Baratunde Thurston
Democracy Forum Host
Wemimo Abbey
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu
Peter Adams
Senior Vice President of Research and Design of the News Literacy Project
Aleena Agrawal
Director of Talent Solutions at P33
Ellen Alberding
President and CEO, The Joyce Foundation
Ian Bassin
Co-founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy
Brian Deese
MIT Innovation Fellow
Hany Farid
Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
Nancy Gibbs
Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice and Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
Emma Grede
Entrepreneur & Chairwoman of The Fifteen Percent Pledge and the CEO and Co-Founder of Good American
Regina Hall
Award-winning actress and producer
Mary Kay Henry
International President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Darryl Holliday
Journalist, civic strategist, and media organizer
Valerie Jarrett
Chief Executive Officer
Mayor Brandon Johnson
Mayor of Chicago
Terah Lyons
Founding Executive Director of the Partnership on AI
Anna Makanju
OpenAI's Vice President of Global Affairs
Governor Wes Moore
Governor of the state of Maryland
Alondra Nelson
Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study
Suzanne Nossel
CEO, PEN America
Chiedo Nwankwor
Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs, Interim Director of SAIS Europe, Senior Lecturer, and Director of SAIS Women Lead
President Obama
44th president of the United States
John Palfrey
President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
DeMario Phipps-Smith
Senior Manager of Community Learning at News Literacy Project.
Sonal Shah
Chief Executive Officer at The Texas Tribune
Alex Smith
Founder of The Cares Family
Betsey Stevenson
Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan
Mandy Teefey
Co-Founder and CEO of Wondermind
Shani Tran
Licensed therapist and author
Raquel Vazquez Llorente
Head of Law & Policy, Technology, Threats and Opportunities - WITNESS
Judy Woodruff
Senior Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour
