magaz...

Marcy Darnovsky is executive director at the Center for Genetics and Society. She speaks and writes widely on human biotechnologies, focusing on their social justice, human rights, health equity, and public-interest implications. She has written for publications including The New York Times, Nature, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Law and Policy Review....