Print Media Speakers

Nicholas Kristof

A 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 China, Africa, India, and South Asia, he offers a compassionate glimpse into such issues as global health, poverty and ...

Juan Williams

A prize-winning columnist and former editorial writer for The Washington Post, Juan Williams is also a Fox News correspondent and a keynote speaker on issues including diversity, ethics, leadership, media and national issues. There are few voices as clear and intelligent on the power of diversity within today's ...

Sheryl WuDunn

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and professional speaker, Sheryl WuDunn offers a unique perspective on current economic, political and social issues such as women's rights. As co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Half the Sky, WuDunn calls attention to the trials and triumphs of women ...

Anthony Shadid

He is the Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times. Since 9/11, he has reported from most of the countries in the Middle East, from Egypt to Syria to Israel and Palestine, where he was wounded in the back while covering fighting in 2002 in the West Bank.

Mariane Pearl

Pearl is a unique and versatile award-winning journalist who has written A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, a gripping and profound narrative of her experience and the pursuit of those who captured and killed her husband, Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall ...

Ellis Cose

Ellis Cose is one of America's most renowned journalists and media commentators, as well as an author and speaker on several important issues of national and international concern. Cose is the author of Bone to Pick, The Envy of the World, and the best-selling The Rage of a Privileged Class.

Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas is a columnist for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune. Their first Bombay-based correspondent in the modern era, he reported on India's transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty and democracy. As a keynote ...

Susan L. Taylor

As editorial director of Essence, Taylor was the driving force behind one of the most celebrated black-owned business success stories in recent times. Her firm belief in personal empowerment and tapping into the power within motivates and inspired her employees to lead Essence to become a successful global ...

Daniel Altman

Daniel Altman is a visionary economist whose work has revolved around identifying long-term solutions to problems facing the global economy. He is the author of Outrageous Fortunes.

Rob Gifford

An NPR Foreign Correspondent and China Editor of The Economist magazine, Gifford authored the critically acclaimed China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.

Rich Lowry

Lowry is considered the gatekeeper of the mainstream conservative movement in our country as the editor of National Review and as a political analyst for Fox News. Intellectual, yet down to earth, conservative and fair-minded, he examines the issues of today with a challenging and engaging perspective.

Joe Nocera

Joe Nocera has spent his career "demystifying the world of business." He is a columnist for The New York Times and the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in business journalism.

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.

Rami George Khouri

Khouri knows the Middle East like few other journalists. As the Editor-at-Large of The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, he reports from ground zero of the conflict as it unfolds. A Palestinian-Jordanian, educated in both the Middle East and the US, he is a widely respected international political columnist. He ...

Asra Nomani

The author of the critically-acclaimed Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam, she is a former Wall Street Journal correspondent, and friend of Daniel Pearl. Her character figures prominently in A Mighty Heart, the film based on the life and death of Pearl at the ...

Bing West

A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Bing West previously served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs where he was responsible for defense policy around the globe during the Reagan administration. He is an expert on the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as defense, ...

A.J. Jacobs

Renowned as “the human guinea pig,” A.J. Jacobs has outsourced his life to India, read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in a quest to become the smartest person in the world, and lived modern life as the ultimate biblical man. Throwing himself into bizarre situations all in the name of a little curiosity and a ...

Antonia Juhasz

Antonia Juhasz is Director and Founder of the Energy Program at Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based human rights nonprofit organization. She is a policy analyst, author, and activist. Currently, Juhasz is writing a book on the BP Gulf oil disaster to be published by Wiley Publishers in the Spring of 2011. She is also ...

Sonia Nazario

Sonia Nazario, a projects reporter for The Los Angeles Times, has spent more than two decades reporting and writing about social issues, earning her dozens of national awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her series, “Enrique’s Journey,” about the experiences of Latin American children ...

Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986.