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2017 Speakers & Performers
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"