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    2017 Speakers & Performers

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    John Bridgeland
    Former White House Domestic Policy Council Director
    (President G.W. Bush)
    @CivicEnterprise
     Biography
    G.T. Bynum
    Tulsa Mayor (R)
    @gtbynum
    Biography
    Melissa Chiu
    Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Director
    @melissa_chiu
    Biography
    Laura Arnold
    Laura and John Arnold Foundation Co-Chair
    @LauraArnoldFdn
    Biography
    Sonia Nazario
    Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Enrique's Journey
    @SLNazario    
    Biography
    Richard J. Berry
    Albuquerque Mayor (R)
    @Mayor_Berry
    Biography
    Ana Teresa  Fernández
    Artist
    @ATF_tweet
    Biography
    Jens Ludwig
    University of Chicago, Professor and Director, Crime Lab
    @profjensludwig
    Biography
    Nancy Roob
    President and CEO, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation; and CEO 
    Blue Meridian Partners 
    @emclarkfdn
    Biography
    James "Jim" Shelton
    Chan Zuckerberg Initiative President of Education and former U.S. Department of Education Deputy Secretary (President Obama) 
    @JIMSEDU
    Biography
    Molly Baldwin
    Roca Founder and CEO 
    @RocaInc
    Biography
    Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
    Explorer and Environmental Advocate
    @pcousteau
    Biography
    Heather Booth
    Midwest Academy Founding Director and Current President 
    @hboothgo
    Biography
    Steve Ballmer
    Biography
    Ballmer Group Co-CEO and Co-Founder; Los Angeles Clippers Owner; and former Microsoft CEO
    @clippersteveb
    Eric Ambel and Erik Huey of the Surreal McCoys
    Biography
    Musical Performer
    @surrealmccoys 
    Twenty20
    Biography
    Musical Performer
    Watch "The Dignity of Work"
    Watch "Partisan Rhetoric
    Is for Losers"
    Watch "One Nation Indivisible"
    Watch "Solving Illegal
    Immigration [For Real]    "
    Watch "Outta My Head /
    Swim Into View"
    Watch "Whole Lotta Folsom / The Devil Is Here in These Hills"
    Watch "If We Organize,
    We Can Change
    the World    "
    Watch "Why Are We
    Stalking You?
    To Keep You Out of Jail    "
    Watch "How Artists Predict the Future"
    Watch "A New 'Normal' for Philanthropy"
    Watch "The Four Most Dangerous Words?
    A New Study Shows"
    Watch "Our Nation,
    in Numbers"
    Watch "What If Everyone Believed They Were Smart?​"
    Watch "Where's Richard Nixon When You Need Him? "
    Watch "Man vs Machine Learning: Criminal Justice in the 21st Century"
    Watch "How Art Allowed Me to Erase Borders"

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