Speakers & Performers

 
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Susie Tompkins Buell

Joyous Persister in Chief

Debra Cleaver

Founder and CEO, Vote.org

Shannon Coulter

digital strategist and co-founder, grabyourwallet.org

Carolina De Robertis

writer and activist

Kimberly Ellis

Former Executive Director, Emerge California

Parnaz Foroutan

author

Reyna Grande

author

Leah Greenberg

Co-Executive Director, Indivisible Project

Nonie Greene

Women’s Rights Advocate

Wanda M. Holland Greene

Head of School, The Hamlin School

Cheryl Haines

Principal, Haines Gallery & Executive Director, FOR-SITE Foundation

Josh Healey

Writer & Creative Activist

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Cristi Hegranes

Founder and Executive Director, Global Press

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Marc Bamuthi Joseph 

Poet and Chief of Program & Pedagogy, Ybca

Eleni Kounalakis

former U.S. Ambassador, Hungary

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Comedian and storyteller

Annie Leonard

Executive Director, Greenpeace USA

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Eric Liu

Founder & CEO, Citizen University and Author, You're More Power Than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen

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Gina McCarthy

Former Administrator, U.S. EPA under President Obama

Gavin Newsom

Lieutenant Governor of California

Joy-Ann Reid

MSNBC host and author

Tova Ricardo

Poet

Kate Schatz

 author

Anna Deavere Smith

Actress, playwright, and teacher

Abdi Soltani

Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

 Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Executive Director, Equality Labs

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Andrea Dew Steele

President and Founder, Emerge America

Shaunna Thomas

co-founder and co-Executive Director, UltraViolet

 

Buffy Wicks

political strategist and progressive advocate

 

Elizabeth Warren

U.S. Senator for massachusetts