Course curriculum

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    Founders & Change-Makers

    • Kurt Andersen - Co-Creator, Studio 360

    • Elizabeth Hausler- Founder & CEO of BuildChange

    • Erica Keswin - Founder, The Spaghetti Project & Author, Bring Your Human to Work

    • Banny Banerjee - Founder, Stanford ChangeLabs

    • Judith Samuelson - Vice President, The Aspen Institute

    • Molly Hemstreet - Co-Director of The Industrial Commons Founder & General Manager at Opportunity Threads
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    Writers & Authors

    • Maria Hinojosa - Founder of the Futuro Media Group, Award Winning Multimedia Journalist and Producer

    • Anthony Brandt - Co-Author of The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

    • David Eagelman - Co-Author of The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

    • Susan Orlean - American Journalist & Staff Writer for the New Yorker

    • Richard Green - Author of “Words That Shook the World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events”

    • Tim Wilson - Author, Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change

    • Miriam Horn - Author/Filmmaker, Environmental Defense Fund
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    Educators & Professors

    • Tina Seelig - Professor of the Practice in Stanford University’s Department of Management Science and Engineering

    • Hal B. Gregersen - Executive Director, The MIT Leadership Center

    • Azim Shariff - Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine

    • Heather Gerken - Dean and the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School

    • John McWhorter - Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University

    • Amy Whitaker - Author and Professor at New York University

    • Sherry Turkle - Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT

    • Gary Marcus - Professor in the Department of Psychology at NYU

    • Annette Gordon-Reed - Professor of History, Harvard University

    • Michael Greenstone - Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, University of Chicago

    • Jacquelyn Gill - Assistant Professor of Paleoecology, University of Maine

    • Kate Darling - Research Specialist, MIT Media Lab
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    Inspirational Leaders

    • Nikhil Deogun - Editor-in-Chief and SVP, CNBC Business News

    • Patty Alper - Author, Mentor and President of the Alper Portfolio Group

    • Liz Dozier - Managing Director, Chicago Beyond

    • Nicola Galombik - Executive Director, Yellowwoods Holdings

    • Nelson Switzer - Chief Sustainability Officer, Nestle Waters

    • Alexis Morgan - Lead, Water Stewardship, WWF

    • Ted Halstead - President, Climate Leadership Council

    • Alice Hill - Research Fellow, Hoover Institution