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Seth Moulton is a former Marine Corps officer and currently represents the 6th District of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives. He served four tours in Iraq as an infantry platoon commander in the Marines. After returning home, he earned joint graduate degrees in business and public policy before running for Congress in 2014. Congressman Moulton is currently focused on creating a new economic agenda and recruiting and supporting service veterans running for Congress in key swing districts acr

Sally Kohn is a writer, activist and political commentator. She hosts the State of Resistance podcast and frequently appears on CNN as a political commentator. Kohn has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, New York Magazine and many more. She has given multiple TED talks, garnering over 3 million views. Kohn’s latest book is titled The Opposite of Hate.

Amy Bloom is the author of two New York Times best-sellers, three collections of short stories, a children’s book and a collection of essays. She has been a nominee for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bloom has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, O Magazine and Vogue. Her latest novel is titled White Houses.

Joan Walsh is The Nation’s National Affairs Correspondent and a CNN political analyst. She is the author of What’s the Matter With White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America, which the Philadelphia Daily News called “one of the best books of 2012 – and even more relevant now.” She served as Salon magazine’s first editor-in-chief for six years.

Nikki Giovanni is a poet, writer, activist and educator. Her works cover everything from race and social issues to children’s literature. She has received the Langston Hughes Medal, the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award, the NAACP Image Award, more than 20 honorary degrees from national colleges and universities and a Grammy nomination. In 2005, Oprah Winfrey named her one of the top 25 Living Legends. Her latest collection of poems is titled A Good Cry.

Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and a contributor for NBC and MSNBC. Before joining NewsHour, she worked as a national political reporter for The New York Times where she covered Congress and wrote about the impact of President Donald Trump’s policies on working class people and people of color. She earned a master’s degree in broadcast news and documentary filmmaking from New York University and a bachelor’s in English, government and African American studies fr

Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and is currently covering President Donald Trump. Before joining The Times in 2008 he spent 20 years writing for The Washington Post. Baker has written four books. His most recent is titled Obama: The Call of History.

Khizr Khan is the Gold Star father, author, and a Constitutional Rights Advocate. He attended Punjab University Law School in Pakistan before moving to the US where he attended Harvard Law. In 2016, he and his wife Ghazala spoke at the Democratic National Convention. Khan’s latest book is titled An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice.

John Hodgman is an author, comedian and actor. His books The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require and That Is All have all been New York Times best sellers. Hodgman has appeared on The Daily Show, hosts the Judge John Hodgman podcast and has a weekly column in The New York Times Magazine. His latest book is titled Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches.

Kurt Andersen is a critically acclaimed writer and host of the public radio program Studio 360. He has written many novels including national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book of the year Turn of the Century, and the New York Times bestseller Heyday. His latest novels are titled Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History and You Can’t Spell America Without Me, a parody on Donald Trump’s first year as president co-written with Alec Baldwin.

Richard Linklater is a writer and director. He is best known for his films Dazed and Confused, Boyhood, Slacker and Everybody Wants Some. Linklater is the Artistic Director and founder of the Austin Film Society. He has won a Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. Linklater currently lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Walter Isaacson is an author, Professor of History at Tulane, and the former CEO of the Aspen Institute, chairman of CNN, and editor of Time magazine. He has written many biographies including Einstein: His Life and Universe, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and most recently, Leonardo da Vinci.

Helen Thorpe is an author and journalist who has been a staff writer for the New York Observer, The New Yorker, and Texas Monthly. She has also been published in the New York Times Magazine, Slate and numerous other publications. Her radio stories have aired on This American Life and Sound Print. Her latest book is titled The Newcomers.

Nicole Krauss is the author of Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award; the New York Times bestseller The History of Love and most recently Forest Dark. She was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007 and named to The New Yorker’s “Twenty Under Forty” list in 2010.

Jim Gaffigan is a Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer and two-time New York Times best-selling author. He is currently on his Noble Ape international arena and theater comedy tour. This year he premiered his fifth one hour stand up special, Cinco, on Netflix. His latest film is titled Chappaquiddick.

Bob Schieffer is a CBS News political contributor and the former host of CBS’ Face the Nation. Schieffer has won eight Emmys, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Paul White Award and in 2008 he was named a living legend by the Library of Congress. His latest book, Overload: Finding Truth in the Deluge of News, was released in October of 2017.

Pete Buttigieg is the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He was elected in 2011 at the age of 29, making him the youngest mayor of a city with over 100,000 residents in the U.S. The Washington Post called him “the most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of” and he was named national Mayor of the Year by GovFresh.com. Buttigieg also serves as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Jason Kander is a former Army Captain, Missouri’s 39th Secretary of State and the president of Let America Vote, an organization that fights against voter suppression laws. In 2016, Kander ran for the U.S. Senate in Missouri. At over $75 million, his campaign was the most expensive Senate race in state history.

Ben Domenech is the publisher of The Federalist, host of The Federalist Radio Hour, and writes The Transom, a daily subscription newsletter for political insiders. He co-founded Redstate and co-hosted Coffee & Markets, an award-winning economic podcast. His writing has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Politico, Commentary, Reason, and GQ, and he appears regularly on Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, and CBS’s Face The Nation.

Katy Tur is a correspondent for NBC News and an anchor for MSNBC. Tur is the recipient of a 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. Her latest book, Unbelievable, reflects on her coverage of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. She currently lives in New York City.