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Mohamed Abdel-Kader is executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Stevens Initiative. He served in the US Education Department’s Office of Postsecondary Education as deputy a...
Michael Abramowitz is the president of Freedom House, a nonpartisan voice promoting democracy where he oversees analysis, advocacy, and direct support to frontline defenders f...
Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose focus is the force of popular culture and the media on the perception and construction of self-image. Currently partic...
Lola Adedokun is program director for child well-being and director of the African Health Initiative at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. In these respective roles, she pr...
Julián Aguilar is a reporter at The Texas Tribune, reporting on politics and border affairs from the Texas-Mexico border. His focuses include immigration reform and enforcemen...
Yamiche Alcindor is the White House correspondent for “PBS NewsHour” and a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. She has appeared on “Morning Joe,” “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” an...
Joseph Aldy is an associate professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bu...
Jessi Alexander is a country music singer/songwriter. Her career took off when she won the local Grammy Best Unsigned Artist Contest in 2001, then released her debut album, Ho...
Mike Allen is a Washington journalist and co-founder and executive editor of Axios, a company that delivers online news and insights on politics, business, media, and tech. He...
Ross Andersen is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the science, technology, and health sections. Prior to joining The Atlantic in 2015, he was the deputy edit...
Richard Anderson is co-founder and COO of the family-owned Iron Fish Distillery, established in 2016 on an abandoned rural farm. He also serves on Michigan’s Craft Beverage Co...
Kwame Anku is chairman and CEO of Black Star Fund, an early-stage innovation fund investing in the United States and Africa. Prior to this, he was the co-founder and principal...
Paola Antonelli is senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture and Design, as well as the museum’s founding director of research and developme...
Francisco Argüelles is a community organizer and executive director of Living Hope Wheelchair Association, an organization of migrants with spinal cord injuries. His three-dec...
Christie Aschwanden is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times best-seller Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of...
Whitley Atkins is a doctoral student at the University of Arkansas, conducting research in thermoregulation and hydration studies as they pertain to sport performance, sport s...