Speakers
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Owen Ziliak
Photographer of Wisconsin State Journal
Bridgett Willey
Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer of UW Health/WorkForward
Chao Xiong
Editorial Director of Sahan Journal
Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff
Playwright
Ben Wikler
Former Chair of Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Chris Van Hollen
Senator, D-Maryland of U.S. Senate
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor and Publisher of The Nation
Pallavi Tiwari
Co-Director of Imaging and Radiation Science of Carbone Cancer Center
Karen Tumulty
Chief Political Correspondent of Washington Post
Abigail Spanberger
Governor of State of Virginia
Jack Tamburri
Theater director of SUNY Purchase
Danez Smith
Poet of Randolph College
Jacob Soboroff
Host of MS NOW
Sun Yung Shin
Poet of McKnight Foundation Fellow
Elissa Slotkin
Senator, D-Michigan of U.S. Senate
Ashley Rodriguez
Madison Culture Reporter of Cap Times
Mikie Sherrill
Governor of State of New Jersey
Mitch Reuter
EMS Instructor of Moraine Park Technical College
Rebecca Ribley
Video Producer of UW Health
Angela Peterson
Photo Editor of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mark Pocan
D-Madison of U.S. House of Representatives
Irene Ong
Associate Professor, Center for Precision Medicine of University of Wisconsin-Madison
Evan Osnos
Staff Writer of New Yorker
John Nichols
Associate Editor of Cap Times
Enjoyiana Nururdin
Local Government Reporter of Cap Times
Bethany Miller
Vice President for Planning, Learning and Impact of Ascendium
Leah Millis
Photojournalist of Freelance
Tilar Mazzeo
Mazzeo is the author of more than a half-dozen award-winning biographies and works of cultural history including "The Widow Clicquot," now a major motion picture. Her latest nonfiction book is "The Sea Captain's Wife" about ship captain Mary Ann Brown Patten,...
Erin McGroarty
Health and Policy Reporter of Cap Times
Nydia Martinez
Executive Director of Latino Academy of Workforce Development
Jane Mayer
Mayer covers politics, culture and national security for The New Yorker, where she has worked since 1995. She is one of three members of the magazine's "The Political Scene" podcast. Among other books, Mayer is the author of the 2016 best-seller “Dark Money: The...
Ed Bok Lee
Poet and professor of Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
David Maraniss
Author
Ro Khanna
D-California of U.S. House of Representataives
Christoph Lee
Vice Chair of Research, UW Radiology Department of University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nick Henry
Professional and Commercial Sales Manager of Roberts Camera
Polly Irungu
Photographer/Founder of Black Women Photographers
John Hart
Photographer of Wisconsin State Journal
Ruthie Hauge
Photo Director of Cap Times
Tanya Habjouqa
Photographer
Marcelle Haddix
Dean, School of Education of University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joe Gothard
Superintendent of Madison Metropolitan School District
Jen Uphoff Gray
Artistic Director of Forward Theater
Beth Giles-Klinkner
Provost of Madison College
Susan Glasser
Staff Writer of New Yorker
Lilada Gee
Co-founder of The Center for Black Excellence and Culture
Jackie Gerhart
Chief Medical Officer of Epic
Eddie Glaude Jr.
Professor of Princeton University
Alex Gee
CEO of The Center for Black Excellence and Culture
Samuel Freedman
Professor emeritus of Columbia University
Beverly Gage
Professor of Yale University
Opal Ellyse
poet
Sharon Farmer
Photojournalist
Rob Dz
poet
Natalie Eilbert
Opinion Editor of Cap Times
Caleb Cox
Head of Research of Epic Research
Peter DiCampo
Visuals Editor of ProPublica
Christian Capitini
Director of Carbone Cancer Center
Mo Cheeks
President of Madison Public Schools Foundation
Maggie Brickerman
President of Wisconsin Technology Council
Jonathan Capehart
Co-host of MS NOW
Jennifer Berne
President of Madison College
Victoria Blanco
writer of Hamline University
Gal Beckerman
Staff writer of The Atlantic
Erica Berman
Playwright
Jane Alexander
Actor
Dan Balz
Former Chief Correspondent of Washington Post
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