College / Campus - New Speakers

Larry Wilmore

As "The Senior Black Correspondent" for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Wilmore is a cultural commentator. He opens the door to an honest conversation about race and diversity in our country with his versatile and entertaining message laced with wit and a dash of levity in an interactive, multi-media discussion.

Chris Hughes

Co-founder of Facebook and the mastermind behind My.BarackObama.com, two of the most successful startups in modern history, Chris Hughes has spent his brief career developing technologies to make social communication and political organizing easier and more efficient. A true visionary, he is a sought after speaker on techn ...

Harry Markopolos

Harry Markopolos was catapulted into the spotlight as the man who blew the whistle on Bernie Madoff and his $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Passionate about fixing the system and preventing future abuses, Markopolos speaks about the Madoff scheme and how you can recognize and prevent fraud in your organization.

Augusten Burroughs

An acclaimed author, he had a very unusual childhood – a childhood that America has come to know in his best-selling memoir Running with Scissors that spent more than four years on The New York Times bestseller list, spawned an Oscar nominated film starring Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin and Gwyneth Paltrow, a ...

Sheryl WuDunn

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, banker and professional speaker, WuDunn shares her unique perspective and personal experiences on economic, political and social topics related to the global economy, China, and the emerging markets.

Ambassador Munir Akram

Following a long and distinguished diplomatic career as the former Permanent Representative to the United Nations from Pakistan, Ambassador Munir Akram is now ready to step out from behind the diplomatic curtain and tell what he knows and offer his perspective on what the goals of the United States should be in Pakistan and ...

Ashong

Ashong is the voice of a new generation. Whether it is heard in the eloquent expression of his thoughts on Barack Obama, in his lyrics, or in his acting ability, Ashong inspires, engages, and activates young people with positive messages for social change.

Peter Thum

Nestled in the coolers of more than 8,000 Starbucks stores, sits Ethos Water, a 23.6-ounce bottle festooned with a map of the world. What distinguishes it from other brands? The company was founded by Peter Thum, a former McKinsey consultant, who dreamed of providing clean drinking water to Third World countries by selling ...

Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer is one of the most prolific actors of his generation. From his more recent work as a career military officer in David Mamet's Spartan, back through his work with Oliver Stone in The Doors and Michael Mann in Heat to his early work in Top Gun, Kilmer has worked with many of film's most ...

Nicolas Sheff

In a voice that is raw and honest, he spares no detail in telling the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He plunges into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, painting a picture of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himse ...

Graham Hill

Alternately described as serial entrepreneur, do-gooder, and designer, he finds his future happily confined to the social entrepreneurship arena as founder of the website Treehugger.com, a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. Treehugger.com is also part of the Planet Green initiative at Discove ...

Malaak Compton-Rock

Malaak Compton-Rock began her career in the public relations and special event fields. Her professional life started in the entertainment industry where she contributed to many successful movie and record release campaigns and projects for clients including Eddie Murphy, The Essence Awards, and HBO. As wife of Chris Roc ...

David Sheff

Renowned journalist David Sheff is the author of Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction, a New York Times non-fiction bestseller. In it, he tells the story of his harrowing struggle to help his son Nic overcome his methamphetamine addiction from the father’s and family’s point of vie ...

Raj Patel

A controversial author, journalist and food policy expert, Patel continuously challenges our presumptions about the global food economy with his work both as a policy analyst and activist. He has worked for some of the most prestigious international organizations and protested against them, and constantly works to find ways ...

Sarah Lacy

Sarah Lacy knows Silicon Valley and the power of the Web 2.0 technology like few others. As a veteran reporter covering start ups—from technology innovation to cultural underpinnings—Lacy is an expert in translating the mystique and the might of this hub of technology to the rest of the world.

Naomi Klein

Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Exploring the flaws of neoliberal economics and globalization, her stunning revelations and well-researched insight provides a backdrop to the connections betwee ...

Jeremy Scahill

An award-winning investigative journalist and frequent contributor to The Nation magazine, Scahill is widely viewed as one of the world's leading experts on privatized warfare. His first book, Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is a New York Times bestseller.

Nicholas Kristof

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, Kristof is an extraordinary thinker, human rights advocate, and astute chronicler of humanity. As a seasoned journalist who has traveled the major roads and minor byways of China, Africa, India, and South Asia, he offers a compassionate glimpse into the issues ...

Carolyn Jessop

The first woman in the country to escape from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and be granted full custody of her eight children, her story has become a model of courage and hope to people everywhere. She co-authored the bookEscape, which will be turned into a movie starring Kathe ...

John Zogby

President and CEO of Zogby International, and author of The Way We’ll Be, John Zogby remains by all accounts the hottest and most accurate pollster in the United States today. No one can tell you more about what’s happening—from politics to social trends—than Zogby.