Speakers

Medical anthropologist and author of Allergic

#1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

Author of The Postmortal, The Hike, and Someone Could Get Hurt

Creator, writer, and producer of the hit podcast Lore

Former Editor in Chief at Catapult and author of A Burning

Author of Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Great Believers and I Have Some Questions for You

Author of 2014 National Book Award finalist Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility

Advocate for criminal justice reform, poet, and motivational speaker

Medical historian, M.D., journalist, and award-winning author

Journalist and author of The Far Away Brothers and A Map of Future Ruins

Author of the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi and New York Times bestseller Beatrice and Virgil

NASA Astronaut and author of Spaceman

New York Times bestselling author of Wintering and Enchantment

Entrepreneurs and authors of Work Wife

Delaware State Senator, LGBTQ activist, and National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign

Author of New York Times bestseller The Wild Truth and consultant and contributor to Jon Krakauer's book and Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild

Bestselling author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic and Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine

Author of The Wilder Life

Author of Born to Run, journalist, and innovator of the barefoot-running movement

U.S. Marine Corps veteran and founder of Honor Bound, Inc.

New York Times-bestselling author of The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, Love and Ruin and When the Stars Go Dark

Vanity Fair contributing editor and co-author of All the Devils are Here and the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room

Author of Zucked and Silicon Valley investor

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter behind the Netflix hit, “Painkiller”

Named one of The New Yorker "20 Under 40" writers to watch and author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and How to Read the Air

New York Times bestselling historian and former National Geographic journalist

Artist, activist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Know My Name

Author of The Night Circus and The Starless Sea

Acclaimed author of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands

Award-winning author of Oprah’s Book Club selection Nightcrawling and former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland

Founder of That Cheese Plate