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About Us Festival Overview Aspen Ideas 365 Program Tracks

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Receptions, Afternoon of Conversation, & Concert Feature Films Ideas Planetarium Virtual Reality Aspen Ideas Award Aspen Challenge Harman-Eisner Artists Pipeline Project Young Poets Portals Project Food Waste Reduction

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 182 Special Thanks & Team

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REIMAGINING CAPITALISM

ARTS: CULTURE AND IDENTITY

GLOBAL AFFAIRS: OUR AGE OF INSECURITY

THE CHOICE 2016

ASPEN LECTURES

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

FUTURE OF FOOD: OUR PLANET, OUR PLATES

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

SEX IN AMERICA

THE UNIVERSITY AT A CROSSROADS

THE POWER OF CONNECTIVITY

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INNOVATE FORWARD We started with Illinois R a i l r o a d but we were never constrained by a predetermined tr ac k . We could say that the s k y i s the o n l y l i m i t t o o u r c reativit y, but since we have b e e n helping s end human s deep into spac e sinc e Ap ollo 1 1 , we have already been to the moon and back. Even so, we know that to voyage into unknown frontiers, innovation isnâ€™t just a catch phrase. Itâ€™s a necessity. Learn how you can INNOVATE FORWARD with Booz Allen. www.boozallen.com

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ABOUTUS

THE ASPEN INSTITUTE

THE ATLANTIC

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. The Institute has campuses in Aspen, CO, and on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It also maintains offices in New York City and has an international network of partners.

Since 1857, The Atlantic has helped shape the national debate on the most critical and contentious issues of our times, from politics, business, and the economy to technology, arts, and culture. Through in-depth analysis in the monthly print magazine, complemented by upto-the-minute insights delivered throughout the day online, The Atlantic provides the nation’s thought leaders and professional class with forward-looking fresh perspectives that provoke and challenge, define and affect the lives we’re living today, and give shape to the lives we will live tomorrow.

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FESTIVAL The Aspen Ideas Festival brings scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers together to present, debate, and discuss some of the most important and fascinating ideas and issues of our time. Across the week, Festival presenters will contribute unique perspectives from myriad fields of endeavor, with objectives to deepen understanding, enliven dialogue, and perhaps inspire further action.

NOTE ABOUT PROGRAMMING: Throughout the following pages, on our website, mobile app, and in the Festival Agenda, we have made every effort to call attention to speakers and programming that are associated with or produced by our underwriters. Our aim is that our audiences, both in Aspen and online, will have no trouble recognizing the origin of the programming or the speakers who present at the Festival.

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The Festival offers a variety of program tracks that concentrate a series of discussions along specific subjects. PROGRAMING THROUGHOUT THE FULL WEEK

REIMAGININGCAPITALISM ARTS:CULTUREANDIDENTITY GLOBALAFFAIRS: OURAGEOFINSECURITY THECHOICE2016 ASPENLECTURES VIEWPOINTS FESTIVAL 1: JUNE 26 – JUNE 29

CRIMEANDPUNISHMENT FUTUREOFFOOD: OURPLANET,OURPLATES MYSTERIESOFTHEUNIVERSE FESTIVAL 2: JUNE 29 – JULY 2

SEXINAMERICA THEUNIVERSITY ATACROSSROADS THEPOWEROFCONNECTIVITY

DON’T MISS In addition to our traditional format of plenary sessions, tutorials, and Aspen Exchanges, here are other programs and innovative spaces that you won’t want to miss: ASPEN IN ACTION

The Aspen in Action series brings the work of the Aspen Institute’s Policy Programs—which serve as nonpartisan forums for analysis, consensus building, and problem-solving—to the Ideas Festival, highlighting the Institute’s leadership on issues as varied as Latino civic participation, entrepreneurship in emerging markets, and virtual exchange. Daily at 8 AM and 4 PM, hear from program leaders and those in their networks about the issues driving their work, and find out how you can get involved! See Agenda listings for details.

DEEP DIVES

These 90-minute afternoon symposiums will feature interviews, debates, panels, and more. From rethinking incarceration to cybersecurity to free expression on college campuses, Deep Dive sessions gather top experts and thinkers to focus on issues in greater depth, in mixed formats, and within one extended block of time.

ROUNDTABLE LUNCHES

Dialogue continues from the morning’s plenaries and tutorials in this curated series of luncheon dialogues. Festival speakers will engage ten attendees in an open, thoughtful investigation of a specific question drawing on the Festival’s diverse themes.

IDEAS PLANETARIUM

Explore galaxies, oceans, and natural wonders in the Ideas Planetarium, a geodesic dome that will become an immersive cinema and venue for live talks and demonstrations during the Festival.

VIRTUAL REALITY

Here’s your chance to be steeped in storytelling and exploration through the power of virtual reality. Stop by the Stranahan Room in the Koch Building during regular Festival hours to experience two special exhibits: Valen’s Reef, a touching virtual reality film exploring some of the Earth’s most beautiful reefs; and Mars 2030, a first-person expedition into the future on Mars.

ASPENIDEAS << The Festival in the Palm of Your Hand Navigate all the Festival has to offer on our robust mobile app. With real-time agenda information, presenter bios, maps, Festival updates, videos, and social-sharing options, itâ€™s your guide to the Festival. Sign in to create your own schedule and connect securely with other attendees. Be sure to allow for push notifications and location awareness to receive up-tothe-minute notices of schedule changes and important announcements. iOS and Android compatible.

Aspen Ideas Festival Lasts All Year at AspenIdeas.org Keep up with the Aspen Ideas Festival in more ways than ever before. If you miss a particular session due to scheduling conflicts, or hear about a topic discussed in a session different than your own, look for it on our website, AspenIdeas.org. An abundance of video and audio will be posted on the site in the days, weeks, and months following the Festival, in addition to blogs, photos, and facts and quotes that dig deeper into the topics of the week.

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A Full Summer of Ideas at The Atlantic

The Atlantic will be reporting on Spotlight Health and the Aspen Ideas Festival, providing insight and analysis of Festival topics, ideas, and speakers in its annual Ideas Report

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at TheAtlantic.com. The Atlantic’s new July/August 2016 magazine issue, featuring a Health Report to coincide with Spotlight Health, is available across campus. The double issue is led by the cover story, “How American

More on iTunes

Politics Went Insane,” an exploration

The Aspen Ideas Festival has a robust presence on iTunes. You’ll find a comprehensive list of recent e-books by speakers presenting at the Fest. And while you’re there, also check out our short courses and track collections on iTunes U. You’ll find everything at: iTunes.com/AspenIdeas

into the upheaval of US politics. Pick up a complimentary issue of the magazine and say hello to the editors at The Atlantic tent, located near the Paepcke auditorium.

Listen to Ideas Get thought-provoking ideas year round delivered right to your smartphone with the Aspen Ideas To Go podcast. Weekly episodes feature a wide variety of topics from fascinating speakers who have presented from the Aspen Ideas Festival as well as other public programs offered by the Aspen Institute.

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Commitment to free markets has stoked Americaâ€™s economy for over two centuries. Yet for too many these days, the benefits of our economic system are out of reach. In recent decades, the economyâ€™s winners have won big, while those on the middle and bottom rungs of the ladder struggle

to maintain their footing, much less rise a step. The great news is that the spirit of entrepreneurship is sparking new generations of leaders and thinkers, who are disrupting old industries in favor of more efficient and inclusive forms of endeavor. As technology changes the landscape of work and opportunity, how do we ensure that the capitalist approach builds successful economies and serves humanity and the planet? 12

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programtracks SESSIONs: Smarter, Faster, Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business What It Takes to Be Competitive in the 21st Century Economy How Do We Affect Large-Scale Social Change? Is Wall Street Bad for Business? Philanthropy: Where Passion and Strategy Meet Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream Will Future Innovation in Tech and Business Leave Workers Behind? Reimagining Capitalism: The Long-Term, Short-Term Debate

Booz Allen Hamilton Presents: Frenemies—How Peculiar Partnerships Are Redefining Competition U.S. Trust Presents: The Investments Today That Will Transform Our World Tomorrow—Investing in the Trends That Are Transforming Our World Back to the Future: Is the World Heading into a New Wave of Protectionism? The Industries of the Future: Understanding the Changes that Will Shape the Next Decade The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future Latinos: The Strongest Drivers of the US Economy When Climate and Economic Sustainability Clash

Deep Dive: Why “Inclusive Capitalism” Is Critical to Our Economic Success

The Growing Inequality of Trust

Do We Have the Talent to Thrive in the New Era of American Business?

The Blockchain Revolution in Business and Finance

The Gender Gap No One Is Talking About

A New Vision of Corporate Purpose

Notes to the President: How Business Leaders Would Reinvigorate the Economy

Creating Sustainable Growth— Doing Well and Doing Good Investing for a Sustainable Future

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Who are “we” in 2016? What is American identity? The ongoing debates over race, religion, sexuality, inequality, and political division spill with increasing force onto our screens and stages, and into our books and museums. What does culture contribute to those conversations, to the shape and definition of our ever-evolving notion of who “we the people” are? And as we become literally and metaphorically siloed by our technological dependencies and fractured media landscape, how can culture help us recognize and relate to each other as humans? This track examines the messages and mediums of culture as it changes along with our nation, reframing and challenging our understanding of ourselves.

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programtracks SESSIONs: Deep Dive: Art and Immigration—Culture and Dividing Lines America’s Identity Crisis and the Mirror of Pop Culture The Community Builder: In Conversation with Theaster Gates Orchestras, Cities, and the 21st Century The Emergent Chorus: Collaborative Creativity, Simple Tech, and Giving Voice to the Voiceless The Politics of Poetry: The Intersection of Art and Activism Build Your Own Musical Instruments: Plastic Saxophones and Soup-Can Bongos Upending Hollywood from the Inside Race, Gender, and a Modernist Masterpiece: Looking at Balanchine’s Agon Painting the American Portrait: Diversity in Museums The Gatekeepers: Expanding America’s Cultural Power Structure Rewriting the Future True Stories The Art of Dying and the Mushroom Burial Suit Smithsonian: On the Road to Tomorrow The Real Story Cultural Preservation: How Does Culture Define a City’s Identity and Should We Care? The Voice of an Ambassador: Renée Fleming

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The current flow of migrants across borders in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States is fueled by war, a changing climate, and economic despair. Disputes over boundaries, natural resources, and ethnic and religious tensions are invigorating terrorism and incenting military buildup. The rise of China and the influence of Russia from Ukraine to Syria are both defining signs of these uneasy times. Meanwhile, smaller powers and non-state actors lacking in military might are emboldened by the possibilities presented by cyber warfare. Whatâ€™s next? Who will lead the way toward sustainable economies, strong communities, and lasting peace?

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programtracks SESSIONs: In Conversation with John Kerry

Are We Beating the Islamic State?

Deep Dive: The Syrian Civil War

Inside an Evolving Iran

Europe on Edge

What Should the World Do About Syria?

The Truth is Under Attack: The Rise of Disinformation in the Digital Age

How China’s Crackdown Challenges the World

Stronger Than a Wall? The US Relationship with Mexico

Out of Africa: Climate Change and the Migration Crisis

The Hacked World Order A Conversation with Refugees What Does Putin Want? The World is Fast and so Should We Be The Obama Doctrine Cultural Diplomacy in an Age of Insecurity

You Can Learn Anything: Mandarin in 60 Minutes Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy Fifteen Years After 9/11: Has a Trillion Dollars on Homeland Security Made the United States Safer? Governments Alone Can’t Save the World

What’s Next for Ukraine?

Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World

Power Shift: The New Borders and Boundaries of Our Digital World

What Keeps You Up at Night, General?

Homeland Insecurity: How Much Danger Do We Really Face in the World?

The Challenge and Opportunity of 21st Century Energy Security We Must Love One Another or Die: Geopolitical Poetics in an Age of Cynicism Sonita (Film)

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In the midst of an election cycle that no one predicted, we’ll explore what the 2016 election is revealing about our changing nation. From the rise of Trump and the future of the Republican Party, to the Democratic Party’s identity struggle between Clinton centrism and Sanders far-left populism, this election has thus far shown that we have much to reflect

on and reconsider. We’ll look at what’s driving anti-establishment turnout, the demographic shifts changing electoral math forever, and feminism in what could be a historic election for women. We’ll also use the coming vote as a jumping-off point for deeper investigation into the health of our democracy.

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programtracks SESSIONs: The Healthcare Conversation We Should Be Having In Conversation with Josh Earnest Deep Dive: The Future of the Right Why Trump? What the 2016 Election Is Teaching Us About a Changing America Foreign Policy To-Do’s for the Next President What Type of President Do We Need Next? How the Deck Is Stacked: Jobs, the Economy, and the Election The Obama Legacy The Woman Card: Feminism and the 2016 Election Trump, Sanders, and the American Spirit of Rebellion Tricks of the Trade: Revealing the Secrets of Modern Campaigns Democracy in Danger: Bumper Stickers, Tweets, and Our Worrisome Love for Simplicity Laugh to Keep from Crying: Comedy Writers on Making Politics Funny Someday Our Kids Will Ask Us, How Did You Let This Happen?— Thoughts on Recovering a Sensible Democracy Obamacare after Obama Deep Dive: Reporting 2016—Media Responsibility in the Mobile Age How the Right Went Wrong The Millennial Agenda Slate “Political Gabfest” LIVE The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America An Angry America: How Did We Get to This Point? Decoding Political Ads The General Election: What Now? Beer and Politics with Governor John Hickenlooper

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The Aspen Lectures build upon an Aspen Institute tradition: thinkers and doers presenting their best ideas to society in hopes of a brighter and better future. With these individual presentations, we gather some of the worldâ€™s brightest minds to share with us a topic or passion they study and pursue. This year, the series will examine a variety of topics, from the outsize impact of nonconformists to machine learning, from the process of putting ideas into action to an archetypal view of the world based on popular movies. Delivered by top intellectuals in their fields, the lectures promise to inspire, inform, and challenge us.

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programtracks SESSIONs: Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World The World According to Star Wars Intelligent Machines Can Craft Smarter Policies From Inspiration to Implementation: Getting Your Insights Out Getting to Same-Sex Marriage The Future of Imagination

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Join as we delve into some of the most innovative ideas, thoughtful leaders, and provocative conversations aroundâ€” the viewpoints of those who inspire us. Among the leaders we are engaging in this programming, we count the former

first lady of the United States and activists involved in Black Lives Matter: a varied, stimulating group of speakers sure to enrich our conversations long after the Festival. From new approaches to philanthropy, leadership, and investing, to trips to Everest and Supreme Court decisions, the topics for these conversations run the gamut. Here we offer sessions that donâ€™t belong in any of our thematic tracks, but are too good to miss.

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programtracks SESSIONs: In Conversation: Vice President Joe Biden What the Cincinnati Gorilla Killing Tells Us about Humans and Animals Deep Dive: Supreme Court 2016 and All Its Complexity Can We Reclaim Civitas in American Society?

Southern Company Presents: New American Security—A Greener, Cleaner Military Mount Sinai Presents: Cancer Breakthroughs—The Promise of New Treatments A Conversation with Former First Lady Laura Bush: Voices of Hope

Being Nixon: A Man Divided

Toyota Presents: Doing More with Less in a Complex World

Not Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement—Black Lives Matter

Can Building Trails Pave the Way to Conversation and Stronger Communities?

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

Saving Our Coral Reefs: A Virtual Reality Dive Experience Race and History

Nudging: How Behavioral Science Conquered the World

Comedy Night

The Curse of Bigness: Why Louis Brandeis Matters

The Four Commitments: The Choices That Create Your Life

The Bill of Rights at 225: Why History Matters

How Media and Technology Are Altering Our Culture: A Case in Point— The Olympic Games

Philanthropy: Where Passion and Strategy Meet

Coral: Rekindling Venus (Film)

Women Who Lead 2016: The New Narrative

Water Solutions Bubbling Up from Down Under

From Job to Vocation: Finding Meaning in Our Work

Newtown (Film) The Secret Life of Pets (Film)

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American criminal justice is at an inflection point. The injustice and the many costs of mass incarceration are gaining attention from both political parties. The drug policies that have largely driven it are waning. The death penalty is beleaguered. Gun violence plagues our citiesâ€™ poor neighborhoods, but gun policy remains a third rail. High-profile incidents have led us to question how our police operate, especially in communities of color. Meanwhile, technological advances are opening new frontiers for law enforcement and crime prevention. Where will these changes lead, and what do they tell us about changing American values, attitudes, and priorities?

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programtracks SESSIONs: The Big Picture: Crime and Incarceration in America A Conversation with Cyrus Vance, Jr. A New Era for Criminal Justice in America: The Bipartisan Reform Movement Race, Poverty, and Our Courts Rebuilding Trust Between Police and Communities of Color Special Event: Anna Deavere Smith Presents Excerpts from Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education A Conversation on 21st Century Policing, Civil Rights, and Criminal Justice Reform Kids in the System: Why and How Juvenile Justice Must Evolve Deep Dive: Rethinking Prison Past, Present, and Future of the Death Penalty in America How Can We Move Forward Together to Reduce Gun Violence? Understanding the Mass Incarceration of Women Allstate Presents: Youth Shout Out Prosecutorial Power and Justice Reform Preventing the Next Gun Tragedy: The Work of Sandy Hook Promise Under the Gun (Film)

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While political and cultural battles persist over farming subsidies, GMOs, sustainable agriculture, and food deserts, the realities of water scarcity, extreme weather, and population growth across the globe are testing our basic ability to provide. Will the future demand that we radically reimagine whatâ€™s on our plates and how it got there? This track will examine what is happening at the cutting edge of foodâ€” from the average kitchen to the global stageâ€”and explore what it means for individuals and the environment. And if we are what we eat, how will the future of food define us, draw us together, or drive us apart?

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programtracks SESSIONs: Deep Dive: Fixing Our Broken Food System GMOs—Savior, Satan, or Something in Between? More Peas Please: Rethinking Meat and the Future of Protein The Bits and Bytes of Futuristic Farming Wasting Away: Why the Single Most Important Food Decision You Make May Be What You Don’t Eat Wheat to Bread: Why Is Our Bread So Damn White? Beyond a Full Belly: Revolutionizing School Lunches (and Getting Kids to Like It) Can Consumers Help Rewrite the Recipe for Big Food? Read It and Eat: Decoding Food Labels Food Safety from Farm to Fork: Who’s At Risk and What Can Be Done? Can Sustainable Food Production Scale? Monsanto Presents: The Next Food Revolution Modern Craft Brewing: Art, Science, and the Pursuit of Hoppiness

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Armed with new and more powerful technologies than ever, scientists continue to make exciting and perplexing discoveries in the far reaches of the galaxy. From gas giants to super-Earths, astrobiologists are considering how life might develop on thousands of exoplanets. New clues about dark matter

and dark energy are fueling significant alterations in how cosmologists understand the invisible 96 percent of our universe. The confirmation of gravitational waves, proving Einstein was right about relativity, is a game changer. Pluto has a heart-shaped geological mass! This track celebrates what we knowâ€”and what we donâ€™tâ€”about the wonders and mysteries of outer space.

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programtracks SESSIONs: New Horizons and the Exploration of Pluto Deep Dive: Spaceâ€”Why Should We Care? The Ripple and Einsteinâ€™s Legacy Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space Thousands of New Worlds The Search for Life Beyond Earth Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs Cosmic Conundrums Journey to the Beginning of Time: Turning Metaphysics into Physics Solar System Tour and Telescope Gazing Interactive Tour of the Universe Live Galaxy Trek Live Solar System Cruise Galaxy of Worlds Impact! (Film) Dark Universe (Film) Mars 2030 (Virtual Reality Experience)

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Pop culture is saturated with in-yourface sexual images, lyrics, and story lines. The art of innuendo is eclipsed by coarse language and oversharing. We have hook-up apps, and it only takes a few taps on our alwaysconnected devices to get to an endless array of porn. Yet as mainstream attitudes about sex and relationships

are seemingly more casual than ever, precise communication between individuals is increasingly paramountâ€” especially on college campuses. How did we get here? What has fueled this latest revolution in sexual mores? What are the consequences? And, have we gone too far?

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programtracks SESSIONs: Deep Dive: The State of Sex—Changing Mores, Changing Morals? Infidelity and the Future of Relationships The Importance of Porn Literacy: Adults, Teens, and Everyone Else Living Single and the Rise of Women What Is Technology’s Toll on Intimacy? Let’s Talk About Sex Youth, Sex, and Limits On Being a Transgender American The Future Is Bright for Long-Term Coupling You Can Learn Anything: How to Talk about Gender Audrie & Daisy (Film and Discussion)

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Tough questions swirl around the future of the modern university. Cost, fear, exclusivity, political correctness, value—these are the prompts that propel national discourse on higher education. Can families still afford college, and can our country afford its recent pattern of disinvesting in higher education? Is a liberal arts education threatened by the drive toward colleges delivering “marketable skills,” where jobs are the measure of value? Should the campus still be a place for civil discourse, or should sensitivity and respect guide discussion? How will universities adapt to rapidly changing student demographics? Why are headlines about campus assault and gun violence so prevalent, and how much do they reflect a national trend?

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programtracks SESSIONs: Myth or Reality? If You Want a College Education, You Can Get One Deep Dive: Academic Freedom, Safe Spaces, Dissent, and Dignity—The Fight over Free Expression on Campus How Colleges Develop Civic Leaders Are College Presidents Ready to Guide Higher Education into the Future? We Desperately Need to Reform Our Approach to Public Universities Do We Need to Rescue the Humanities? Myth or Reality: If You Want a College Education, You Can Get One Pearson Presents: How Do We Teach the Next 50 Million? Sheepskin to Job Offer: Fair Promise? PBS’s “PointTaken” at Aspen Ideas

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We are increasingly wielding our devices to shorten the geographic distances between us, empower voices yet unheard, enhance our appreciation of diverse cultures, and kindle economic opportunity. How will we succeed in connecting the most rural among us to markets, opportunities, and each other? Will unique and remote places of the world assimilate into one defined by a mass culture dictating norms? If the beauty of communications technology is that it enables us to bridge our differences, is the dark side that it concentrates economic power in the hands of a few? Does increased connectivity breed savvy new criminals? Can we be private as we reach for connectedness? Are we safe?

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programtracks SESSIONs: Deep Dive: Privacy and Security—What’s the Right Balance? Connecting the Next Billion On The Road to Artificial Intelligence Building Bridges through Virtual International Education Connecting the Last Billion: Should the Internet Be a Human Right? Closing the Digital Divide Algorithmic Accountability: When Machines Make Our Decisions Connecting with Purpose Online Child Trafficking: A Critical Domestic Problem You Probably Don’t Know About Lighting the World You Can Learn Anything: Smartphone Storytelling in 60 Minutes Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization Managing Risk in the Age of Cyber Terror Governing the Intangible Understanding the Podcast Explosion

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AOC+RECEPTIONS Welcome Reception Sunday, June 26, 6:15-7:30 PM Doerr-Hosier Center Immediately following the Opening Session, please join us to mix and mingle with fellow attendees and speakers.

AFTERNOON OF CONVERSATION Wednesday, June 29, 2 PM Our signature event, the Afternoon of Conversation will host an audience of more than 2,000 in the Benedict Music Tent. Big thinkers and doers will engage serious ideas about their work and the future. This yearâ€™s lineup includes Mitt Romney, Malek Jandali, Christine Lagarde, Yuri Milner, Satya Nadella, Jane Harman, Bryan Stevenson, and others.

We Dare You Not to Dance CONCERT AND RECEPTION Wednesday, June 29, 5:15-7:15 PM (Immediately following the Afternoon of Conversation) An exclusive concert presented by the Fusion Media Group. A threetime Latin Grammy Award-winning artist and international advocate of peace, Fonseca brings his distinct tropical pop sound to the Aspen Ideas Festival. The Fusion Media Group dares you not to dance as it puts the Colombian singer-songwriterâ€™s cross-cultural appeal on display for one afternoon only.

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UNDER THE GUN In the past few years, a drastic rise in mass shootings

SONITA Two-time Sundance Film Festival award winner

has ripped across the United States, compounding

Sonita tells the inspiring story of Sonita Alizadeh,

an epidemic of gun violence. Yet, despite the

an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran who thinks

growing body count, and the shock and outrage that

of Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual

comes with it, our nation has failed to respond with

parents and dreams of becoming a big-name

meaningful action. What is keeping the two sides

rapper. For the time being, her only fans are the

of this debate—those favoring stricter gun control

other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. And her

laws and Second Amendment purists like the NRA—

family has a very different future planned for her:

from finding common ground? Filmmaker Stephanie

As a bride, she’s worth $9,000. Iranian director

Soechtig and Katie Couric joined forces to create a

Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (Going Up the Stairs)

documentary that is comprehensive and fair to both

poignantly shifts from observer to participant,

sides of one of America’s most polarizing issues. With

altering expectations as Sonita’s story unfolds in this

never-before-seen footage of the shooting in Aurora,

personal and joyful portrait.

CO, Under the Gun gives a human face to a crisis that

(Run time: 91 minutes)

is scarring the conscience of a nation. (Run time: 110 minutes)

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AUDRIE & DAISY Audrie & Daisy is an urgent real-life drama that

ROMEO IS BLEEDING A fatal turf war between neighborhoods haunts the

examines the ripple effects on families, friends,

city of Richmond, CA. Donté Clark transcends the

schools, and communities when two underage young

violence in his hometown by writing poetry about

women find that sexual crimes against them have

his experiences. Using his voice to inspire those

been caught on camera. From acclaimed filmmakers

around him, he and the like-minded youth of the city

Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk (The Island President,

mount an urban adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo

The Rape of Europa), Audrie & Daisy—which made its

and Juliet, with the hope of starting a real dialogue

world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival—

about violence in the city. Will Richmond force

takes a hard look at America’s teenagers who are

Donté to compromise his idealistic ambitions?

coming of age in this new world of social media

Or will Donté end Richmond’s cycle of trauma?

bullying, spun wildly out of control.

(Run time: 93 minutes)

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THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

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For their fifth fully animated feature-film

Filmed over the course of nearly three years, the

collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and

filmmakers use unique access and never-before-

Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets,

heard testimonies to tell a story of the aftermath

a comedy about the lives our pets lead after

of the deadliest mass shooting of schoolchildren

we leave for work or school each day. Comedy

in American history. Newtown documents a

superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, and Kevin

traumatized community fractured by grief and

Hart make their animated feature-film debuts in

driven toward a sense of purpose.Â Joining the ranks

The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Jenny Slate,

of a growing club to which no one wants to belong,

Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal

a cast of characters interconnect to weave an

Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan, and

intimate story of community resilience.

Albert Brooks.Â Illumination founder and CEO Chris

(Run time: 83 minutes)

Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy produced the film, which was directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2), codirected by Yarrow Cheney, and written by Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, and Brian Lynch. (Run time: 87 minutes)

CREATING THE ENERGY OF TOMORROW

Where will the energy of tomorrow come from? From ideas. From imagination. From a passion for making things better. We’re discovering, creating and investing in energy solutions that will power us into a new era. We’re working today on the energy of tomorrow. Because the most powerful energy source…is in all of us. southerncompany.com

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IDEASpl e ta um sa ln u g hr eir e Designed to fit within the frame of the historic Buckminster Fuller Dome— created by renowned inventor Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller—the Ideas Planetarium serves up educational experiences in a 360-degree format every day of the Festival. Live presenters will narrate full-length, 45-minute tours of the universe and our earth, 3D visualizations of journeys across space and time, our dependence on water to live, and much more. The Planetarium also offers shorter films illustrating explosive cosmic collisions, the origins of life on Earth, and astounding underwater images of coral reefs.

Immersive, Live Presentations Interactive Tours of the Observable Universe Galaxy of Worlds Where Are We Going? Watch That Mosquito Is Our Life Blood at Risk?

Films Incoming! Dark Universe Coral: Rekindling Venus Dynamic Earth Habitat Earth The Last Reef See the Aspen Ideas Festival Agenda for daily show times.

Telescopes in Anderson Park David Aguilar

Look at the sun. View the solar system. In collaboration with Three Rivers Astronomy League and Aspen Skies Corporation, we invite you to peer at the sun. Yes, really. Special solar telescopes will give you a reason to look up and stare. After the sun goes down, take in the planets during a special solar system viewing with a naturalist and astronomer as your guide. See the Aspen Ideas Festival Agenda for dates and times.

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EVER FEEL LIKE YOU’RE BEING WATCHED? In a world of ‘smart’ products and constant connectivity, consumer privacy has never been at greater risk. As technology accelerates at a faster pace than the rules that govern it, who will stand up for consumer privacy—and who’s taking advantage of your personal data? Consumer Reports will be there to press for more transparent customer information and policies from manufacturers, and to champion data security laws. Help us create a fairer, safer, and healthier world.

Learn more at consumerreports.org.

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Experience Virtual Reality Here’s your chance to be transported by immersive storytelling and interactive exploration through the power of virtual reality. WHEN: Exhibit open daily during regular Festival hours WHERE: Stranahan Room, Koch Building

Mars 2030 Fusion VR, in partnership with NASA and MIT’s Space Systems Laboratory, takes you to another world with Mars 2030. This interactive experience transports people into the future, where they are immersed in the simulated life of one of the first people to arrive on Mars. From its jagged peaks to its subterranean lava tubes, this journey— approached with the highest regard to scientific accuracy— allows us to unlock mankind’s next frontier.

Valen’s Reef Valen’s Reef is a touching, immersive virtual reality film that shares the wonder of some of the Earth’s most beautiful reefs through the eyes of West Papuan fisherman-turned-coral-reef-scientist Ronald Mambrassar and his eight-year-old son, Valen. Together, they take viewers on an underwater journey among the region’s stunning sea life, including manta rays and sharks. Ronald shares how his people have reclaimed their ancestral waters, creating one of the world’s most successful community-based marine conservation projects. This is a Conservation International film created in collaboration with leading virtual reality production company VRSE.works and was made possible with support from The Tiffany & Co. Foundation.

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We believe incredible change can occur when you empower people to do good. The philanthropic vision of Sam and Helen Walton has driven the work of the Walton Family Foundation for nearly three decades. Their legacy is more important than ever as we accelerate our efforts to improve K-12 education for all students in America, to protect our rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and to give back to the region that first gave Sam and Helen Walton opportunity. WaltonFamilyFdn waltonfamilyfoundation.org

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ASPENAWARD Rewarding Ideas that Change the World The second-annual Booz Allen Aspen Ideas Award, developed in conjunction with the Aspen Institute and Booz Allen Hamilton, will recognize Festival Presenters and Scholars with innovative ideas that are changing and impacting communities around the world. Fifteen award finalists will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges in front of a live Festival audience. During the pitch session, the Festival audience will be asked to vote, and three finalists will be awarded $25,000 each to bring their ideas to action. COME BE PART OF THE ACTION: Live Pitch Sessions: June 25, June 28, and July 1, at 11:40 AM McNulty Room, Doerr-Hosier Center

BOOZ ALLEN ASPEN IDEAS AWARD FINALISTS SPOTLIGHT HEALTH | June 25 Ann Cooper, Speaker Get Schools Cooking Mona Hanna-Attisha, Speaker Flint Kids Read Marc Koska, Speaker LifeSaver South Africa Wendy Leonard, Scholar Aheza: Bright Futuresâ€”Nourishing Children and Strengthening Health Systems YiDing Yu, Scholar Twiage: Accelerating Life-Saving Emergency Care FESTIVAL 1 | June 28 Marcus Bullock and Reginald Dwayne Betts, Speakers Flikshop and the Flikshop School of Business Stephanie Speirs, Scholar Roofless Solar for Every American Chris Vogliano, Scholar wasteLESS Caitlin Werrell, Arthur Vining Davis Fellow Climate-to-Conflict Nexusâ€”An Interactive Web Tool Jeremy Wickenheiser, Scholar Entrepreneurship and an Innovation Economy-ready Workforce FESTIVAL 2 | July 1 Francella Chinchilla, Scholar Networking: The Untold College Graduation Requirement Dianne Harrison, Speaker Let Matadors Learn and Lead Jerry Paffendorf, Scholar LOVELAND: Mapping Every Parcel on the Planet Natalye Paquin, Scholar Girls Lead: Diversity in STEM Carlos Pierre, Scholar Crowd-based Due Diligence Please visit the Booz Allen Aspen Ideas Award web page for more information on the pitches. A S P E N I D E A S F E S T I VA L

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ASPENCHALLENGE Now in its fourth year, the Aspen Challenge, created in partnership with the Bezos Family Foundation, took place in two cities: Chicago and Washington, DC. High school students from both cities learned firsthand from leaders about problems that have a local and global impact on their lives. The teams designed provocative solutions to the challenges issued to them, and in a citywide competition, teams were selected to advance to the Aspen Ideas Festival. The program resides in the Aspen Institute’s new Youth & Engagement division and will continue to engage students from a new US city each year. For 2016, three student teams from Chicago and one from Washington, DC, won the top prize.

CHICAGO Roald Amundsen High School’s team Starry Chicago designed a program that educates the community about the importance of preserving the night sky and that advocates for dark-sky-friendly policies in order to mitigate the harmful effects of light pollution. The team educates people about the night sky on its website, StarryChicago.org.

Chicago photos by Daniel Bayer

Lindblom Math and Science Academy’s team MoneyLYFE (Leading Youth in Financial Education) acts as a bridge for youth to understand the banking world and conducts bank fairs, infomercials, and promotional activities to improve its community’s financial decision-making processes. The team also built a website—MoneyLYFE.weedly.com—to educate lowincome communities about the value of saving money. Roberto Clemente Community Academy’s team Unify Division works to unify the divide between the neighborhoods of Chicago and abolish the stereotypes that hinder the city from functioning to its fullest potential. The students hosted an event to bring together two distinct neighborhoods—Humbolt Park and Wicker Park—and are continuing to foster a culture of unification—versus segregation—among young people.

WASHINGTON, DC Paul Laurence Dunbar High School’s team Local Fun Dealers initiated a “play movement,” focused on transforming urban areas into fun places for children to play. The team removed the constraint of thinking play is limited to a playground and created “play outside the box,” a portable box of fun and games for children of all incomes and backgrounds to enjoy, piloting their efforts in partnership with local law enforcement and schools.

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“Building a Culture of Health in America… is much like assembling a quilt. It requires many hands working together. And often, the most unlikely pairings create the most evocative designs.” Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer

Now, more than ever, the movement to improve health must be championed not solely by the health sector, but also by those who have not historically seen themselves as part of the health arena. With that in mind, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is issuing a challenge to individuals and organizations across America to forge new and unconventional partnerships with the goal of building a Culture of Health that benefits all.

Think big. Act together. Learn more at rwjf.org/2016AnnualMessage.

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Harman-Eisner Artists in Residence Inaugurated in 2006, the Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence Program is a result of the initiative and support of the late Dr. Sidney Harman and of Michael D. Eisner. The goal of the program is twofold: to incorporate the views and voices of some of the world’s top creative talents into the ongoing work of the Institute; and to facilitate that process in reverse, exposing thoughtful, engaged artists to the dynamic work of the leaders, policymakers, authors, advocates, and academics engaged with the Aspen Institute. This year the Aspen Institute Arts Program welcomes our 2016 Artists in Residence: Theaster Gates, a nonprofit leader, professor, and activist; and Renée Fleming, soprano and musical ambassador.

Trained as a sculptor and an urban planner, Theaster Gates’s artworks are rooted in social responsibility. Based in Chicago, he works with architects, researchers, and performers to create artworks that stretch the idea of what we usually understand visual art to be. His most acclaimed work, Dorchester Projects, began in 2009 and has transformed a cluster of abandoned buildings on Chicago’s South Side into a multi-functional site of vibrant community interaction and alternative cultural spaces. In 2015, Gates opened the Stony Island Arts Bank, also on the South Side, in a radically restored 1920s building that had been vacant and deteriorating for decades. Now, Stony Island is a platform for sitespecific contemporary art commissions and exhibitions, a venue for artist and scholar residencies, a home for the archives and collections of Rebuild Foundation—Gates’s nonprofit—and a place to engage with South Side history.

Renée Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry, and compelling stage presence. Known as “the people’s diva,” she received from President Obama the 2013 National Medal of Arts, the same year she won her fourth Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Solo. As a musical stateswoman, Fleming has been sought after on distinguished occasions such as the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and a televised concert at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2014, she became the first classical artist to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. Fleming has served since 2010 as creative consultant to Lyric Opera of Chicago, and this year the Kennedy Center named her an artistic advisor at large.

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A more sustainable future requires some big thinking. We’re committed to developing technology that helps farmers grow enough food for a growing world. It’s part of our plan for a more sustainable future for people, plants and planet. Learn more at Discover.Monsanto.com

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Exploring the School-to-Prison Pipeline On the evening of June 28, acclaimed actress, playwright, and social activist Anna Deavere Smith will present excerpts from her newest play-in-progress, Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education. In this riveting work, Smith probes the so-called “schoolto-prison pipeline,” tracing the devastating but all too common pathways in underserved American communities today by which minority youth move from trouble in school to life behind bars. Using her signature form of documentary theater and based on interviews of hundreds of individuals close to the issue, she examines the lack of opportunity and resources for many young people living in poverty. And through this exploration, Smith seeks to understand—and demands that we ask ourselves—why we have let so many of our nation’s children drop out of school, suffer in regard to their physical and mental health, and wind up incarcerated in juvenile facilities. This will be an event not to miss: Smith performed in-progress versions of Notes from the Field last year to critical acclaim and sold-out audiences in Baltimore and Berkeley, where LA Times critic Charles McNulty called it one of the best theater experiences of 2015. Visit the registration desk in the Comcast NBCUniversal Ideas Pavilion to reserve your seat. Transportation will be provided from hotels and the Aspen Meadows reception area. WHEN: WHERE:

June 28, 8 PM Aspen District Theater

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On our 100th anniversary, we celebrate our 1.6 million members, who every day create opportunity for our children, their families and our communities throughout our nation, regardless of their demography or geography. We champion democracy and fairness, and we fight for economic justice and civil rights. We have helped our public schools become centers of the communities they serve. The AFT has always believed in the promise of America. Our members work every day to make that promise a realityâ€”so every family has a fair chance to achieve the American dream. As we look ahead to our next 100 years, we honor our past and inspire the future to reclaim the promise of America. aft.org/100years

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Young Artists Convene in Aspen Each summer, the Aspen Institute Arts Program convenes emerging young poets in Aspen for a specially designed session of the Aspen Seminar, “Leadership, the Arts, and the Good Society.” Participants hail from cities around the country—including New York, Chicago, Little Rock, Anchorage, and San Francisco—and this year are drawn from national and local programs including the National Student Poets, Young Chicago Authors, Lincoln Center Education, Urban Word, and Steppenwolf Theater. Through the seminar and its readings from work by writers such as Aristotle, Plato, Chimamanda Adichie, and Ursula K. Le Guin, these talented high-school artists have the opportunity to engage with the questions of ethics, morality, and justice that are the cornerstone of the Aspen Institute’s seminar program. The summer seminar is a culmination of the Creative

Youth Alliance, which begins with local seminars organized around the country by the Aspen Institute Arts Program throughout the year. Participants from those convenings are then selected to come to the Aspen seminar, where they also have the opportunity to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival and take private workshops with select arts track speakers.

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Portals: Connecting People around the World Housed in gold-colored shipping containers or tents and equipped with immersive audio-visual technology, Portals are placed in public sites around the world to connect strangers. When you enter one, you come face to face with someone in a distant, identical Portal and can converse live as if in the same room. Since launching in December 2014, Portals have connected more than 12,000 people in live conversation in the United States, Afghanistan, Cuba, Honduras, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, and Rwanda. A Portal tent will operate at Aspen Ideas Festival from June 28 to June 30, on the south side of campus next to The Atlantic tent. Each morning, from 9 AM to 11 AM, it will be connected to collaborative community centers in Africa and the Middle East. On June 28 and 29, we will connect to the Kigali Impact Hub in Kigali, Rwanda. Part innovation lab, part business incubator, and part community center, Impact Hubs offer members unique ecosystems of resources, inspiration, and collaboration opportunities. On June 30, we will link to a nonprofit arts space in Isfahan, Iran. Called

VA, it hosts national and international artists, critics, and writers in order to engage the local community in a creative and artistic atmosphere. Each afternoon, from 3 PM to 6 PM, the Portal will have a domestic connection to a community center in Milwaukee, within the zip code that has the highest incarceration rate in the United States. The Portal here aims to create a safe space for meaningful dialogues on how people understand their safety, the police, and the system of laws they live within. If you would like to book a visit to the Portal in advance, you can sign up for a 20-minute block online at sharedstudios. com/AspenIdeas. Feel free to drop by without signing up and go in any time the tent is available.

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The Aspen Ideas Festival Food Waste Reduction Initiative The Aspen Institute has partnered with the Aspen Meadows Resort culinary team, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), and The Rockefeller Foundation in a concerted effort to minimize food waste and maximize awareness of conscious consumption over the course of the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival. Chef Jason Thompson of the Aspen Meadows resort, a leader in the effort to reduce food waste in commercial kitchens, and Jason Smith, director of ACES’ Rock Bottom Ranch, a sustainable agriculture education farm, have worked with local ranchers, artisans, brewers, and farmers to source products that would have otherwise gone to waste— either because it does not meet size requirements, has an imperfection, or is slightly overripe—for various meals over the course of the Festival. Any time a food label denotes the dish was made with “organic imperfect products,” it means that dish was the result of our team’s efforts to save products that are still perfectly edible and delicious from unnecessarily finding their way to the landfill. The Rockefeller Foundation, a Festival partner, is undertaking a $130 million initiative titled YieldWise that aims to cut food loss and waste in half within our food supply system. The Foundation’s systematic efforts to solve our food waste problem, paired with its support of the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival, has inspired our food waste reduction efforts this year.

In addition to our food waste initiative, the Aspen Ideas Festival Green Team has established recycling and compost stations throughout our campus. Last year, this initiative recovered 51,000 pounds of materials through recycling and composting, and saved 129,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Please help us continue working toward zero waste by paying close attention to your waste, recycling, and composting over the course of the Festival. A S P E N I D E A S F E S T I VA L

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STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE is editor in chief of the Yale Daily News, the oldest college daily newspaper in the country. Since her tenure began in September, she has led the paper through coverage of racial tensions on campus and debates regarding free speech, as well as a high-profile sexual misconduct case involving a leading sports team. As a reporter for the News, she held the crime and student affairs beats and was also a staff photographer, and last summer, she interned for Paul Bass at the New Haven Independent. A Sutton Trust US Program student from the United Kingdom, Addenbrooke is a rising senior majoring in political science. @steph_add

DAVID AGUILAR is founder and CEO of Aspen Skies Corporation. A naturalist and astronomer, he currently consults for Science Channel’s “NASA’s Unexplained Files.” In 2015, he completed a 14-year tenure as media and science education director at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and he directed NASA’s New Horizons media team on the Pluto flyby mission. Aguilar was previously director of Fiske Planetarium and founder of University of Colorado, Boulder’s Science Discovery Program, marketing communications director at Ball Aerospace, and marketing director for the PBS series “Evolution.” He wrote and illustrated ten National Geographic and Random House kids books on space. Asteroid 1990 DA has been designated in honor of his work.

ENOLA AIRDis founder and president of Community Healing Network, an organization building a global grassroots movement to help black people overcome and overturn the root causes of the devaluing of black lives: lies of white superiority and black inferiority. CHN has put in place key elements of the movement including Emotional Emancipation Circles and the annual Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit. A former corporate lawyer, Aird was in private practice and served as legal counsel to predecessor entities of Time Warner and Viacom. An activist mother, she founded and directed Mothers for a Human Future, worked at the Children’s Defense Fund, and chaired Connecticut’s Commission on Children.

MOHAMMED ALAA GHANEM is senior political advisor, government relations director, and strategist for the Syrian American Council. His work connects American policymakers and the Syrian-American community with the revolution inside Syria. Ghanem travels to the liberated parts of Syria, participates in international conferences on Syria, and advises local administrative councils in liberated areas across Syria on international relations. A fellow with the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies involved in its Syria Transition Roadmap post-Assad transition project, he has contributed op-eds to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Foreign Policy and has appeared on CNN, Al Jazeera, and MSNBC.

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SONITA ALIZADEH is an Afghan rapper, poet, and activist fighting child marriage. At 16, distraught over her impending forced marriage, she wrote “Daughters for Sale,” which went viral. In 2015, she came to the United States, where she is now a student and international spokesperson for the rights of girls to choose their destiny. Alizadeh works with The Strongheart Group to share her message that child marriage can end in one generation. Her story is told in the documentary Sonita, and she has been featured by BBC and CNN as well as over 150 publications in 20 countries. Alizadeh was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 2015 Global Thinkers.

MIKE ALLEN is the chief White House correspondent for Politico. Previously, he held the same position at TIME magazine. Prior to that, Allen spent six years at The Washington Post, where he covered President George W. Bush’s first term, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, and the presidential campaigns of 2000. Before turning to national politics, Allen covered schools and local governments in rural counties outside Fredericksburg, VA, for The Free Lance-Star, then wrote about Doug Wilder, Oliver North, Chuck Robb, and the Bobbitts for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he nurtured police sources on overnight ride-alongs through housing projects. Allen also covered Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Connecticut statehouse, and other topics for The New York Times. Prior to that, Allen did stints in the Richmond and Alexandria bureaus of The Washington Post.

THAD ALLEN is executive vice president at Booz Allen

SANA AMANAT is an editor at Marvel Entertainment

Hamilton supporting government and commercial clients in cyber security, energy and the environment, navigation systems, emergency response, and crisis leadership. Retired from the Coast Guard in 2010 as the 23rd commandant, he was the lead federal official for the responses to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; and he directed Coast Guard operations in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and Haitian earthquake. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and National Academy of Public Administration Fellow, Allen is James Tyler Chair at the Admiral James M. Loy Institute for Leadership at the Coast Guard Academy.

and director of content and character development, overseeing efforts to make the group a global brand. She recently co-created the first solo comic book series to feature a Pakistani-American Muslim female superhero, Ms. Marvel, sparking excitement and dialogue about identity and the Muslim-American struggle. Amanat has appeared on MSNBC, Comedy Central, “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” and “Yahoo News Live” with Katie Couric. She has given a TedxTeen talk about the concept of personal empowerment. Amanat serves as a Young Leaders Committee board member at the Seeds of Peace, an organization that promotes the empowerment of youth in regions of conflict.

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ROSS ANDERSEN is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the science, technology, and health sections. He joined The Atlantic in 2015. He was previously the deputy editor of Aeon magazine, and before that, he was the science editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Andersen’s work has been published in The Economist, Scientific American, and Government Executive magazines, among others. In addition to his work as an editor, he is known for his award-winning feature essays, which straddle philosophy, technology, science, history, and the arts.

KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON is co-founder of Eche-

JULIA ANGWIN is a senior reporter at ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a team that was a finalist for a 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting and won a Gerald Loeb Award. Her team covering corporate corruption won the 2003 Explanatory Reporting Pulitzer. Angwin authored Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, which was shortlisted for Financial Times’ 2014 Best Business Book of the Year, and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America. The Newswomen’s Club of New York named her 2014 reporter of the year. @JuliaAngwin

RANEY ARONSON-RATH is the executive producer of

lon Insights and author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America and How Republicans Can Keep Up. She is one of the foremost experts on the millennial generation and has over a decade of public opinion research experience. She is a columnist at The Washington Examiner and regularly provides commentary on polls and politics on programs such as “Fox News Sunday,” “Morning Joe,” and on her bipartisan podcast “The Pollsters.” In 2014, Anderson was a resident fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and in 2013, she was named one of TIME’s 30 Under 30 Changing the World. @KSoltisAnderson

“FRONTLINE,” PBS’s flagship investigative journalism series. She has been internationally recognized for her work to expand the reporting capacity of “FRONTLINE” and reimagine the documentary form across multiple platforms. She has also developed and managed nearly 30 journalism partnerships with outlets including ProPublica, The New York Times, and Univision. Under her leadership, “FRONTLINE” has won every major award in broadcast journalism and has expanded its digital footprint. Aronson-Rath joined “FRONTLINE” as a senior producer in 2007 and became the program’s deputy executive producer in 2012. She previously worked at ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, and MSNBC. @frontlinepbs

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CAROLINE ATKINSON is head of global policy at

DON BAER is worldwide chair and CEO of strategic

Google, advising leadership on policy and working with policymakers, government officials, and political stakeholders. Prior to joining Google, she served as President Obama’s deputy national security advisor for international economics, supporting him at economic summits and coordinating the policymaking process for international economic affairs at G7 and G20 summits. She helped drive global agreement on trade, employment, climate change, and the response to the Ebola crisis. Previously, she held senior roles at the International Monetary Fund, US Treasury, and Bank of England and was a journalist at The Washington Post, The Economist, and The Times of London.

communications firm Burson-Marsteller and chair of the research firm Penn Schoen Berland. Both companies are part of advertising and public relations giant WPP. His career includes leading roles as a media and communications executive for a wide range of business, government and nonprofit organizations. He served as White House communications director and chief speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and as senior vice president for strategy and development at Discovery Communications. Earlier in his career, Baer was an associate at Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, a reporter at American Lawyer Magazine and assistant managing editor at US News & World Report.

ZOË BAIRD is CEO and president of Markle Foundation

AMAR BAKSHI is an artist and the creator of

and leads Rework America, a Markle initiative of leaders creating paths to opportunity in the digital economy. She wrote the preface to the group’s collectively authored book, America’s Moment, and leads a national partnership to create a skills-based labor market, Skillful.com. Baird was previously senior vice president and general counsel at Aetna, counselor and staff executive at GE, a partner at O’Melveny & Myers, associate counsel to President Carter, and an attorney-advisor in the US Justice Department. She is a founding co-chair of the US Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors and a director of the Council on Foreign Relations. @marklefdn

Shared_Studios, a multidisciplinary art, design, and tech organization that connects people across all forms of distance. In 2014, the studio launched Portals, which uses custom spaces equipped with audio-visual technology to allow participants to converse with others in identical spaces around the world. Bakshi is also founding director of The Legal Medium symposium. He was previously world producer and managing editor of CNN’s “Global Public Square,” special assistant to the US ambassador to the United Nations, and a reporter, editor, and producer for The Washington Post. He is a Truman Scholar and Soros Fellow.

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MOLLY BALL is a staff writer covering US politics for

MELODY BARNES is co-founder and principal of MB2

The Atlantic. She previously reported for Politico, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and Las Vegas Sun and has worked for newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia, as well as for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Ball received the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism, and the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis. She appears regularly on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CBS’s “Face the Nation,” PBS’s “Washington Week,” and others. Ball received a 2009 Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at University of Michigan.

Solutions and vice provost for global student leadership initiatives at NYU, where she’s a senior fellow at Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. She also chairs the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund. From 2009 until 2012, Barnes was assistant to the president and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. She previously served on Obama’s transition team and first presidential campaign, worked at Center for American Progress, and was chief counsel to former senator Edward Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Barnes serves on boards at Ventas, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Marguerite Casey Foundation.

MATT BARRETO is co-founder of the research and polling firm Latino Decisions and a professor of political science and Chicano studies at UCLA. He previously worked for University of Washington as a professor and director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. In 2015, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign hired Barreto to run polling and focus groups on Latino voters. He has overseen multistate election-eve polls, battleground tracking polls, and message-testing research and has briefed the White House and US Senate and congressional committees. Barreto was named a top Latino pundit by Huffington Post, and Latino Decisions earned praise from TIME and The Guardian. @LatinoDecisions

EMILY BAZELON is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She is the author of the national best-seller Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. Previously, Bazelon was a writer and editor at Slate, where she co-founded the women’s section DoubleX and continues to co-host the Slate Political Gabfest weekly podcast. She has been a Soros media fellow, an editor and writer at Legal Affairs magazine, and a law clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.

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SETH BERKLEY is CEO of Gavi. Specializing in infectious disease epidemiology, he founded the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in 1996 and was its president and CEO. Previously, he was an officer of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Health Sciences Division. Berkley has worked for the CDC’s Center for Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Carter Center, where he was an epidemiologist in Uganda’s Ministry of Health, playing a key role in the country’s HIV sero-survey and helping develop its AIDS control programs. He has been featured on the cover of Newsweek, in the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world, and in The Wired 25. @gaviseth

REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS is a poet and author. His latest collection of poetry, Bastards of the Reagan Era, was published in October 2015. His memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, won the NAACP Image Award. He also composed the poetry collection Shahid Reads His Own Palm. Betts is a recipient of fellowships from Soros Justice Foundation, Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Poetry Foundation. In 2012, President Obama appointed Betts to the Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, where he continues to serve as a practitioner member. He is a student at Yale Law School.

ERIC BERKOWITZ is a historian, journalist, and human rights attorney who represents refugees seeking asylum based on their homosexuality and status as victims of extreme sexual violence in their home countries. His books, Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire and The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities, examine the interplay between state power and the individual libido from the earliest human civilizations to the present day. Berkowitz is also a speaker on current sexual and legal issues. His journalistic work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, California Lawyer, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, AlterNet, and Salon.

MIKE BEZOS co-founded the Bezos Family Foundation in 2000 with his wife, Jackie, their three children and their spouses, all of whom serve as directors. Through investments in research, public awareness, systems-building, and programs, the foundation works to elevate the field of education and improve life outcomes for all children along the continuum from birth through high school, and has pioneered several in-house programs: the Bezos Scholars Program, Students Rebuild, Mind in the Making, and Vroom. Previously, Bezos spent over 32 years with Exxon Mobil in engineering and managerial positions domestically and overseas. He is an Aspen Institute and New Classrooms Innovation Partners board member.

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SUSAN BLACK is a registered nurse practitioner and the Chief Kaizen Promotion Officer for Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. As a member of the senior executive team, she is responsible for the implementation of Toyota’s production system, a philosophy known as “lean” in health care, hospitalwide. A passionate educator, Black has mentored many students, including those from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of Southern California, and California State University masters programs. Her numerous awards include the National Management Association Silver and the Golden Knight Award for Outstanding Leadership. Black also volunteers at a faith-based, nonprofit home for women in need that she co-founded in 2003.

FERNANDA BOMBARDI is the executive manager

JAMES BONINI is vice president of Toyota Production

CORY BOOKER is a US senator representing New

System Support Center at Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America (TEMA), sharing Toyota Production System know-how with North American organizations. From 2004 to 2010, he was general manager of TEMA’s supplier commodity engineering division, which leads new model projects and mass production supplier development projects in North America. Prior to joining Toyota in 2002, planning and leading shop floor improvements and later responsible for V6 and four-cylinder engines and axle production, Bonini worked at DaimlerChrysler, where he held a variety of roles including in the company’s cost management group and new model projects at assembly plants in North America. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

Jersey. He won a special election in October 2013 to complete the term of the late senator Frank Lautenberg and was reelected in 2014. He previously was elected to two terms as mayor of Newark, beginning in 2006, and served on the Newark City Council before that. Booker serves on several Senate committees: Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Small Business and Entrepreneurship; Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; and Environment and Public Works. He has worked across the aisle on reforming the criminal justice system, ensuring medical care for veterans with traumatic brain injuries, and ensuring women receive fair treatment. @corybooker

of the Institute of Entrepreneurial Citizenship (ICE), a civil society organization in Brazil empowering leaders of development in social finance and social business and strengthening local community development programs. She is co-responsible for projects on social finance and business impact, team management, budget, communication, and governance strategies. Previously at ICE, Bombardi implemented and coordinated the Pajiroba Project, focusing on revenue generation for rural families in the Amazon region. She is a volunteer director at Projeto Casulo, an NGO empowering young adults from low-income neighborhoods to become agents of transforming their realities, and a specialist in local development with the International Labor Organization.

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DEBORAH BORDA is president, CEO, and David C.

TUCKER BOUNDS is president and co-founder of Side-

Bohnett Presidential Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Prior to 2000, she was executive director of the New York Philharmonic, general manager of the San Francisco Symphony, president of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and president of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She is a former professional violist. In LA, Borda designed a business and curatorial plan that restored the organization to robust artistic and fiscal health, oversaw the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall, and expanded artistic programming. In 2015, she became the first arts executive to become a Hauser Leader in Residence at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership.

wire, a media technology startup that believes text messages are an emerging category of media, featuring newsmakers hosting conversations about politics and world affairs via publicly viewable text messages. Prior to Sidewire, he served as director of corporate communications at Facebook. Previously, Bounds was an advisor to political and issue advocacy campaigns, serving as 2010 deputy campaign manager for Meg Whitman’s California gubernatorial campaign and national spokesperson and director of rapid response for McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. He was also western press secretary at the Republican National Committee and on the communications team for President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.

JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN is the author of 13 books, a civil rights advocate, and the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Columbia University’s Barnard College. Her 2003 memoir, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, was the first best-selling work by a transgender American. Boylan is a consultant and cast member for E! network’s “I Am Cait,” and she consulted for the Amazon series “Transparent.” She is a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times op-ed page, national board co-chair for GLAAD, a trustee of the Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and special advisor to the president of Colby College. @jennyboylan

TIM BOZIK is president of global product at Pearson, responsible for product strategy and development across global school, higher education, and English-language learning. His team is focused on digital products and services, personalized learning, better outcomes, measuring impact, understanding what works, and bringing education and employability closer together. Previously, Bozik was president of higher education and chief executive of the US higher education business at Pearson and helped lead Pearson’s education activities in India. He started his career in education as a sales rep for Prentice Hall, and worked from the customer frontline through product development to nearly every aspect of higher education. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

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JENNIFER BRADLEY is founding director of the Center for Urban Innovation at the Aspen Institute, created in 2015 to identify, connect, and support urban innovators, especially those working in or coming from underserved neighborhoods. She was previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program, where she co-authored The Metropolitan Revolution. Bradley has spoken about urban issues at South by Southwest, Code for America Summit, and Techonomy. Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and Next American City. A former attorney, she co-authored Supreme Court amicus briefs in cases affirming constitutional powers of local governments and secured greater environmental protections, including Massachusetts v. EPA. @jbradley_DC

SHIRLEY BRANDMAN is executive director of the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development. She previously served two terms as a member and president of the Montgomery County (MD) Board of Education, the 17th largest school district in the country, where she oversaw policy development for pre-K through grade twelve. Prior to elected office, Brandman worked as a special education consultant and master teacher for children with learning disabilities and founded Cornell Law School’s first Child Advocacy Clinic, which represented minors seeking to enforce their civil and legal rights. Brandman began her career as an attorney representing youth in abuse/neglect and juvenile delinquency cases in Newark, NJ.

STEWART BRAND is co-founder of Revive & Restore, the Long Now Foundation, The WELL, and Global Business Network. He is founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, first published in 1968, which won a National Book Award in Contemporary Affairs. Brand is the author of several books, including Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, The Clock of the Long Now, How Buildings Learn, and The Media Lab. A trained biologist, he has served in the US Army, organized music festivals and business conferences, was an early computer expert, and advocates long-term thinking and pragmatic environmentalism. Other publications he founded include CoEvolution Quarterly and Whole Earth Software Review.

ROSALIND BREWER is president and CEO of Sam’s Club. She joined Wal-Mart Stores in 2006 as a regional vice president, ascending to her current role in 2012. Brewer previously built a 22-year career at Kimberly-Clark, advancing from scientist to president of the Global Nonwovens Sector. Forbes recently ranked Brewer as the world’s 65th most powerful woman and included her in its 2014 World’s 100 Most Powerful Black Women list. She consistently appears on Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list (No. 15 in 2015) and on Working Mother’s Most Powerful Working Moms list. Brewer chairs the Spelman College Board of Trustees and sits on Lockheed Martin Corporation’s board.

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STEPHEN BRIGHT is president and senior counsel at

STEVEN BRILL is an award-winning journalist, author,

the Southern Center for Human Rights, where he has practiced law since 1982 and was director from 1982 through 2005. He has taught at Yale Law School since 1993 and has taught courses at Harvard, University of Chicago, Emory, Georgetown, Northeastern, and others. Bright has argued capital cases before juries in three states, state and federal appellate courts, and the US Supreme Court. Subjects of his litigation, teaching, and writing include legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, capital punishment, human rights violations in prisons and jails, and judicial independence. He received the American Bar Association’s 1998 Thurgood Marshall Award.

and founder of Court TV, The American Lawyer and ten related legal periodicals, Brill’s Content, Journalism Online, and The Yale Journalism Initiative. His feature articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Esquire, New York Magazine, and Harpers. Brill’s 2013 TIME cover story, “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” won the National Magazine Award for Public Service; he expanded the story into a book, America’s Bitter Pill. He is also the author of a 15-part series and podcast published by Huffington Post, “America’s Most Admired Law Breaker,” and an adjunct professor at Yale College. @stevenbrill

JOSHUA BRODY is an oncologist, focusing on lym-

ARTHUR C. BROOKS is president of American En-

phoma and leukemias, and director of the Lymphoma Immunotherapy Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In this position since December 2011, he oversees development of therapies using the immune system to eliminate cancer, including an in-situ vaccine produced by injecting immune stimulants directly into patients’ tumors that teaches the immune system to eliminate cancer throughout the body. With his pioneering approach producing some long-lasting remissions, Brody’s lab is now studying it further. Brody was previously a medical oncology fellow at Stanford University Medical Center and an instructor in Stanford’s Division of Oncology, from 2003 to 2011. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

terprise Institute (AEI), a public policy think tank, and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. At age 19, Brooks left college to become a professional musician and spent several seasons with the City Orchestra of Barcelona. He returned to school a decade later, earning advanced degrees in economics and public policy, and became a professor at Syracuse University, teaching economics and entrepreneurship for ten years before landing at AEI. He is the author of eleven books, including the New York Times best-sellers The Road to Freedom and The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America. @arthurbrooks

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DAVID BROOKS became an op-ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. His column appears every Tuesday and Friday. He is currently a commentator on “PBS NewsHour,” NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.” He is the author of “Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There” and “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense.” His third book, “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement,” published in 2011, was No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Brooks also teaches at Yale University. @nytdavidbrooks

ETHAN BROWN is co-founder and CEO of Beyond Meat, a company focused on rebuilding meat from plants. Prior to 2009 and for nearly a decade, he worked for Ballard Power Systems, a leading fuel cell developer. Brown’s early career work centered on electricity restructuring in support of an open grid, where his analysis at the gubernatorial level informed federal and state policies on grid management. He gained an appreciation for agriculture and the natural world from his father, a professor, conservationist, and hobby farmer. All of this led to Brown’s exploration of rebuilding meat from amino acids, lipids, and carbohydrates, which addresses human health, climate, natural resource, and animal welfare challenges.

PATRICK BROWN is founder and CEO of Impossible

RON BROWNSTEIN is editorial director for strategic partnerships at Atlantic Media, where he writes a weekly column for National Journal and regularly contributes other pieces to National Journal Group publications, both print and online. He also coordinates political coverage and activities across the company’s publications. Brownstein was previously a columnist and political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and a correspondent for National Journal. He is the author of six books, most recently The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America. A twotime finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of presidential campaigns, Brownstein is the recipient of several journalism awards. @RonBrownstein

Foods, which makes meats and cheeses from plant ingredients. He is also a founder of Lyrical Foods, maker of Kite Hill nut-based cheeses, and the Public Library of Science, a nonprofit publisher. Brown was previously a biochemistry professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Stanford University School of Medicine, where his research group discovered the biochemical mechanism by which HIV inserts its genes into human cells, among other accomplishments. A member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and Institute of Medicine, Brown received the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor and the NAS Award in Molecular Biology. @impossiblefoods

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SCOTT BUDNICK is founder and president of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition. Formerly executive vice president of Green Hat Films, he executive produced many comedies, including The Hangover series. A teacher, Budnick serves on the board for InsideOUT Writers, which aims to reduce juvenile recidivism through creative writing. He is a board member of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance and sits on California’s Board of State and Community Corrections and Community Colleges Board of Governors. Other board service includes the Los Angeles Conservation Corps and Loyola Law School Center for Juvenile Law and Policy. Budnick was California’s 2012 Volunteer of the Year for his work with youth in the criminal justice system.

MARCUS BULLOCK is a justice reform advocate, public

STEVEN BURAKOFF is director of The Tisch Cancer Institute and a professor of medicine and oncological science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously, he was director of the NYU Cancer Institute and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine. Before joining NYU in 2000, he was pediatric oncology chair and a trustee of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and a pediatrics professor at Harvard Medical School. Burakoff’s board service includes the Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation and Stand Up to Cancer. Author of more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals, he received Harvard Medical School’s inaugural Excellence in Mentoring Award and the American Association of Immunologists Lifetime Achievement Award. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

NICHOLAS BURNS is the Goodman Family Professor of

speaker, and entrepreneur. Following his 2004 release from prison, he launched a painting company and is now CEO of Perspectives Premier Contractors, which employs other returning citizens. Bullock is founder and CEO of Flikshop, a free app that enables incarcerated people to receive mail and postcards, and the Flikshop School of Business, a program that teaches incarcerated youth life skills and entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Justice Policy Institute’s board of directors and a re-entry coordinator for Free Minds Book Club and Writer’s Workshop. Married with two children, Bullock’s story has received coverage from CNN and the Washington Business Journal.

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 at the Cohen Group. Burns served in the US Foreign Service for 27 years, as undersecretary of state for political affairs, ambassador to NATO, ambassador to Greece, and State Department spokesman. He worked on the National Security Council under Presidents Clinton and George H.W. Bush. @RNicholasBurns

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URSULA BURNS is chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation. She joined Xerox as an intern in 1980 and has held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing, and product development. She was named president in 2007, CEO in 2009, and chairman in 2010. Burns regularly appears on Fortune’s and Forbes’ lists of the world’s most powerful women and is a board director of American Express Corporation, Exxon Mobil, and the Ford Foundation. She has been appointed to help lead the White House national program on STEM and to chair the President’s Export Council. She also provides leadership counsel to MIT, the US Olympic Committee, and the National Academy Foundation, among others. @xerox

SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL is US Secretary of

LAURA BUSH is the former first lady of the United States and chair of the Women’s Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute, where she works on global health care innovations, empowering women in emerging democracies, education reform, and supporting those who have served in the American military. In her current and former roles, she championed key issues in the fields of education, health care, and human rights. Author of the best-selling memoir, Spoken from the Heart, Bush founded the Texas Book Festival and the National Book Festival. Early in her career, she taught in Texas public schools and worked as a public school librarian.

TONI BUSH is executive vice president and global head of government affairs for News Corp. She previously enjoyed a nearly 20-year tenure at Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom, rising to become the partner in charge of its communications group and representing global media/entertainment and telecom entities (including News Corp) in regulatory, legislative, and transactional matters. Bush was executive vice president of Northpoint Technology from 2001 to 2003, leading legal and regulatory strategies. Previously, she served as senior counsel to the Communications Subcommittee of the US Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, where she worked on numerous bills including the Cable Act of 1992.

Health and Human Services, a position she has held since June 2014. She has led organizations in public and private sectors, most recently as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Prior to serving in the Obama administration, Burwell was president of Walmart Foundation and COO and president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During the Clinton administration, she was deputy director of OMB, deputy chief of staff to the president, chief of staff to the Treasury secretary, and staff director of the National Economic Council. @SecBurwell

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DWIGHT BUSH SR. is US ambassador to Morocco and

PAULA CABALLERO is senior director for the World

president of D. L. Bush & Associates. He was previously president and CEO of Urban Trust Bank, a principal at Stuart Mill Capital, vice president and CFO at SatoTravel Holdings, vice chairman at Enhanced Capital Partners, and vice president of corporate development at Sallie Mae. He started his career at Chase Manhattan Bank. Bush has been vice chairman of EntreMed since 2010 and has worked with a variety of philanthropic and education institutions, including Cornell University, Xavier University, the GAVI Alliance, National Symphony Orchestra, The Vaccine Fund, and the Joint Centers for Social and Economic Studies.

Bankâ€™s environment and natural resources global practice. Prior to this, she was director for economic, social, and environmental affairs in the Colombia Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Caballero has been a leading voice and negotiator in international fora, including at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Post 2015 framework, and fisheries negotiations at the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. Previously, she worked with the UN Development Programme and was assistant executive director for the Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea. Caballero received a 2014 Zayed International Prize for the Environment for her contribution to environmental action leading to positive change.

ROSS CAGAN is a researcher at The Mount Sinai Hospital, founder and director of the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics, and a professor in the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. A leader in the field of personalized cancer treatment, his work focuses on the use of Drosophila (fruit flies) to address disease mechanisms and therapeutics. He is also co-founder and a board member of Medros, which advises on the use of Drosophila for disease-based screens, and editor in chief of the journal Disease Models and Mechanisms. Cagan was previously a professor at Washington University School of Medicine, from 1993 to 2007. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

NANCY CANTOR is chancellor of Rutgers University in Newark. A social psychologist, she is a champion for inclusion and advocate for re-emphasizing the role universities play as anchor institutions in their communities, collaborating with cross-sector partners to fulfill higher educationâ€™s public mission as an engine of discovery, innovation, and social mobility. Cantor previously led Syracuse University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and was provost at the University of Michigan, where she was closely involved in defending affirmative action in the 2003 US Supreme Court cases Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the National Academy of Medicine. @Rutgers_Newark

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PAMELA CANTOR is founder, president, and CEO of Turnaround for Children, a nonprofit that works with low-performing public schools to address obstacles to teaching and learning that stem from the stress of poverty. Turnaround helps struggling schools set the stage for academic achievement and healthy student growth by translating neuroscience and the study of child development into educational practices that are teachable to educators and administrators. Cantor founded Turnaround after co-authoring a study on the impact of the September 11, 2001, attacks on schoolchildren. Cantor, who practiced child psychiatry for nearly two decades, is an Ashoka Fellow and was awarded the 2014 Purpose Prize for Intergenerational Impact. @Turnaround

JONATHAN CAPEHART is a member of The Wash-

JOHN CARLIN is assistant attorney general for national

STEPHEN L. CARTER is the William Nelson Cromwell

security at the US Justice Department and its top national security attorney, overseeing nearly 400 employees responsible for protecting the country against international and domestic terrorism, espionage, cyber, and other national security threats. He joined the National Security Division after serving as chief of staff and senior counsel to former FBI director Robert Mueller. A career federal prosecutor, Carlin was previously national coordinator of the Justice Department’s Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property program, a cadre of prosecutors trained to prosecute cyber crime and intellectual property cases, and assistant US attorney for the District of Columbia.

Professor of Law at Yale University, where he has taught since 1982. His course matter includes contracts, evidence, law and religion, and the ethics of war. Carter is the author of 14 books, including The Violence of Peace: America’s Wars in the Age of Obama; God’s Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics; and Civility: Manners, Morals, and the Etiquette of Democracy. His six novels include The Emperor of Ocean Park and, most recently, Back Channel. He also writes regularly for Bloomberg View. Carter moderated seminars at the Aspen Institute for nearly 20 years. @stepcarter

ington Post editorial board and writes about politics and social issues for the PostPartisan blog. He is an MSNBC contributor and has been substitute host of WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” and WAMU’s “Kojo Namdi Show.” 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, earning, with the board, the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. In between, he was national affairs columnist at Bloomberg News and Michael Bloomberg’s policy advisor in his first successful campaign for New York City mayor. @capehartj

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JEAN CASE is CEO of the Case Foundation, which promotes innovation, collaboration, and leadership in the nonprofit sector. Prior to this, she was a senior executive at America Online. Case serves as chairman of the National Geographic Society and on the boards of Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure, the White House Historical Association, and BrainScope Company. She is on the advisory boards of Harvard Business School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, and Brain Trust Accelerator Fund. Case and her husband, Steve, have been recognized as National Conference on Citizenship Citizens of the Year.

STEVE CASE is chairman and CEO of Revolution, an investment firm he co-founded in 2005, and chairman of the Case Foundation, which he established with his wife, Jean, in 1997. An entrepreneur and philanthropist, he co-founded America Online in 1985 and became its CEO and chairman, retiring as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003. Case was the founding chair of the Startup America Partnership, an effort launched at the White House to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. He is also a presidential ambassador for global entrepreneurship and was a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, where he chaired the subcommittee on entrepreneurship. @stevecase

AQUIL CHARLTON is a teaching artist and consultant applying his youth development experience and artistic practice as a musician, writer, DJ, and visual artist toward his vision for a more just society. A John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Citizen Artist Fellow and teaching artist with Urban Gateways, he is passionate about providing imaginative spaces combined with educational tools that empower and validate children from systemically marginalized communities. Charlton began teaching art with Umoja Student Development Corporation, then co-founded The Crib Collective, launched the ALT-City new music ensemble with Chicago Public Schools All City Arts program, and served as a cultural ambassador for the US State Department.

GERALD CHERTAVIAN is CEO and founder of Year Up, a national program that empowers urban young adults to enter the economic mainstream. He serves on the board of advisors for the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and in 2013 became chairman of the Roxbury Community College Board of Trustees. In 2015, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker appointed him to serve on the Task Force on Economic Opportunity for Populations Facing Chronically High Rates of Unemployment. Chertavian authored A Year Up, a New York Times best-seller. Year Up was recognized by Fast Company and The Monitor Group as one of the top 25 organizations using business excellence to engineer social change.

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HENRY CISNEROS is chairman of the CityView companies, which work with urban homebuilders to create homes priced for average families, and an equity partner with Siebert, Brandford, Shank, & Co., a municipal finance and corporate underwriting firm. The former president and COO of Univision Communications, he currently serves on its board. Cisneros was secretary of housing and urban development under President Clinton. He founded Cisneros Asset Management Company after serving four terms as mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He has served as president of the National League of Cities, deputy chair of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and is currently an officer of Habitat for Humanity International.

DONTE CLARK is a poet, playwright, emcee, educator,

STEVE CLEMONS is Washington editor at large for The Atlantic and editor in chief of AtlanticLIVE. He is a national security and foreign policy contributor to MSNBC and a senior fellow of the New America Foundation, where he was executive vice president until 2011. Clemons was previously executive vice president of the Economic Strategy Institute, senior policy advisor on economic and international affairs to former senator Jeff Bingaman (DNM), and the first executive director of the Nixon Center. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Council on Geopolitical Risk and serves on the board of Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. @SCClemons

JAY COEN GILBERT is co-founder of B Lab, a nonprofit

and activist from Richmond, CA. In 2008, he co-founded RAW Talent, which has since merged with the RYSE Center to become its music and performing arts program, through which Clark mentors Richmond youth artists and directs them in an annual multimedia theatrical production as the center’s creative coordinator. Clark’s life story is featured in a documentary film, Romeo Is Bleeding, which has been screening across the country at various film festivals. His primary focus is ending the violence that has plagued his community, using his art and curriculum as a call to action. In 2014, Clark was elected Richmond’s poet laureate.

organization that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good. He previously co-founded and later sold AND 1, a basketball footwear and apparel company, where he led product and marketing and was its CEO. Gilbert has worked for McKinsey & Co as well as several organizations in New York City’s public and nonprofit sectors. He is a Henry Crown Fellow and a winner of the McNulty Prize at the Aspen Institute, board president of the Philadelphia chapter of KIPP Philadelphia Schools, and a former board member of Investors’ Circle and Social Venture Network. @bcorporation

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BONNI COHEN is co-founder of Actual Films, making

DAVID COHEN is senior executive vice president of

documentaries for theatrical release and broadcasts for PBS, BBC, ARTE, Discovery Channel, Lucasfilm, and Stanford University. She has produced and directed the award-winning films The Island President, Inside Guantanamo, The Rape of Europa, and Wonders Are Many. Cohen executive produced 3.5 Minutes, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, and Art and Craft, which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. The co-founder of Catapult Film Fund, moving storytelling across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives with funds and mentorship, she has been an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley Journalism School graduate program in documentary film.

Comcast Corporation, its chief diversity officer, and senior counselor to the CEO. Previously, he was a partner in and chairman of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll and, from 1992 to 1997, chief of staff to Philadelphia mayor Edward Rendell. Cohen’s board service includes the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and its CEO Council for Growth, City Year, National Urban League, and National Council of La Raza. His numerous awards include the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award, the Spirit of Asian American Award, William Penn Award, and The William Way Community Center Amicus in Res Award. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

ALAN COHN is an attorney and consultant. He is of counsel at Steptoe & Johnson and an independent consultant and a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company’s public sector practice. Previously, he served in senior policy and management positions at the US Department of Homeland Security, including as assistant secretary responsible for strategy, planning, and risk assessment, and second in charge of the Office of Policy. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, a nonresident senior fellow at Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center on International Security, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Meta Council on the Illicit Economy and its Cybercrime Steering Committee.

DAISY COLEMAN is an activist, artist, and a primary subject in the feature documentary Audrie & Daisy. Her story drew national attention in 2013 when she spoke to the media after reporting her sexual assault in her small town of Maryville, MO. Coleman serves on the Junior Board of PAVE, a nonprofit working to prevent sexual assault and support survivors, and co-founded SafeBAE, a student-focused, survivor-driven campaign to raise awareness about sexual assault in middle and high school. Along with her advocacy work, Coleman recently completed her freshman year at Missouri Valley College, where she received a wrestling scholarship and is currently training to become a professional tattoo artist.

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MAUREEN CONWAY is vice president for policy programs at the Aspen Institute and executive director of its Economic Opportunities Program. She founded EOP’s Workforce Strategies Initiative and leads researchers and consultants in identifying and advancing strategies that help low-income Americans gain ground in today’s labor market. A nationally recognized expert in sectoral workforce development, Conway has authored numerous publications, including research reports, case studies, policy briefs, and co-edited the book Connecting People to Work: Workforce Intermediaries and Sector Strategies. She has consulted for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and advised the Peace Corps on economic development programs in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

ANN COOPER is a chef, educator, and advocate for better food for children. She is director of nutrition services for the Boulder Valley School District and founder of the Chef Ann Foundation, which she began in 2009 to focus on solutions to the school food crisis. Her decades-long career includes 15 years in school food programs and chef positions with Holland America Cruises, Radisson Hotels, Telluride Ski Resort, and the Putney Inn in Vermont. Cooper is the author of four books, including Lunch Lessons and Bitter Harvest. She speaks widely, has been honored by the National Resources Defense Council, and was selected as a Kellogg Food and Society Policy fellow. @chefannc

BOB COSTAS is the Olympic primetime and “Foot-

TOM COTTON is a US senator for Arkansas (R), serving on the Banking Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, the latter of which as the Airland Subcommittee chair. Previously, he worked for McKinsey & Co. and served one term in the US House of Representatives. In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, Cotton left a clerkship with the US Court of Appeals and private law practice to served nearly five years on active duty as an Army infantry officer in Iraq with the 101st Airborne and in Afghanistan with a provincial reconstruction team. Cotton’s military decorations include the Bronze Star medal, Combat Infantry badge, and Ranger tab.

ball Night in America” host for NBC, including play-byplay, studio hosting, and reporting. A 27-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, he co-hosts NBC’s coverage of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes and contributes to a variety of NBC programs, including “NBC Nightly News” and “Today.” A commentator for MLB Network, Costas’s Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball was a 2000 New York Times best-seller. He has been honored as Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association a record eight times and in June 2012 was inducted into the NSSA Hall of Fame.

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CHRIS COX is chief product officer at Facebook, leading its product management, design, and marketing functions globally. He is responsible for the core products and features that shape the social experience for the over 1.5 billion people who use Facebook every month. After earning his bachelor’s degree in symbolic systems from Stanford University in 2004, Cox joined Facebook in 2005 as a software engineer and helped build the first versions of key Facebook features, including News Feed. He then became director of human resources, setting the tone for Facebook’s culture, and later, vice president of product, before being promoted to chief product officer in 2014.

MARIA CUOMO COLE is the award-winning producer

STEPHANIE CUTTER is a founding partner at Precision

DAVID DANIELS manages the North American services team for Pearson Higher Education, managing online services business, strategic account management, and emerging learning models centered around efficacy. He oversees Pearson’s partnerships with colleges and manages Pearson’s Smarthinking tutoring, efforts around learning design, and digital and print fulfillment of products with a focus on scale and automation. Under Daniels’s leadership, Pearson has won three CODiE awards for its courseware line, CourseConnect, and recently launched the flexible, low-cost alternative pathway-to-college credit program, Propero. He serves on the board of Pearson’s CTI School in the Republic of South Africa, was president of his parish school commission, and has advised educational tech startups. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

Strategies, a communications, digital, and data-targeting consulting firm. Her political and communications experience spans two decades. Cutter worked on the 2008 Obama presidential campaign and served in the White House, rising to deputy senior advisor to the president. She was Obama’s 2012 deputy campaign manager in charge of communications, media, policy, and research and a member of the senior strategy team. She sits on the boards of Organizing for Action, University of Chicago Institute of Politics, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate. In 2013, Cutter was appointed to the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities. @stefcutter

of the feature documentary, Newtown, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. In her documentary film production career, she has also tackled such subjects as sexual assault on college campuses, with the Emmy- and Peabody-winning film The Hunting Ground; rape and sexual violence in the US military, with 2014’s Oscar-nominated The Invisible War; and gun laws in the United States, with the 2011 documentary, Living for 32, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Since 1992, Cuomo Cole has chaired HELP USA, a nonprofit providing housing services and employment programs for the homeless, veterans, and families and survivors of domestic violence.

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MITCH DANIELS is president of Purdue University and

RONALD DANIELS is president of Johns Hopkins

former governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. During his gubernatorial tenure, Indiana went from bankruptcy to a AAA credit rating, led the nation in infrastructure building, and passed education reforms. At Purdue, Daniels has prioritized student affordability and success, holding tuition steady at 2013 levels through at least the 20162017 academic year, among other initiatives. Previously, Daniels was director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George W. Bush, senior advisor to President Reagan, and president of Eli Lilly’s North American pharmaceutical operations. Fortune Magazine named him among the Top 50 World Leaders in 2015. @purduemitch

University, a position he has held since 2009. Since taking office, he has focused his leadership on enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration, individual excellence, and community engagement—themes that are the backbone of the university’s strategic vision through 2020 and underscore the priorities of the university’s $4.5 billion fundraising campaign. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, Daniels was provost and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and dean and James M. Tory Professor of Law of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. A law and economics scholar, he is author or editor of seven books and dozens of scholarly articles.

CHRIS DAVENPORT is a two-time world champion big

KEN DAVIS is CEO and president of Mount Sinai

mountain skier who has been featured in more than 30 ski films by Warren Miller and Matchstick Productions. He is a commentator for ESPN, ABC Sports, and Outside Television and lectures on risk management relating to business and mountain sports. A National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and member of the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, Davenport was the first person to climb and ski all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks in less than a year. He is a director of nonprofits Protect Our Winters, the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education, and Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club. @steepskiing

Health System. He is a leader in the move away from fee-for-service medicine to population health, keeping more patients healthy and out of the hospital. As a neurobiologist, his Alzheimer’s disease research led the FDA to approve three of the first four treatment drugs on the market. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine and author of more than 575 scientific articles, Davis is a highly cited researcher in the field of brain diseases. His numerous honors include the George H. W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award from Yale University. He is a trustee of the Aspen Institute. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

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FIONA DAWSON is president of Mars Food, Drinks,

SEAN DECATUR is president of Kenyon College, a

and Multisales and a member of the Mars leadership team. She joined Mars in 1988 straight from college, and, apart from a few years at Pepsi, has spent her career there with roles including European marketing vice president and president of Mars Chocolate UK. Dawson sits on the Women’s Business Council and served on the Economic Development Advisory Group to the UK International Development Department. She was previously president of the Institute of Grocery Distribution and vice president of the Food and Drink Federation, where she led sustainability and health and well-being committees, becoming a member of the UK’s Responsibility Deal.

position he has held since July 2013. He was previously dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oberlin College for five years, teaching chemistry and biochemistry. From 1995 to 2008, Decatur taught chemistry at Mount Holyoke College, serving as the Marilyn Dawson Sarles Professor of Life Sciences and associate dean of faculty for science from 2005 to 2008. Decatur has published op-ed pieces on higher education in the New York Times Room for Debate and received numerous fellowships and awards, including the Diverse Magazine Emerging Scholar of 2007 and the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 2003. @sean_decatur

KEVIN DELANEY is editor in chief and president of Quartz, the global business news site from Atlantic Media. He was previously a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for a decade, with postings in Paris and San Francisco. Named managing editor of WSJ.com, he led efforts that helped greatly expand the Journal’s online readership. Early in his career, Delaney was a reporter for SmartMoney Magazine and a TV producer in Montreal. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was the Hearst digital media professional-in-residence at Columbia University. Delaney was named Business Journalist of 2013 by the Talking Biz News media website. @delaney

NIKHIL DEOGUN is editor in chief and senior vice president of business news at CNBC, driving the editorial content for 15 hours of daily live programming, overseeing all US news programs as well as the award-winning “Nightly Business Report,” and managing the network’s specials and long-form documentary units. He joined CNBC in 2010 as managing editor from The Wall Street Journal, where he had worked since 1994. At the Journal, Deogun was deputy managing editor from 2008 to 2010, editor of the Money and Investing section, deputy chief of the Washington bureau, editor of the Media and Marketing section, and a reporter covering mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.

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SUZANNE DIBIANCA is executive vice president of corporate relations and chief philanthropy officer of Salesforce. She was previously co-founder and president of Salesforce Foundation and Salesforce.org. Earlier in her career, DiBianca was a principal at CSC Consulting, leading mergers, acquisitions, and technology implementations for Fortune 500 companies, and a marketing and program director for Partners for Democratic Change. She has been named one of Inside Philanthropy’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Philanthropy and is member of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business hall of fame. DiBianca serves on the boards of Box.org, Classy, Tides, and the World Affairs Council’s Global Philanthropy Forum.

SASHA DICHTER is chief innovation officer for Acumen, a nonprofit that raises donations to invest in tackling poverty, and its former business development director. He previously worked at GE Money, expanding financial offerings to underserved communities; at IBM, spearheading corporate citizenship strategy; and Bank Rakyat Indonesia’s microfinance group. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton. Dichter is a blogger and speaker whose talks have been featured on TED.com, the DO Lectures, and SOCAP. Fast Company magazine recognized him as an Innovation Agent, and he has contributed to Harvard Business Review and Stanford Social Innovation Review, among others. He serves on the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs Executive Committee.

JOHN DICKERSON is political director at CBS News,

E. J. DIONNE is a government professor at Georgetown University, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and writes a political column for The Washington Post. He is a frequent commentator on politics for NPR, ABC’s “This Week,” and MSNBC. Before joining the Post in 1990 as a political reporter, Dionne spent 14 years at The New York Times, covering politics from Washington, Paris, Rome, Beirut, and Albany, NY. He is the author of the books Our Divided Political Heart, Souled Out, Stand Up Fight Back, They Only Look Dead, and most recently, Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond. @EJDionne

where he anchors “Face The Nation,” and a contributor to Slate magazine and its podcast “The Political Gabfest.” He also hosts a twice-monthly podcast, “Whistlestop,” on moments in presidential campaign history. A Washington reporter for 20 years, Dickerson covered politics for twelve years for TIME, including as its White House correspondent covering the George W. Bush presidency. He authored On Her Trail, about his mother, the pioneering newswoman Nancy Dickerson. Recipient of the Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, Dickerson is a regular guest on PBS’s “Washington Week” and “Charlie Rose” and on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show.” @jdickerson

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CARLA DIRLIKOV CANALES is an opera singer and founder and CEO of The Canales Project, giving voice to issues of identity and culture through music and conversation. She has performed as a soloist at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and top international venues in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Canales is a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities Turnaround Arts Program, was selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of its 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015, and won the Medal of Excellence from the Sphinx Organization, the first opera singer to receive the honor in each case.

COLMAN DOMINGO is an actor, playwright, and director who appears on AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead,” in the film The Birth of a Nation, and the play Dot. He wrote the solo play A Boy and His Soul and staged the Off Broadway Alliance Award-winning production of A Band of Angels. Domingo is on the board of the Vineyard Theater in New York City and on faculty at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He has guest-lectured and mentored in colleges and universities around the country, directed for Berkeley Repertory as well as Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and is an OBIE and Lucille Lortel Award winner.

PETE DOMINICK is the host of “Stand Up with Pete

CHARLES DUHIGG is a reporter for The New York Times

Dominick” on SiriusXM’s Insight Channel, which he created, developed, and launched in 2015. He previously developed and hosted “What the Week” on CNN, where he was a daily contributor to “John King, USA” and “Unsolicited Advice” during the 2012 presidential campaign. Dominick was the resident opener on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” for six years and the backup comedian for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” He began his career as a stand-up comic, which he still does. He commentates for CNN, HLN, FOX, and MSNBC and speaks on global citizenship, environmental awareness, equal rights, and organized labor. @petedominick

and senior editor of live journalism. He is author of The Power of Habit, which spent over two years on the New York Times best-seller list, and Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business. Duhigg frequently contributes to “This American Life,” NPR, “The Colbert Report,” “PBS NewsHour,” and “Frontline.” As part of a team at the Times, he won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series, The iEconomy, on Apple and the company’s influence. Prior to joining the Times staff in 2006, he was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. @cduhigg

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JEFF DUNN is president of Campbell Fresh and a mem-

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON is University Professor of

ber of the Campbell leadership team, in charge of building the company’s scale and accelerating its growth in the packaged fresh retail segments. From 2008 to 2015, he was president of Bolthouse Farms, where his campaign to encourage Americans to eat baby carrots “like junk food” earned national acclaim and spurred a rise in carrot consumption. He previously led Ubiquity Brands, a rollup of snack food businesses, and worked for two decades at The Coca-Cola Company, eventually overseeing all businesses in North and South America. Dunn serves on the boards of the Produce Marketing Association and Herbalife.

Sociology at Georgetown University, a New York Times contributing opinion writer and a contributing editor for The New Republic and ESPN’s “The Undefeated.” The author of 18 books, his latest is The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America. Dyson has taught at Brown University; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Columbia University; and University of Pennsylvania. His honors include an American Book Award and two NAACP Image Awards. Ebony magazine cited Dyson as one of the 100 most influential African Americans and one of the 150 most powerful blacks in the nation.

JOSH EARNEST is assistant to the president and press secretary in the White House Office of Communications. The voice of “West Wing Week” online video series produced by the White House chronicling the president’s weekly activities, he previously was principal deputy White House press secretary and chief of staff to Jay Carney, deputy press secretary under Robert Gibbs, and communications director for the Presidential Inaugural Committee. During the 2008 general election, Earnest served as the Obama’s deputy communications director, a top communications aide in several primary contests including South Carolina, Texas, and Pennsylvania. He was then-Senator Obama’s Iowa communications director during his presidential campaign in March 2007.

RICHARD EDELMAN is president and CEO of the international communications marketing firm Edelman, the family business which he joined after receiving his MBA. He has led assignments with major corporations, NGOs, and family businesses in more than 25 industries and has counseled countries worldwide on economic development programs. He created the annual Edelman Trust Barometer, which gauges trust in business, government, media, and NGOs. Under his leadership, the agency has garnered many of the industry’s top accolades. Edelman serves on the boards of directors of the Ad Council, the Atlantic Council, the Children’s Aid Society, and the 9/11 Museum. He is a member of the World Economic Forum and PR Seminar.

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MICHAEL EISNER is founder of The Tornante Company, a privately held firm that invests in and incubates companies and opportunities in media and entertainment. Through Tornante, Eisner founded Tornante Animation and with partners acquired The Topps Company, a creator and brand marketer of sports cards, entertainment products, and confectionery. Eisner has been a leader in the entertainment industry for four decades, notably as chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, a position he held from 1984 to 2005. He has also been president of Paramount Pictures and began his career at ABC. Eisner is a trustee of the Aspen Institute.

KELLY EVANS is co-anchor of CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” She joined the network in February 2012 as an on-air correspondent, reporting across CNBC’s Business Day programming. Previously, she was co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” and “Worldwide Exchange” programs. Prior to CNBC, Evans was a reporter and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, penning the Ahead of the Tape column and writing for the Heard on the Street financial column. She also hosted the daily “News Hub” program on WSJ.com and was a frequent guest on television and radio networks, including CNBC. Evans joined the Journal in 2007 as a reporter covering real estate and economics. @Kelly_Evans

EZEKIEL EMANUEL is vice provost for global initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health until August 2011. He has served as a special advisor on health policy to the director of the Office of Management and Budget and to the National Economic Council. The author of Reinventing American Health Care and a contributor to The New York Times, Emanuel has published widely on health care reform, research ethics, and end-of-life care.

JENNY EVERETT is deputy director of Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), a global network of organizations propelling entrepreneurship in emerging markets. She has overseen the launch of regional chapters in Brazil, Central America, Mexico, East Africa, India, South Africa, and West Africa and manages the international team. Prior to ANDE, Everett was senior program manager of membership and individual donors at Hispanics in Philanthropy. She has also worked with DoubleClick, Agora Partnerships, Enterprise Solutions for Poverty, and Investors’ Circle. Everett serves on the boards of DC Social Innovation Project and First Access. She’s a former Pipeline fellow and member of Advisory Council of the New York Venture Philanthropy Fund.

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HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH is a senior reporter at POLITICO, where she covers the intersection of food policy and politics. Before joining POLITICO in 2013, she spent four years covering Congress, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the US Department of Agriculture at Food Safety News. Her work has also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, on NBC News, and is widely cited in the food policy space. Evich’s reporting has taken her to many corners of the food system, from the Louisiana coast during the Gulf oil spill to North Carolina hog farms and the occasional presidential turkey pardoning. @hbottemiller

JOHN FALLON is CEO of Pearson, a position he has held since 2013. Since 2008, he’s been responsible for the company’s education businesses outside North America and a management committee member. He became CEO of Pearson’s educational publishing businesses for Europe, Middle East, and Africa in 2003 and president of Pearson Inc. in 2000. He joined Pearson in 1997 as communications director. Fallon was previously corporate affairs director and an executive committee member at Powergen and held senior public policy and communications roles in UK local government. He is an advisory board member of the Global Business Coalition for Education and member of the Council of the University of Hull. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

MOHAMMED FAIROUZ is one of the most frequently performed, commissioned, and recorded composers of his generation, whose large-scale symphonies, operas, and oratorios engage major geopolitical and philosophical themes. With the 2015 release of Follow, Poet, which includes the song cycle Audenesque and the ballet Sadat, he became the youngest composer in the 115-year history of the Deutsche Grammophon label to have an album dedicated to his works. Fairouz has been recognized by The New York Times as an important new artistic voice, BBC World News as one of the most talented composers of his generation, and The New Yorker magazine as an expert in vocal writing.

JAMES FALLOWS is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. For three years he and his wife Deb have been reporting on American civic resilience in their American Futures series. Fallows previously reported extensively from outside the United States and worked as President Carter’s chief speechwriter. He has written ten books, including Blind into Baghdad; Postcards from Tomorrow Square; Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy; and China Airborne. He has won the National Magazine Award, the American Book Award, and a New York Emmy for a documentary series on China. He’s done regular public-radio commentary since the 1980s. @JamesFallows

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TOM FANNING is chairman, president, and CEO of Southern Company, one of the largest energy producers in the United States. During his 36-year career at Southern Company, he has held 15 different positions, including chief financial officer and chief information officer, a breadth of experience that positions him to advocate for a common-sense national energy policy. Fanning is co-chair of the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, an industry-government partnership working to protect the country’s critical infrastructure from cyber and physical attacks. He is also chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, vice-chair of the Edison Electric Institute, and holds senior positions in numerous business and public policy organizations. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

DREW GILPIN FAUST is president of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As president, she has expanded financial aid and launched the edX online learning partnership with MIT. Faust was previously founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, from 2001 to 2007, and the Annenberg Professor of History at University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of six books, including This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, which won the 2009 Bancroft Prize, the New York Historical Society’s 2009 American History Book Prize, and was one of The New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2008. @Harvard

JOHN FEINBLATT is president of Everytown for Gun

TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ is an artist best known for her prominent public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Her work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking. Fernández’s public art projects include Fata Morgana in New York’s Madison Square Park, Blind Blue Landscape in Naoshima, Japan, and Seattle Cloud Cover at Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Her works are included in many collections and have been exhibited at MOMA in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and others. A 2005 MacArthur Foundation fellow, Fernández became the first Latina to serve on the US Commission of Fine Arts when appointed by President Obama in 2011.

Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in the United States. He is a senior advisor to former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, and, in addition to his role at Everytown, has led Bloomberg’s efforts on immigration reform, infrastructure investment, and marriage equality. During the twelve years of the Bloomberg administration, Feinblatt held the position of New York City criminal justice coordinator and in 2010 was appointed to be the mayor’s chief policy advisor. Prior to joining New York City Hall, he was founding director of the Center for Court Innovation and the founding director of Midtown Community Court. @JohnFeinblatt

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LEAH FESSLER is a modern culture writer, public speaker, and creative professional focusing on the intersections of romance, sexual culture, and gender dynamics. In May 2015, she graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in English and American literatures with a focus in nonfiction creative writing. Her writing has been published by Atlantic Media and largely centers on her senior thesis, “Can She Really, ‘Play That Game, Too’?”—a narrative exploration of women’s experiences with the hookup culture at Middlebury, featuring extensive personal research. Fessler has spent the past year working in management for Bridgewater Associates. She is a contributing editor to Middlebury Magazine.

DAVID FESTA is senior vice president of ecosystems at

ALISSA FIGUEROA is an investigative reporter and

ALEX FILIPPENKO is an astronomy professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at University of California, Berkeley (UCB). An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has produced five astronomy video courses with The Great Courses, co-authored an award-winning astronomy textbook, and appeared in more than 100 television documentaries. Filippenko was the only member of both teams that revealed the accelerating expansion of the universe, a discovery honored with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Winner of prestigious teaching awards at UBC, he was named the 2006 National Professor of the Year and awarded the 2004 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.

producer for Fusion, a television cable and satellite channel owned by Univision. In the last three years she has reported primarily on the criminal and military justice systems, but has covered various topics from finance and immigration to elections and politics. She came to Fusion from NBC News, where she was an assistant producer working on “Rock Center” and “NBC Nightly News.” Figueroa’s work has also appeared on “ABC’s Nightline”, Univision’s “Aqui y Ahora,” “Marketplace,” “PBS NewsHour,” and in the Christian Science Monitor. She was a 2016 Livingston Award finalist in the national news category for a feature-length documentary, Prison Kids.

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), overseeing initiatives to reverse habitat loss on working lands, eliminate fertilizer pollution from agriculture, ensure resilient water supply in the American West, and restore coastal ecosystems. Prior to this, Festa led EDF’s oceans program, where he changed the way fisheries are managed by winning approval for the incentives-based system called catch shares. He is president of the California Fisheries Fund, which invests in sustainable fishing. He previously served as part of the Obama transition team and as policy director in the Department of Commerce during the Clinton administration. Festa began his career as a correspondent for The Economist.

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LAURENCE FINK is founder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock and leads its global executive committee. Under his leadership, the firm has grown into a global leader in investment management, risk management, and advisory services for institutional and retail clients. Fink was named one of the World’s Most Respected Leaders by Fortune in 2016, CEO of the Decade by Financial News in 2011, and one of the World’s Best CEOs by Barron’s for ten consecutive years. He is co-chairman of the NYU Langone Medical Center board and serves on the boards of New York University, the Museum of Modern Art, Council on Foreign Relations, and Robin Hood.

HELEN FISHER is a senior research fellow at The Kinsey Institute of Indiana University, a member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Anthropology Department at Rutgers University, and chief scientific advisor to Match.com. She is currently studying the biological basis of personality and examining the neurochemistry of leadership and innovation. Fisher has written six best-selling books on romantic love and future sex, including Anatomy of Love, which presents data on over 80,000 people to explain why you love who you love and uses data collected on over 30,000 people to discuss sexting, hooking up, friends with benefits, and the current social trend Fisher calls “slow love.”

IRA FLATOW is host and executive producer of Public Radio International’s “Science Friday.” He founded the Science Friday Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing public access to science and scientific information. Flatow’s 35-year public radio and TV career includes guest starring on the CBS comedy “The Big Bang Theory,” hosting the PBS series “Big Ideas,” hosting and writing for the Emmy Award-winning “Newton’s Apple” on PBS, and working as a science reporter for “CBS This Morning.” His honors include the National Science Board Public Service Award, AAAS Journalism Award, the Carl Sagan Award, the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest, and the Isaac Asimov Science Award. @iraflatow

RENÉE FLEMING is a singer who has performed at major occasions from Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace to the Super Bowl. She is creative consultant for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and artistic advisor at large for the Kennedy Center. Her most recent album is Berg: Lyric Suite; Wellesz: Sonnets, with the Emerson String Quartet. Author of a memoir, The Inner Voice, she was awarded the 2013 National Medal of Arts and has five Grammys, including the Best Classical Vocal award in 2013. Fleming has also been awarded the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, and France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. @reneesmusings

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RANA FOROOHAR is an assistant managing editor at TIME, writing the Curious Capitalist column, and CNN’s global economic analyst. She spent 13 years at Newsweek as an economic and foreign affairs editor and foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. During that time, she received the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting. She has also received awards and fellowships from institutions including Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs and the East West Center. Foroohar is the author of Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. @RanaForoohar

ADAM FOSS is a lawyer and co-founder of the Prosecutor Integrity Institute, which empowers prosecutors to make more data-driven, informed decisions with an eye toward ending mass incarceration. As assistant district attorney at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in Boston for the past eight years, Foss has been developing programs aimed at improving public safety and avoiding incarceration. A speaker on and advocate for criminal justice reform, he is a mentor for Year Up and member of the governor’s Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. Recognition for his efforts includes National Law Journal’s Up-and-Coming Lawyer Award and the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Access to Justice Section Council Prosecutor of the Year Award. @adamjohnfoss

ROBERT FRALEY is an executive vice president and chief technology officer at Monsanto Company. He has been with Monsanto for over 30 years and oversees its global technology division, including plant breeding, plant biotechnology, ag biologicals, data science, and crop protection. Fraley is recognized as the founder of agricultural biotechnology, having produced the world’s first GMO plant. Among other honors, he was named a World Food Prize Laureate in 2013, has been recognized with the 1998 National Medal of Technology, and received the 2008 National Academy of Sciences’ Award for the Industrial Application of Science for his work on crop improvement. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

MIKE FRANK is chief commercial officer at Monsanto Company. He has been with Monsanto for more than 25 years and is currently responsible for providing farmers with the tools and technology to help sustainably feed a growing global population. This work has taken him around the world to meet with farmers about the challenges they face and to discuss solutions. Frank has held roles at Monsanto in sales, marketing, supply chain, crop protection, and most recently served as lead of the company’s Europe, Africa, and Asia commercial operations. His passion for farming began while growing up on his family’s grain and livestock farm in Canada. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

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TRAVON FREE is a comedian and writer for HBO’s “Any Given Sunday with Bill Simmons.” He wrote for “The Daily Show” from 2012 to 2016, winning an Emmy in 2015. Along with his socio-political comedy blog FREEdom of Speech, his writing work can be found on TV One’s TheUrbanDaily.com. Free has been featured and seen on “John Oliver’s New York Stand Up,” “Tosh.0,” “Chelsea Lately,” “The Stephanie Miller Show,” “The Gentlemen’s Rant” Web series, the “Twitter Come Alive” comedy tour, and “The Daily Show Political-ish Standup Tour”. He released a comedy album, Undefeated, on iTunes and co-hosts the podcast, “The Room Where It’s Happening: A Hamilton Fancast.”

MATTHEW GALSKY is a medical oncologist with a clinical and research focus on genitourinary malignancies and, since 2010, director of genitourinary medical oncology at The Tisch Cancer Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research and speaking has focused on the clinical development of novel therapies for genitourinary cancers with a particular focus on bladder cancer. Journals that have published his work include the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Lancet Oncology, and The Lancet. Galsky, who previously worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is a recipient of the Richard E. Rosenfield Faculty Achievement Award and the Danielson Translational Innovation Award. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

TOM FRIEDMAN is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and columnist. His foreign affairs column in The New York Times, which he has written since 1995, reports on US domestic politics and foreign policy, Middle East conflicts, international economics, environment, biodiversity, and energy. Friedman has been with The New York Times since 1981. He is also the author of six best-selling books: From Beirut to Jerusalem; The Lexus and the Olive Tree; Longitudes and Attitudes; The World Is Flat; Hot, Flat, and Crowded; and That Used to Be Us, which he co-wrote with Michael Mandelbaum. Friedman is the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes. @TomFriedman

THEASTER GATES JR. is an artist and professor in University of Chicago’s Visual Arts Department, where he directs its Arts + Public Life program and leads the Place Lab urban research initiative, which will create frameworks for reimagining the role that culture plays in the transformation of African-American communities. Gates is also founder and artistic director of Rebuild Foundation, a nonprofit endeavoring to rebuild cultural foundations of neighborhoods and incite community revitalization. He has spearheaded numerous development projects in underserved parts of Chicago, which function as an extension of his studio work. The latest example of Gates’s work on black space is Stony Island Arts Bank, which opened in 2015.

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JULIE GEHRKI is senior director of the Walmart Foundation, leading the Grantmaking Team charged with philanthropic investments for Walmart and the Walmart Foundation focusing on sustainability, economic opportunity, and communities. Prior to Walmart, she worked in the nonprofit community on issues of anti-racism, homelessness, and community revitalization. Internationally, she has done program evaluation in Kenya and Tanzania and taught English in Eastern Europe. A former Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Fellow at Indiana University’s School of Philanthropy, she serves on the boards of the Association of Corporate Contributions Professionals and Saving Grace, a transitional living program that helps young women aging out of foster care or facing homelessness.

DAVID GERGEN is a professor of public service and co-director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, positions he has held for a decade, and a CNN senior political analyst. He was an advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, experiences he wrote about in his New York Times best-seller, Eyewitness to Power. Beginning in 1984 with the “MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour,” Gergen’s journalism career spans 30 years of public affairs commentating, two Peabody and two Emmy awards, and editing U.S. News & World Report. His board service includes Teach for America, City Year, Schwab Foundation, the Mission Continues, the Aspen Institute, and Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing. @david_gergen

ELLIOT GERSON is an executive vice president at the Aspen Institute, responsible for its policy programs, public programs, and relations with international partners. The Institute’s more than 30 policy programs provide neutral venues to do nonpartisan analysis, foster candid dialogue among leaders, advocate new policy, and promote best practices. Public programs open its doors to a broader audience. Gerson also administers the US Rhodes Scholarships. He previously practiced law, held executive positions in government and on a presidential campaign, was president of health care and education start-ups, and led two national insurance and health care companies. He has served on many nonprofit boards, especially in the arts.

NANCY GERTNER is a professor at Harvard Law School. From 1994 to 2011, she was a federal district judge in Massachusetts, appointed by President Clinton. She taught for over a decade at Yale Law School and for two decades was a criminal defense lawyer, civil rights activist, and women’s rights activist. Gertner has taught with American Bar Association’s (ABA) Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (and now sits on the advisory board) and Yale Law School’s China Project, among others. Her honors include ABA’s Margaret Brent Award, ABA’s Thurgood Marshall Award, and the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Arabella Babb Mansfield Award. Her writings include her 2011 autobiography, In Defense of Women.

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ROKHSAREH GHAEM MAGHAMI is a filmmaker and author. Her research on animated documentary while at Tehran Art University resulted in her book, Animated Documentary, a New Way to Express. Maghami has made six documentaries and won more than 20 international awards. In her trilogy Cyanosis, Going up the Stairs, and Sonita, her foci have been liberating the power of art, artists unlikely to be artists, and outsider art. Sonita received the Sundance Grand Jury Award and Audience Award 2016, 2015 IDFA Audience Award, Duke University Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award at Full Frame 2016, and Grand Jury Prix at Docs Against Gravity — Wroclaw.

ADAM GHETTI is the founder and CEO of Ionic Securi-

MATTY GILLILAND is head of the process analysis team at New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, CO. In this position since 2008, he works to increase production efficiencies, optimize processes, reduce waste, and eliminate capacity constraints. Prior to his current position, he was New Belgium’s brewhouse operator from 2002 to 2008, and before that, he was a cellar operator, joining New Belgium in 1997. A Colorado craft brewer his entire career, Gilliland was previously the head brewer at Left Hand Brewing Company in Longmont, CO, from 1996 to 1997. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1995.

NEWT GINGRICH is a former speaker of the US House of Representatives, from 1995 to 1999, and was a 2012 Republican presidential candidate. An active author, Gingrich has published 24 books, including 14 fiction and nonfiction New York Times best-sellers. He and his wife, Callista, host and produce historical and public-policy documentaries. Recent films include America at Risk, Nine Days that Changed the World, and Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny. Gingrich is also a co-host on CNN’s “Crossfire,” where he advocates policy issues. @newtgingrich

ty, addressing the problem of trust in a cloud- and mobile-enabled world. A technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience building large-scale systems in multiple Internet-related markets, he is an expert in complex systems and task automation with in-depth applied knowledge of application security, network security, data security, and artificial neural networks. He has been recognized by Forbes as a 30 under 30 thought leader in technology and by the World Economic Forum as a 2015 technology pioneer.

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DAN GLICKMAN is vice president of the Aspen Institute, executive director of its Congressional Program, and a senior fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Glickman served as President Clinton’s agriculture secretary and represented Kansas’s 4th congressional district for 18 years. He has been chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, and worked as a trial attorney. Glickman’s wide-ranging board service includes the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Communities in Schools, Food Research and Action Center, National 4-H Council, US Global Leadership Coalition, AGree, Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ global agricultural development initiative, and the newly created Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research. @DanRGlickman

THELMA GOLDEN is director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem. From 2000 to 2005, she was the museum’s deputy director for exhibitions and programs. Golden previously spent a decade at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She began her career at the Studio Museum in 1987. In 2010, President Obama appointed her to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, and in 2015, she joined the Barack Obama Foundation’s board of directors. Golden serves as 2015–2016 chair of New York City’s Cultural Institutions Group, where she is Manhattan vice chair, and on the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, appointed by Mayor de Blasio.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He was previously Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, a writer for The New York Times Magazine, and a police reporter for The Washington Post. Goldberg authored Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror and is writing a book about the Middle East policies of Presidents Obama and George W. Bush. He is the Dirk Ippen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a Woodrow Wilson Center Distinguished Fellow. Goldberg’s numerous honors include the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the Daniel Pearl Prize, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for best investigative reporting @JeffreyGoldberg

ALLAN GOLSTON is president of the United States Program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a position he has held since 2006. He leads the foundation’s efforts to ensure that all students receive a high-quality education and oversees the US Program’s major areas of investment: US education, Washington state, special initiatives, and advocacy. Golston joined the foundation as chief financial officer. With a professional background in finance, health care, and education, his previous roles include finance director for Swedish Medical Center and finance director and controller for University of Colorado Hospital. Golden is an active community volunteer who serves on the boards of several regional and national organizations. @allangolston

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MICHAEL GOVAN is CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Since landing at LACMA in 2006, he has overseen the transformation of the 20-acre campus with buildings by Renzo Piano, and under his leadership, the museum has acquired more than 27,000 works for the permanent collection. From 1994 to 2005, Govan was president and director of the Dia Art Foundation. From 1988 to 1994, he was deputy director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, working with Guggenheim branches in New York, Venice, and Bilbao. Prior to that, he helped found Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art while studying art history and fine art at Williams College.

ADAM GRANT is a professor of management and

JEREMY GRANTHAM is co-founder of GMO and the

STAN GREENBERG is CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Ros-

investment management firm’s chief investment strategist, a member of the board, an active member of its asset allocation division, and author of its quarterly letter to clients. In 1998, he and his wife Hannelore established the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, whose grants focus on climate change and biodiversity conservation. Prior to co-founding GMO in 1977, Grantham co-founded Batterymarch Financial Management in 1969. He began his investment career as an economist with Royal Dutch Shell. He is a trustee of The Nature Conservancy and Rare Conservation and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

ner and co-founder of Democracy Corps, which provides research and strategic advice to progressive groups, candidates, and leaders. As a polling advisor for corporate and political leaders, he was the senior pollster for President Clinton, Vice President Gore, Prime Minister Tony Blair, and President Nelson Mandela. Greenberg has done deep research on the economy for the Roosevelt Institute, climate change for NextGen, Israel, working women and the new economy, political reform, and the Nobel Prize-winning campaign to ban landmines. He is the author of America Ascendant and co-author of the best-seller, It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! @DemCorps

psychology at The Wharton School, where he has been the top-rated teacher for four straight years. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, Merck, Goldman Sachs, BCG, Teach For America, the US Army and Navy, and the World Economic Forum, where he was honored as a Young Global Leader. Grant is a contributing writer on work and psychology for The New York Times and author of two books: Originals and Give and Take, both New York Times best-sellers. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers and one of the top 40 business professors under 40. @AdamMGrant

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JONATHAN GREENBLATT is CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League. He was previously special assistant to President Obama and directed the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. Prior to that, he co-founded Ethos Water, which was acquired by Starbucks; Greenblatt subsequently became Starbucks’ vice president of global consumer products. He also founded All for Good, was CEO of GOOD Worldwide, and taught at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Greenblatt’s board service includes the African Leadership Foundation and Water.org. He is a member of the Aspen Institute’s 2006 class of Henry Crown Fellows and is a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly. @jgreenblattADL

ROBERT GRIFFIN is executive director of the US Navy’s Renewable Energy Program Office, which brought one gigawatt of renewable energy into procurement by the end of 2015. A member of the Navy’s Senior Executive Service since 2000, he was previously assistant acquisition commander of naval facilities, responsible for overseeing a $10 billion contract program. Prior to this, Griffin was director of Public Private Venture Programs, the Contracts Management Division, and the Western Division’s Environmental/ Service Contracts Division at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. He has received the President’s Meritorious Executive Service Award, Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award, and the Meritorious Civilian Service Award. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

PAUL GRIMWOOD is chairman and CEO of Nestlé

GIDEON GRINSTEIN is a serial societal entrepreneur

USA, a position he’s held since 2012. Prior to this, he was chairman and chief executive of Nestlé UK and Ireland after serving roles there and in Europe. In October 2013, Grimwood was appointed to the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Obesity Solutions. His board service includes the Grocery Manufacturers Association, where he chairs the subcommittee on sodium, and the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. In the United Kingdom, Grimwood was deputy president of the Food and Drink Federation and chaired its Competitiveness Steering Committee, co-chaired the Agri-Food and Drink Export Forum, and served on the Institute of Grocery Distribution’s Policy Issues Council.

and founder and president of the Reut Institute, an Israeli nongovernmental research, strategy, and leadership group. Under his leadership, Reut led efforts focused on inclusive growth and resilience within the ISRAEL 15 Vision and created programs addressing the transformation of cities, affordable solutions to neglected societal problems, and 3D-printing and self-manufacturing. Grinstein was previously deputy director general of the Economic Cooperation Foundation, secretary of the Israeli delegation for the 2000 Camp David Peace Summit, and a head of strategic planning in the Israeli navy’s budgets and economics department. He is the author of Flexigidity: Secret of Jewish Adaptability. @gidigrinstein

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JOHN M. GRUNSFELD served as associate administrator for Science Mission Directorate at NASA from January 2012 to May 2016. He previously served as the deputy director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, managing the science program for the Hubble Space Telescope and the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Grunsfeld is a veteran of eight spacewalks and five space shuttle flights to destinations such as Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station, and Russian space station Mir. His background includes research in high-energy astrophysics and the emerging field of exoplanet studies with specific interest in future astronomical instrumentation. Grunsfeld was appointed professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University in 2010.

RICHARD HAASS is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, devoted to issues of foreign policy and international relations. He served as senior Middle East advisor to President George H.W. Bush and as a principal advisor to former secretary of state Colin Powell. Haass was US coordinator for Afghanistan policy and US envoy to both the Cyprus and Northern Ireland peace talks. The author or editor of twelve books on US foreign policy and one on management, his latest book, A World in Disarray, will be published in 2017. Haass is the recipient of the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, and the Tipperary International Peace Award. @richardhaass

JANINE GUILLOT is director of capital markets policy and outreach at SASB, where she works with investors to support demand for standardized disclosure of material sustainability factors. She has more than 25 years of experience in operations, strategy, risk management, and finance roles in financial services, most recently as COO of Incapture, an early stage enterprise technology and asset management business. Prior to joining Incapture, Guillot was chief operating investment officer for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. She has also held senior leadership positions at Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and Bank of America, including serving as COO for BGI’s European and global fixed income businesses. @SASB

SHADI HAMID is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. An expert on Islamist movements, he was research director at the Brookings Doha Center until January 2014. Hamid’s latest book is Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World. His previous book, Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, and many other publications, and he has been a guest on several TV news programs. @shadihamid

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KATHERINE HAMMACK is assistant secretary of the

JANE HARMAN is director, president, and CEO of

US Army for installations, energy, and environment, appointed by President Obama in 2010. She is the primary advisor to the secretary of the Army and chief of staff of the Army on matters of installation policy, oversight, and coordination of energy security and management. Hammack is responsible for policy and oversight of sustainability and environmental initiatives, resource management, base realignment and closure, privatization of real estate and utilities, and installations safety and occupational health programs. She established the Army’s Net Zero program, and the created the Office of Energy Initiatives, working to achieve one gigawatt of renewable energy by 2025. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

the Woodrow Wilson Center. She served nine terms in Congress (D-CA) and is a recognized expert on security and public policy issues. Previously, she was staff director of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, deputy cabinet secretary to President Carter, special counsel to the Defense Department, and in private law practice. Harman is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the State Department Foreign Policy Board, and the Homeland Security Advisory Council. She serves on the Trilateral Commission Executive Committee, Munich Security Conference Advisory Board, Presidential Debates Commission, and Iridium Board of Directors. She is an Aspen Institute trustee. @TheWilsonCenter

CALEB HARPER is the principal investigator and director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at MIT Media Lab, where he leads a group of engineers, architects, and scientists in the exploration and development of future food systems. Prior to joining the Media Lab in 2011, Harper worked as an architect designing and developing data centers and health care and semi-conductor fabrication facilities. He has also consulted with multiple international development agencies, including USAID, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the Delhi Development Authority on high-density urban development projects. Harper is a National Geographic Explorer and member of the World Economic Forum New Vision for Agriculture Transformation Leaders Network. @calebgrowsfood and @mitopenag

DIANNE HARRISON is president of California State University, Northridge, a post she has held since 2012. Prior to that, she served as president of California State University, Monterey Bay and vice president at Florida State University. She currently serves on the executive board for the California Campus Compact, the steering committee of the Presidents’ Climate Leadership Commitment, the WASC Senior College and University Commission, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors (as vice chair), and the NCAA Board of Governors. In 2014, she was appointed by California Governor Brown for a second term on the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education.

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SASHA HAVLICEK is co-founder and CEO of Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think and action tank that advises Western governments on countering extremism. She chairs the eleven-country Policy Planners’ Network on Countering Radicalisation and co-chaired the EU Internet Radicalisation working group from 2012 to 2015. She co-founded the Women and Extremism Initiative and spearheaded a partnership with Google Ideas on a global network of former extremists and their victims, among other projects in the technology space to counter extremist propaganda. Havlicek was previously senior director at EastWest Institute. She is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and has testified on extremist recruitment before the US Congress. @institute4sd

CHRISTIE HEFNER is chair of Hatch Beauty, former executive chair of Canyon Ranch, and served 20 years as chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises, where she expanded the leveraging of the brand via licensing. Hefner is a director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund and has promoted equal rights and opportunities for women in various efforts. The first woman elected to the Chicago chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization, she helped found the Committee of 200, The Chicago Network, EMILY’S List, and The Women Corporate Directors. She was named to Fortune’s list of Most Powerful Women for three years and has spoken on sex and gender at TED.

JOHN HICKENLOOPER was elected governor of Colorado in 2010. His unconventional road to the capitol began when he left the oil fields in the late 1980s and opened the state’s first brewpub. His business grew, helping to revitalize a now popular neighborhood in downtown Denver, and he became active in the city’s civic life. Hickenlooper successfully ran for mayor in 2003 and served for nearly eight years. Earlier in his career, he was a geologist. Hickenlooper serves in leadership positions with the National Governors Association and the Western Governors’ Association. He is vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association.

MARIA HINOJOSA is a news anchor and reporter and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University. Her nonprofit Futuro Media Group explores the diverse American experience through multimedia journalism. She anchors and executive produces the Peabody Award-winning radio show “Latino USA” and PBS’s “America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa.” Hinojosa’s nearly 30-year career includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WNBC, CNN, NPR, “Frontline,” and CBS Radio and anchoring “Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One.” She has authored two books and earned numerous awards, including four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award. @Maria_Hinojosa

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NICOLE HOCKLEY is managing director of Sandy Hook Promise (SHP), an organization she and Mark Barden started after the death of their sons in the Sandy Hook Elementary School killings of 20 first-graders in December 2012. Overseeing SHP’s strategic direction and communication, Hockley focuses on enabling social change, bringing people together in honest dialogue, and searching for mental health as well as gun safety solutions. She has extensive experience in strategic marketing and communications for companies in the United States and the United Kingdom. Hockley’s family also created and runs Dylan’s Wings of Change, to honor her son and to help other children with autism and related conditions achieve full potential.

JONATHAN HOLLOWAY is dean of Yale College and Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies. He is author or editor of numerous books, most recently Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 and a new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. Holloway has won the William Clyde DeVane Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College and the Before Columbia Foundation’s American Book Award. He has held fellowships from Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Ford Foundation. Currently, he is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

FREDERIC HOF is director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. He joined the Atlantic Council after a career as a US Army officer, private sector CEO, and US Department of State diplomat, where he took the lead in mediating Syrian-Israeli peace. Hof took a 2001 private sector leave of absence to serve as chief of staff of the Sharm al-Sheikh Fact-Finding Commission and was the principal drafter of the commission’s report. A Vietnam veteran and military officer whose decorations include the Purple Heart, he served on the commission that investigated the 1983 bombing of the US Marine Corps headquarters at Beirut International Airport.

ANNA HOLMES is a writer and editor. She is editorial director of the digital and cable company Fusion and a columnist for The New York Times Sunday Book Review. Founder of Jezebel.com, she was editor in chief of the blog from its launch in 2007 until 2010. Holmes has been a staff writer for Glamour and worked at Star and InStyle. She has written and edited for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The New Yorker online. She is the editor of two books, The Book of Jezebel and Hell Hath No Fury: Women’s Letters from the End of the Affair. @annaholmes

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RON HUBERMAN is co-founder and executive chair of TeacherMatch, an education talent management company in the K-12 technology space that utilizes predictive analytics to enable school districts to make more informed hiring decisions. From 2009 to 2010, he was CEO and superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, the third largest school system in the United States, where he instituted reforms such as online growth assessments and accountability measures. Huberman’s earlier public sector roles include serving as Mayor Richard M. Daley’s chief of staff, CEO of the Chicago Transit Authority, and several positions in the Chicago Police Department, including rapid response officer, tactical gang team officer, and assistant deputy superintendent.

SHERRILYN IFILL is president and director-counsel of

JULIA IOFFE is a contributing writer at Politico Magazine

WALTER ISAACSON is president and CEO of the Aspen

and at Huffington Post’s Highline. She is also a columnist at Foreign Policy. She was a senior editor at The New Republic until 2014, and prior to that, she was a correspondent based in Moscow writing primarily for Foreign Polic and The New Yorker, as well as Forbes, Business Week, and the Columbia Journalism Review. Ioffe has also written for GQ andThe New York Times Magazine and has appeared on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” She was a Fulbright Scholar in Moscow and began her career as a fact checker at The New Yorker.

Institute. He has been chairman and CEO of CNN and editor of TIME magazine. Isaacson’s most recent book is The Innovators; he authored Steve Jobs and several other best-selling biographies. He is chair emeritus of Teach for America and former chair of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (2009-2012) and vice-chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority (2005-2007). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Isaacson’s current board service includes United Airlines, Tulane University, the Overseers of Harvard University, New Orleans Tricentennial Commission, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Society of American Historians, Carnegie Institution for Science, and My Brother’s Keeper Alliance. @WalterIsaacson

the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). From 1993 to 2013, she taught at University of Maryland School of Law, where she also litigated and consulted on civil rights cases and co-founded a legal clinic to remove legal barriers to formerly incarcerated persons. Ifill was previously an assistant counsel at LDF, where she litigated numerous voting rights cases, and a fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union. She authored On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century. Ifill’s board service includes the Open Society Foundations, Equal Justice Works, National Constitution Center, and Learning Policy Institute.

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WOLFGANG ISCHINGER is chairman of the Munich Security Conference, since 2008, and a senior professor of security policy and diplomacy at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. A strategic policy advisor who serves on many boards, Ischinger’s previous diplomatic posts include German ambassador to the United Kingdom (2006-2008), German ambassador to the United States (2001-2006), and state secretary/deputy foreign minister of Germany (1998-2001). He was involved in the Kosovo troika process and the Ukraine crisis, and in 2015, he chaired an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe-mandated panel on proposals for more resilient European security. Ischinger publishes widely on strategic issues and writes a monthly column for the MSC website.

SASHA ISSENBERG is Washington correspondent for Monocle and a contributor to Bloomberg Politics. He covered the 2012 election as a Slate columnist and the 2008 election as a national political reporter for The Boston Globe. Issenberg’s work has also appeared in New York, The New York Times Magazine, and George, where he was a contributing editor. He is author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns; The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy; and Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism. Issenberg is currently working on a political, legal, and social history of battles over same-sex marriage in the United States. @sissenberg

CHRIS JACKSON is executive editor at Spiegel & Grau,

VALERIE B. JARRETT is a senior advisor to President Barack Obama, overseeing the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chairs the White House Council on Women and Girls. She previously cochaired the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team and was senior advisor to Obama’s presidential campaign. Prior positions include CEO of The Habitat Company, chairman of the Chicago Transit Board, planning and development commissioner for the city of Chicago, and deputy chief of staff for former mayor Richard M. Daley. Jarrett has chaired the Chicago Stock Exchange and was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

an imprint of Penguin Random House. In this role since February 2006, he has edited prize-winning and best-selling authors including Jill Leovy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jay-Z, and Bryan Stevenson. His own writing has appeared in Callaloo, TheAtlantic.com, and the Paris Review. Jackson was previously a senior editor at Crown Publishing, where he was tasked with the expansion of the imprint’s African American publishing program. Earlier in his career, he was an editorial assistant at John Wiley & Sons. He started in publishing at the now-defunct Paragon House. Jackson was named a Publishers Weekly Notable of the Year in 2015. @cjaxone

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MALEK JANDALI is a Syrian-American composer and pianist whose compositions integrate Middle Eastern modes into Western classical forms ranging from chamber music to orchestral. His albums include SoHo, Echoes from Ugarit, and Emessa and have been performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm Solister, and Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. Jandali has spoken at Harvard University, Duke University, and the United Nations headquarters in New York City. He has been named a 2015 Carnegie Corporation Great Immigrant, received the 2014 Global Music Humanitarian Award, and the 2013 GUSI Peace Prize for dedication to peace and humanitarian causes featured in his 2013-2014 world tour, The Voice of the Free Syrian Children.

NATALIE A. JARESKO is an American-born Ukrainian investment banker, chair of the board of directors of the Aspen Institute Kyiv, and a member of the WEF Global Agenda Council on the Future of Financing and Capital. As Ukraine’s finance minister from 2014 to 2016, she negotiated the largest IMF program in the institution’s history, among other economic achievements. Jaresko was previously a member of President Yushchenko’s Foreign Investors Advisory Council and the Ukrainian Center for Promotion of Foreign Investment advisory board. She co-founded Horizon Capital in 2006, where she served as a managing partner and CEO, and in 2001 became president and CEO of Western NIS Enterprise Fund.

BRETT JENKS is president and CEO of Rare, a global

GAYLE JENNINGS-O’BYRNE is CEO of The Pro-

conservation organization whose mission is to inspire change so people and nature thrive. In this role, he oversees Rare’s efforts to equip people in the world’s most biologically diverse areas with the tools and motivation they need to protect their natural resources. Prior to Rare, Jenks was a journalist and filmmaker, and he served as the Costa Rica field coordinator for WorldTeach, a nonprofit based at Harvard’s Center for International Development. He is a Catto Fellow, Braddock Scholar, McNulty Prize laureate with the Aspen Institute, member of the Closed Loop Fund’s investment committee, and an advisor to the Grantham Trust. @rare_org

metheus Exchange, a collective of social change makers, and principal of Maya Ventures Partners, seeking to build a diversity-based venture capital ecosystem. She previously worked for JPMorgan Chase since 1998, as vice president of global philanthropy, vice president of international government relations, and as a mergers and acquisitions banker. She also worked in media relations for Sun Microsystems. Jennings-O’Byrne serves on advisory boards for Ghetto Film School, Cinema High School, Eagle Academy Foundation, the Scholastic Family and Community Engagement Advisory Council, and ClimateDonor.org. She has a regular column in Investments & Wealth Monitor Magazine and speaks widely about impact investing, philanthropy, and social change.

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MAZ JOBRANI is a comedian and actor. He is a founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour and has had three Showtime comedy specials: Brown and Friendly, I Come in Peace, and I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV, based on his best-selling book of the same name. Besides performing stand up around the world, Jobrani cowrote, produced, and starred in Jimmy Vestwood: Amerikan Hero; acted in the Disney movie, The Descendants; and has over 50 guest-star TV appearances, including on “Grey’s Anatomy,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” He is a regular panelist on NPR’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me” and has given two TED Talks. @mazjobrani

STEPHEN JONES is a wheat breeder and director of the Bread Lab at Washington State University, Mount Vernon. A professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, he teaches graduate courses in advanced classical genetics and the history and ethics of genetics. He and his graduate students breed wheat and other grains for non-commodity local uses to be grown on small farms in the US coastal west from southern Oregon to Alaska. The Bread Lab is a combination think tank/baking laboratory experimenting with improved flavor, nutrition, and functionality of regional and obscure wheats and other grains. Jones’s first wheat crop was at Chico State University’s student farm in 1977.

PEGGY JOHNSON is executive vice president of business development at Microsoft, responsible for strategic partnerships and transactions and overseeing strategic investments through Microsoft Ventures. Previously, she worked 24 years at Qualcomm, where she served on the executive committee and held leadership positions across engineering, sales, marketing, and business development. Before that, Johnson was an engineer for General Electric’s Military Electronics Division. She represents the United States on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council and serves on the board of Live Nation Entertainment. Johnson has been named one of Business Insider’s 26 Most Powerful Female Engineers in 2016 and Silicon Republic’s 40 Powerful Women Leading Tech Around the World.

LISA KALTENEGGER is director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University and an associate professor in Cornell’s astronomy department, where her research focuses on detecting signs of life on other worlds. She previously was the Emmy Noether Research Group leader for the SuperEarths and Life group at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. Her awards include the 2014 Doppler Prize for Innovation in Science and the 2012 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for Physics. She was named an innovator to watch by TIME, a Role Model for Women in Science and Research by the European Commission, and one of America’s Young Innovators by Smithsonian Magazine. Asteroid 7734 Kaltenegger is named after her.

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ERIKA KARP is founder and CEO of Cornerstone Capital, a firm focused on sustainable finance. She was previously managing director and head of global sector research at UBS Investment Bank. Karp is an advisor to the UN Global Compact’s LEAD Board Development Program, founding board member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, member of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Financing and Capital, and advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative’s marketbased approaches track. She has been named among the nation’s Top 50 Women in Wealth by AdvisorOne, to the GOOD 100 and Purpose Economy 100 lists, and as one of 50 “conscious capitalists” in the book Transforming Wall Street. @cornerstone_cap

SAM KASS is a food entrepreneur, founder of TROVE, and senior food analyst for NBC News. He was previously White House chef and senior policy advisor for nutrition, as well as executive director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign. During his six-year White House tenure, he was also food initiative coordinator and assistant chef, and he created the first major vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt and the first beer to be brewed in the White House. In 2011, Fast Company named Kass to its list of 100 Most Creative People, and in 2012, he helped create the American Chef Corps, dedicated to promoting diplomacy through culinary initiatives. @chefsamkass

NEAL KATYAL is the Saunders Professor at Georgetown

MELISSA KEARNEY is an economics professor at

University and a partner at Hogan Lovells. A former acting solicitor general of the United States, he has in his career argued 28 cases before the US Supreme Court, including his successful defense of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act and of former attorney general Ashcroft for alleged abuses in the war on terror. In 2006, he won the landmark Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which challenged President Bush’s Guantanamo and Geneva Convention policies. Katyal is one of the youngest professors to receive tenure and a chaired professorship in Georgetown’s history. He is the recipient of the Justice Department’s Edmund Randolph Award.

University of Maryland, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, and scholar affiliate of Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities and MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Director of the Hamilton Project from 2013 to 2015 and previous Wellesley College faculty member, her research focuses on issues of social policy, poverty, and inequality, investigating how economic conditions and public policies bear on the decisions and lives of economically disadvantaged individuals. Kearney has studied the causes and consequences of income inequality, the determinants of teen childbearing, and effect of television content on social outcomes.

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CHRIS KELLY is an attorney and active investor in

MAX KENNER is founder and executive director of

companies seeking improvements in technology, media, and finance. He currently serves as chair of Fandor and executive vice chair of LOYAL3. Previously, Kelly ran for attorney general of California after serving as chief privacy officer, general counsel, and head of global public policy for Facebook, where his development of safety and security policies are credited as critical elements in the company’s success. As an attorney in private practice before his time at Facebook, Kelly represented Netscape in the Microsoft antitrust case and Diamond Multimedia over the MP3 player, furthering personal-use rights over digital content.

Bard Prison Initiative, which enrolls prisoners in academic programs culminating in degrees from Bard College, and co-founder of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. He is vice president for institutional initiatives and advisor to the president on public policy and college affairs at Bard College. Kenner was a 2013-2014 fellow-in-residence at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. A member of the New York State Council on Community Re-Entry and Reintegration’s Re-Entry Subcommittee, his accolades include the Richard Cornuelle Award for Social Entrepreneurship, Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Education, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 40 Under 40 list.

PAULA KERGER is president and CEO of PBS, a position she has held since 2006, and president of the PBS Foundation, an independent organization that raises private-sector funding for PBS. Kerger previously worked for over a decade at Educational Broadcasting Corporation, the parent company of New York’s Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21, becoming executive vice president and COO. She serves on the University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council, is a director of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and is a board member of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. (Festival Underwriter Presenter) @paulakerger

PIPER KERMAN is the author of the best-selling memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, which chronicles the 13 months she spent in a federal correctional institution on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Her book, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed Netflix series, explores the intersection of her life with the lives of women she met in prison and raises questions about American criminal justice. Since her release, Kerman has worked to promote prison and criminal justice reform. She serves on the Women’s Prison Association board and speaks widely, including at the White House and before Congress. @piper

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ASMA KHALID is a campaign reporter for National

ZIA KHAN is vice president for initiatives and strategy

Public Radio, focusing on the intersection of demographics and politics in the 2016 election. She often uses data to dig into demographic trends; for example, she created the Perfect State Index to find the most “representative” US state ahead of the 2016 primary season. Before joining NPR’s election team in 2015, Khalid covered politics for WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, where she also reported extensively on the Boston Marathon bombings and the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger. She was previously a freelance radio reporter, producer for NPR’s “Morning Edition,” an NPR reporting fellow, and a reporter for WAMU in Washington, DC. @asmamk

at the Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing its approach for achieving impact and realizing the organization’s mission and goals. He leads the program team in New York, Bangkok, and Nairobi. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation in 2009, Khan was a management consultant and advised senior leaders on strategy and organizational performance. He was a principal at Katzenbach Partners and a manager at AT Kearney. A frequent writer and speaker on strategy, innovation, leadership, and organizational change, Khan is co-author of Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize your Team, and Get Better Results. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

NAVINA KHANNA is director of the HEAL (Health,

PARAG KHANNA is a global strategist and best-selling author. He is a CNN global contributor and senior research fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore. Khanna’s latest book is Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization. He is also co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization and author of How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. In 2008, Khanna was named one of Esquire’s 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century. @paragkhanna

Environment, Agriculture, Labor) Food Alliance, a national cross-sector food and farm justice coalition. With a 15year background in sustainable agriculture and food justice, she has worked as an educator, community organizer, and policy advocate, including as co-founder and field director of Live Real and food systems coordinator for University of California Cooperative Extension. Khanna serves on the boards of Food Policy Action and Richmond, CA’s Urban Tilth and organizes with #Asians4BlackLives. She is the recipient of a James Beard Leadership Award. A first-generation South-Asian American, her worldview is shaped by growing food in India and the United States. @navinakhanna

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MATT KIBBE is president and chief community organizer at Free the People, a post-partisan grassroots community advocating civil and economic liberties. He most recently served as a senior advisor for a super PAC supporting Rand Paul for president. Until 2015, he was president of FreedomWorks, a grassroots advocacy organization that he founded in 2004. Kibbe is a distinguished senior fellow at the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto and is a regular guest on FOX News, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and CSPAN. @mkibbe

MARTY KLEIN has been a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist for 34 years. He is the award-winning author of seven books about sexuality, including America’s War On Sex, Sexual Intelligence, and His Porn, Her Pain, as well as the DVD Enhancing Porn Literacy in Young People and the blog Sexual Intelligence. An expert on pornography, he is a founding editorial board member of the Journal of Porn Studies, contributor to the pornography section of the International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, and testifies on the subject in state, federal, and international courts. He gave two congressional briefings on evidence-based sex education and appears frequently in the media. @DrMartyKlein

SAM KILLERMANN is a multi-disciplinary artist and director of creativity for Hues, which works toward the goal of global justice. As a social-justice comedian, he performs and writes It’s Pronounced Metrosexual, a comedy show and blog. He is co-creator of TheSafeZoneProject.com, an online resource for education on gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ identities. And he’s the co-performer of S.E.X., a live sex-education show for adults. Killermann has given three TEDxTalks, is the author of A Guide to Gender, and co-author of Unlocking the Magic of Facilitation. His work on gender and sexuality issues has been featured in TIME, The Atlantic, HuffPost, The New York Times, Slate, Wired, and others. @Killermann

KILIAN KLEINSCHMIDT is an international networker, humanitarian, and refugee expert. He has experience in a wide range of countries, emergencies, and refugee camps as a United Nations official, aid worker, and diplomat. Kleinschmidt managed the refugee camp of Za’atari in Jordan from 2013 to 2014 and is the founder and chairman of the startup Innovation and Planning Agency, connecting the millions of poor and disadvantaged with relevant and underutilized resources and 21st century technologies through its SWITXBOARD project. A participant in initiatives working toward global connectivity through better use of globalization, he currently advises the German development ministry, and advised the Austrian interior ministry in 2015 on refugee issues. @KillianK

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ERIC KLINENBERG is a sociology professor and direc-

AMY KLOBUCHAR is a Minnesota US senator, the first

tor of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, as well as research director for the US government’s Rebuild by Design competition. His best-selling books include Modern Romance (with Aziz Ansari), Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. In addition to his scholarship on cities and climate change, Klinenberg is editor of the journal Public Culture and has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde diplomatique, The London Review of Books, and “This American Life.” @ericklinenberg

woman elected to the office from that state. She serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, having chaired and been the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, and is a consumer protection advocate as a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology member. Prior to election, Klobuchar was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney and Gray, Plant, Mooty law firms, and she served for eight years as attorney of Hennepin County, MN. As a senator, The Washington Post has called her talented and effective, and Working Mother magazine named her Best in Congress for her efforts on behalf of working families.

LAWRENCE KRAUSS is director of the Origins Project and Foundation Professor inthe School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Physics Department at Arizona State University. He is executive producer and subject of The Unbelievers, a documentary film on science and reason, and author of nine books, including the best-sellers The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing. Krauss chairs the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and sits on the board of the Federation of American Scientists. He is the only physicist to have received the top awards from all three American physics societies.

SALLIE KRAWCHECK is CEO and co-founder of Ellevest, a new digital investment platform for women. She chairs the Ellevate Network, a global professional women’s network, and the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund, which invests in the top-rated companies for advancing women. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Krawcheck held senior positions at Bank of America, including head of its Global Wealth and Investment Management Division and CEO of Merrill Lynch. Prior to that, she was an executive at Citi, including CEO of its wealth management business, CFO for Citigroup, and CEO of Smith Barney. She has been named among the top ten of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People list. @SallieKrawcheck

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CORBY KUMMER is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he edits articles on politics and public affairs, and editor in chief of IDEAS: The Magazine of the Aspen Institute. He joined The Atlantic in 1981 and became established as a food writer through his work in the magazine. Kummer writes a monthly food column for The New Republic and is a restaurant critic for Boston Magazine and Atlanta Magazine. He is also a contributor to Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and Smithsonian and the author of the books The Joy of Coffee and The Pleasures of Slow Food. He is the winner of five James Beard Journalism Awards. @CKummer

ELISE LABOTT is a global affairs correspondent for CNN, covering US foreign policy and international affairs. She has reported from more than 75 countries on major global events including the September 11 terrorist attacks; the Arab Spring uprisings from Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco; and on tensions with North Korea from the de-militarized zone. Most recently, Labott has reported on the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. In 2015, she reported from Israel on the country’s elections and traveled to Washington with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his controversial speech to Congress. She is vice president of the State Department Correspondents Association and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

PAIGE LADISIC is an intern with The Charlotte Observ-

CHRISTINE LAGARDE is managing director of the

er, where she produces the website and manages social media for the online team. Previously, she was the 201516 editor in chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the University of North Carolina’s independent daily student newspaper, and launched the DTH At a Glance daily newsletter with 3,000 subscribers. Prior to that, Ladisic was online editor, summer editor, online managing editor, assistant city editor, and staff writer at the paper. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in May with degrees in journalism and political science.

International Monetary Fund, a position she has held since 2011. She previously served in the French government, most notably as finance and economy minister from 2007 to 2011. During her tenure, she chaired the ECOFIN Council and the G-20 when France took over its presidency for 2011. Lagarde joined the French government in 2005 as foreign trade minister and served a brief stint as agriculture minister. A lawyer by trade, she worked for Baker & McKenzie earlier in her career, rising to chair and later head of the global strategic committee. Lagarde was named an officer in the Légion d’honneur in 2012.

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MITCH LANDRIEU is mayor of New Orleans, first elected in 2010 and re-elected to a second term in 2014. He has worked to further recovery from Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oil Spill and implemented transformational changes to build a stronger, more resilient New Orleans. Under Landrieu, New Orleans has become one of the nation’s fastest-growing major cities, with over 15,000 new jobs added, blight reduced by more than 10,000 properties, and the number of murders decreased by 20 percent to the lowest levels in decades. Prior to serving as mayor, Landrieu served as lieutenant governor of Louisiana for six years and as a state legislator for 16 years. @mayorlandrieu

JAE RHIM LEE is a transdisciplinary artist, inventor, and entrepreneur. The founder and CEO of green burial company Coeio, her living units, furniture, wearables, and recycling systems propose unorthodox relationships between the mind, body, and self and the built and natural environment while critically engaging governmental institutions, industries, and social norms. Lee has lectured and exhibited her work internationally and across disciplines. She is the recipient of grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, MIT, and the Universitaet der Kunste Berlin, among others. She is a fellow at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design and a TED fellow and lecturer.

RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation since 2003. A geriatrics specialist, she was previously director of the Institute on Aging and chief of geriatric medicine at University of Pennsylvania. Earlier in her career, Lavizzo-Mourey worked on the White House Health Care Reform Task Force and served on federal advisory committees including the National Committee for Vital and Health Statistics. She also co-chaired a study on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. A member of the Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the President’s Council for Fitness, Sports and Nutrition, she serves on the Smithsonian Institution board, among others. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

FRANKLIN LEONARD is host of the “Black List Table Reads” podcast and founder of the Black List, Hollywood’s most popular unproduced screenplays. He has worked in development at Universal Pictures and at the production companies of Will Smith, Sydney Pollack, and others. Leonard serves on boards for Young Storytellers Foundation and American Public Media’s “Marketplace,” has been a juror at Sundance and Toronto film festivals, and was a delegate at the White House’s 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. He has been named one of Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Under 35 and Black Enterprise’s 40 Emerging Leaders, and he received the 2015 African American Film Critics Association Special Achievement Award. @franklinleonard

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DAVID LEONHARDT is a writer and editor for The New York Times. An op-ed columnist beginning in 2016, he is helping lead a strategic review of the Times newsroom as it continues to make the transition to digital. Leonhardt was previously founding editor of The Upshot, which covers politics, policy, and other subjects. He joined the Times in 1999 and has also been its Washington bureau chief, an economics columnist, a staff writer for its Magazine, and business reporter. In 2011, he won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary for his columns on the economic crisis. Leonhardt has also worked for Business Week and The Washington Post. @DLeonhardt

MARSHA LEVICK is deputy director and chief counsel of Juvenile Law Center, which she co-founded in 1975, and an adjunct professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She has authored many articles on children and the law and submitted many briefs before state and federal courts and the US Supreme Court. Levick’s board service includes Southern Poverty Law Center, Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, and Dean’s Council of Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She has been honored by the American Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, and the American Association for Justice and received the Philadelphia Inquirer Citizen of the Year Award and the Arlen Specter Award.

LAWRENCE LESSIG is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. He was previously a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the US Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the AXA Research Fund Board and on the advisory boards of Creative Commons and Sunlight Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award, and was named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. @slessig

JANNA LEVIN is a professor of physics and astronomy at Columbia University’s Barnard College who contributes to understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of space-time. She is also director of sciences at Pioneer Works. Levin was previously the first scientist-in-residence at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing and has worked at Cambridge University and University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Particle Astrophysics. She authored Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, How the Universe Got Its Spots, and a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham Prize. She was named a Guggenheim fellow in 2012. @JannaLevin

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KATE LEVIN is a principal at Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consulting firm that collaborates with cities around the world on improving quality of life. She also oversees the arts program at Bloomberg Philanthropies. From 2002 to 2013, Levin was commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the largest single arts funder in the country. There, she increased support for cultural organizations, expanded creative-sector participation in many areas, and worked to create several new cultural districts and organizations. A former professor of English at City College/CUNY, Levin also served in the administration of Mayor Ed Koch.

MARC LEVIN is director of the Center for Effective

JODY LEWEN is executive director of the Prison University Project, based at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, CA. The program, which she founded in 2003, provides a general education Associate of Arts degree and intensive college preparatory courses to approximately 350 people incarcerated at San Quentin. Lewin is also an advisor to the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and provides training and technical assistance to colleges and universities seeking to create prison higher-education programs. She publishes and presents extensively in the fields of psychoanalysis, literary theory, and criminal justice. Levin was a 2015 recipient of the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.

SARAH LEWIS is an art historian and Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University. Author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, her second book on photography’s role in exposing the fiction of racial categories is under contract. Lewis’s essays on race, contemporary art, and culture have appeared in The New Yorker, Artforum, and Art in America, as well as in publications for Smithsonian, Museum of Modern Art, and Rizzoli. A frequent speaker, she has lectured at TEDGlobal, SXSW, PopTech, and for the Aspen Institute, Getty, and Federal Reserve Bank. Lewis has served on Obama’s Arts Policy Committee and as a trustee of Creative Time. @sarahelizalewis

Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and policy director of its Right on Crime initiative. In 2010, he developed the concept for the initiative, which has become the national clearinghouse for conservative criminal justice reforms. Levin has testified on criminal justice policy on four occasions before Congress and has testified frequently before state legislatures. A lawyer, he has worked in private practice and was a staff attorney at the Texas Supreme Court. In 2014, Levin was named one of the Politico 50, the magazine’s annual “list of thinkers, doers, and dreamers who really matter in this age of gridlock and dysfunction.” @MarcALevin

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ANN LIMBERG is head of philanthropic solutions and

DAVID LITT is head writer and producer in the Wash-

the family office at U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, overseeing strategy, clients, advisory, and consulting services for nonprofit institutions, corporate and private foundations, and UHNW families. She has worked at Bank of America since 2004, and her career also includes senior leadership positions with Fleet Boston Financial, NatWest, and Citibank. Limberg is a recipient of the United Way’s Women in Philanthropy Award and The American Conference on Diversity’s Humanitarian Award. She has been recognized as a Wall Street 50 Honoree and one of New Jersey’s Most Influential Women and Most Powerful Nonprofit Board Members. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

ington, DC, office of Funny or Die. He was a White House speechwriter from 2011 to early 2016, taking the lead on four of President Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Dinners speeches. During his years as the president’s primary in-house joke writer, Litt collaborated on videos with Funny or Die, BuzzFeed, Steven Spielberg, and Veep’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, among others. He helped write Obama’s appearance with Keegan Michael Key’s character Luther the Anger Translator, which has been viewed online more than 42 million times. His forthcoming memoir about life as a twenty-something in the White House is called That Hopey, Changey Thing. @davidlitt

ERIC LIU is executive director of the Aspen Institute Cit-

CHRISTOPHER LIVACCARI is an educator who is currently Chinese program director and elementary school principal at International School of the Peninsula and the senior advisor for China Learning Initiatives at Asia Society. As a former US diplomat, he held postings in Tokyo and Shanghai. He is also an author whose publications include New Ways of Seeing: How Multilingualism Opens Our Eyes and Trains Our Minds for a Complex World; Structures of Mandarin Chinese for Speakers of English; and the Chinese for Tomorrow series. Livaccari was the recipient of the US State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award, citing outstanding speeches written for two US ambassadors to Japan.

izenship and American Identity Program and founder of Citizen University. He teaches civic leadership at University of Washington and writes for CNN.com and TheAtlantic.com. Liu was a speechwriter and later deputy domestic policy advisor for President Bill Clinton. His books include A Chinaman’s Chance, the national best-sellers The Gardens of Democracy and The True Patriot, and The Accidental Asian, a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary Matters of Race. Liu received the 2010 Bill Grace Leadership Legacy Award from the Center for Ethical Leadership and was a 2002 World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow. @ericpliu

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MAGGIE LOUGHRAN is an English major at the University of Chicago and editor in chief of The Chicago Maroon, the independent student newspaper of University of Chicago since 1892. She has also been news editor and a news reporter. Some of the issues that have defined Loughran’s time as a campus journalist are the tension between free speech and activism, policies concerning Title IX and sexual assault, and the relationship between Greek organizations and the university at large. A former intern for CNN Politics, she was introduced to journalism during her senior year of high school when she created blog to stimulate intellectual curiosity and political awareness among classmates.

GLENN LOURY is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor of Economics, and Watson Institute Faculty Fellow at Brown University. His critical writing on issues of social justice and inequality includes four books and over 200 essays and reviews. As an academic economist, Loury has made contributions to the fields of welfare economics, income distribution, game theory, the theory of natural resource economics, and industrial organization. He presented the 2016 Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government at Oxford University. Recipient of numerous awards, Loury is a distinguished fellow of American Economics Association, member of American Philosophical Society, and fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

ADAM LOWRY is co-founder and co-CEO of Ripple

MONICA LOZANO is chair of the Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program, which is dedicated to increasing awareness of the role Hispanics will play in the United States’ long-term prosperity. From 2010 to January 2016, she was chairman and CEO of the parent company of La Opinión, a leading Spanish-language daily newspaper, where she led the transition of the business into a multimedia content provider. Lozano joined La Opinión in 1985 and became publisher and CEO in 2004. She is chair of the University of California Board of Regents and the Weingart Foundation and serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Foundation, Bank of America, and Target Corporation.

Foods, a producer of plant-based milks. He previously cofounded and was chief greenskeeper of Method Products, which makes sustainable home-cleaning products. Lowry has worked as a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, where he developed software products for understanding climate change. He has been honored as one of Fortune’s 40 Under 40 and received the 2013 Clinton Global Citizen Award from the Clinton Global Initiative. Lowry is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, and a Catto Fellow and a McNulty Prize laureate at the Aspen Institute. He serves on the boards of urban agriculture company AeroFarms and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. @ripplefoods

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GREG LUKIANOFF is an attorney and president and

JANE HOLL LUTE is special coordinator on improving

CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. He has testified before the US Senate and the House of Representatives about free speech issues on America’s campuses. Lukianoff is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate andFreedom from Speech, as well as a co-author of The Atlantic cover story, “The Coddling of the American Mind.”His writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among other publications. Lukianoff is an executive producer for the feature-length documentary Can We Take a Joke?

the United Nations response to sexual exploitation and abuse, and special advisor to the secretary-general on relocation of Iraq’s Camp Hurriya residents. She was previously CEO of Center for Internet Security, deputy secretary for the US Department of Homeland Security, and held multiple positions at the UN from 2003 to 2007, including acting under-secretary-general. She was executive vice president and COO of the UN Foundation and Better World Fund and worked on the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. Lute was a National Security Council staff member under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Clinton and had a distinguished US Army career.

MELVIN MAR is a television and film producer. He and

GLORIA MARK is a professor in the Informatics Department at University of California, Irvine, researching how digital technology impacts our lives, particularly multitasking, focus of attention, interruptions, mood, and stress. She has worked at the German National Research Center for Information Technology and has been a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research, MIT, IBM, and National University of Singapore. Mark is a research affiliate at MIT Media Lab. She was a 2006 Fulbright scholarship recipient and has published in the top conferences and journals of her field. She is general chair for the ACM CHI 2017 conference and sits on the editorial boards of the ACM, TOCHI, and Human-Computer Interaction journals.

director Jake Kasdan have a deal at Twentieth Century Fox Television developing comedies and dramas for cable and network television. Mar has produced the films The TV Set; Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story; Bad Teacher; and Sex Tape. His television credits include “New Girl,” “Fresh Off the Boat,” “The Grinder,” and “Weird Loners.” He executive produced the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox pilot “Speechless” and acted in “Walk Hard” and “Bad Teacher.” Mar began his career as an intern at Kopelson Entertainment, got his first job at Dreamworks SKG, and then moved to Scott Rudin Productions.

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JOHN MARKOFF is a science writer for The New York

MORGAN MARQUIS-BOIRE is a hacker, security re-

Times, since 1988. He has written about technology and science since 1977, including for The San Francisco Examiner, the San Jose Mercury, Byte Magazine, Infoworld, and the Pacific News Service. He has taught journalism at University of California, Berkeley and Stanford and received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting. Other honors include the 2005 Loeb Award and 2007 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Breaking News Award. His books include The High Cost of High Tech and Cyberpunk. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s International Media Council and a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists. @markoff

searcher, and journalist. He is the director of security for First Look Media, a contributing writer for The Intercept, and a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at University of Toronto, focusing on state-sponsored hacking and the global surveillance industry. Prior to this, Marquis-Boire worked for six years at Google as a senior security engineer. He currently serves as a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and as an advisor to the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Amnesty International. In 2015, he was appointed a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

ZACH MAURIN is executive director of Service Year Alliance, dedicated to making national service a national priority. Previously, he was executive director of ServiceNation, which grew to a membership of 100,000 and a coalition of 550 organizations, and co-founder of ServeNext, which helped pass the national service legislation. Featured and interviewed for his work in national service by CNN, Buzzfeed, MSNBC, TIME, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and The Hollywood Reporter, Maurin has received City Year’s Comcast Leadership Award, was a finalist for an Echoing Green Fellowship, and was named a White House Champion of Change and to the 2010 40 Under 40 New Leaders Council list.

NERGIS MAVALVALA is a physics professor and the Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she has been on the faculty since 2002. Her research links the world of quantum mechanics, usually apparent only at the atomic scale, with gravitational waves, arising from some of the most powerful yet elusive forces in the cosmos. Mavalvala was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the California Institute of Technology between 1997 and 2002. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010, and she is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.

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DAN MCADAMS is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, where he directs the Foley Center for the Study of Lives. A personality and developmental psychologist, he is the author of George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Portrait; The Art and Science of Personality Development; and The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By, which won the 2006 William James Award for best general-interest book in psychology. McAdams recently applied ideas from his research and the fields of personality, social, and developmental psychology to write the psychological biography The Mind of Donald Trump. He is president of the Association for Research in Personality.

DAVID MCCORMICK is president and a member of the management committee for Bridgewater Associates, a global macro-investment firm. Before joining Bridgewater, he was US Treasury undersecretary for international affairs in the George W. Bush administration during the global financial crisis. Prior to that, he was deputy national security advisor for international economic policy and undersecretary of commerce for export administration. From 1999 to 2005, McCormick was an entrepreneur, serving as CEO of Freemarkets and president of Ariba, two publicly traded software companies. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is a former Army officer and veteran of the first Gulf War.

JANE MCGONIGAL is a designer of alternate reality games and director of games research and development at Institute for the Future. She invented and co-founded the game SuperBetter and founded the collaborative Gameful. Specializing in games that tackle real-world problems, she has created games for the American Heart Association and World Bank Institute and developed game workshops for large companies. McGonigal’s work includes World Without Oil and Cruel 2 B Kind. She previously taught game design and theory at University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco Art Institute, serves on the Games for Change board, and authored Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.

DERAY MCKESSON is a protestor, civil rights activist, and educator. A Baltimore native, he has advocated for children and families since he was a teen, was founding director of an after-school/out-of-school program, and provided leadership to executive teams of two large urban school districts. Spurred by Mike Brown’s death and subsequent protests in Ferguson, MO, Mckesson joined the effort to address mass incarceration and police killings of blacks and minorities. He co-founded the Protestor Newsletter, Campaign Zero (a policy platform to end police violence), and Mapping Police Violence. Fortune Magazine named him one of 2015’s 50 World’s Greatest Leaders, and the New School awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2016. @deray

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JAMIE P. MERISOTIS is president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, which focuses on increasing Americans’ success in higher education. Prior to joining Lumina in 2008, he co-founded and led the Institute for Higher Education Policy and was executive director of a bipartisan national commission on college affordability. Merisotis is author of America Needs Talent (2015) and a frequent media commentator and contributor. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Washington Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, POLITICO, and other publications. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of Bates College, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Anatolia College in Greece, and the European Access Network. @jamiemerisotis

MICHAEL MIDDLETON is interim president of the University of Missouri (MU) and professor emeritus at MU School of Law, which he joined in 1985. He was previously interim vice provost for minority affairs and faculty development, then deputy chancellor until his 2015 retirement. Prior to MU, Middleton was a federal government lawyer who held several positions within the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, including director of the St. Louis office and associate general counsel of the trial division. He has worked on civil rights issues in the Education Department, the former Health, Education, and Welfare Department, and as a trial attorney in the Justice Department.

ROUBA MHAISSEN is an economist, activist, and development practitioner who works on development issues in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, particularly forced migration and the Syrian refugee crisis. She is founder and director of Sawa Foundation and Sawa for Development and Aid, civil society organizations working with Syrian refugees on an integrated approach to development since 2011. She previously worked with Lebanese, Iraqi, and Palestinian refugees. Mhaissen has long been involved in lobbying and advocacy for human rights issues, specifically Syrian refugees. She has researched and consulted on a range of issues pertaining to education, violence, conflict, gender, household economics, forced migration, and activism, among others. @roubamhaissen

MICHELLE MILLER is an award-winning CBS news correspondent in New York, reporting for “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley,” “CBS This Morning,” and “CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood.” She joined CBS News in 2004 and has provided extensive coverage of the unrest in Ferguson, MO, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, and Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina. Miller has also taught mass communications at Dillard University. She has won two national Emmy Awards and the Radio and Television News Directors Association’s Edward R. Murrow Award. Miller is a Poynter Institute Fellow and a Hitesman Fellow at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication.

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YURI MILNER is a venture capitalist and founder of DST Global, a global technology investment firm whose portfolio has included Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Airbnb, Spotify, Alibaba, Xiaomi, Flipkart, and others. In 1999, he founded Mail.ru Group, which became one of Europe’s leading Internet companies, and took it public in 2010. In 2012, Milner and his wife joined a group of tech entrepreneurs including Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg to launch the Breakthrough Prizes, large scientific awards honoring achievements in fundamental physics, life sciences, and mathematics. In 2015, Milner launched the $100 million Breakthrough Initiatives to reinvigorate the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe.

WENDY MITCHELL is owner and founder of Avalanche

RENEE MONTAGNE is host of “Morning Edition” for NPR. Since beginning as a freelancer in the 1980s, she has worked with virtually every desk at NPR News: national, foreign, science, and arts. In 1987, she was named co-host of “All Things Considered.” She and a team of NPR reporters won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of South Africa’s historic 1994 elections. Since September 11, 2001, Montagne has made ten extended reporting trips to Afghanistan, profiling Presidents Ghani and Karzai and traveling at times at great risk, and has been honored for her coverage by the Overseas Press Club, the Feminist Majority, and the Gracie Awards. @nprmontagne

MARC MORIAL is president of the National Urban League, a position he has held since 2003. His leadership has expanded the league’s work around an empowerment agenda, which is redefining civil rights with an emphasis on closing economic gaps between whites and blacks as well as rich and poor Americans. Morial served two terms as mayor of New Orleans, from 1994 to 2002, during which time the city won the All-American City Award in 1996 and the City Livability Award. Prior to that he was a Louisiana state senator from 1992 to 1994. Morial serves as an executive committee member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. @marcmorial

Cheese Company, which she started in 2008 with a goat dairy in Paonia, CO, and a creamery in Basalt, CO. She opened Meat & Cheese Restaurant and Farm Shop in Aspen in 2014, adding Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in spring 2016. Her company added a USDA meat processing plant in 2014 to make dry-cured salami. Mitchell has worked in the food world her entire career. She started Mission Burritos in Houston, managed fine dining at four-star hotels and private clubs, did extensive research into Dallas bars and clubs in college, and worked at a Hickory Farms mall outlet while in high school.

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ANNE MOSLE is a vice president and executive direc-

LOUBNA MRIE is a Syrian activist who participated in

tor of Ascend at the Aspen Institute. She is a thinker, advocate, and voice in building pathways to opportunity for low-income families and women. Ascend has been a national leader in catalyzing a two-generation approach to breaking the cycle of poverty. An author of The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink and Two Generations: One Future, Mosle has been recognized as Washingtonian of the Year and a Ms. Magazine Woman to Watch. She serves on the advisory committee of the Oxford University Said School of Business, America’s Promise National Trustees Council, and APHSA Executive Governing Board.

the initial stages of the country’s revolution. She later became a photojournalist with Reuters based in Aleppo, covering the ongoing conflict in the Idlib, Aleppo, Latakia, and Hama governorates. Mrie is a fellow of the Magnum Foundation, a photographic nonprofit founded by members of Magnum Photos to encourage and fund independent photojournalism efforts. Originally from the coastal city of Jableh and currently based in New York City, she is a researcher and commentator on Syrian and Middle Eastern affairs. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and New Republic.

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN is an economics professor at Harvard University and a Cornell Tech Fellow. His latest research focuses on using machine learning and data-mining techniques to better understand human behavior. Mullainathan co-founded ideas42, a nonprofit to apply behavioral science, and MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. His previous government work includes, most recently, assistant research director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Mullainathan co-authored Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much and writes regularly for The New York Times. A MacArthur Foundation board member, he is a recipient of the MacArthur genius award and was named a Foreign Policy Top 100 Thinker and to Wired UK’s Smart List. @m_sendhil

MIKE MURPHY is a Republican political consultant and an advisor to corporations, hedge funds, and trade associations. He is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a senior analyst for NBC News. Murphy has directed more than 26 successful gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns, including twelve GOP wins in blue states that have consistently voted Democratic in presidential elections. Notable campaigns he has worked on include John McCain’s 2000 campaign for president and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, Mitt Romney’s, and Jeb Bush’s successful campaigns for governor. He also works as a writer/ producer in the entertainment industry. @MurphyMike

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ALAN MURRAY is editor of Fortune, overseeing the magazine and website, a position he has held since August 2014. He previously hosted an eponymous show on CNBC and was president of Pew Research Center from 2013 to 2014, where he oversaw a rapid expansion of the center’s digital footprint. Prior to that, Murray was at The Wall Street Journal for more than two decades. He served as deputy managing editor and executive editor of online from 2007 to 2012, with editorial responsibility for the company’s websites, mobile products, television, video, books, and conferences. During his time as Washington bureau chief, from 1993 to 2002, the bureau won three Pulitzer Prizes. @alansmurray

SATYA NADELLA is CEO of Microsoft, a position he has held since 2004. Previously, he held leadership roles in enterprise and consumer businesses across the company, most recently as executive vice president of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group. In this role, Nadella led the transformation to the cloud infrastructure and services business, responsible for building and running the company’s computing platforms, developer tools, and cloud computing services. Previously, he led research and development for the online services division and was vice president of the Microsoft business division. Before joining Microsoft in 1992, he was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems.

AMY MYRDAL MILLER is a dietitian and president of Farmer’s Daughter Consulting, an agriculture, food, and culinary communications firm advocating for farmers, flavor, and thoughtful discourse. Prior to this, Miller worked for Culinary Institute of America planning continuing education conferences and retreats for food service, culinary, and health care audiences. Previously, she worked with Dole Food Company, California Walnut Commission, and National Dairy Council. She is co-author of The Healthy Heart Cookbook for Dummies, executive editor of Dole 5 A Day Kids Cookbook, and nutrition editor of the fourth edition of Techniques of Healthy Cooking. Miller received the 2014 Nutrition Impact award from Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

SARBJIT NAHAL is a managing director and heads the thematic investing strategy team at Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch Global Research. His team addresses thematic issues from opportunity and risk perspectives–including education, energy efficiency, extreme weather and climate change, and longevity–as well as via screening tools. He also sits on Merrill Lynch Global Wealth and Investment Management’s environment, social, and governance core council and on the diversity and inclusion council for EMEA. Prior to joining BofA Merrill Lynch in 2010, Nahal was head of thematic investing at Société Générale and Crédit-Mutuel-CIC, and he held positions at Vigeo, the International Council on Human Rights Policy, and Pensions Investment Research Consultants. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

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PRIYAMVADA NATARAJAN is a professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University and the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Professorship of the Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. A theoretical astrophysicist, she researches gravitational lensing and black holes. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, and Explorers Club and serves on the advisory board of the “NOVA” program “ScienceNow.” In addition to publishing in scientific journals Science and Nature, she has written for Hindustan Times, The Huffington Post, and Discover Magazine and been featured in Science News, New Scientist, Sky and Telescope, and The New York Review of Books.

MARIE NELSON is vice president of news and public affairs for PBS. Previously, she was executive producer of national programs at PBS member station WGBH, where her work included “America by the Numbers,” an eightpart documentary series on America’s changing demographics. Prior to WGBH, Nelson was acting vice president of news and original programming for BET Networks. Earlier in her career, she was founding executive producer for NPR’s “Tell Me More” and a producer for “Nightline” with Ted Koppel and “World News Tonight” at ABC News. Nelson has also served in public affairs and international development roles with the US Department of State, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and Africare. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE is an angel investor and pioneer in computer-aided design. A member of the MIT faculty since 1966, he co-founded MIT Media Lab in 1985 and directed it for its first 20 years. In 2005, he founded the nonprofit One Laptop per Child. Negroponte served on Motorola’s board of directors for 15 years and was general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has personally provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Zagats and Wired magazine. He gave the first TED talk in 1984, as well as 13 since, and authored the 1995 best-seller, Being Digital.

LATONDRA NEWTON is group vice president, social innovation officer, and chief diversity officer of Toyota Motor North America, leading an integrated, holistic social-responsibility strategy for the company. She is chief program officer of Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMA), established in 2014 to advance freedom of mobility, and is on the board of the Toyota USA Foundation, which has a $100 million endowment to support K-12 STEM education. Newton was previously group vice president and chief diversity officer at TMA, among several other leadership positions. She joined Toyota in 1991 as a capital equipment buyer. Automotive News named her one of the 100 Leading Women in the North American Automotive Industry in 2010. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

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VIVIAN NIXON is executive director of College and Community Fellowship, an organization committed to removing barriers to higher education for women with criminal-record histories and their families. She is an ordained associate minister at Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City. A Columbia University Community Scholar, Nixon has received multiple honors, including the John Jay Medal for Justice, the Ascend Fellowship at the Aspen Institute, the Soros Justice Fellowship, and the Petra Foundation Fellowship. Her leadership activities include co-founding the Education Inside Out Coalition, an effort to increase access to higher education for justice-involved students, and serving on the advisory board of JustLeadershipUSA. @feedingfaith

VICTORIA NULAND is assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs, responsible for diplomatic relations with 50 countries in those regions as well as with NATO, the European Union, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Previously, she served as State Department spokesperson. Nuland was special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe from February 2010 to June 2011, and before that, served on the faculty of the National War College. Her awards include the State Department Distinguished Honor award, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, and the Secretary of Defense’s Distinguished Civilian Service medal. (Bio excerpted from www.state. gov June 13, 2016.)

MICHELE NORRIS is a Peabody Award-winning journalist who leads The Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race and cultural identity in America. For more than a decade, Norris was a host on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” where she interviewed world leaders, American presidents, Nobel laureates, leading thinkers, and groundbreaking artists. Created after publishing her family memoir, The Grace of Silence, The Race Card Project has partnered with museums, universities, foundations, and American cities to help spark dialogues to navigate complicated issues around race. She was also a 2015 Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. @michele_norris

JEN O’MALLEY DILLON is a founding partner at Precision Strategies, a communications, digital, and data-targeting consulting firm. She was previously a deputy campaign manager for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, executive director of the Democratic National Committee, and battleground states director for Obama’s 2008 campaign. A field and organizing veteran, O’Malley Dillon has served on five presidential campaigns and worked at every level from state senate and mayoral races to congressional, gubernatorial, and Senate campaigns. In her 2012 role, she oversaw the largest field, education, political outreach, and data analytics organization in the history of presidential campaigns. She was named to TIME magazine’s 40 Under 40 list.

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SALLY OSBERG is president and CEO of the Skoll

SUSAN PAGE is Washington bureau chief of USA Today,

Foundation, guiding its search and support of innovators pioneering scalable solutions to pressing global problems. Under her leadership, the foundation has invested in over 100 ventures led by social entrepreneurs worldwide, created the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, and brokered partnerships with Sundance Institute and Social Progress Imperative. Osberg’s work has appeared on CNN and Bloomberg TV and in Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She has been recognized as one of Silicon Valley’s Millennium 100 by San Jose Mercury News and among the social sector’s 50 most influential leaders by The NonProfit Times.

where she has worked since 1995. She previously covered the White House and national politics for Newsday. Page has covered five White House administrations and ten presidential elections, interviewed eight presidents, regularly guest-hosts NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show,” and appears frequently as an analyst on TV and radio. Her honors include the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency (twice) and the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Deadline Reporting on the Presidency. Page has been president of the White House Correspondents Association and Gridiron Club, chair of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, and Pulitzer prizes juror.

JONATHAN PALMER is associate general counsel

MINXIN PEI is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government and the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. He is also a nonresident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Pei was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1999 to 2009 and an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University from 1992 to 1998. He is the author of From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union; China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy; and China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay.

for litigation at Microsoft’s department of corporate, external, and legal affairs where he focuses on antitrust and complex commercial litigation, regulatory investigations, and cross-border disputes. His responsibilities also include advising the company on legal issues related to e-discovery, information governance, and government access to customer data. Prior to joining Microsoft, Palmer was a litigation partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, and before that, at Heller Ehrman. From 2005 to 2008 he was based in Asia, where he managed Heller Ehrman’s offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai. Palmer serves on the board of directors of Lawyers for Civil Justice.

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PERRI PELTZ is a documentary filmmaker and public health advocate currently co-directing and co-producing the “Conversation on Race” series with The New York Times Op-Docs. Her films include Remembering the Artist: Robert DeNiro, Sr.; The Education of Dee Dee Ricks; and A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers. Peltz has recently completed a documentary about alcohol use disorder to air on HBO in 2017 and is in production on another documentary for HBO about the drug overdose epidemic. She also hosts “The Perri Peltz Show” and “Doctor Radio Reports” radio shows on SirusXM. Before working in documentary films, Peltz was a broadcast journalist for NBC, ABC, and CNN. @PerriPeltz

CARRIE WALTON PENNER is board chair of the Walton Family Foundation and serves on the boards of Charter School Growth Fund, KIPP Foundation, EdVoice, and Stanford University Graduate School of Education. Penner has been active in education research, evaluation, advocacy, and philanthropy for over 20 years and is focused on improving access to high-quality schools for every child, particularly those in low-income communities. With expertise in developing effective governance models for high-impact philanthropy, she has advised many nonprofit organizations on matters such as strategic planning, funder and grantee relationship building, and organizational transitions. Her passion for educational equity was ignited while tutoring high school students in Washington, DC, during college. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

SUSAN PENFIELD is an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton leading the Strategic Innovation Group (SIG) and a member of the company’s leadership team. As part of SIG, she provides executive leadership for five functional service organizations spanning analytics, cyber, engineering and science, management consulting, and systems delivery. In partnership with Booz Allen’s innovation agenda, these organizations find, develop, and rotate functional talent throughout the firm. Before joining SIG, Penfield led Booz Allen’s health business, where she drove technology and transformation initiatives across the federal, commercial, and nonprofit health space, providing consulting services for every major federal health-related organization in the United States.

ESTHER PEREL is a couples therapist, consultant, speaker, and author. She is a recognized thinker on sexuality, infidelity, and the paradoxes besetting modern marriage who also studies emotional literacy, work-life balance, family identity, and relationship accountability in the digital age. Perel counsels companies and entrepreneurs about personal and professional relationships and the complex science behind human interaction. Fluent in nine languages, she speaks with a cross-cultural pulse on effective communication. Perel is the author of the best-seller, Mating in Captivity, and The State of Affairs: Cheating in the Age of Transparency, due out in 2017. Her TED talks have reached more than 12 million viewers. @EstherPerel

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DAVID PETRAEUS is a retired US Army general. He

LONNIE AND SANDY PHILLIPS are the parents of

is chairman of the KKR Global Institute, a visiting professor of public policy at City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors College, a Judge Widney Professor at the University of Southern California, a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and honorary visiting professor of the University of Exeter Strategy and Security Institute. Petraeus was CIA director in 2011 and 2012, following a 37-year military career, where his roles included coalition forces commander in Iraq and Afghanistan and commander of US Central Command. He has received numerous national and international awards and decorations.

Jessica Ghawi, who was murdered in the Aurora, CO, theater shooting massacre on July 20, 2012, and activists for the prevention of gun violence. Since their daughter’s death, they’ve sold their belongings, bought an RV, and are traveling the country speaking to organizations and reaching out to other victims/survivors. The Phillipses have met with the president, vice president, and state and federal lawmakers promoting legislation to save lives by reducing gun violence. They are featured in the documentary, Under the Gun, and have been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, BBC, and CBS, as well as numerous radio and print outlets.

CHELLIE PINGREE is a US representative from Maine’s

JEAN PITZO is CEO of Ace Metal Crafts (ACE), a stainless steel manufacturer of fabricated and machined components parts serving original equipment manufacturers in the food processing, packaging, pharmaceutical, and environmental industries. She has been with ACE her entire career, starting in 1983 as a sales representative and progressing over the years to vice president of sales and marketing, then to president. She was named CEO in 2003. Under her leadership, ACE has been honored numerous times for outstanding business practices, workplace culture, industry, and community outreach. Pitzo serves on the boards of directors of Berthold Electric Co. in Chicago and Irmco Inc. in Evanston, Illinois. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

1st congressional district, since 2009. A House Appropriations Committee member, she introduced the Food Recovery Act, aimed at reducing food waste, and the Local Farms, Food and Jobs Act, provisions of which were included in the successfully passed Farm Bill. She owns Nebo Lodge and Restaurant and the organic Turner Farm in North Haven, ME. Pingree was previously president and CEO of Common Cause and a member of the Maine Senate from 1992 to 2000. In the 1970s, she started an organic farm that sold produce to summer residents and raised sheep for wool, eventually employing ten people in a mail-order knitting business. @chelliepingree

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ELIZABETH PLANK is a senior producer and correspondent at Vox.com, where she hosts a series about the presidential election called “2016ish.” Prior to Vox, she was a senior correspondent at Mic, co-creator of “Flip The Script” weekly video series confronting social issues, and a correspondent for MSNBC’s “Shift Krystal Clear.” Plank has provided millennial perspective on politics, women’s issues, and reproductive rights on “The Today Show,” “The Daily Show,” MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News, Fusion, Al Jazeera America, and BBC. The creator of campaigns such as #AllMenCan and #WithoutTheWageGapIWould, she uses media for greater good and in 2015 was named to the 30 Under 30 in Media list by Forbes.

ANDREW PLEPLER is Bank of America’s global corporate social responsibility executive and chair of the bank’s National Community Advisory Council. He was previously senior vice president of housing and community initiatives at Fannie Mae Foundation. Before that, he was a trial attorney for the US Justice Department in the Tax Division and counsel to the US Senate Judiciary Committee. Plepler founded and continues to serve on the board of the Washington, DC-based Urban Alliance Foundation, a nonprofit jobs and mentoring program that works with economically disadvantaged high school students, and serves on the boards of Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Living Cities, and Levine Museum of the New South. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

DAVID PLOTZ is CEO of Atlas Obscura, a user-driven

CHRIS PLUTTE is an entrepreneur and leader in the

digital media and technology company devoted to discovery through collecting and writing about the world’s most wonderful places. The host of Slate’s “Political Gabfest” podcast, he was editor in chief of Slate from 2008 to 2014. During Plotz’s time as editor, Slate tripled its traffic, achieved profitability for the first time, and built acclaimed podcasting and video franchises. He is the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank and Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.

fields of education, media, and conflict resolution. He co-founded Global Nomads Group (GNG) in 1998 and led the organization for more than a decade. Prior to rejoining GNG in 2010, Plutte opened and directed Search for Common Ground (SFCG) and was chief of party on initiatives for the Great Lakes region of DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda. At GNG and SFCG, he managed project and program development. A speaker on media, youth, and conflict, Plutte has appeared on the “Today Show,” CNN, NPR, and in Education Week and Chronicles of Philanthropy. He is a Pahara Fellow and a member of Aspen Global Leadership Network.

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DAN PORTERFIELD is president of Franklin and Marshall College, a position he has held since 2011. He was previously senior vice president for strategic development at his alma mater, Georgetown University, where he started on the English faculty. From 1993 to 1996, he was a senior aide to then secretary of health and human services Donna Shalala. Porterfield writes and speaks frequently on education issues and was the only liberal arts college president to speak at three White House summits in 2014. He sits on the boards of the College Board and the Lenfest Scholars Foundation and has received awards from the KIPP and I Have a Dream foundations. @danporterfield

SHEILA POTT is the mother of Audrie Taylor Pott, who committed suicide shortly after being sexually assaulted and then bullied via social media in 2012. She is the co-founder of the Audrie Pott Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing anti-cyber-bullying presentations to schools, art and music scholarships, and grants for school therapists. Among other legislation inspired by Audrie’s story, Pott and the foundation championed the passage of “Audrie’s” law, signed into law in California in 2014, which toughened penalties for juveniles convicted of sexually abusing unconscious and disabled victims. Her daughter’s story also inspired the 2016 documentary, Audrie and Daisy, by filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk.

KIRSTEN POWERS is a columnist for USA Today, a Fox

GILL PRATT is an executive technical advisor for Toyota

News contributor, and a best-selling author. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Dallas Morning News, New York Observer, Salon.com, the Daily Beast, New York Post, Elle magazine, and American Prospect online. Powers was vice president for international communications at America Online from 1998 to 2002 and worked in New York Democratic politics, including serving as press secretary for Andrew Cuomo’s 2002 governor’s race and as a consultant to the New York State Democratic Committee. She was deputy assistant US trade representative for public affairs in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1998.

and CEO of Toyota Research Institute, a research and development enterprise focused on artificial intelligence and robotics. Previously, he was a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 2010 to 2015, a professor and associate dean of faculty affairs and research at Olin College, and an associate professor and director of MIT’s Leg Lab. Pratt’s primary interest is in robotics and intelligent systems, particularly in interfaces that enhance human/machine collaboration and mechanisms for enhanced mobility and manipulation, among others. He holds several patents in series elastic actuation and adaptive control. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

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MARK PRESTON is executive editor for CNN Politics,

PENNY PRITZKER is US secretary of commerce, a

reporting on campaigns, polling, and politics across CNN, CNN International, and CNN.com. He is the on-air Decision Desk analyst for CNN’s election coverage and leads the conception and execution of the network’s political events, including the seven prime-time presidential debates and twelve town halls of the 2016 primary election season. Preston joined CNN in 2005 as political editor and has received several honors, including Emmys in 2006 and 2012 for the network’s election-night coverage. He played a key role in CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of the 2008 presidential primary debates and campaigns. Preston previously was a senior staff writer at Roll Call.

position she has served in since June 2013. During her tenure as a key member of President Obama’s economic team, the Commerce Department has expanded trade and investment, opened global markets to American products, unleashed government data to drive growth, spurred innovation with new digital tools, promoted entrepreneurship, and expanded skills training and workforce development. Before joining the Obama administration, Pritzker spent 27 years in the private sector. She was CEO of PSP Capital Partners and developed companies in diverse sectors such as luxury living for older adults, off-site airport parking, and financial information services. @PennyPritzker

IDA RADEMACHER is executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program, dedicated to solving the critical financial challenges facing America’s households and to shaping policies and financial products enabling all to save, invest, and own. She has testified before Congress on credit, savings, and tax policy topics and is a frequent resource for journalists covering consumer finance and inequality issues. Previously, Rademacher served in research and leadership roles with the Corporation for Enterprise Development, the Center for Applied Behavioral and Evaluation Research at the Academy for Educational Development, and the Aspen Institute economic opportunities program. She is a Pew Financial Security and Mobility Project Principals Group member.

LISA RANDALL is a professor at Harvard University, where she studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology, currently focusing on dark matter. Randall is the author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, the New York Times notable books Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven’s Door, and the e-book Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space. She also wrote a libretto for Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes and co-curated the art exhibit Measure for Measure for the Los Angeles Arts Association. Randall received the 2012 Andrew Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics for significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics. @lirarandall

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URVASHI RANGAN leads the consumer safety and sustainability group for Consumer Reports (CR), where she is executive director of CR’s Food Safety and Sustainability Center and its website greenerchoices.org. She has been at Consumer Reports for 16 years, starting as a senior scientist. Under Rangan’s direction, Consumer Reports released several reports on food safety and food labeling, including arsenic in grains, 4-MEI cancer risk from caramel color in sodas, GMOs in processed foods, shrimp safety and production, and antibiotics in meat production. She is a national spokesperson and scientific expert for the organization and serves on the FDA Food Advisory Committee and the board of the American National Standards Institute. (Festival Underwriter Presenter) @UrvashiRangan

BOB RAYNOLDS is a research associate at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and an adjunct faculty member in the geophysics department at Colorado School of Mines. His lectures focus on the impact of climate change on Colorado’s ecology and water resources of the Colorado River system. Raynolds has studied comparable rocks in the Denver Basin that record the uplift of the Laramide Front Range and contain precious groundwater. He has worked in the Rift Valley in East Africa and the eastern plains of the Andes. He has taught as a Fulbright professor at the Center for Excellence in Geology at Peshawar University in Pakistan and at Dartmouth College.

STEVEN RATTNER is chairman of Willett Advisors, which manages the investment assets of Michael Bloomberg. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times op-ed page and an economic analyst on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” He was previously counselor to the US Treasury secretary and lead advisor on the 2009 Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, chronicled in his book, Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry. Rattner co-founded the Quadrangle Group, a private equity investment firm. He was also an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Lazard Freres & Co., where he became deputy chairman and deputy CEO. @steverattner

MOLLY PERSHIN RAYNOR is performing arts program coordinator for RYSE Center in Richmond, CA. She co-founded RAW Talent, which merged with RYSE to become its performing arts program, providing workshops, field trips, performance, and publication opportunities to over 100 Richmond youth annually. The documentary film Romeo Is Bleeding follows her staff and students as they address local turf violence through spoken word and theater. As a poet and educator, Raynor has facilitated creative writing workshops in prisons, halfway houses, high schools, teen centers, and summer camps and has traveled widely performing spoken word and organizing youth slams. She’s published two poetry chapbooks and has been featured on NPR.

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PAMELA REEVES is founder and CEO of Reeves Advisory, advising international organizations, foundations, and companies on developing gender strategies to achieve business and public purpose results. She is senior advisor for gender strategy to the office of Melinda Gates and a senior fellow in international and public affairs at Brown University. Reeves worked with governments and civil society throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for 20 years on governance and political processes, was a UN human rights officer in Liberia, and was director of the International Fund for Women and Girls. Her board service includes the Kakenya Center for Excellence and Women for Women International.

JASON REZAIAN is one of the few Western journalists

KATIE RICH is a writer for “Saturday Night Live.” Her comedy career started at Chicago’s Second City Touring Company, where she was promoted to the Second City Mainstage and wrote and performed three reviews, including the critically acclaimed South Side of Heaven. Rich has performed widely, from TBS’ “Just for Laughs” to Ireland’s Cat Laughs Comedy Festival. Commercial acting credits include Discover Card, Wal-Mart, Sonic Drive-in, and Lexus, and her movie credits include Let Freedom Hum, The Ice Harvest, and Bad Johnson. She has worked as a corporate trainer and is an award-winning copywriter, whose campaigns include KFC’s “I Ate the Bones” and Big Lots’ “Stand-Up Mom.” @katiemaryrich

WALTER ROBB is co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, a

to have been based in Tehran in recent years. From 2009 to 2014 he covered stories that tried to explain Iran to a general American audience, first as a freelancer and later as The Washington Post’s Tehran bureau chief. He reported on two presidential elections, Iran’s nuclear negotiations with global powers, the effects of one of the most punitive sanctions regimes in modern times, and environmental issues. In July 2014, Rezaian was detained and he spent 545 days in Tehran’s Evin prison. He was released on the same day the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers was implemented.

position he has held since 2010, and a member of the board. He joined the company in 1991 after a long career in natural foods retail. Robb opened his first natural foods store in 1976 in Weaverville, CA, running it for ten years before becoming a manager for Living Foods stores. Following a brief stint as an organic rice vendor, he partnered with Whole Foods to build and run a store in Mill Valley, CA, later becoming president of the company’s Northern Pacific Region. Robb chairs the Whole Kids Foundation and Whole Cities Foundation and works his own organic garden.

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BRIAN ROBERTS is chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, where he has worked his entire career. He became president in 1990. Roberts has been recognized by Fortune magazine as a Businessperson of the Year and named one of America’s top CEOs by Institutional Investor magazine eight times. He is the recipient of the Ambassador for Humanity Award from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and the Humanitarian Award from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He is a member of the Business Roundtable and has served on the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Roberts is a board member of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and director emeritus of CableLabs. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

MITT ROMNEY is chairman of Solamere Capital’s executive partner group and serves on the board of directors of Marriott International. A past Republican candidate for president of the United States, he was governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007. Previously, Romney was president and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He started his business career in 1978 as a vice president of Bain & Company management consulting firm based in Boston. In 1984, he left Bain & Company to co-found a spin-off private equity investment company, Bain Capital. Romney serves on the board of advisors of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases.

JIM ROGERS is a Rubenstein Fellow at Duke University, where he co-teaches a graduate seminar entitled Renewables and the World’s Poor. He co-founded the Global Brightlight Foundation, which delivers solar-powered lanterns capable of charging cell phones to rural communities. Rogers was most recently CEO of Duke Energy, created from a series of mergers and acquisitions he was involved in as a CEO in the electric utility industry for almost 25 years. Rogers authored Lighting the World and serves on the boards of the Aspen Institute, Brookings Institution, The Nature Conservancy, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Newsweek named him one of the 50 Most Powerful People in the World in 2009.

JEFFREY ROSEN is president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a George Washington University law professor, contributing editor of The Atlantic, and senior fellow at Brookings Institution. Since 2000, he has been a moderator at the Aspen Institute, conducting seminars and panels on technology and the Constitution, privacy, and free speech and democracy. Rosen is the author of several books, including The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America and forthcoming books on President Taft and Supreme Court Justice Brandeis. His essays and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer. @RosenJeffrey

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DAVID ROSENBERG is co-founder and CEO of Aero Farms, a clean-technology company building and operating advanced vertical farms in urban environments. Recognized for its sustainable food production model, AeroFarms has been named a Circular Economy 100 company and selected as the Best Growth Company at The Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics conference. Rosenberg is a member of the World Economic Forum, where he co-chairs the Young Global Leaders Circular Economy Task Force and the Technology and Innovation Group of Agriculture and is a member of the B20 SME Task Force, which advises the G20. An annual lecturer at Columbia Business School, he has competed in fencing, winning three US national team championships. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

HANNA ROSIN is a co-host of NPR’s “Invisibilia,” a show about invisible forces that shape human behavior, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where she has written many cover stories about sex, murder, and the modern American family. Rosin has also written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, New York, and GQ, among others. She is the author of The End of Men and God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America. She headlined the first TEDWomen conference and has appeared on “The Daily Show” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Rosin is the recipient of a 2010 National Magazine Award. @HannaRosin

JESSICA ROSENWORCEL is a member of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Nominated by President Obama, she was confirmed by the US Senate and sworn into office in May 2012. She currently chairs the Federal-State Joint Conference on Advanced Telecommunications Services. Rosenworcel previously served as senior communications counsel to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Prior to that, she worked in the Wireline Competition Bureau of the FCC and for then-FCC commissioner Michael Copps. Earlier in her career she practiced communications law in the private sector. POLITICO named her one of 50 politicos to watch in 2012

ALEC ROSS is an innovation expert, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, and author of The Industries of the Future. Ross served under then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton as senior advisor for innovation and on the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Policy Committee for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, also serving on the transition team. In 2000, he co-founded the technology-focused nonprofit One Economy. He started his career with Teach For America. A guest lecturer and writer for academic publications, Ross sits on numerous boards. He was recognized as a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy Magazine and received the US Department of State Distinguished Honor Award, among other honors. @AlecJRoss

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MICHAEL ROTH is president of Wesleyan University, where he has increased grant support for financial aid students and overseen the launch of the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, the Shapiro Creative Writing Center, and four new colleges. Through Coursera, he teaches MOOCs, most recently “How to Change the World.” Roth was previously a humanities professor at Scripps College, associate director of Getty Research Institute, and California College of the Arts president. He curated the Library of Congress exhibition Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture and authored several books, including Memory, Trauma and History: Essays on Living with the Past and Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters. @mroth78

DAVID ROTHKOPF is CEO and editor of the FP Group, which publishes Foreign Policy magazine, and president and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory company specializing in global political risk, energy, resource, technology and emerging markets issues. He is the author of several books, including National Insecurity, Power, Inc., Superclass, and Running the World. Rothkopf writes a weekly column for ForeignPolicy.com and is a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, CNN, Newsweek, and Time. He also hosts “The Editor’s Roundtable” podcast, is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and chairman of the National Strategic Investment Dialogue. @djrothkopf

HORACIO ROZANSKI is president and CEO of Booz Al-

DAVID RUBENSTEIN is co-CEO of The Carlyle Group,

len Hamilton, a position he has held since 2015. He leads efforts to set business goals and growth strategy, build value for investors, and identify emerging trends that will affect clients. Rozanski joined Booz Allen in 1992 to focus on marketing and channel strategy across a range of industries. He was elected vice president in 1999, appointed chief personnel officer in 2003, named chief strategy and talent officer in 2010, and COO in 2011. He sits on the board of directors for the Center for Talent Innovation and the board of advisors for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

the private equity firm he co-founded in 1987. He previously practiced law, was a domestic policy advisor to President Carter, and was chief counsel to a Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee. Rubenstein’s extensive board service includes chairman of Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Duke University, Library of Congress Madison Council, and Harvard Global Advisory Council; regent of the Smithsonian; co-chairman of Brookings Institution; vice chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations; president of the Economic Club of Washington; and board member of University of Chicago, National Gallery of Art, Institute for Advanced Study, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Johns Hopkins Medicine.

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ROBERT RUBIN Robert Rubin is a senior counselor at

KAI RYSSDAL is the host and senior editor of the radio

Centerview Partners and co-founder of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project at Brookings Institution. He was previously a senior advisor and board member of Citigroup; US treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999; assistant to President Clinton for economic policy and director of the then-new National Economic Council; a senior executive at Goldman, Sachs & Company; and an attorney in private practice. Rubin is co-author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee at Mount Sinai Health System, and chairman of the board of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation.

program “Marketplace,” the most widely heard program on business and the economy in the country. He speaks regularly with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, start-up entrepreneurs, small-business owners, and everyday participants in the American and global economies. Ryssdal first came to “Marketplace” in 2001 as the host of “Marketplace Morning Report,” where he covered the economic aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the collapse of Enron, the slow buildup to the housing crash, the financial crisis, and the Great Recession. Before his career in broadcasting, he served in the US Navy and the US Foreign Service. @kairyssdal

MALIKA SAADA SAAR is Google’s senior counsel on

RICARDO SALINAS is president of Grupo Salinas, a group of companies in finance, retail, telecommunications, and media. He founded Fundación Azteca, a nonprofit organization with a focus on health, nutrition, education, and the environment. Other Grupo Salinas initiatives seeking to build a better society are Kybernus, Fomento Cultural Grupo Salinas, Ciudad de las Ideas, and Caminos de la Libertad. Salinas has spoken at World Economic Forum, the Young Presidents Organization, The Economist Roundtable on Mexico, Institute of the Americas, UCLA, TED, and Harvard Business School on globalization, education, and entrepreneurship. He writes about corporate, political, economic, and cultural issues in his blog at The Huffington Post, Newsweek, and La Opinión.

civil and human rights. She co-founded and was executive director of the Human Rights Project for Girls and was special counsel on human rights at The Raben Group. Saada Saar led the effort to shut down Craigslist sex ads that trafficked children and ended the federal practice of shackling pregnant mothers in prisons. Newsweek and the Daily Beast have named her one of 150 Women Who Shake the World, and she has been honored by Brown University and Georgetown Law Center. She serves on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and the board of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights.

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RICARDO SALVADOR is a senior scientist and director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Before coming to UCS, he was a program officer for food, health, and well-being with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Prior to that, he was an associate professor of agronomy at Iowa State University, where he taught the first course in sustainable agriculture at a land-grant university. He also worked with students to establish ISU’s student-operated organic farm and with other faculty to develop the nation’s first sustainable agriculture graduate program in 2000. Salvador was named a 2013 NBC Latino Innovator and received the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2014. @cadwego

JUDITH SAMUELSON is founder and executive direc-

M. SANJAYAN is executive vice president and senior scientist at Conservation International. A global conservation scientist, writer, and news contributor specializing in the role of conservation in saving people and nature, he co-hosted PBS and BBC’s “Big Blue Live,” hosted PBS and National Geographic’s “Earth, a New Wild,” and contributed to Showtime’s “Years of Living Dangerously.” Sanjayan has appeared on “The Today Show” and “The Late Show with David Letterman” and was named to Men’s Journal’s list of the 50 Most Adventurous Men in 2015. He is a Disneynature Ambassador, Catto Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a Clinton Global Initiative Advisor, and sits on National Geographic Society’s Explorers Council. @msanjayan

DAN SAVAGE is a writer, TV personality, and activist

tor of the Business and Society Program at the Aspen Institute, which employs dialogue, teaching, and research to explore issues at the intersection of business and society. Programs include the Corporate Values Strategy Group, Beyond Grey Pinstripes global report card and database on business education, First Movers Fellowship, Aspen Center for Business Education, and CasePlace.org, a resource for teaching faculty on environment, social impacts, and governance practices of business. Samuelson’s work experience spans the business, government, and nonprofit sectors. Previously, she served as director of the Office of Program-Related Investments at the Ford Foundation and helped launch the Corporate Involvement Initiative, encouraging private-nonprofit partnerships.

best known for his political and social commentary and his syndicated sex advice column, Savage Love. Since 2006, he has also recorded the “Savage Lovecast” podcast. Savage is editorial director of The Stranger, Seattle’s weekly alternative newspaper, and author of several books, including Savage Love, The Kid, Skipping Towards Gomorrah, The Commitment, and American Savage. In 2010, he created a YouTube video with his husband Terry Miller in response to a number of students taking their own lives. This turned into the It Gets Better Project, which has inspired more than 50,000 videos viewed over 50 million times.

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ORVILLE SCHELL is the Arthur Ross director of the

LAURA SECOR is a journalist and the author of Children

Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. The author of 15 books and a contributor to numerous edited volumes, Schell’s most recent book is Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twentyfirst Century. He contributes to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The China Quarterly, and The New York Review of Books. A fellow at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, senior fellow at Annenberg School of Communications, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Schell is a recipient of the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism.

of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and other publications. Secor has been a staff editor for The New York Times op-ed page, a staff reporter at The Boston Globe’s Ideas section, deputy editor of The American Prospect, and senior editor at Lingua Franca. She was a fellow at New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers from 2008 to 2009 and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2009 and 2014. Secor has taught journalism at NYU and at Princeton.

TINA SEELIG is Professor of the Practice in the Management Science and Engineering Department and a faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program at Stanford University School of Engineering. At Stanford, she teaches courses and leads three fellowship programs focused on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Seelig has also been a management consultant and entrepreneur. She is the author of 17 books, including Insight Out (2016), inGenius (2012), and What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 (2009). She is the recipient of the Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, the Olympus Innovation Award, and the Silicon Valley Visionary Award. @tseelig

ADAM SEGAL is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at Council on Foreign Relations. He was previously an arms control analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists’ China Project. Segal has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, MIT’s Center for International Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has taught at Vassar College and Columbia University. Segal is the author of The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age; Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge; and Digital Dragon.

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LINA SERGIE ATTAR is co-founder and CEO of Karam

MARIELA SHAKER is a Syrian violinist using her music

Foundation. A Syrian-American architect and writer from Aleppo, she co-developed the foundation’s Innovative Education initiatives and leadership program and travels to the Syria-Turkey border to run its Smart Aid programs. She has been published in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Foreign Policy and appeared on CNN, BBC News, and NPR. Sergie Attar has spoken about the Syrian humanitarian crisis at institutions in the United States and the Middle East. She is a co-founder of the How Many More? project, serves on the board of directors of The Syria Campaign, and was named one of GOOD magazine’s 2016 GOOD 100.

to build bridges for and raise awareness of the plight of the Syrian people. As civil war escalated in 2013, she received a scholarship to Monmouth College, applied for asylum in the United States, and was unable to return to Syria. Pursuing a master’s in music performance at DePaul University, Shaker has performed at the Kennedy Center, for members of Congress, and was honored at the White House as a champion of change on refugee issues. She recently performed and spoke at the United Nations in Geneva and has been profiled by The Huffington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post.

JAMES “JIM” SHELTON is president of the Chan Zuckerberg Education Initiative. He was most recently president and chief impact officer of 2U, Inc. Previously, Shelton was a deputy secretary at the US Department of Education and head of its Office of Innovation and Improvement, managing a portfolio that included most of the department’s competitive programs, including i3 and Promise Neighborhoods. He has been program director for education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, East Coast lead for NewSchools Venture Fund, and co-founder of school management company LearnNow. He launched, acquired, and operated education-related businesses with Knowledge Universe Inc. and was a senior manager at McKinsey & Company’s Atlanta office.

JON SHENK is a founder, director, and producer at Actual Films. A member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences, he has produced and photographed dozens of documentaries for PBS, BBC, A&E, Bravo, CBS, NBC, and National Geographic. His features include The Island President and Lost Boys of Sudan. As a first-time filmmaker, he chronicled George Lucas and the making of Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace in the documentary The Beginning. Previously, Shenk was a documentary producer and director at Lucasfilm and JAK Films. His films have won an Emmy Award and the Independent Spirit Award and Best Documentary at Toronto International Film Festival.

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ELIZABETH SHERWOOD-RANDALL is the US depu-

MINA SHERZOY is an international development spe-

ty secretary of energy, whose priorities include ensuring nuclear security, combating climate change and promoting clean energy solutions, advancing energy grid resilience, and generating US economic opportunity through innovation. She joined the Obama administration in 2009 as special assistant to the president on the National Security Council, serving first as senior director for European Affairs and subsequently as White House coordinator for defense policy, countering weapons of mass destruction, and arms control. In the Clinton administration, she served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. Sherwood-Randall previously worked at Stanford University, Harvard University, and at the Council on Foreign Relations.

cialist with expertise in economic empowerment, capacity building, entrepreneurship, and gender equality. Since 2011, she has directed the USAID Promote Women in Government program. Previously, Sherzoy held leadership roles at Chemonics International, where she led the Financial Access for Investing in Development of Afghanistan project. Prior to Chemonics, she held consulting, advising, and program management positions with Deloitte, supporting USAID-funded government, NGO, and private-sector initiatives—notably, founding the Afghan Women Business Federation, Afghanistan’s first business federation for women. She is a member of the South Asian Women Network and US-Afghan Women Council and volunteers for the US Institute of Peace.

TIMOTHY SHRIVER is chairman of Special Olympics. An educator focused on social and emotional factors of learning, he co-founded and currently chairs the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning. In 1987, he created the country’s first school-based primary prevention program in New Haven, CT. The Social Development Department featured a K-12 social and emotional learning curriculum, the Extended Day Academy, a parent-education program, and a mental health team. He discovered the link between emotion, relationships, and learning while studying child development at Yale Child Study Center. Shriver is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, author of Fully Alive, producer of four films, and recipient of several honors.

FORREST SILL is a third-year computer science major at the University of Chicago and an editor in chief of The Chicago Maroon, the independent student newspaper at the University of Chicago since 1892. He joined the paper as a web developer during his first year and was promoted to multimedia editor before being elected one of the paper’s two editors in chief in the winter of 2016. Sill is interested in the intersection of journalism and technology and how the industry can meet the demands of modern consumers. He is also currently working in software development and is digital director of University of Chicago Students for Hillary.

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PAUL SINGER is a hedge fund manager, activist investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and president of Elliott Management Corporation, a New York-based trading firm recognized by The Wall Street Journal for its early forecasting of the systemic economic crisis of 2008. Singer is co-founder of Start-Up Nation Central, an organization inspired by the book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. Widely recognized for his advocacy for LGBT equality causes, he has been a driving force in New York State’s push for gay marriage. He serves on the boards of Harvard Medical School and Commentary magazine, and is chairman of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

DAVID SKORTON is secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, a position he has held since July 2015 and the first physician to serve in the role. He was previously president of Cornell University for nine years. Prior to that, he was president of University of Iowa for three years and a faculty member for 26 years, co-founding and co-directing the University of Iowa Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic. Skorton was also charter president of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has served on several boards and committees. @Smithsonian

ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER is president and CEO

ANNA DEAVERE SMITH is University Professor at

of New America and Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009 to 2011, she was the first woman policy planning director at the US State Department. Previously, she was dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and an international law professor at Harvard Law School. Slaughter has written or edited seven books, including Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family and A New World Order. She contributes to many publications, including Financial Times and The Atlantic, for which she wrote “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” in 2012, the most read article in its history. @SlaughterAM

New York University, where she directs the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue. An actress, playwright, and teacher, she has appeared in “Nurse Jackie,” “Black-ish,” and “The West Wing”; created the one-person shows Twilight: Los Angeles and Let Me Down Easy; and authored Letters to a Young Artist and Talk to Me.A MacArthur Fellow, she was the 2015 Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities and received the 2013 National Humanities Medal from President Obama. She sits on the boards of trustees for the American Museum of National History, Aspen Institute, and Museum of Modern Art in New York. @AnnaDeavereS

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CLINT SMITH is a teacher, writer, and doctoral candidate in education at Harvard University. A National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, his research interests include mass incarceration, race, and inequality. Previously, he taught high school English in Prince George’s County, MD where the Maryland Humanities Council named him 2013 Teacher of the Year. Smith is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion, an Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, and his writing has been published in the The New Yorker, The Guardian, and American Literary Review. His TED Talks, The Danger of Silence and How to Raise a Black Son in America, collectively have been viewed more than four million times. @ClintSmithIII

JASON SMITH is director of Rock Bottom Ranch,a 113-

KIM A. SNYDER is a filmmaker and director of the

MERCY SOMBILLA is director of agriculture, natural resources, and environment at the National Development Office of Planning in the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) in the Philippines. NEDA is the country’s independent economic development and planning agency. Prior to NEDA, Sombilla was manager of the Research and Development Department at the Southeast Asian Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA). She has also worked with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

documentary film, Newtown, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and is being theatrically released in September 2016, with a national broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens series in late 2016. Snyder’s last feature documentary is Welcome to Shelbyville, also broadcast on Independent Lens. In 2007, Snyder co-founded the BeCause Foundation to direct and produce socially conscious documentaries, many of which have won awards, with campaigns furthering the work of the social innovators they highlight. Snyder’s award-winning directorial debut feature documentary, I Remember Me, was released in 2000. In 1994, she associate produced the Academy Award-winning short film Trevor.

acre farm operated by the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, an environmental science education organization. He took the helm in 2013, and in 2015 the ranch produced nearly 27,000 pounds of food including poultry, lamb, pork, eggs, and over 100 varieties of vegetables. Involved with food and restaurants his whole life, Smith had worked in the kitchen at The Little Nell in Aspen under Chef Ryan Hardy, where he became passionate about sourcing local food and interested in sustainable agriculture. In 2010, he enrolled in a sustainable agriculture program in North Carolina, and later started a farm there with his wife, Sarah.

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ANDREW ROSS SORKIN is co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” a financial columnist for The New York Times, and founder and editor at large of DealBook, published by the Times. His best-selling book, Too Big to Fail, about the 2008 financial crisis, won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book and was adapted into a movie, co-produced by Sorkin, that was nominated for eleven Emmy Awards. Having broken news on many major mergers and acquisitions, Sorkin has won numerous awards for his writing and was named to Vanity Fair’s Next Establishment list in 2008 and 2009. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. @andrewrsorkin

MICHAEL SORRELL is president of Paul Quinn College, a position he has held since 2007. He previously was a public affairs consultant, special assistant in President Clinton’s executive office, and a lawyer. Sorrell is a trustee or director of Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, the College Board, Amegy Bank, Teach for America, Earth Day Texas, Dallas Regional Chamber, and the Dallas Foundation. His honors include the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Award from the Dallas Bar Association, 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, 2012 HBCU Male President of the Year, and one of Washington Monthly’s 10 Most Innovative College Presidents.

PAMELA STARR is director of the US-Mexico Network and an associate professor of international relations and public diplomacy at University of Southern California (USC). She is also a consultant for ManattJones Global Strategies. Prior to joining USC, Starr was a senior Latin America analyst at the Eurasia Group and a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Published widely on Mexican politics, economic and foreign policy, and US-Mexico relations, she speaks on these issues and has advised high-ranking government officials on both sides of the border, including the US secretary of state, Mexican foreign minister, US ambassadors to Mexico, and Mexican ambassadors to the United States.

MICHAEL STEELE is founder and CEO of The Steele Group and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, from 2009 to 2011. A political analyst for MSNBC, he co-hosts “Steele and Ungar” on SiriusXM’s POTUS Channel, contributes to Fox News, and regularly hosts the Salem Radio Network’s “Morning in America Show.” Steele was previously lieutenant governor of Maryland, chairman of GOPAC, and held posts on the National Federal Election Reform Commission and NAACP Blue Ribbon Commission on Election Reform. He authored Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda and is a fellow of the Aspen Institute Rodel program and University of Chicago Institute of Politics. @MichaelSteele

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JAMES STEINBERG is University Professor of Social

LAURENCE STEINBERG is the Distinguished Univer-

Science, International Affairs, and Law at Syracuse University, where he was dean of the Maxwell School from 2011 to June 2016. Steinberg was previously principal deputy secretary of state for Hillary Clinton, dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, vice president and foreign policy studies director at Brookings Institution, President Clinton’s deputy national security advisor, director of the State Department’s policy planning staff, and deputy assistant secretary for analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He co-authored Strategic Reassurance and Resolve: US-China Relations in the 21st Century and Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power.

sity Professor of Psychology at Temple University. His research includes adolescent brain and psychological development, risk-taking and decision-making, family and peer relationships, and school achievement. The author of 400 articles and essays on teenage development, Steinberg has written or edited 17 books, including The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting, the college textbook Adolescence, and Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence. He has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and appeared on NPR. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. @ldsteinberg

RICHARD STENGEL is US under secretary of state for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, providing global strategic leadership in these fields and overseeing the Global Engagement Center and bureaus of Educational and Cultural Affairs, International Information Programs, and Public Affairs. Previously, he was managing editor of TIME, and before that, president and CEO of National Constitution Center. Author of several books including Mandela’s Way and January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, a South African Town, Stengel worked with Nelson Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and associate produced the documentary Mandela. He received an Emmy for his work as executive producer on TIME’s Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience.

ALAN STERN is a planetary scientist and aerospace consultant. He leads NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto, is associate vice president at Southwest Research Institute, chief scientist of World View and Florida Space Institute, and CEO of Uwingu and The Golden Spike Company. Stern’s consulting clients include Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, and Naveen Jain’s Moon Express Google Lunar XPRIZE team. He was previously director of Florida Space Institute, chief scientist and mission architect for Moon Express, and NASA’s chief of science missions. Author of two books, Stern was named to the TIME 100 list in 2007 and serves on the Commercial Spaceflight Federation board. @AlanStern

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ANDY STERN is a senior fellow at Columbia University. In 2010, he retired as president of the Service Employees International Union, which grew by 1.2 million workers during his 14-year tenure, and where he led a five-year campaign that ended with the passage of Obamacare. Stern was a presidential appointee on the Simpson-Bowles Commission. Named a Fox Power Player of the Week, he has been featured on “60 Minutes,” CNN, and the covers of the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and Business Week. He authored A Country That Works and Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Restore the American Dream. @AndyStern_DC

JESSICA STERN is a research professor at Boston

OLIVIA STERNS is the business and technology correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, working the consumer beat to help people save money and time through her recurring series “The Price You Pay” and “Good Cents.” Dispatched to Paris and Brussels to cover the financial impact of global terrorism, Sterns’s stories appear on all platforms, including “Today,” “Nightly News with Lester Holt,” MSNBC, and NBCNews.com. Prior to joining NBC, she worked for Bloomberg Television, co-anchoring “Bloomberg Surveillance” and covering business and economics. Previously, Sterns hosted “Inside De Beers,” a Netflix special tracking the journey of diamonds from Botswana to Bond Street, and worked at CNN International and ABC News.

BRYAN STEVENSON is executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, which he founded in 1989. An acclaimed public interest lawyer who previously worked for the Southern Center for Human Rights, he has dedicated his career to helping the poor, incarcerated, and condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, and confronting abuse of the incarcerated and mentally ill. EJI recently won a historic ruling in the US Supreme Court holding that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children 17 or younger are unconstitutional. Stevenson is the author of the New York Times best-seller, Just Mercy. @eji_org

University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and a fellow at Hoover Institution and Harvard’s School of Public Health. She advises government agencies on issues related to terrorism. Stern taught at Harvard University from 1999 to 2015 and served on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff in 1994 and 1995. Her books include ISIS: The State of Terror; Denial: A Memoir of Terror; Terror in the Name of God; and The Ultimate Terrorists. Stern was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on trauma and terror, and TIME magazine included her in a 2001 series profiling 100 people with bold ideas. @jessicaEstern

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GEOFFREY STONE is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law at University of Chicago, where he was provost from 1993 to 2002 and law school dean from 1987 to 1993. Stone authored or co-authored many books on constitutional law, including Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, which received eight national book awards, and the forthcoming Sexing the Constitution. In 2013, he served on the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, appointed by President Obama to evaluate the NSA’s surveillance programs. In 2014, Stone chaired a faculty committee that drafted a Statement on Free Expression for the University of Chicago, which has since been adopted by other universities.

SCOTT STOSSEL is editor of The Atlantic. He joined the magazine in 1992 when he helped launch The Atlantic Online, and in 1996 he moved to The American Prospect where he served as associate editor, executive editor, and culture editor. Author of the New York Times best-seller My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind and the award-winning Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, Stossel has taught in the American Studies Department at Trinity College. In 2014, he was awarded the Voices of Mental Health Award by the Jed Foundation and the Erik Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.

TRISTRAM STUART is an author, speaker, campaigner, and expert on environmental and social impacts of food production. His books include The Bloodless Revolution and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. Stuart is founder of environmental campaigning organization Feedback and has spread its work into dozens of countries to change society’s attitude toward wasting food. He received the international environmental award, The Sophie Prize, in 2011. An Ashoka Fellow, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a Champion 12.3 for the UN Sustainable Development Goal of halving food waste and reducing food loss globally by 2030, Stuart launched Toast Ale in 2016 with profits going to Feedback.

CASS SUNSTEIN is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. From 2013 to 2014, he served on the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies. From 2009 to 2012, he was administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Sunstein was on the faculty at University of Chicago Law School from 1981 to 2008 and an attorney-advisor in the US Justice Department Office of the Legal Counsel prior to that. He has authored hundreds of articles and many books, including Republic. com, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, and his two latest, The World According to Star Wars and The Ethics of Influence. @CassSunstein

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SARAH SZE is a New York City-based contemporary

MICHAEL TAYLOR is a senior fellow at Freedman

artist. In 2013, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, where she also participated in 2015. Sze has had solo exhibitions at Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Asia Society, New York; Malmo Konsthall, Sweden; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Institute of Contemporary Art in London. Her work is included in permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art, and others. Sze was a 2003 John and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow. In 2016, Phaidon will publish a monograph of her work.

Consulting, focused on building public-private partnerships to improve food safety and food security. Until May 2016, he was deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at the US Food and Drug Administration, which he rejoined in 2009 as a staff attorney; from 1991 to 1994, he was deputy policy commissioner. Between his FDA tenures, Taylor conducted public health policy research and was a senior fellow at the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa. Previously, he was administrator of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, a partner at King & Spalding, and vice president for public policy at Monsanto.

MARK TERCEK is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. He is the author of The Washington Post and Publisher’s Weekly best-selling book Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. In 2012, Tercek was appointed to the New York State 2100 Commission, created in Superstorm Sandy’s wake to advise the governor on making the state’s infrastructure more resilient to future storms. A former managing director and partner at Goldman Sachs, he serves the boards or councils of Resources for the Future and Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the advisory board for Harvard Business School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. @marktercek

GILLIAN TETT is US managing editor of Financial Times, where she also writes weekly columns. Past roles at the paper have included assistant editor, capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels. Tett received the 2014 Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards, which had previously awarded her Journalist of the Year. Other honors include a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for best feature article and the President’s Medal by the British Academy. Her latest book is The Silo Effect; her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year in 2009. @gilliantett

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EVAN THOMAS is a journalist and author of nine books, including two—John Paul Jones and Sea of Thunder—New York Times bestsellers. He was a writer, correspondent, and editor for 33 years at TIME and Newsweek, including ten years as Washington bureau chief at Newsweek, from which he retired in 2010. Thomas wrote more than 100 cover stories, the election specials from 1996 to 2008, and won two National Magazine Awards. He taught writing and journalism at Harvard and Princeton, where, from 2007 to 2014, he was Ferris Professor of Journalism. Thomas has appeared on many TV and radio shows, including PBS’s “Charlie Rose” more than 40 times.

MATT THOMPSON is deputy editor of The Atlantic, which he joined in January 2015. Previously, he spent five years at NPR, where as director of vertical initiatives, he launched and supervised teams of broadcast and digital journalists covering race, ethnicity and culture, education, and global health and development. He also worked with member stations on editorial strategy, coached and edited beat reporters, and co-authored the NPR Ethics Handbook. Prior to NPR, Thompson worked for the Knight Foundation, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Fresno Bee, and the Poynter Institute. He is the vice-chairman of the board of the Center for Public Integrity and a co-founder of Spark Camp. @mthomps

DEREK THOMPSON is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, technology, and pop culture for the magazine and the website. He is the author of the 2015 cover story, “A World Without Work,” and an expert on millennials. A news analyst on NPR’s “Here and Now,” he appears regularly on television, including CBS, CNBC, and MSNBC. Thompson is currently working on a book about the economics and psychology behind hits in pop culture. In 2012, he appeared in FOLIO: magazine’s 15 Under 30, was one of Min’s People to Watch, and his blog was named one to follow by Reuters’ Counterparties blog, newsletter, and website. @DKThomp

NINA TOTENBERG is NPR’s legal affairs correspondent, since 1975. Her reports, including coverage of the US Supreme Court, air regularly on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. In 1991, Totenberg’s breaking story of sexual harassment allegations against Judge Clarence Thomas led the Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to consider Anita Hill’s charges. For that report and subsequent coverage, she earned several awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award. Totenberg appears often on television and is a frequent contributor to publications including The New York Times Magazine and Harvard Law Review. Early in her career, she wrote for the New Times and National Observer.

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REBECCA TRAISTER is a writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. She is the author of the New York Times best-seller All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation and of Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election That Changed Everything for American Women, a New York Times Notable Book of 2010 and the winner of the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize. Traister writes about women in politics, media, and entertainment from a feminist perspective and has also written for The New Republic, Salon.com, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. @rtraister

SYDNEY TRATTNER is a producer, director, and writer. She is currently senior producer and part of the creative team of the documentary series “Years of Living Dangerously,” the National Geographic Channel’s Emmy Award-winning exploration of the global impacts of climate change and solutions to combat them. For the program’s first season, she produced and directed Michael C. Hall’s examination of how climate change and sea-level rise are displacing tens of thousands of residents in low-lying Bangladesh. Trattner previously spent a decade in broadcast journalism at “CBS News” and “60 Minutes.” Her documentaries and segments have appeared on CBS, HBO, PBS, MSNBC, History Channel, and Al Jazeera.

SOL TRUJILLO is chairman of Trujillo Group Invest-

NICHOLAS TURNER is president of the Vera Institute,

ments. A business executive with three decades’ experience as CEO, he has led Australian telecom company Telstra (2005-2009), French telecommunications corporation Orange (2003-2004), and US West Communications (1995-2000), among others. Trujillo was an early champion of high-speed broadband and the mobile Internet. He was a trade policy advisor in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Trujillo sits on corporate boards in the United States, European Union, and China, including WPP Group, Silk Road Technologies, Target, and Promerica Bank. He is co-founder of the Latino Donor Collaborative of US Latino business leaders, and has spoken about it on TV and in print publications.

whose core priorities are ending misuse of jails, transforming conditions of confinement, and ensuring that justice systems more effectively serve American minority communities. He came to Vera in 2013 from the Rockefeller Foundation, where he was a managing director. Turner was previously a chief program officer at Vera and an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He has written several op-eds, including “The Steep Cost of America’s High Incarceration Rate” in The Wall Street Journal. He serves on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and New York City’s Children’s Cabinet Advisory Board.

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ROBERTA UNO is director of Arts in a Changing America, based at California Institute of the Arts. She was an arts and culture program officer at the Ford Foundation from 2002 to 2015. From 1979 to 2002, she was founder and artistic director of New WORLD Theater, dedicated to the work of artists of color at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a professor of directing and dramaturgy in the UMass Theater Department. Uno’s publications include The Color of Theater: Race, Culture, and Contemporary Performance and Unbroken Thread: Plays by Asian American Women. Recipient of numerous awards, she was inducted into the College of American Theater Fellows in 2014. @roberta_uno

JASON VAN GENDEREN is an award-winning filmmaker, known as the “filmbreaker,” and one of the world’s leading pocket filmmakers. In 2008, he made a short film, Mankind Is No Island, on a mobile phone at a cost of $57; it won over $35,000 in prizes globally. His work has been presented at Tropfest NY, Aspen Shortsfest, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, and Sundance London. Largely documentary based, his short mobile films have also found homes in the Australian National Film and Sound Archive and the Smithsonian Institute. In 2015, Van Genderen established the Pocket Film Academy. He has numerous directing, producing, cinematography, screenwriting, and editing credits.

CYRUS VANCE JR. is the New York County district

ARTURO VARGAS is executive director of the National

attorney, a position to which he was elected in 2009, and co-founder of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence. His office recovered nearly $12 billion through settlements with banks that violated US sanctions, and through funds from those cases made investments in criminal justice initiatives including the testing of backlogged rape kits and addressing mental and behavioral health issues in the criminal justice system. Vance is a leader in addressing the issue of race in the criminal justice system. He was previously in private practice in New York City and Seattle, and taught trial advocacy at Seattle University School of Law.

Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), a membership organization, and of the NALEO Educational Fund, a national nonprofit that promotes full participation of Latinos in civic life. He has held both positions since 1994. Vargas previously had various positions at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, including vice president for community education and public policy. Before joining MALDEF, he was the senior education policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza. Vargas is a nationally recognized expert in Latino demographic trends, electoral participation, voting rights, the Census, and redistricting.

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JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS is a journalist and media publisher whose work centers on changing American identity. He founded Define American, a media and culture organization that seeks to elevate the conversation around American immigration and citizenship, and is founder and editor of the digital platform #EmergingUS. Vargas wrote, directed, and produced the autobiographical 2013 film, Documented, and revealed himself as an undocumented immigrant in a 2011 New York Times Magazine essay to advocate for the DREAM Act. He has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Daily News, Huffington Post, and The Washington Post, where his team won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. @joseiswriting

ROBERTO “TAZ” VILLASEÑOR is principal consultant for 21CP Solutions and former chief of the Tucson Police Department, from which he retired in 2015 after a 35-year career. Villaseñor served or commanded every division and bureau, including chief for six-plus years, patrol, investigations, internal affairs, bike patrol, PIO, hostage negotiations, community policing, and communications. His service also included the Arizona HIDTA, Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Executive Research Forum Executive Board, and Customs and Border Protection Ethics and Integrity Advisory Panel. In 2014, Villaseñor was appointed to the President’s National Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and in 2015, he was appointed to the Arizona Criminal Justice Council.

LYNN VAVRECK is a professor of political science and communication studies at UCLA and contributing columnist to The Upshot at The New York Times. She teaches and writes about campaigns, elections, and public opinion. She held previous appointments at Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and the White House. Vavreck has published four books, including The Message Matters and The Gamble, an account of the 2012 election. The National Science Foundation supported her research, and she served on advisory boards of British and American national election studies. In 2014, she interviewed Hillary Clinton for UCLA’s Luskin Lecture on Thought Leadership. In 2015, she was named an inaugural Andrew F. Carnegie Fellow. @vavreck

RAJIV VINNAKOTA is executive vice president of the Youth & Engagement division at the Aspen Institute, a new venture focusing on youth leadership development, civic engagement, and social justice. Previously, he co-founded and was CEO of The SEED Foundation, a national network of public, college-preparatory boarding schools for underserved children, where he remains on the board. Vinnakota is a board director for Colfax Corporation and The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, a founding board member of Path Forward, and an Echoing Green and Ashoka fellow. In 2009, he received the Woodrow Wilson Award, the highest honor that Princeton bestows on an undergraduate alumnus.

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ALEX WAGNER is a senior editor at The Atlantic. Previously, she hosted MSNBC’s Emmy-nominated “NOW with Alex Wagner” and was a frequent guest host on MSNBC prime-time shows including “All In with Chris Hayes” and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” Wagner’s publishing career also includes working as a reporter with Huffington Post, as White House correspondent for Politics Daily, and as editor in chief of the award-winning Fader Magazine. From 2007 to 2009, she was executive director of Not on Our Watch, an advocacy and grant-making nonprofit. Early in her career, she was the cultural correspondent for the think tank Center for American Progress.

JANE WALES is vice president of philanthropy and society of the Aspen Institute and executive director of its Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation. She is founder and CEO of the Global Philanthropy Forum, president of the World Affairs Council, and hosts “World Affairs” on NPR. She was previously acting CEO of The Elders and held senior positions in the Clinton and Carter administrations, including senior director of the National Security Council and deputy assistant secretary of state. Wales chaired international security programs at Carnegie Corporation and the W. Alton Jones Foundation and directed the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Project on World Security.

JIM WALLIS is president and founder of Sojourners, a nonprofit faith-based organization for social justice. He is editor in chief of Sojourners magazine and website, a public theologian, national preacher, social activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life. Wallis has written a dozen books, including, most recently, America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America; The (Un)Common Good; and the best-sellers God’s Politics and The Great Awakening. He teaches at Georgetown University and has taught at Harvard. Wallis served on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and chaired the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum. @jimwallis

STEUART WALTON is a board member of the Walton Family Foundation and CEO of Game Composites, a company he founded in 2013 that designs and builds small composite aircraft. He previously worked for the London office of Allen & Overy, LLP, handling matters related to debt equity offerings by non-US entities, and for Walmart’s international division focusing on mergers and acquisitions. Walton has also worked in a law firm in Santiago, Chile, and for the office of former US senator Peter Fitzgerald. He serves on the boards of directors of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Leadership for Educational Equity, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

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MARK WARNER is the senior senator from Virginia, elected in 2008. A Democrat, he serves on the Banking, Budget, Finance, and Intelligence committees. Warner was governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006, during which time Virginia was ranked as the best state for business, the best managed state, and the best state in which to receive a public education. The first in his family to graduate from college, Warner spent 20 years as a technology and business leader. As an early investor in the cellular telephone business, he co-founded the company that became Nextel and invested in hundreds of start-up technology companies that created tens of thousands of jobs. @markwarner

VIN WEBER is a partner of Mercury, providing strategic advice to institutions with matters before the federal government, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, crisis management, strategic communications, and international strategies. Weber represented Minnesota’s 2nd congressional district in the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993, and was a member of the Appropriations Committee and the House Republican leadership. Weber was previously a senior aide to a senator, press secretary for a congressman, and president of Weber Publishing Company. A Republican Party strategist, he maintains strong bipartisan relationships. Weber serves on the boards of several think tanks and organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Institute.

HEATHER WATTS is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She joined New York City Ballet (NYCB) in 1970, and was one of the last of the Balanchine ballerinas. Watts worked closely with Balanchine and Jerome Robbins at NYCB, retiring from the stage in 1995, and has created academic courses on Balanchine’s life and work at Harvard University, was a visiting lecturer in Dance at Princeton University, and has led residencies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Watts was a fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU in 2014 and is currently an affiliate fellow there. Her numerous awards include a doctorate honoris causa from Hunter College.

KARI WEIL is University Professor and director of the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. She has published numerous essays on literary representations of gender, French feminism, and, more recently, on theories and representations of animal otherness and human-animal relations. Weil is the author of Androgyny and the Denial of Difference, published in 1992, and Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now, published in 2012, which examines the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species. Her current project is tentatively titled Meat, Motion, Magnetism: Horses and Their Humans in 19th Century France. Her course, Animal Subjects, won the Best Course Award from the US Humane Society.

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MARK WEINBERGER is global chairman and CEO of EY. He was assistant treasury secretary for tax policy for President George W. Bush, and President Clinton appointed him to the Social Security Advisory Board. He was chief of staff of the 1994 Presidential Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, advisor to the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, and on the National Commission on Retirement Policy. Weinberger is a World Economic Forum International Business Council member, co-chairs the Russia Foreign Investment Advisory Council, chairs the US Business Roundtable Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee, and sits on the boards of Catalyst, Emory University, and Case Western Reserve University. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

LUCAS WELCH is executive director of the Pluribus Project, an Aspen Institute initiative dedicated to cultivating the political power of the many. His primary focus is catalyzing targeted innovation to influence how political campaigns are run and won so that our elected officials are more incentivized to advance broad public interests. Previously, Welch founded Soliya, an international nonprofit that pioneered virtual exchange programs among over 100 universities in Western and Muslim-majority countries. Soliya played a central role in inspiring the recent establishment of the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative, a multilateral public-private endeavor increasing people-to-people educational exchanges between the United States and the Middle East.

RANDI WEINGARTEN is president of the American Federation of Teachers, a union of 1.6 million professionals. She was elected in 2008, following twelve years as president of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers. Weingarten served on New York Governor Cuomo’s education reform commission in 2012 and 2013 and on the Equity and Excellence Commission chartered by Congress. The New York Observer in 2013 named her one of the most influential New Yorkers of the past 25 years, and Washington Life included her on its 2013 Power 100 list. Weingarten’s column “What Matters Most” appears in the New York Times’ Sunday Review. (Festival Underwriter Presenter) @rweingarten

ROXANE WHITE is president and CEO of Nurse-Family Partnership, which focuses on low-income, first-time mothers in 43 states and six tribal nations. Skilled in management of large, complex organizations and focused on outcomes, she was previously chief of staff in the mayoral and gubernatorial offices of John Hickenlooper. Prior to that, White was head of the Denver Department of Human Services and Medicaid. Recognized in Colorado and in California for her commitment to high-risk families, she was named a 2015 Aspen Ascend Fellow and recently was selected to participate in the Urban Institute US Poverty/ Mobility Partnership Group. White is a board member of Rose Community Foundation and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

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LEON WIESELTIER is the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic. From 1983 to 2014, he was literary editor of The New Republic. Wieseltier is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, including Kaddish, a 2000 National Book Award finalist. He has written many widely published essays on a broad variety of subjects, including technology and culture, foreign policy and the spread of democracy, the refugee crisis, the ethics of interventionism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Middle East, and religion and politics. In 2013, Wieseltier was awarded the Dan David Prize.

THOMAS J. WILSON is chairman and CEO of The

PETER WITTIG is the German ambassador to the United

ANDREW WITTY is CEO of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),

States. Prior to this, he was German ambassador to the United Nations and represented Germany during its tenure as a member of the UN Security Council in 2011 and 2012. He previously served as director general for United Nations and Global Issues at the German foreign office in Berlin. Wittig joined the German Foreign Service in 1982 and has served at the embassy in Madrid, as private secretary to the foreign minister, and as ambassador in Lebanon and in Cyprus. He was the German government’s special envoy on the division of Cyprus and has extensive knowledge of the Middle East.

since 2008. He joined Glaxo in 1985 and has held a variety of sales and marketing roles in the United Kingdom and abroad, including in the company’s international new products groups in the respiratory and HIV/infectious disease fields. He has been senior vice president, Asia Pacific and president of GSK Europe. Witty has advised numerous national governments and was a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group from 2010 to 2015. He was awarded a knighthood for services to the economy and appointed a business ambassador for the UK government. He is a member of the China-Britain Business Council Advisory Council.

Allstate Corporation, where he has held a number of senior executive positions since 1995. Prior to joining Allstate, Wilson was a vice president at Sears, Roebuck and Co., managing director of mergers and acquisitions at Dean Witter Reynolds, and held financial positions at Amoco Corporation. He serves on the boards of State Street Corporation, Financial Services Roundtable, US Chamber of Commerce, and Catalyst. Wilson is a trustee of Rush University Medical Center and the Museum of Science and Industry. Passionate about empowering young people, he co-chairs Get IN Chicago, WE Day, and Free the Children 20th Anniversary Challenge. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

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DAMIAN WOETZEL is director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program, artistic director of the Vail International Dance Festival, and director of the DEMO series at the Kennedy Center, which he launched in fall 2015. A retired dancer, he is also an independent director and producer whose recent projects have included the award-winning show Lil Buck @ Le Poisson Rouge, tributes to ballerinas Natalia Makarova and Patricia McBride, and events and collaborations with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In 2009, President Obama appointed Woetzel to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, where he helped to create the national Turnaround Arts program. In 2015, he was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal.

JOSEPHINE WOLFF is an assistant professor in Rochester Institute of Technology’s Public Policy Department and an extended faculty member of the Computing Security Department. She is a faculty associate at Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative. She researches cybersecurity policy and is working on a project about cybersecurity incidents in the past decade, tracing their economic and legal aftermath and their impact on technical, social, and political lines of defense. She writes regularly about cybersecurity for Slate, and her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Scientific American, The New Republic, Newsweek, and the New York Times Opinionator blog. @josephinecwolff

CHRIS WOMACK is executive vice president and pres-

DOUGLAS WOOD is a program officer on the youth

ident of external affairs for Southern Company, where he has worked for 28 years. He has held numerous leadership positions at the company, including senior vice president, senior production officer of Southern Company Generation, senior vice president of human resources, and chief people officer. Womack is past chair of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau and past chair of the Atlanta Sports Council. He serves as a board member of the East Lake Foundation, the First Tee, and Western Michigan University Foundation. He is the previous chair of the board of Communities in Schools of Georgia. (Festival Underwriter Presenter)

opportunity and learning team at Ford Foundation. Prior to 2011, he was associate dean of administration and planning at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School. Previously, he was executive director and CEO of the Tennessee State Board of Education, chair of the Basic Program Review Committee that oversees Tennessee’s K-12 budget, a member of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, and principal investigator of the National Academy for Excellent Teaching. Wood began his career as a public school teacher, worked as a research assistant, and has held several posts at Harvard, including at its Graduate School of Education.

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RYAN WYATT is director of Morrison Planetarium and

JOSHUA WYNER is a vice president and executive

Science Visualization at the California Academy of Sciences. He wrote and directed the academyâ€™s award-winning full-dome video planetarium programs Fragile Planet; Life: A Cosmic Story; Earthquake; Habitat Earth; and Incoming!. Wyatt previously worked as a science visualizer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Prior to that, he opened technologically advanced planetariums in Phoenix and Albuquerque. Wyatt is co-founder of Immersive Media Entertainment, Research, Science, and Art, dedicated to advancing the art and technology of immersive digital experiences. He indulges avid enthusiasms for archeoastronomy, the history of science, and intersections between art and science.

director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, whose first two initiatives are the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence and the New College Leadership Project. Wyner has spent the past two decades as a nonprofit leader, initiating organizations aimed at improving and equalizing educational outcomes. Earlier in his career, he spent several years as a program evaluator and attorney. He has authored numerous reports, op-eds, and other publications about education, including a 2014 book, What Excellent Community Colleges Do: Preparing All Students for Success.

EMILY YOFFE is a journalist and contributing editor to The Atlantic. She was previously a long-time contributor to Slate and its Dear Prudence advice columnist for a decade. She has written for many publications, including The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Washington Post; Esquire; and the Los Angeles Times, about culture, politics, and science. She started her career as a staff writer at The New Republic. Yoffe was a finalist for the 2015 National Magazine Award in public interest for her Slate story, The College Rape Overcorrection. She is the author of the book, What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner. @emilyyoffe

CONNIE YOWELL is CEO of LRNG. She was previously education director at the MacArthur Foundation, overseeing a $200 million effort over ten years to support research and design experiments in digital media and learning. Prior to that, she was an associate professor at University of Illinois, publishing scholarly work about young peopleâ€™s emerging identity, social context, and achievement. Yarrow was briefly a policy analyst in the US Education Department during the Clinton administration. In 2004, she received the Distinguished Fellows Award from the William T. Grant Foundation, under which she worked with the National Writing Project to develop approaches that integrate Web 2.0 technologies into social practices of teachers.

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KA CHUN YU is curator of space science at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which he joined in 2001 as part of a team tasked to create planetarium software to visualize the known universe. He has helped produce movies for the digital dome, pioneered Earth systems educational programs at DMNS, and continued to create new visualizations and other educational content for live planetarium presentations. Yu is a co-founder of the Worldviews Network, a group using immersive visuals to connect public audiences with global change issues. He currently serves on the International Planetarium Society’s Science and Data Visualization Task Force and the IPS Education Committee.

MICAH ZENKO is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he worked at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Congressional Research Service, and the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning. His blog, Politics, Power, and Preventive Action, covers US national security policy and conflict prevention, and he writes a column on ForeignPolicy.com. Zenko consults with military commands, law enforcement agencies, the private sector, and nonprofit research organizations. He is the author or co-author of five Council Special Reports, on topics such as armed drones and nuclear weapons, and author of two books: Between Threats and War and Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy. @MicahZenko

MANOUSH ZOMORODI is host and managing editor of the weekly podcast “Note to Self” from WNYC Studios. Through experiments and conversations with listeners and experts, she explores topics such as information overload, digital clutter, sexting scandals, and the eavesdropping capabilities of gadgets. Zomorodi previously reported and produced around the world for BBC News and Reuters, was a conference host and instructor for Mediabistro, and was a media consultant for Human Rights Watch. She was the “Z” in Vice’s 2016 list, An A-Z of Women Pushing Boundaries in Science and Tech, and has won numerous awards, including being named Outstanding Host by the Alliance for Women in Media. @manoushz FOR THE MOST UP-TO-DATE LIST OF PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES, PLEASE VISIT ASPENIDEAS.ORG OR DOWNLOAD THE ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL MOBILE APP. 162

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The Aspen Ideas Festival is pleased to announce the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholars, a diverse group of 200 leaders from all over the United States and 30 different countries selected for their work, accomplishments, and ability to transform ideas into action. They were nominated by senior members of the Institute’s staff, Festival advisors, past scholars, and many others within the Institute’s broad network. The Scholars’ presence at the Festival is made possible by a group whose purchase of special Patron passes directly funds this important program. The Aspen Institute is proud to host these distinguished Scholars and grateful to the Patrons for their crucial support. Each scholar will attend either Festival 1 or Festival 2. (Please visit the Ideas Fest Scholars page for the most current list of Scholars.) Tanisha Abernathy Brand Specialist, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nana Adae Managing Director, JP Morgan Erica Adams Executive Director, Galveston Sustainable Communities Alliance Berto Aguayo Hoops in the Hood Coordinator, Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council (Ricardo Salinas Scholarship Recipient) Jennifer Aguirre Regional Director, TEACH Regine Alexandre PPP Specialist, SSG Advisors Shalimar Alio Public Relations and Corporate Communications Graduate Student, Georgetown University; Account Supervisor, Comunicad LLC Lashon Amado National Coordinator of Opportunity Youth United CATs, YouthBuild USA Rahesha Amon–Harrison Superintendent, New York City Department of Education Clark Anderson CEO and Founder, Community Builders Nikhil Arora Co-Founder, Back to the Roots Sarah Babineau Vice President of Development, Comedy Central Ruth Barajas Director of Workforce, BACR Marla Bilonick Executive Director, Latino Economic Development Center Abigail Bishop Director, Corporate Affairs Strategy & Planning, Pearson Rich Bland National Director, Save the Children Garreth Bloor Head of Economic Development and Tourism, City of Cape Town, South Africa Claire Blumenson Executive Director and Co-Founder, School Justice Project Catherine Bracy Senior Director, Code for America Karla Breceda Founder, El Buen Socio Khari Brown CEO, Capital Partners for Education Brandon Buskey Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union Regina Ann Campbell Managing Director, Place-Based Entrepreneurship, TechTown Detroit Tony Caravano Principal, Business Development and University Relations, Amazon Campus Marcus Carey CTO and Founder, vThreat Melvin Carter Executive Director, Minnesota Children’s Cabinet Gonzalo Casals Vice President of Programs and Community Engagement, Friends of the High Line Asha Castleberry Captain, US Military Anais Cayo Senior Web Production Manager, PBS Digital, PBS Rabia Chaudry Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow , US Institute of Peace Zak Cheney-Rice Senior Staff Writer, Mic Francella Chinchilla Director, The Raben Group Lauren Claffey Executive Communications Manager, Southern Company Michael Collins Associate Vice President, Postsecondary State Policy, Jobs for the Future Marta Colon Founder, Buena Gente Jessica Contreras Student and Activist, United 4 The Dream (Ricardo Salinas Scholarship Recipient) Julie Costanzo Independent Producer Arnaldo Cruz Director of Research, Center for Integrity and Public Policy/ABRE Puerto Rico Mike De la Rocha Founder and CEO, Revolve Impact Henry De Sio Global Chair, Framework Change, Ashoka; Former COO, 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign Thomas Debass Deputy Special Representative and Managing Director, Secretary of State’s Office of Global Partnerships Claire DiMattina Executive Director, Food Policy Action Amit Dodani Founder and CEO, My Name My Story Jimmy Dula Founder, Colorado Soil Systems

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AIFSCHOLARS Bill Durbin Chief of Schools, DSST Public Schools, Denver Christian Ebersol Associate, Comcast Ventures Seth Ehrlich Executive Director, SOS Outreach Shira Engel Teacher and Holistic Educator, Metropolitan Family Service Jude Chisom Erondu Student Advisory Board Member, Pearson Mónica Feliú-Mójer Vice Director, Ciencia Puerto Rico; Program Manager, iBiology Thomas Flahive Partner, CrossBoundary Elizabeth Foley Associate Director of Mobilization, Consumer Reports James Ford President and CEO, Golden Technologies Venessa Fuentes Communications Program Manager, Bush Foundation Chekemma Fulmore-Townsend President and CEO, Philadelphia Youth Network Bill Fulton Executive Director, The Civic Canopy Anjelica Gallegos Artist/Architect, University of Colorado Denver Sil Ganzó Founder and Executive Director, ourBRIDGE (Ricardo Salinas Scholarship Recipient) Rodrigo Garcia Board Chairman, Student Veterans of America Padmashree Gehl Sampath Chief, TIR Unit, United Nations Bianca Giaever Independent Public Radio Producer and Filmmaker Tracey Giang Director, Workforce Diversity and Inclusion, Comcast Matt Gianneschi COO, Colorado Mountain College Caroline Gonzalez Independent Strategy Consultant Maria Cristina Gonzalez Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs, Estee Lauder Companies Rajeev Goyal Co-Founder, KTK-BELT Rebecca Gray Military Strategy and Relations Manager, Southern Company Sydney Gray Manager of Grants and Development, Propeller: A Force for Social Innovation Jessica Greer Morris Executive Director and Co-Founder, Girl Be Heard Milan Griffin Vice President, Marketing and Outreach, HomeFree-USA Alison Grigonis Senior Director for Cabinet Affairs, White House Crystal Hall Assistant Professor, University of Washington Nicole Harp Educator, Professor, University of Georgia Trene Hawkins Program Associate, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Brook Hazelton President, Americas, Christie’s Alexandra Heckler Lead Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton David Henry Colonel, US Air Force Denise Herrera Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Jordan Hochenbaum Chief Creative Officer and Vice President of Engineering, Kadenze Vinny Hoxha Director of Security Assurance, General Motors Dominique Izbicki Director, Strategy and Planning, Comcast La Trina Jackson Student, Georgia State University Nick Jacobson Computational Designer, PARA LABS Sucheta Jawalkar Physics Faculty, Santa Clara University Jonathan Jayes-Green Co-Creator, UndocuBlack Network (Ricardo Salinas Scholarship Recipient) Island Jean Agronomist , IDEHALE: Initiative de Développement Efficient pour une Haïti Largement Evoluée Ayana Johnson Principal, Ayana Elizabeth Consulting Jenna Johnson Executive Editor, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bobby Jones Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Peace First Saeed Jones Journalist, BuzzFeed Michele Kahane Associate Dean and Professor, The New School University Jenna Kalin School Director, Green Valley Ranch High School, DSST, Denver Samar Kaukab Executive Director, Arete, University of Chicago Vivek Khasat Relationship Manager, SEI Investments Margaret Koli Corporate Affairs and Partnerships Coordinator, Human Needs Project (Winner of the 2015 Aspen Ideas Award) Maria Teresa Kumar CEO, Voto Latino Guneet Lamba Director, US Strategy and Member Engagement, Catalyst Farhan Latif President, El-Hibri Foundation Robert Lawrence Attorney, Holland & Hart LLP John Leckey Physicist, NASA Marisa Lee Managing Director, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Damion Lee Natali Executive Director, Teach For America — Colorado A S P E N I D E A S F E S T I VA L

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Anne Leonard Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno Terry Levine Associate, Tiffany & Co Christina Lewis Halpern Founder and Executive Director, All Star Code Tara Libert Executive Director, Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop Marcus Littles Senior Partner, Frontline Solutions Elizabeth Losch COO, Global Citizens Initiative Cathie Mahon CEO, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Sabeen Malik Senior Advisor, US Department of State Angela Manso Senior Advisor, US Department of State Michael McAfee Vice President for Programs, PolicyLink Erin McGuire Policy Director, National Farm to School Organization Henry McKoy Founding Partner, Fourth Sector Capital Advisors Megan McTiernan Senior Vice President, EARN Kaitlyn Meirs Program Associate, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Khari Menelik CEO, #IGottaMakeIt Tanya Menendez CMO and Co-Founder, Makerâ€™s Row Oliver Merino Latino New South Coordinator, Levine Museum of the New South (Ricardo Salinas Scholarship Recipient) Skippy Mesirow CEO, Real World Reporting; Chair, Aspen Next Generation Advisory Commission Nicholas Miller TDA, TRAC, and TCUV Marketing Manager, Toyota USA Jonas Mok Vice President, Finance and Operations, Global Citizen Year Mamadou Ndiaye Associate Director, Jobs for the Future Nasim Novin Associate, Endeavor Yorman Nunez Program Manager, MIT CoLab Brandan Odums Visual Artist, 2-Cent Entertainment Kim Oliver Director of Youth Services, Capital Workforce Partners Jerry Paffendorf CEO, LOVELAND Technologies Amber Pankonin Founder, Stirlist Shuma Panse Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Natalye Paquin Chief Transformation Officer, Girl Scouts of the USA Kathy Park CEO, National Council on Crime and Delinquency Nealin Parker Chief of Staff, US Department of Housing and Urban Development Jessica Parsons Guide, Aspen Art Museum Vanessa Perry Professor of Marketing, Strategic Management, and Public Policy, George Washington University Marlon Peterson Founder and Chief Re-Imaginator, The Precedential Group Carlos Pierre Senior Manager, Kiva.org Liz Plank Senior Correspondent, Vox.com Elizabeth Pollman Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University Raghav Raghunathan Head of Operations, RamRahim Pragati Producer Company Armin Rezaiean-Asel Computer Engineering Student, University of British Columbia; Pearson Earl Robinson CEO, P2 Investment Management; CEO, PowerMoves Denisse Rodriguez COO, Codetrotters Carmen Rojas CEO, The Workers Lab Greg Rucks Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute Gina Rudan Cultural Alchemist, solveforx.com Ebonne Ruffins Vice President, Local Media Development, Comcast Khanh Russo Director of Strategic Partnerships, Khanh Russo Rikk Salamat Economist, Case Lab Tania Saldana Specialist, Corporate Communications/Social Innovation, Toyota USA Imran Sarwar Co-Founder and CEO, Rabtt Amber Schleuning Deputy Director, US Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation (VACI) Kelvin Sealey CEO, Teaching Systems (China) Project, Teachers College, Columbia University Shruti Shah Co-Founder and Head of Special Projects and Expansion, MoveLoot Yajaira Sierra-Sastre Research Scientist and Edupreneur Kierra Sims Co-Director of Programs, Highlander Research and Education Center Eshauna Smith CEO, Urban Alliance Katie Smythe CEO and Artistic Director, New Ballet Ensemble and School

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AIFSCHOLARS Stephanie Speirs Co-Founder and President, Solstice Initiative Ty Stiklorius Founder and Artist Manager, Friends at Work Dameun Strange Ron McKinley Philanthropy Fellow, Community Innovation Program Associate, Bush Foundation Raiyan Syed Founder, ReImagine America Forward Kelli Taylor Co-Founder, Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop (Winner of the 2015 Aspen Ideas Award) Larry Thomas Director of Professional and Leadership Development, Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholars, American University Kathryn Ticknor Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton Melisa Tien Playwright, Theater Masters Gustavo Torres Executive Director, CASA James Tyler Playwright, Theater Masters Shannon Vacca Senior Director, Strategic Integration, Comcast Jonathan Valdez Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Healthfirst Stephanie Valencia Strategic Partnerships and Outreach, Google Alejandro Velez Co-Founder, Back to the Roots Elise Viebeck National Reporter, The Washington Post Chris Vogliano Clinical Research Associate, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Diane Wetzel Geologist, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Jeremy Wickenheiser Director of Entrepreneurial Studies, DSST Public Schools, Denver Junious Williams CEO, Urban Strategies Council Keith Witham Assistant Professor, Temple University Riddhima Yadav Undergraduate Student, Yale University Jenny Zetah English Language Learner Teacher, Garfield Re-2 School District Jeremy Zipple Executive Editor, America Media Adam Zuehlke Program Assistant, Aspen Community Foundation 2016 ARTHUR VINING DAVIS SCHOLARS Lori Alvord Chief of Surgery, Banner Page Hospital Bradford Bates Head of School, Dublin School Susan Bauer-Wu President, Mind & Life Institute Brian Bridges Vice President, Research and Member Engagement, United Negro College Fund Amy Butler Senior Minister, The Riverside Church Gregory Cajete Director of Native American Studies, University of New Mexico Garikai Campbell Provost, Morehouse College Alonzo Emery Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School Michael Filanowski Operational Planner, US Army Stefan Gorsch Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia Max Holmes Deputy Director and Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center Charles Iacovou Dean, School of Business, Wake Forest University Hari Kumar Director of Instructional and Curricular Design Services, Amherst College Nadia Malik Co-Founder, The Global Partnership for Women and Girls Audrey Moran Senior Vice President, Social Responsibility, Baptist Health Jane Nelson Director, Corporate Responsibility Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University Moses Pava Dean, Yeshiva University Will Perreault Executive Staff and Special Assistant to the CEO, Self-Help Ventures Fund Georgette Phillips Dean, College of Business and Economics, Lehigh University Stephen Prothero Professor, Department of Religion, Boston University Rachel Reiser Assistant Dean, Questrom School of Business, Boston University Donald Senior Chancellor and President Emeritus, Catholic Theological Union Dena Simmons Director of Implementation, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence Erika Walker Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Programs, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley Kristi Walters Special Counsel and Chief Talent Officer, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP Caitlin Werrell Co-Founder and President, Center for Climate and Security Katharine Wilkinson Senior Scholar and Writer, Project Drawdown

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YOUNG LEADERS SPARKING CHANGE Creating Possibilities It was farther from home than he had ever been. Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, 2015 Bezos Scholar Gile Alimasi arrived in Aspen with his educator and guidance counselor, Judy McWilliams, from New Caney, TX—a small town outside of Houston. From the first day in Aspen, it was immediately evident to Gile and Judy that the inspiration and sense of possibility that permeates the Aspen Ideas Festival (AIF) could do wonders for New Caney. Every year, 17 high school juniors, like Gile, are selected from across the United States and the African Leadership Academy to become Bezos Scholars through a competitive application process. The Scholars are paired with an educator from their school and participate in a yearlong leadership development program, which kicks off at AIF and culminates in creating a community change project, known as a Local Ideas Festival (LIF). Festivals are a

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collaborative effort of the student and educator and focus on issues of both global significance and local need. Over the past twelve years, Bezos Scholars have tackled themes of literacy, the environment, civic engagement, social and criminal justice systems, and STEM education—to name just a few. Gile and Judy’s LIF, boldly named Momentum, launched with a celebration event early in the 20152016 school year, drawing more than one hundred students and teachers from New Caney High School. Aspen Scholar Josh Bernstein provided the keynote address—a reflection on the world of possibilities available through exploration. Realizing possibilities is the driving theme of Momentum’s work to support youth in navigating the path to high school graduation and beyond. Besides hosting in-school sessions on the finer points of the college application process—including access to financial aid and scholarships—Momentum held a culminating public event in April to connect

bezosSCHOLARS youth to the world awaiting them after graduation. Representatives of numerous post-high school career paths, ranging from massage to mechanical engineering to medicine, were present. Designed to be the first year of many, Momentum’s team plans to continue supporting youth as they move into the world of careers, education, and stability. The Ripple Effect Since the Bezos Scholars Program launched in 2005, the Bezos Family Foundation has provided seed grants to support over 185 LIFs, many of which continue into second, third, and fourth years. In 2016, two LIFs celebrated their seventh year, and recordbreaking attendance was made at a first-year LIF in Lodi, CA. Kiona Elliot, a 2012 Scholar, was invited to the White House Science Fair this year for the second time, as a panelist speaking to the important role young women play in the sciences. “My experience with the Bezos Scholars Program taught me how to be an effective changemaker regardless of my age. The lessons I learned through this program are ones I continue to use every day,” says Kiona. Local Ideas Festivals are a first step in Scholars realizing their own power and potential as changemakers. This year, Bradley Opere, a 2012 Bezos Scholar from Kenya, was elected by a wide margin as student body president of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill—with the support of his campaign manager and fellow 2012 Bezos Scholar, Dory MacMillan. As Scholars advance in higher

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Languages spoken among 158 Bezos Scholars alumni

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Attendees of all ages who participated in the NorCal Science and Tech Fest, in Lodi, CA

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education and careers, these will be names to watch. Be sure to take a moment and introduce yourself to the Scholars on the AIF campus! The Bezos Scholars Program at the Aspen Institute is a collaboration between the Bezos Family Foundation and the Aspen Institute to develop the next generation of leaders. Learn more at joinbsp.org or join the conversation at Facebook.com/BSPAspen or @BezosScholars #BezosScholars.

WHO ARE THE BEZOS SCHOLARS? A diverse group of committed, active leaders, Bezos Scholars are high school juniors who have already demonstrated energy and ambition to be active agents of change. Students and educators embark on a year-long journey of leadership development and community building, which kicks off at the Aspen Ideas Festival. What happens when 30 high school students and educators from across the United States and Africa participate in all AIF has to offer? A ripple effect that inspires change and possibility across the world!

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Good starts

young

We believe good starts young. Thatâ€™s why Allstate supports more than 150 youth empowerment programs.

COME HELP US SPREAD THE WORD Stop by our Juice 4 Good Truck next to Mayer Courtyard Sip a refreshing juice Snap a pic of the juice bottle Share your pic on social media using #GoodStartsYoung

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AllstAte is A proud underwriter of the 2016 Aspen ideAs festivAl.

bezosSCHOLARS Bezos Student Scholars Ana Acevedo New Rochelle High School New Rochelle, NY

Andreia Marcelo African Leadership Academy Beira, Mozambique

Faris Qubain Alonso and Tracy Mourning Senior High School Miami, FL

Joel Baraka African Leadership Academy Entebbe, Uganda

Smangaliso Mbili African Leadership Academy Johannesburg, South Africa

Casey Chaffin West Salem High School Salem, OR

Michael Mireles IDEA Quest College Preparatory High School Edinburg, TX

Cole Robbins Walter Payton Preparatory Academy Chicago, IL

Yabundu Conteh Democracy Prep Charter High School New York, NY Debi Gonzalez School for Advanced Studies: Wolfson Campus Miami, FL Josphat Lowoi African Leadership Academy Koibatek, Kenya

Marubini Muswede African Leadership Academy Limpopo, South Africa Shubham Pai The Connecticut IB Academy East Hartford, CT Tonaysia Price The Northwest School of the Arts Charlotte, NC

Anna Schumacher Detroit Lakes High School Detroit Lakes, MN Jacob Urbina Elkhart High School Elkhart, TX Peter Yang James Madison Memorial High School Madison, WI

Bezos Educator Scholars Molly Diallo Social Sciences Department Chair Alonso and Tracy Mourning Senior High School Miami, FL

Okemia June English Teacher The Northwest School of the Arts Charlotte, NC

Cody Mitchell Mathematics and Physics Teacher Elkhart High School Elkhart, TX

Dan Maloney School Counselor James Madison Memorial High School Madison, WI

Brandon Newton English Instructor Walter Payton Preparatory Academy Chicago, IL

Camille Edwards-Thomas House II Principal New Rochelle High School New Rochelle, NY

Melissa Mbazo Global Programs Associate and Residential Faculty African Leadership Academy Harare, Zimbabwe

Marcos Silva AVID/ACT Prep Teacher IDEA Quest College Preparatory High School Edinburg, TX

Karin Fritz-Staley Social Worker Detroit Lakes High School Detroit Lakes, MN

Jill McNulty IBDP History and Theory of Knowledge Teacher East Hartford, CT

Teng Yang Senior College Counselor Democracy Prep Charter High School New York, NY

John Divelbiss College Writing Teacher, Yearbook/Newspaper Advisor West Salem High School Salem, OR

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Can every better question lead to answers that help the world work better? ey.com/betterworkingworld #BetterQuestions

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HAVE QUESTIONS? NEED ANSWERS? There are several information stations around campus to address any questions you may have: anything from transportation, what’s going on in town, ticketing, special exhibits and events, mobile app support, and so on. Visit these FAQ hubs at the Comcast NBCUniversal Ideas Pavillion, Paepcke Lobby, Doerr-Hosier Lobby, and Koch Lobby, or find one of our expert volunteers carrying an “Ask Me” sign. We’re all here to help!

COURTESIES: CELL PHONES AND LATE ARRIVALS As a courtesy to our speakers and guests, please remember to silence your mobile phones during all Ideas Festival sessions. If you are joining a session after it has started, please enter the venue quietly as not to distract speakers and other guests. Please see a staff member or volunteer if you need assistance finding a seat.

PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY CAMPUS Many Festival visitors will take walking paths around campus. If you take a bike or We-cycle into town, please dismount upon returning to campus and walk your bike to a rack.

MOTORCYCLES AND SCOOTERS Motorcycles and scooters may be parked in the Meadows garage in designated areas.

HOT SPOTS Looking to continue the conversation after hours? Meet up at Hot Spots. Show your AIF pass for a 10% drink discount at these designated times and watering holes around Aspen. MONDAY, JUNE 27 Rustique Bistro | 216 S. Monarch Limelight Hotel | 355 S. Monarch BB’s Kitchen | 525 E. Cooper TUESDAY, JUNE 28 Hotel Jerome J Bar & Living Room | 330 E. Main Jimmy’s | 205 S. Mill BB’s Kitchen | 525 E. Cooper WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 Hotel Jerome J Bar & Living Room | 330 E. Main Jimmy’s | 205 S. Mill BB’s Kitchen | 525 E. Cooper THURSDAY, JUNE 30 Hotel Jerome J Bar & Living Room | 330 E. Main FRIDAY, JULY 1 Rustique Bistro | 216 S. Monarch

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LUNCH ON CAMPUS From organized sessions to more casual opportunities to dine and interact with Festival speakers and attendees, there are a variety of options to choose from. ORGANIZED TALKS McNulty Room and Aspen Meadows Restaurant START YOUR OWN DIALOGUE Marble Garden Tent, Paepcke Tent, Comcast NBCUniversal Ideas Pavilion ROUNDTABLE LUNCHES Pick up your lunch from the Paepcke Tent or in the Comcast NBCUniversal Ideas Pavillion and take it to the Koch Tent to continue the dialogues from the morning’s plenaries and tutorials. First come, first served. MAKE IT A PICNIC Grab a picnic blanket at any of the outdoor venues and enjoy lunch outside. QUICK BITES Options for tasty fare when you might not have time for a long lunch. •

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The Mayer Courtyard Café is stocked with all-natural snacks, treats, and beverages available throughout the day.

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Snacks are served in the mornings and afternoons in both the Paepcke Tent and Barksdale Lobby in the Doerr-Hosier Center.

Generalinformation FESTIVAL BOOKSTORE AND CAFÉ Explore Booksellers is your on-campus bookstore for the Aspen Ideas Festival. The Festival Bookstore is stocked with presenters’ books and similarly themed materials. WHEN Daily, 8 AM – 6 PM WHERE Resnick-Malek Health Center SERVICES Books authored by presenters. Afternoon book signings. UPS shipping. Major credit cards accepted.

IDEAS FEST SHUTTLE The Ideas Fest Shuttle runs on a continuous loop to the Aspen Institute campus each morning, starting with stops at the Limelight Hotel, St. Regis Hotel, Rubey Park bus terminal, The Little Nell, Hotel Jerome, Hotel Aspen, and Annabelle Inn. The shuttle runs from the Aspen Institute campus each afternoon and evening, returning to the hotels and Rubey Park. See the Transportation Guide, page 187, for more details.

LEXUS SHUTTLES Ride in style with Lexus June 26 – July 2. Transportation for all attendees to and from town. Pickup/drop-off on both sides of campus and stopping at key hotels. WHEN June 26: 1 PM – 7:30 PM June 27 – July 1: 7:30 AM – 7:30 PM July 2: 7:30 AM – 3:15 PM WHERE Pickup/drop-off at Doerr-Hosier Center and Paepcke Memorial Building

WALTON BIKES WITH WE-CYCLE Hop on the Walton Bikes to quickly get to and from your hotel and events and speakers in downtown Aspen. It’s fast, convenient, fun, and shuttle-free! Walton Bikes are provided by WE-cycle, Aspen’s bike-share system. Festival passholders receive a ten-day bike pass at registration or at the WE-cycle station adjacent to the Comcast NBCUniversal Ideas Pavilion. Check out a bike as often as you like for rides under 30 minutes. More information at 970.205.9222, www.we-cycle.org, or from a WE-cycle host at the stations on campus. Download Transit App for station locations and bike and dock availability.

YOGA AT ASPEN IDEAS The mind and body are inexorably linked. Center yourself and start your days off with an outdoor yoga practice! Certified yoga instructors with the Aspen Yoga Society will lead you through a series of stretches and breathing exercises to activate your mind and body, connecting you more fully with yourself. WHEN Daily, June 27 - July 2, 7 AM WHERE Anderson Park

ZERO WASTE The Aspen Ideas Festival Green Team has established recycling and compost stations throughout our campus. Last year, this initiative recovered 51,000 pounds of materials through recycling and composting, and saved 129,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. Please help us continue working towards zero waste by paying close attention to your waste, recycling, and composting over the course of the Festival. And, get inspired to cut your food waste impact at the Festival by experiencing “upcycled” snacks and meals created in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, the Aspen Meadows Resort culinary team, and the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies’ Rock Bottom Ranch.

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John Whitney lost his son to cancer, so when he discovered a lump in his own shoulder, he was rightfully w o r r i e d . H e w a s d i a g n o s e d w i t h n o n - H o d g k i n’ s lymphoma and caught the attention of experts at the Lymphoma Immunotherapy Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. They treated John with an individualized technique that “teaches” immune cells to attack cancer as they would bacteria or a virus. Today, John’s

tumors have shrunk and his outlook is the groundbreaking work being done at Institute, a National Cancer Institute cancer center at the Mount Sinai For you. For life.

bright, thanks to the Tisch Cancer (NCI)–designated Health System.

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WE’RE A TEACHING HOSPITAL. OUR DOCTORS TAUGHT JOHN’S IMMUNE SYSTEM HOW TO FIGHT CANCER.

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underwriterexhibits ALLSTATE JUICE 4 GOOD TRUCK We believe young people can change the world for good. It’s why Allstate supports more than 150 youth empowerment programs. Come help us spread the word—and enjoy a delicious juice. Stop by our Juice 4 Good Truck, SIP a refreshing beverage, SNAP a pic of the juice bottle, and then SHARE your pic on social media using #GoodStartsYoung. WHEN

June 26: 11 AM – 5 PM June 27 – July 1: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM July 2: 9:30 AM – 3 PM

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Next to the Mayer Courtyard

COMCAST NBCUNIVERSAL X1 LOUNGE Come see how X1 will provide the most comprehensive and technologically advanced Olympics coverage in history this summer from Rio, tryout our Rio Virtual Reality experience, and get assistance and voice remotes from the Xfinity help desk. WHEN

Daily, 9 AM – 5 PM

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The Comcast NBCUniversal Ideas Pavilion

MOUNT SINAI HEALTH CONCOURSE Complimentary screenings for skin cancer, cholesterol, and blood pressure. Walk-ins welcome. Appointments at dsm.mountsinai.org/aspen WHEN

June 23: 12 PM – 5 PM June 24 – July 1: 8 AM – 5 PM July 2: 8 AM – 12 PM

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North Star Tent

ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION: PLAY EVERYWHERE AT THE FESTIVAL Jump the creek, make music, color, and PLAY at locations across the Aspen Institute campus. Delight in finding your inner child, and think about how #playeverywhere could help kids where you live. Produced in partnership with KaBOOM! WHEN

June 26 – July 2: open daily during Festival hours

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Various locations across campus (Paepcke Tent, Anderson Park, Marble Garden, and Doerr-Hosier Shuttle Stop)

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underwriterexhibits SOUTHERN COMPANY | POWERING IDEAS Through cutting-edge solutions, Southern Company is shaping the future of energy. Enjoy a ride on the electric golf carts that are powering ideas and moving thought leaders across the Aspen campus. WHEN

All week

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Across the Aspen Ideas Festival campus

LEXUS SHUTTLES Ride in style with Lexus. Transportation for all attendees to and from town. Pickup/drop-off on both sides of campus and stopping at key hotels. WHEN

June 26: 1 PM - 7:30 PM June 27 – July 1: 7:30 AM – 7:30 PM July 2: 7:30 AM - 3:15 PM

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Pickup/drop-off at Doerr-Hosier Center and Paepcke Memorial Building

#ASPENIDEAS SOCIAL MEDIA SCREENS BROUGHT TO YOU BY U.S. TRUST Get the latest Festival updates and live trending topics from U.S. Trust® social media screens on display throughout campus and in town. Discover more insights and join the conversation on Twitter with @USTrust #AspenIdeas! WHEN

Daily, 9 AM – 5 PM

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Doerr-Hosier Building, Koch Building, Paepcke Lobby, St. Regis Hotel, and Hotel Jerome

WALTON BIKES WITH WE-CYCLE Walton Bikes are provided by WE-cycle, Aspen’s bike share system. Compliments of Walton Family Foundation, Festival passholders receive a ten-day bike pass in their registration folder or at the WE-cycle station adjacent to the Comcast NBCUniversal Ideas Pavilion. Check out a bike as often as you like, for rides under 30 minutes. Activate your pass on any mobile device, free of charge at www.we-cycle.org. Download Transit App for station locations and real-time bike and dock availability, including the three stations on the Aspen Meadows campus: in front of the Paepcke Memorial Building, the Aspen Meadows Reception Center, and the Benedict Music Tent parking lot. More information at 970.205.9222 or www.we-cycle.org.

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SPECIALTHANKS THE ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL IS GRATEFUL TO OUR UNDERWRITERS Presenting Underwriters

Allstate Insurance Company Booz Allen Hamilton Comcast NBCUniversal Mount Sinai Health System Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Southern Company Toyota U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management Walton Family Foundation

Supporting Underwriters American Federation of Teachers Consumer Reports EY Monsanto Pearson Rockefeller Foundation

Contributing Underwriter

PBS

Additional Support

Microsoft The Wonderful Company

Partner Organizations

Bezos Family Foundation

Arthur Vining Davis Foundation

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SPECIALTHANKS SPECIAL THANKS Ross Andersen With Deepest Appreciation Nicholas Burns to Our Advisors Steven Clemons

Kevin J. Delaney David Gergen Jeffrey Goldberg Richard Haass Neal Katyal Corby Kummer

David Leonhardt Mark Oppenheimer Jason Pontin Steven Rattner Jeffrey Rosen Hanna Rosin David Rothkopf Scott Stossel

Aspen Institute Policy Program Directors Maureen Conway Mickey Edwards Dan Glickman Miguel Padro Jonathan Price Ida Rademacher Judy Samuelson Josh Wyner

Heartfelt Thanks Also Go to the Following Individuals and Organizations for Contributing Their Time, Energy, and Resources to the Aspen Ideas Festival Aspen Meadows Resort and Conference Center, including Jud Hawk, Jason MacEachen, Bill Haden, and George Sweeney Aspen Music Festival and School team Jackie and Mike Bezos Arthur Vining Davis Foundation Michael Burns, Brad Jennings, and the Colorado Audio Visual Team Explore Booksellers Michael Goldberg and the staff at Belly Up Carolyne Heldman, Carolyn Sackariason, and the team at Aspen Public Radio Leslie Shacklette, StayAspenSnowmass Linda Crouch, ski.com Loren Wilder, Wilder Design and Production Lori Gabow, Denver Airport Concierge Laurie Loper Rosedale, Aspen Airport Concierge Lissa Ballinger, Gallery Curator Jean Owen, Catering Katie Viola, Paul Viola, Nicole Patterson, Chris Calzone, and Melissa Alanis of Kissane Viola Design Catherine Lutz Brady Hurley Lara Whitley Lindsay Reither and Lori Calcott of webShine Gina Murdock, Aspen Yoga Society Margaret Mathers Design Debbie Boylan Al and Jean Engelberg Tom Dalessandri and the team at Colorado Protective Services Colorado Mountain Express Jeff Liddington and Brian Porter, CTS Fusion Media Conservation International Three Rivers Astronomy League BWA Architects Maureen Poschman, Promo Communications Hotel Jerome Limelight Hotel Sky Hotel St. Regis Aspen Resort Burson-Marsteller and Penn, Schoen and Berland

EVENT STAFF Jack Braun Michele Byrne Katie Cassetta Lyssa Duncan Hannah Feuer Jonathan Franklin Annie Garrett Kristen Gendron David Gibson Tyler Hollenbach Scott Kenner Jordon Kern Carson Leydecker Jessica Lucas Annie Makela Mary Anne Meyer Jessica Palffy Heather Reiley Tarek Rizk Kristen Sabel Claire Sacco Lee Sehestedt Katie Van Alstine Paulina Vander Noordaa Graham Veysey Mike Wessler

INTERNS Eliza Costas Brandon Goodson Lillie Hodges Kaelyn Quinn Melissa Ramsey Kidd Duhe Solomon

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AIFTEAM Walter Isaacson President and CEO Elliot Gerson EVP, Policy and Public Programs, International Partnerships Kitty Boone VP, Executive Director, Public Programs Killeen Brettmann Managing Director, Public Programs Libby Franklin Associate Director, Public Programs Estes Gould Program Coordinator, Public Programs Dulcy Gregory Assistant Director, Conference Services Donna Horney Director of Operations, Policy and Public Programs Brett Howley Program Manager, Public Programs Tricia Johnson Editorial Director, Public Programs Peter Kaplan Senior Research Associate, Public Programs Marci Krivonen Associate Editor and Producer, Public Programs Jamie Miller VP, Director, Public Programs Deborah Murphy Director, Conference Services Katie Nix Conference Coordinator, Conference Services Karen Petersen Conference Manager, Conference Services James Spiegelman VP, Chief External Affairs Officer; Deputy to the President Amanda Wiggans Program Cordinator, Public Programs

CONTRIBUTING STAFF Sam Abdelhamid Video Operations Manager, Communications Sarah Banerji Program Assistant, Health, Medicine and Society Program Angela Cianfrani Budget Manager Alison Decker Editorial Associate, Communications Christian Devers Conference Services Staff Douglas Farrar Senior Manager, Communications and Public Affairs Aidan Flax-Clark Senior Project Manager, Arts Program Katie Fitzgerald Project Director, Aspen Challenge Ary Kim Senior Digital Project Manager / Web Editor Pherabe Kolb Managing Director, Communications and Public Affairs Corby Kummer Editor in Chief and Publisher, Ideas: The Magazine of the Aspen Institute Cara Minardi Event Project Manager, Youth and Engagement Aaron Myers Director of Digital Strategy, Communications Simone Peer Digital Projects Associate, Communications Raman Ravindran Video Coordinator, Communications Alex Skarzynski Program Assistant, Public Programs Zachary St. Louis Public Affairs Coordinator, Communications Brita Stevenson Associate Director, Health, Medicine and Society Program Rachel Swerdlove Program Associate, Youth and Engagement Natalie Travers Program Manager, Aspen Challenge Arica Van Boxtel Senior Associate, Public Affairs and Social Media Keosha Varela Senior Digital Editor and Producer, Communications Rajiv Vinnakota Executive Vice President, Youth and Engagement Morgan Walsh Administrative Assistant, Conference Services Damian Woetzel Director, Arts Program Pat Zindulka Executive Assistant to the President

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AIFTEAM David G. Bradley Chairman, Atlantic Media Bob Cohn President, The Atlantic Emily Akhtarzandi Managing Director, AtlanticLIVE Anna Bross Senior Director of Communications, The Atlantic Melodie Brown Thomas Director of Business Development, AtlanticLIVE Steve Clemons Editor in Chief, AtlanticLIVE, and Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic Megan Devlin Editorial Assistant, AtlanticLIVE Logan Elsass Director of Events and Experience, AtlanticLIVE Michael Finnegan President, Atlantic Media Patrick Garrigan Senior Director of Business Development, AtlanticLIVE Emily Gottschalk-Marconi Event Manager, AtlanticLIVE Sherene Joseph Program Manager, National Events, AtlanticLIVE Emily Lenzner Senior Vice President, Global Communications, Atlantic Media Chris Lisi Communications Consultant, AtlanticLIVE Margaret Low Smith President, AtlanticLIVE; Vice President, The Atlantic Casey Pallenik Senior Manager, Business Planning and Analysis, AtlanticLIVE Lyndsay Polloway Chief of Staff and Executive Director of Operations, AtlanticLIVE Noelle Thorn Rinner Senior Director of Partnerships, AtlanticLIVE Hayley Romer Vice President and Publisher, The Atlantic Sydney Simon Senior Communications Manager, The Atlantic Danielle Sopp Senior Manager of Events and Audience Operations, AtlanticLIVE Jessica Spiegel Senior Events Coordinator, AtlanticLIVE Elizabeth Stoll Director of Marketing, AtlanticLIVE

The Aspen Institute also extends significant thanks to the remarkable group of volunteers and interns whose generous time, skills, and effort have made the Aspen Ideas Festival a reality.

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PRINCIPleS&STANDARDS 1. The Aspen Institute is transparent about its finances, including its sources of funding. We disclose all donations and identify corporate, foundation, and government donors and sponsors in our annual reports, on our website, and to anyone who asks. 2. The Aspen Institute retains editorial control of all of our publications and events. We have the final say over what gets published, what topics are covered, and who speaks at any of our convenings. 3. The Aspen Institute is a nonpartisan educational organization, which operates independently of the positions and views of our funders. We do not engage in electoral politics or any activity that would require registration under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, and do not engage staff or contractors as “lobbyists” as defined by the Act. 4. The Institute will not seek on behalf of any individual or entity to influence an agency or official of the US government or the US public regarding US policy or the policies or relations of a foreign country. Similarly, the Institute will not act, directly or indirectly, as an agent, representative, or in any other capacity at the order, or under the direction or control of any government or political entity. 5. The Aspen Institute seeks to maintain a diversity of funding from foundations, individual donors, registration fees, event ticket sales, and corporate sponsorships in order to retain its independence and to avoid the potential for any funder to compromise the integrity of the discourse at the Institute. Funders are not allowed to dictate or veto content or participants in any of the Institute’s events. 6. The Aspen Institute seeks to have a diversity of opinion on its board and at its major public events. 7. A standards committee of management, staff, and independent participants, appointed by the CEO and approved by the chair of the board of trustees, will monitor and assess issues relating to the integrity of the Institute’s work. Any questions about possible conflicts of interest or unwarranted influence from funders should be referred to this committee. This committee should also be informed about any overseas government donation, individual gifts that raise questions about the Institute’s independence, and any funding that is tied to the advancement of a specific legislative proposal or executive branch action. The committee will rule on the appropriateness of any donation or sponsorship that could reasonably call into question the Institute’s integrity or independence, and shall make periodic reports to the executive committee of the board of trustees as deemed appropriate by the CEO. The director of human resources will also set up a confidential system for Institute staff to raise any concerns about standards and issues of integrity. Major issues will be reported to a standards committee of the Aspen Institute board of trustees, appointed by the chair of the board.

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gettingaround TRANSPORTATION Convenient AIF and Lexus Courtesy Shuttles link the Aspen Ideas Festival to the various hotels in Aspen and the off-campus venues. Courtesy Shuttles will operate June 26 through July 2 as outlined in the schedule (right), and will make continuous loops between event venues and hotels. The estimated wait time for shuttles is one to 15 minutes. On-campus parking is not available; parking near campus is extremely limited (see Aspen Map on the following page for Rio Grande parking garage and shuttle info), so we encourage the use of our shuttle service, public transportation, cycling, or walking. The Aspen Institute campus is a pleasant 25-minute walk from downtown Aspen. Biking takes less than half that time! OPENING/MORNING SERVICE Shuttles start at the Limelight

Hotel and make stops at the St. Regis, Rubey Park bus terminal, The Little Nell, Hotel Jerome, Hotel Aspen, and Annabelle Inn before traveling to the Doerr-Hosier Center and the Paepcke Memorial Building. LUNCH SERVICE Shuttles depart the Doerr-Hosier Center

IDEAS FESTIVAL SHUTTLES SUNDAY, JUNE 26 Opening Service: Afternoon/Evening Service:

MONDAY, JUNE 27

Hosier Center and the Paepcke Memorial Building and make stops at Limelight Hotel, St. Regis, Rubey Park bus terminal, The Little Nell, Hotel Jerome, Hotel Aspen, and Annabelle Inn. Service then continues to the Evening Sessions both on and off campus. The shuttles will make continuous loops until 11 PM to take attendees to their final destination for the evening.

Morning Service: Lunch Service:

6:45 – 11 AM 11 AM – 2 PM

Afternoon/Evening Service:

2:30 – 11 PM

TUESDAY, JUNE 28 Morning Service: Lunch Service:

6:45 – 11 AM 11 AM – 2 PM

Afternoon/Evening Service:

2:30 – 11 PM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 Morning Service: Lunch Service:

6:45 – 11 AM 11 AM – 2 PM

Afternoon/Evening Service:

2:30 – 11 PM

THURSDAY, JUNE 30

and the Paepcke Memorial Building and make stops at off-campus Lunch Sessions, including the Hotel Jerome and the St. Regis. AFTERNOON/EVENING SERVICE Shuttles depart the Doerr-

10 AM – 5:30 PM 6 – 11 PM

Morning Service: Lunch Service:

6:45 – 11 AM 11 AM – 2 PM

Afternoon/Evening Service:

2:30 – 11 PM

FRIDAY, JULY 1 Morning Service: Lunch Service:

6:45 – 11 AM 11 AM – 2 PM

Afternoon/Evening Service:

2:30 – 11 PM

SATURDAY, JULY 2 Opening Service: Lunch Service:

6:45 – 11 AM 11 AM – 3 PM

HOTEL TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION ASPEN MEADOWS REGULAR GUEST SHUTTLE: 970-544-7826 The Meadows offers transportation to and from downtown Aspen departing from the Reception Building on the hour and half hour. Service returning to the Meadows departs Rubey Park at :05 and :35 past each hour, departs Gondola Plaza at :08 and :38 past each hour, and departs Hotel Jerome at :10 and :40 past each hour. For a pickup in town, you MUST CALL the Meadows Reception Desk.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION & TAXI INFORMATION

HOTEL JEROME GUEST SHUTTLE: 970-920-1000 Transportation is on demand or can be scheduled ahead of time. Pickup/drop-off is at the Paepcke Memorial Building or the Doerr-Hosier Center.

The drop-off point is a three-minute walk north of the

LIMELIGHT GUEST SHUTTLE: 970-925-3025 Please call for transportation. Pickup/drop-off is at the Doerr-Hosier Center.

and :45 past each hour.

THE LITTLE NELL GUEST SHUTTLE: 970-920-4600 Transportation is on demand or can be scheduled ahead of time. Pickup/drop-off is at the Paepcke Memorial Building or the Doerr-Hosier Center.

CROSSTOWN PUBLIC SHUTTLE 7:54 AM – 9 PM | 970-925-8484 The Roaring Fork Transportation Authority Crosstown Shuttle provides access to the Music Tent parking lot. Paepcke Building. The shuttle runs from Rubey Park to the Music Tent at :06 and :36 past each hour. The Shuttle departs the Music Tent returning to downtown at :15 ASPEN HIGH MOUNTAIN TAXI 24-hour service | 970-925-8294 For additional transportation questions, please contact : Jordon Kern at 970-544-7913.

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FREE Cross-Town Shuttle 7:54 AM – 9 PM daily Every 30 minutes, the RFTA Cross-Town Shuttle provides FREE transportation to and from downtown Aspen to the Aspen Institute campus and Music Tent. The bus stop is in the main Music Tent parking lot. OUTBOUND From Rubey Park (downtown Aspen) to the Music Tent at the Aspen Institute campus at :06 and :36 past each hour. INBOUND From the Music Tent at the Aspen Institute campus to Rubey Park at :15 and :45 past each hour. Call 970-925-8484 for more information.

Ideas Fest Shuttle Running on a continuous loop to the Aspen Institute campus each morning starting with stops at Limelight Hotel, St. Regis Hotel, Rubey Park, The Little Nell, Hotel Jerome, Hotel Aspen, and Annabelle Inn. The shuttle runs from the Aspen Institute campus each afternoon and evening returning to hotels and Rubey Park. See the Transportation Guide for detailed information.

• Purple dots indicate venues and landmarks that are not shuttle stops. Running on a continuous loop to the Aspen Institute campus each •morning from 6:45 AM to 8:30 AM, the parking garage shuttle will pick up

outside of the parking garage on Rio Grande Place with stops at Hotel Jerome, Hotel Aspen, and Annabelle Inn. The shuttle runs from the Aspen Institute campus each evening from 5-7 PM returning to the parking garage. Outside of these hours, please take the Ideas Fest shuttle to the Hotel Jerome and walk one block to the parking garage.

WE-cycle stations Enjoy the fresh mountain air and ride a bike to and from Ideas Fest. Use your complimentary WE-cycle pass provided by the Walton Family Foundation, available at registration or at the bike share station adjacent to the Comcast NBCUniversal Ideas Pavilion. Pick up or drop off a bike at any of the 20 stations around Aspen. Call 970.205.9222 for more information.

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Aspen Meadows Reception Center

Limelight Hotel

355 S Monarch St

Rubey Park Transit Center Durant Ave. between Galena St & Mill St (Shuttle stops across the street from Center)

St. Regis 315 E Dean St

Belly Up 450 S Galena St

The Little Nell 675 E Durant Ave

Sky Hotel 709 E Durant Ave

Hotel Jerome 330 E Main St

Hotel Aspen 110 W Main St

Annabelle Inn 232 W Main St

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