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Alexis Abramson, PhD
Leading Expert on Aging, Caregivers, and Mature Adults and Author of The Caregiver's Survival...
Daniel Akst
Journalist and Author of Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess
Moustafa Bayoumi
Journalist and Author of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
Deborah Blum
Pultizer-Prize Winner and Author of The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic...
Ronald Brownstein
Author of The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized...
Frank Bruni
New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, Former Chief Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, and...
Paula Butturini
Journalist and Author of Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Michael Capuzzo
New York Times-Bestselling Author of The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to...
Sarah Chayes
Author of The Punishment of Virtue, Former NPR Reporter, and Founder of Arghand
Dante Chinni
Journalist and Author of Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the 'Real' America
Jared Cohen
Author of Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East
Steve Coll
Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner, New Yorker Staff Writer, and Author of Private Empire, Ghost Wars...
Ana Marie Cox
Original Voice of the Political Blog Wonkette and Time Magazine Columnist
Jan Crawford
Chief Legal Correspondent for CBS News and New York Times Bestselling Author of Supreme Conflict
Lisa Delaney
Fitness Expert, Journalist, and Author of Secrets of a Former Fat Girl: How to Drop Two, Four (or...
Peter Elkind
Fortune Magazine Editor and Co-author of the National Bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room
Jane Ganahl
Author of Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife
Michelle Goldberg
Journalist and New York Times-Bestselling Author
Paul Greenberg
James Beard Award-Winning Author of the New York Times Bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the...
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Award-winning NPR Religion Correspondent and Author of Fingerprints of God: The Search for the...
Shane Harris
Investigative Journalist and Author of The Watchers
Margaret Heffernan
Five-time CEO and Fast Company Columnist
Dave Isay
Founder of StoryCorps and Editor of Listening Is an Act of Love, Mom and All There Is: Love...
Akash Kapur
Journalist and Author of India Becoming
Joshua Kendall
Award-Winning Journalist and Author of The Man Who Made Lists and The Forgotten Founding Father
Lauren Kessler
Author of My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence
Jeffrey Kluger
Journalist and Author of The Sibling Effect
David Lida
Journalist and Author of First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, Capital of the 21st Century
Steve Lopez
Author of The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Roger Lowenstein
Financial Journalist and Bestselling Author of The End of Wall Street
Jacki Lyden
NPR Senior Correspondent and Author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
Bethany McLean
Vanity Fair Contributing Editor and Co-Author of All the Devils are Here and the National...
Dinaw Mengestu
Named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Writers to Watch and Author of The Beautiful...
Meghan O’Rourke
Journalist, Award-Winning Poet, and Author of The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
Ahmed Rashid
Journalist and Author of Descent into Chaos and Pakistan on the Brink
Thomas E. Ricks
Pulitzer Prize–Winning Washington Post Journalist and Bestselling Author of Fiasco and The...
Jon Ronson
International Bestselling Author of The Psychopath Test, Them: Adventures with Extremists, and...
Nick Rosen
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist, and Author of Off the Grid
Julie Salamon
Award-Winning Journalist, Author, and Critic
Kathleen Sharp
Author of True-Life Thriller Blood Feud
Ellen Ruppel Shell
Journalist and Author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Thea Singer
Journalist and Author of Stress Less
Ben Tarnoff
Author of A Counterfeiter's Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early...
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture