Dr. Chelsea Clinton is an advocate, storyteller, investor, mentor, teacher, and most importantly, mom to her three kids. As vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, she works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to improve global health and wellness, increase opportunity for girls and women, create economic opportunity and growth, and inspire emerging leaders across the United States and around the world. A longtime public health advocate, Clinton also serves as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and uses her platform to increase awareness around issues such as vaccine hesitancy, childhood obesity, and health equity. In addition to her Foundation work, she is the co-founder of Metrodora Ventures, she teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and has written several books for young adults and readers including the #1 New York Times bestselling She Persisted. Clinton holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.

Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collections Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture and Bad Feminist, which was a New York Times bestseller; the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the memoir Hunger, which was a New York Times bestseller and received a National Book Critics Circle citation; and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. A contributing opinion writer to The New York Times, she has also written for Time, McSweeney’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Bookforum, and Salon. Her fiction has also been selected for The Best American Short Stories 2012, The Best American Mystery Stories 2014, and other anthologies. She is the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel, and her latest book, How to Be Heard, is forthcoming.

Timothy Goodman is an artist, designer, and author based in New York City. His work has populated walls, galleries, clothes, products, packaging, and books for organizations such as Apple, Nike, MoMa, Netflix, YSL, Google, Tiffany & Co., Coca-Cola, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His partnerships include a global collection of clothing with Uniqlo and a Nike shoe for NBA basketball star Kevin Durant. He’s created more than 250 murals, and he regularly donates art for communities in NYC—including a 5,500 square foot b-ball court at P.S. 315 in Brooklyn and a sanitation truck for the city of New York. Goodman is the author of three books and the co-creator of several social experiments, including the viral blog and book 40 Days of Dating, whose TV rights were optioned to Netflix. He’s had two solo gallery shows at The Richard Taittinger Gallery in New York, taught at School of Visual Arts, and he speaks around the world at creative conferences. His graphic memoir, I Always Think It’s Forever, was published in 2023 by Simon & Schuster.

Suleika Jaouad is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Between Two Kingdoms, which has been translated into more than twenty languages. She wrote the Emmy Award–winning New York Times column and video series “Life, Interrupted,” and her essays and feature stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Vogue, among others. She is also the subject, along with husband Jon Batiste, of the Oscar-nominated documentary American Symphony—a portrait of two artists during a year of extreme highs and lows. A visual artist, her large-scale watercolors are the focus of several upcoming exhibitions. She is also the creator of the Isolation Journals, a weekly newsletter and global community that harnesses creativity as a tool to navigate life’s interruptions.

As a magician and New York Times crossword puzzle constructor, David Kwong has delighted and confounded audiences worldwide. A TED Talk favorite, Kwong regularly speaks to companies and demonstrates the principles of illusion and the science of why your brain is fooled. He was the head magic consultant for the worldwide hit Now You See Me, and his immersive magic and puzzle show, The Enigmatist, has played to sold-out crowds in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the Kennedy Center. Kwong recently published a kids' book of magic tricks, How to Fool Your Parents.

Debbie Millman is host of the Webby award–winning podcast Design Matters, one of the first and longest-running podcasts in the world, Chair of the first-ever Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts, Co-owner and Editorial Director of PrintMag.com, and the author of seven books on design and branding. She has worked on the design and strategy for more than 200 of the world’s largest brands. Millman is the recipient of a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and a Lifetime Achievement award from AIGA, the Professional Association for Design. Her new book, Love Letter to a Garden, was released on April 15.