Movement Partners

Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project

Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute

Leadership Professor, Harvard; Social Scientist; Bestselling Author; & Columnist, The Atlantic

Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

Founder, The Corcoran Group; & Star, ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank

Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur

President, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Unscripted Television & Orion Scripted Television

Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur

Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist

CEO, Stand Together

Founder & CEO, Balanced Media

Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution

Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind

Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink

Chairman, CRB Family Foundation

Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts

Co-Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

CEO, 1AND1

CEO, Dallas Mavericks

Award-Winning Author & Scholar of Extremism & Radicalization, American University

Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders

Founder, KIND Snacks

Executive Director, Lyceum Labs

Head of Originals, Roku

President, Greenlight Capital; & Founder, Einhorn Collaborative

Food & Tech Investor

CEO, American Exchange Project

Founder & CEO, FUBU; New York Times Bestselling Author; Star of ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank; & Founder & CEO, The Shark Group

Professor & Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication; Co-Founder & CEO, Cortico

Principal, Copenhaver Consulting

Co-Founder, WaitWhat

Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, NFL Linebacker, Author, Host, & Explorer

CEO, Step Up

Psychology Professor, Lehigh University; & Co-Author, The Power of Us

Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker

CEO, King Center; Human Rights Leader; & Social Change Advocate

Founder & President, Interfaith America

Writer, Retired Boxer, & Self-Improvement Enthusiast

CEO, Teach For America

Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University

President Emeritus, UNC

Author of How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat

Founder, Making Conversations LLC

Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group

Former World Chess Champion & Chairman, Renew Democracy Initiative

Co-Founder, Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund

Assistant Executive Director of External Affairs, NFL Players Association

Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist

Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP

Executive Vice President, US Alternative & Syndication Programming, Sony Pictures Television (SPT)

President & Co-Founder, Muflehun

Executive Chairman, EXILE Content

Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries

Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring

Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory

Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group

Actor, Writer, Composer, Director, & Producer

Executive Director & Editor-in-Chief, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley

Psychology Professor, NYU; & Co-Author, The Power of Us

Founder & Filmmaker, Exposure Labs — Chasing Ice / Chasing Coral / The Social Dilemma

Entrepreneur; Author; Co-Founder, Organize; & National Organizer, Women’s March On Washington

Global Managing Partner, IBM; & Independent Director, Biogen

Former President, IBM

Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org

Founding Partner, 8VC; & Co-Founder, Palantir

Writer & Producer

Attorney & Venture Capitalist

Chairman Emeritus & Senior Advisor, Vanguard

Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant

Bestselling Author, Speaker, Coach, & Leadership Expert

National Ambassador, Braver Angels; Opinion Columnist, USA Today

Managing Director & Co-Founding Artist, Inheritance Theater Project

CEO & National Director, ADL

Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern

President, Danly Properties

Chef & Owner, ThinkFoodGroup; & Founder, World Central Kitchen

Executive Director, Seeds of Peace

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat

CEO & Creator, Inversity Solutions, L.L.C.

Senior Advisor & Deputy Chief of Staff, President George W. Bush

Social Entrepreneur

Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation

CEO, Enterprise, Moon Pay; & Former CEO, Time

NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals

Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures

Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group

Lieutenant Colonel, USMC (Ret.); CEO & Founder of ZeroMils

CEO, The Coding School

Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink

Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The On Being Project

Media & Data Expert; CEO, AdPredictive; Past COO, MTV; Director, BCOV & GAIA

Co-Founder, Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund

Dean, School of Communication & Journalism, Stony Brook University

SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent

Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE

President & CEO, Millennial Action Project

Survivor of Police Brutality, Activist, Writer, Entrepreneur, & Change-Maker

Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company

Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress

Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises

Entrepreneur, Inventor, Producer, National Best Selling Author, Humanitarian, & Star of ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank

Political Strategist & Philanthropist

Co-Founder & COO, RentCheck; Founder, REEPNow

Co-Founder, Challenge Success, Stanford Graduate School of Education; New York Times Bestselling Author

CEO, BridgeUSA

CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation

Entrepreneur; Investor; Owner, Dallas Mavericks; & Star, ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank

Founder & CEO, Be-cause

President, CEO, & Director, Q2

Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure

Author & Activist

President, Lubetzky Family Foundation

Founder & CEO, Curiosity Lab; Creator, Actually Curious

Managing Director & Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Blackrock

Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue

Co-Founder, Center for Science in the Public Interest

Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory

Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels

Co-Founder, Pine Creek Renewables; & Founder, Safe Conflict Project

CEO & Founder, Quevos

Founder, California Democracy Fund

President, High Point University

President, UATX

Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host

Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple

EVP, Clal; Founding Director, Glean Network

Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue

Rabbi, East End Temple

Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group

President, Sojourners; & Author

Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens

Author; Minister, Middle Church

Founder & Executive Director, Faith Matters Network

CEO, Edelman

Filmmaker & Journalist

Excel Sports Management

Founder, Chairman, & CEO, B&C Associates, Inc.

COO, BridgeUSA

Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M

Writer, Media Strategist, & Creator, Daily Stoic

Executive Director, Empatico

President, The Gottesman Company

Founding Executive Director, Fuqua / Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics, Duke University

U.S. Marine Corps Veteran & Community Leader

Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer

CEO, Search for Common Ground

America’s Government Teacher

Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy

Practicing Physician, Author, & Speaker on Integrative Health & Wellness

Author, The Light We Give; Executive Director, Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program

CEO, The Conversationalist

President, Camino Partners

Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.

Founder, Bronze Investments

Chairman, Innovation Project Development

Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility

Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies

Prosecutor, Processor, & Legal Analyst, NBC News & MSNBC

CEO & Founder, Good Information

CEO & Founder, Diversability

Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict

Chairman, Special Olympics International; & Co-Founder, UNITE

Co-Founder & Writer/Illustrator, Wait But Why

Chief Content Officer, NowThis

President & Co-Founder, Chelsea Piers, L.P.

Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate

Senior Manager, Weapons Integration & Business Development, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control

Governor of Maryland, Combat Veteran, Social Entrepreneur, & Former CEO, Robin Hood

Musician, Tech Entrepreneur, & Philanthropist

Founder, Persuasion

CEO, Jigsaw

Alyssa Farah Griffin

Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition

Professor & Executive Director, Polarization Lab, Duke University

President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution

Media & Holocaust Scholar; Executive Director, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation

Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment

Media & Communication Professor, Temple University

Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur

Founder, Tangle

Sports Business Professor, Northern Kentucky University; & Co-Founder, Know Rivalry Project

Retired NPR Correspondent

Co-Founder & CEO, Blue Star Families

Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation

Executive Director, Rank The Vote

Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.

Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect

Social Practice Artist; Creator, In America: Remember

Washington Post Guest Contributor & graduate, Stanford Law School

Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation

Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE

Editor in Chief, Message Lab

CEO, 1Community; Founder, Anti-Recidivism Coalition

Founder of Millennial Action Project; former U.S. Senate candidate; featured in The Reunited States documentary

Political Strategist, Author, Television and Radio Host

Journalist, Author, and co-Founder of Stand Up To Cancer

Political Strategist, Author and Commentator; Host of Politics War Room Podcast

Chancellor, The University of Texas System

Chairman, Zignal Labs

Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab

President & CEO Arizona Coyotes

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy

Founder and CEO, Nas Company

Co-Founder and Board President of the Prohuman Foundation

Bion Bartning

Co-Founder and Board President of the Prohuman Foundation

Bion Bartning is an entrepreneur and investor, and co-founder and Board President of the Prohuman Foundation.

Previously, Bion founded FAIR, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, and co-founded and led the launch of eos Products, a personal care brand best known today for its iconic egg-shaped lip balm, while serving as an equity partner and Chief Operating Officer of The Kind Group, a privately held company dedicated to the development and expansion of brands.

Bion was also part of American Express’ Strategic Planning Group, where he conceived of and patented a new multi-channel system for booking travel and led the launch of a new consumer online travel business as Director, New Product Development, partnering with a major online travel agency.

Bion earned his MBA from Columbia Business School, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in economics and environmental studies from Occidental College. He lives in Miami with his wife, two children, and their family dog Charlie Brown.

Musician, Actor, Author, and Co-Founder of Prohuman Foundation

Daryl Davis

Musician, Actor, Author, and Co-Founder of Prohuman Foundation

Musician, actor, author, and lecturer Dr. Daryl Davis is often called The Rock’n’Roll Race
Reconciliator. He’s not white. He’s not even light skinned. Make no mistake about it,
he’s black. As a Black man he has come in closer contact with more members of the Ku
Klux Klan than most White people and certainly most Blacks, short of being on the wrong
side of a rope.

He is the first Black author to write book on the KKK by conducting in-person face-to-face interviews. As a result of the way he conversed with White supremacists and other racists, Dr. Davis eventually became the recipient of numerous robes and hoods given to him by KKK members who rescinded their beliefs after coming to know him. He had inadvertently stumbled upon a successful method of forming friendships between sworn enemies. His methods have made him the center of controversy in some circles where he is considered “politically incorrect,” but after proving his methods work, he has made supporters out of some of his detractors.

As an award-winning musician Davis has worked with Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley’s
Jordanaires, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Legendary Blues Band and many others. He is also an
actor who starred in the award-winning documentary Accidental Courtesy detailing his
real life encounters with KKK and neo-Nazi members and as an actor he has appeared in
HBO’s award-winning series The Wire.

His first book Klan-Destine Relationships was critically acclaimed and his second book The Klan Whisperer is due out soon. Dr. Davis has received numerous awards for his work in race relations and is often sought out by CNN, C-SPAN, The Washington Post, New York Times, Time Magazine and other media outlets as a consultant for his views.

Founder and Executive Director, A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy

Aaron Dorfman

Founder and Executive Director, A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy

Aaron Dorfman is Founder and Executive Director of A More Perfect Union: The Jewish Partnership for Democracy, an effort to mobilize the American Jewish community to protect and strengthen American democracy. A More Perfect Union powers a collective-impact network working to expand opportunities for civic learning; promote ideological pluralism; and ensure free, fair, safe and accessible elections. Previously, Aaron served as President of Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah, Vice President for Programs of American Jewish World Service, and Director of Informal Education at Temple Isaiah of Contra Costa County. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in English and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Aaron and his wife Talia live in Brooklyn, New York, where they’re raising three fierce feminist daughters and one bearded dragon.

Executive Director, Project Pericles

Sanda Balaban

Executive Director, Project Pericles

Sanda Balaban is passionate about helping young people understand their individual and collective power, at and beyond the ballot box. In response to the complex times we’re living in, the vulnerability of democracy being demonstrated, and the desire to support young people in being informed, engaged participants on the front lines of change, in 2017, she co-founded and directed cross-partisan youth civic engagement nonprofit YVote/ Next Generation Politics, aiming to equip leaders of tomorrow for their roles and responsibilities as citizens shaping a more just world and in July 2024, she became Executive Director of Project Pericles, a higher education non-profit committed to fostering the next generation of civic leaders through innovative curricula and faculty leadership that empowers students with skills to address society’s grand challenges. 

Sanda has held leadership roles in education and youth development for over 25 years, in the public sector at the New York City Department of Education, in education philanthropy at the Ford Foundation and the Goldman Sachs Foundation, and in nonprofits including Facing History and Ourselves, the Boston Private Industry Council, and The Teachers Network.

Sanda is proud to serve on the founding Board of Directors of Generation Vote, The Hope Reichbach Memorial Fund, and the Human Schools Project, as well as on the National Reader Advisory Board for Chalkbeat. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Graduate School of Education.