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“My husband, Muhammad Ali, lived his life connecting with people across cultures and countries with curiosity, kindness and compassion. As Muhammad demonstrated throughout his life, creating a kinder world does start with us.”
Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises
“I’m excited about the potential for Starts With Us to help people develop greater humility, curiosity, empathy, and mental flexibility.”
Adam Grant
Psychologist & Bestselling Author
“If we are to achieve a future of longer tables where there’s room for everyone to be part of building solutions, it will be thanks to efforts like Starts With Us.”
José Andrés
Chef & Owner, ThinkFoodGroup; Founder, World Central Kitchen
“Curiosity is the antidote to contempt. And just like contempt, it can be cultivated, on purpose, in a million ways, in every medium. We just need to get to work.”
Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author
“I noticed opportunities for improvement in my life and hope Starts With Us can become a community for anyone looking to create change in theirs.”
Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks
Dhani Jones
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, NFL Linebacker, Author, Host, & Explorer
Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures
Dr. Bernice King
CEO, King Center; Human Rights Leader; & Social Change Advocate
Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion
Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory
Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.
Jay Van Bavel
Psychology Professor, NYU; & Co-Author, The Power of Us
April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels
Gary Lauder
Co-Founder, Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund
Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward
Vance Cryer
Senior Manager, Weapons Integration & Business Development, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control
Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks
Garry Kasparov
Former World Chess Champion & Chairman, Renew Democracy Initiative
June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat
Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development
Arthur Brooks
Leadership Professor, Harvard; Social Scientist; Bestselling Author; & Columnist, The Atlantic
Alan Alda
Award-Winning Actor, Bestselling Author, & Advocate for Science Communication
John Maxwell
Bestselling Author, Speaker, Coach, & Leadership Expert
Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList
Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker
Scott Cooper
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran & Community Leader
Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation
Alice Marie Johnson
CEO, Taking Action for Good; Criminal Justice Reform Advocate; & Author
Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur; Investor; Owner, Dallas Mavericks; & Star, ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank
Clara Tsao
Co-Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University
Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur
Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2
Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate
Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat
Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners
Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent
Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute
Simran Jeet Singh
Author, The Light We Give; Executive Director, Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program
Ann Sarnoff
Former Chair & CEO, Warner Bros & Warner Media Studios & Networks Group
Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author
Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple
Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman
Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation
Tim Urban
Co-Founder & Writer/Illustrator, Wait But Why
Daymond John
Founder & CEO, FUBU; New York Times Bestselling Author; Star of ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank; & Founder & CEO, The Shark Group
Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together
Akiko Cooks
Community Organizer & Co-Founder, #1865 No Racism in Schools
Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue
John (Jack) Brennan
Chairman Emeritus & Senior Advisor, Vanguard
Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management
Tom Bernstein
President & Co-Founder, Chelsea Piers, L.P.
Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company
Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project
Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos
Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University
Rev. DeForest B. Soaries
Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens
Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM
Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Lori Greiner
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Producer, National Best Selling Author, Humanitarian, & Star of ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank
Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America
Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize–Winning Historian & Writer, The Atlantic
Shelly Sethi
Practicing Physician, Author, & Speaker on Integrative Health & Wellness
Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause
Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw
Rev. Jen Bailey
Founder & Executive Director, Faith Matters Network
Laura Lindenfeld
Dean, School of Communication & Journalism, Stony Brook University
Shamil Idriss
CEO, Search for Common Ground
Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern
Robert (Bob) Brown
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, B&C Associates, Inc.
Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group
John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant
Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender
Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis
Tali Farhadian Weinstein
Prosecutor, Processor, & Legal Analyst, NBC News & MSNBC
Jeff Orlowski
Founder & Filmmaker, Exposure Labs — Chasing Ice / Chasing Coral / The Social Dilemma
Barbara Corcoran
Founder, The Corcoran Group; & Star, ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank
Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties
Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies
Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict
Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries
Kristin Frank
Media & Data Expert; CEO, AdPredictive; Past COO, MTV; Director, BCOV & GAIA
Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico
Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group
Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL
Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace
Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue
John Wood Jr.
National Ambassador, Braver Angels; Opinion Columnist, USA Today
Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple
Mike Jacobson
Co-Founder, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Joel Fields
Writer & Producer
Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy
David Einhorn
President, Greenlight Capital; & Founder, Einhorn Collaborative
Madeline Levine
Co-Founder, Challenge Success, Stanford Graduate School of Education; New York Times Bestselling Author
Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur
Ed Latimore
Writer, Retired Boxer, & Self-Improvement Enthusiast
Leon Ford
Survivor of Police Brutality, Activist, Writer, Entrepreneur, & Change-Maker
Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels
Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur
Deb Roy
Professor & Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication; Co-Founder & CEO, Cortico
David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project
Laura Lauder
Co-Founder, Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund
Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA
Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org
Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun
Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up
Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility
Jason Alexander
Actor, Writer, Composer, Director, & Producer
Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host
Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America
Nathan Otto
Co-Founder, Pine Creek Renewables; & Founder, Safe Conflict Project
Rabbi Elan Babchuck
EVP, Clal; Founding Director, Glean Network
Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals
Nido Qubein
President, High Point University
Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker
Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project
Barry Poznick
President, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Unscripted Television & Orion Scripted Television
Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools
Michelle Gadsden-Williams
Managing Director & Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Blackrock
Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation
Alison Goldsworthy
Founder & CEO, The Depolarization Project; & Author, Poles Apart
Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School
Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments
Dominic Packer
Psychology Professor, Lehigh University; & Co-Author, The Power of Us
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Award-Winning Author & Scholar of Extremism & Radicalization, American University
Lydia Winkler
Co-Founder & COO, RentCheck; Founder, REEPNow
Ryan Holiday
Writer, Media Strategist, & Creator, Daily Stoic
Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group
Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution
Adam Sher
President, ITV America
Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund
Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink
Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company
Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC
Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability
Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in
Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC
Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author
Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind
Kevin Schmiegel
Lieutenant Colonel, USMC (Ret.); CEO & Founder of ZeroMils
Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist
Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist
Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer
David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor
Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies
Joe Londsale
Founding Partner, 8VC; & Co-Founder, Palantir
Wendy Kopp
CEO & Co-Founder, Teach For All
Jenna Arnold
Entrepreneur; Author; Co-Founder, Organize; & National Organizer, Women’s March On Washington
Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
Author; Minister, Middle Church
Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author
Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure
Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises
Krista Tippett
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The On Being Project
Pano Kanelos
President, UATX
Michael Tennant
Founder & CEO, Curiosity Lab; Creator, Actually Curious
Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist
Andy Hanauver
President & CEO, One America Movement
Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media
David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku
Wes Moore
Governor of Maryland, Combat Veteran, Social Entrepreneur, & Former CEO, Robin Hood
Holly Jacobs
Executive Vice President, US Alternative & Syndication Programming, Sony Pictures Television (SPT)
Tim Shriver
Chairman, Special Olympics International; & Co-Founder, UNITE
Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist
Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1
Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group
Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M
Jose Andres
Chef & Owner, ThinkFoodGroup; & Founder, World Central Kitchen
will.i.am
Musician, Tech Entrepreneur, & Philanthropist
Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist
Jason Marsh
Executive Director & Editor-in-Chief, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley
Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist
Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting
Jesus Mantas
Global Managing Partner, IBM; & Independent Director, Biogen
Karith Foster
CEO & Creator, Inversity Solutions, L.L.C.
Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts
Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink
Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks
Jon Adam Ross
Managing Director & Co-Founding Artist, The In[HEIR]itance Project
Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL
Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist
Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders
Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory
Sanyin Siang
Founding Executive Director, Fuqua / Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics, Duke University
Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress
Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA
Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content
George Atallah
Assistant Executive Director of External Affairs, NFL Players Association
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