Najla Said
Actress, playwright and author of the memoir Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family
Speakers
Julie Salamon
Award-winning journalist, author, and critic
Jerry Saltz
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for New York magazine
Marjane Satrapi
Academy Award-nominated director, cartoonist, and author of Persepolis
Will Schwalbe
New York Times-bestselling author of We Should Not Be Friends
John Burnham Schwartz
Bestselling author of The Red Daughter and Reservation Road
Ken Segall
Former Ad Agency Creative Director for NeXT and Apple, author of New York Times bestseller Insanely Simple and Think Simple
Shaka Senghor
Author of Letters to the Sons of Society and Writing My Wrongs and leading voice on criminal justice reform
Bo Seo
Two-time world champion debater and author of Good Arguments
Ruta Sepetys
International bestselling author of Between Shades of Gray and Out of the Easy
Namwali Serpell
Author of The Old Drift and The Furrows
Jeff Shaara
New York Times-bestselling author of historical and military fiction
Dani Shapiro
Bestselling author of Hourglass and Inheritance, host of the Family Secrets podcast.
Sadia Shepard
Documentary filmmaker and author of The Girl from Foreign
Daniel Sherrell
Environmental advocate and author of Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Dr. Aomawa Shields
Astronomer, astrobiologist, and Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Maggie Shipstead
Bestselling novelist and travel writer
Gary Shteyngart
New York Times-bestselling author of Little Failure, Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, and Our County Friends
Neil Shubin
Evolutionary biologist and discoverer of the "Missing Link," and author of Your Inner Fish and The Universe Within
David Allen Sibley
The world's leading authority on birds and birding; author and illustrator
Hampton Sides
Award-winning editor of Outside magazine and bestselling historian
Suzanne Simard
Leader of The Mother Tree Project and author of Finding the Mother Tree
Dr. Simran Jeet Singh
Motivational speaker, author, and human rights activist
Chris Smalls
Labor organizer and president and co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union
Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and essayist
Bren Smith
Restorative ocean farmer, co-founder of GreenWave, and author of Eat Like a Fish
Diane Shader Smith
Spokesperson for the bestselling book Salt in My Soul
Juliet Starrett and Kelly Starrett
Mobility Experts and authors of Built to Move
T.J. Stiles
Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, American historian, and author of Custer's Trials
J. Ryan Stradal
New York Times-bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Cheryl Strayed
Author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir Wild and "Dear Sugar" columnist
Elizabeth Strout
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge and New York Times bestsellers My Name is Lucy Barton, Tell Me Everything, and more
Dr. Dana Suskind
Pediatric physician and author of Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain and Parent Nation
Neil Swidey
Award-winning journalist and author of Trapped Under the Sea, and specialist in risk and safety