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Alex Wagner is a co-host and executive producer of Showtime’s political documentary series, “The Circus,” a national correspondent for CBS News, and a contributing editor at T...
Phil Waldeck is president of Prudential Retirement, a business unit of Prudential Financial, since 2017. In this position, he works to transform the retirement system that Ame...
Jane Wales is vice president of philanthropy and society at the Aspen Institute, founder of the Global Philanthropy Forum, and host of KQED's "World Affairs." She was previous...
Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, a social justice philanthropy with a $13 billion endowment and $600 million in annual grant making. In this role, he led the...
Amy Walter is national editor of The Cook Political Report, providing analysis of the issues, trends, and events that shape the political environment. She hosts “Politics with...
Olivia Walton is co-founder of the Heartland Summit, a Walton Family Foundation event aimed at kickstarting economic growth in the heartland. She also serves on the Home Regio...
Jacob Ward is technology correspondent for NBC News, where he reports for “NBC Nightly News,” MSNBC, and “The TODAY Show.” The former editor in chief of Popular Science maga...
Raphael Warnock is the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of Martin Luther King Jr., since 2005. Known for his activism and public voice, he authored...
Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist, professor of strategic foresight at NYU Stern School of Business, and founder of the Future Today Institute, a strategy consulting firm. S...
Phil Weiser (D) is attorney general of Colorado. Previously, he was a professor of law and dean of the University of Colorado Law School, where he founded the Silicon Flatiron...
Jen Welter is an American football coach. Most recently a defensive specialist for the Alliance of American Football’s Atlanta Legends, she was head coach of Australia’s first...
Tara Westover is a memoirist, essayist, and historian, known for her internationally best-selling memoir, Educated. One of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2018, it was s...
Gillian White is a writer and deputy editor at The Atlantic, where she covers business and economics with a focus on inequality, wealth, the financial sector, and economic pol...
Richard Whitmire is an education author. He is a veteran newspaper reporter and former editorial writer at USA Today. Whitmire’s latest book is The Founders, which is the resu...
Jon Wiley is a director of AR and VR at Google. He co-founded the AR/VR team in 2014 and was director of UX (user experience) until 2018. Having joined Google in 2006, Wiley w...
George Will is a journalist whose newspaper column, syndicated by The Washington Post since 1974, appears twice weekly in more than 440 newspapers. A contributor to MSNBC and...