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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
Stephen DeBerry
Founder, Bronze Investments
Pano Kanelos
President, UATX
Lisa Oz
Radio Personality, Bestselling Author, & Actress
Brandon Farbstein
Motivational Speaker & Gen Z Activist
Jon Adam Ross
Managing Director & Co-Founding Artist, The In[HEIR]itance Project
Kate Glantz
Social Entrepreneur
Chris Volpe
Executive Director & Founding Board Member, ScienceCounts
Reggie Van Lee
Chief Transformation Officer, Carlyle Group
Xavier Gutierrez
President & CEO Arizona Coyotes
Sandy Gottesman
President, The Gottesman Company
Barry Kramer
Partner Emeritus, Fenwick & West; & Entrepreneur
Stacy Dick
President, Camino Partners
Tina Exarhos
Chief Content Officer, NowThis
Allan Mutchnik
President, Harbor Freight Tools
Laura Chen
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Civic Synergy
Barry Poznick
President, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Unscripted Television & Orion Scripted Television
Jonathan Saad
President, Danly Properties
Eric Bronner
Founder & COO, Veterans for Political Innovation
Aaron Webman
Founding Team & Head of Business Development, Ender
Tiffany Yu
CEO & Founder, Diversability
Rev. Adam Russell Taylor
President, Sojourners; & Author
Karith Foster
CEO & Creator, Inversity Solutions, L.L.C.
Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made By Us, Smithsonian Institution
David Eisner
President & CEO, Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
Riaz Patel
Executive Producer/Director & Creator, ConnectEffect
April Lawson
Managing Director of Debates, Braver Angels
Richard Edelman
CEO, Edelman
Rabbi Elan Babchuck
EVP, Clal; Founding Director, Glean Network
Nathan Otto
Co-Founder, Pine Creek Renewables; & Founder, Safe Conflict Project
David McCullough
CEO, American Exchange Project
James Impoco
Editor in Chief, Message Lab
Jeff Orlowski
Founder & Filmmaker, Exposure Labs — Chasing Ice / Chasing Coral / The Social Dilemma
Hilary Preston
Vice Chair, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Geoffrey Baym
Media & Communication Professor, Temple University
Deke Copenhaver
Principal, Copenhaver Consulting
will.i.am
Musician, Tech Entrepreneur, & Philanthropist
Jenna Arnold
Entrepreneur; Author; Co-Founder, Organize; & National Organizer, Women’s March On Washington
Kmele Foster
Co-Founder & Executive Producer, FreeThink
Laura Lauder
Co-Founder, Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund
Alyssa Farah Griffin
Alyssa Farah Griffin
Daniel Lubetzky
Founder, KIND Snacks
Manu Meel
CEO, BridgeUSA
Bobbi Brown
Makeup Artist & Entrepreneur
Kathy Roth-Douquet
Co-Founder & CEO, Blue Star Families
Tara McGowan
CEO & Founder, Good Information
Alice Marie Johnson
CEO, Taking Action for Good; Criminal Justice Reform Advocate; & Author
Lori Greiner
Entrepreneur, Inventor, Producer, National Best Selling Author, Humanitarian, & Star of ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank
Dr. Bernice King
CEO, King Center; Human Rights Leader; & Social Change Advocate
Ariana Pekary
Social Entrepreneur & Public Editor, Columbia Journalism Project
Isaac Lee
Executive Chairman, EXILE Content
Ryan Holiday
Writer, Media Strategist, & Creator, Daily Stoic
The Honorable Karl Rove
Senior Advisor & Deputy Chief of Staff, President George W. Bush
Jay Van Bavel
Psychology Professor, NYU; & Co-Author, The Power of Us
Sanyin Siang
Founding Executive Director, Fuqua / Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics, Duke University
Aurelian Craitu
Political Science Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Holly Jacobs
Executive Vice President, US Alternative & Syndication Programming, Sony Pictures Television (SPT)
David Eilenberg
Head of Originals, Roku
John (Jack) Brennan
Chairman Emeritus & Senior Advisor, Vanguard
Krista Tippett
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The On Being Project
Dr. Maria Zalewksa
Media & Holocaust Scholar; Executive Director, Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation
Joe Londsale
Founding Partner, 8VC; & Co-Founder, Palantir
Michelle Gadsden-Williams
Managing Director & Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Blackrock
Matt Flake
President, CEO, & Director, Q2
Kathryn Murdoch
Co-Founder & President, Quadrivium Foundation
Mohamed Abdel-Kader
Founder & Principal, Radial Global Advisory
Jim Hornthal
Chairman, Zignal Labs
Andy Hanauer
President & CEO, One America Movement
Chandler Tuttle
Co-Founder & CEO, Freethink
Scott Cooper
U.S. Marine Corps Veteran & Community Leader
Brian Hooks
CEO, Stand Together
Luis Miranda
Political Strategist & Philanthropist
Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern
Pati Jinich
Chef, Cookbook Author, & PBS TV host
Megan Phelps-Roper
Author & Activist
Isaac Saul
Founder, Tangle
Arthur Brooks
Leadership Professor, Harvard; Social Scientist; Bestselling Author; & Columnist, The Atlantic
Abraham (Abe) Foxman
National Director Emeritus, ADL
Rabbi Josh Stanton
Rabbi, East End Temple
Robert (Bob) Brown
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, B&C Associates, Inc.
Andrew Yang
Former Presidential Candidate & Founder, Forward
Tim Shriver
Chairman, Special Olympics International; & Co-Founder, UNITE
Fred Dust
Founder, Making Conversations LLC
Jose Andres
Chef & Owner, ThinkFoodGroup; & Founder, World Central Kitchen
Jane Greenfield
Principal, Vanguard Institutional Investor Group
Mike Jacobson
Co-Founder, Center for Science in the Public Interest
Barbara Corcoran
Founder, The Corcoran Group; & Star, ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank
Tom Bernstein
President & Co-Founder, Chelsea Piers, L.P.
Michael Johnston
President, Lubetzky Family Foundation
Tali Farhadian Weinstein
Prosecutor, Processor, & Legal Analyst, NBC News & MSNBC
Jason Marsh
Executive Director & Editor-in-Chief, Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley
Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur; Investor; Owner, Dallas Mavericks; & Star, ABC’s Emmy Award–Winning Show Shark Tank
Charles Bronfman
Chairman, CRB Family Foundation
Rev. DeForest B. Soaries
Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens
Kerry Sulkowics
Founder & Managing Principal, Boswell Group
Monica Guzman
Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels
Mara Lee Durrell
CEO, OneVoice Movement & PeaceWorks Foundation
Kelvin Beachum
NFL Athlete, Arizona Cardinals
David Kamenetzky
Food & Tech Investor
Matthew Satnick
Co-CEO & Chairman, Enstructure
Rob Feld
Filmmaker & Journalist
Lester Crown
Chairman Emeritus, Henry Crown & Company
Layla Zaidane
President & CEO, Millennial Action Project
Sophie Beren
CEO, The Conversationalist
Keith Grossman
CEO, Enterprise, Moon Pay; & Former CEO, Time
Rev. Jen Bailey
Founder & Executive Director, Faith Matters Network
Chris Bail
Professor & Executive Director, Polarization Lab, Duke University
Fernando Szew
Founder & CEO, MarVista Entertainment
Ann Sarnoff
Former Chair & CEO, Warner Bros & Warner Media Studios & Networks Group
Jesus Mantas
Global Managing Partner, IBM; & Independent Director, Biogen
Paul Hobby
Founder, Genesis Park, L.P.
Deron Triff
Co-Founder, WaitWhat
Jamie Siminoff
Chief Inventor & Founder, Ring
Lauren McCann
Founder & CEO, CALLIOPE
Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize–Winning Historian & Writer, The Atlantic
Steve Rittvo
Chairman, Innovation Project Development
Joan Blades
Co-Founder, LivingRoomConversations.org
Cynthia Marshall
CEO, Dallas Mavericks
Adam Grant
Psycologist & Bestselling Author
Nido Qubein
President, High Point University
John Maxwell
Bestselling Author, Speaker, Coach, & Leadership Expert
Alison Goldsworthy
Founder & CEO, The Depolarization Project; & Author, Poles Apart
Tess Winston
Washington Post Guest Contributor & graduate, Stanford Law School
Ross Irwin
COO, BridgeUSA
Alex Kruglov
Co-Founder & CEO, pop.in
Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove
Rabbi, Park Avenue Synagogue
Hank Fortener
Speaker, Entrepreneur, & Activist
Peter Hutchison
Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker
Ilana Redstone
Professor, Author, & Academic Entrepreneur
Vidyha Ramalingam
Founder & CEO, Moonshot CVE
Joel Kellman
Attorney & Venture Capitalist
Josh Thomas
Executive Director, Seeds of Peace
Amanda Ripley
Investigative Journalist & Bestselling Author
Daniel Stid
Executive Director, Lyceum Labs
Sharon McMahon
America’s Government Teacher
Madeline Levine
Co-Founder, Challenge Success, Stanford Graduate School of Education; New York Times Bestselling Author
Alan Alda
Award-Winning Actor, Bestselling Author, & Advocate for Science Communication
Steven Olikara
Founder of Millennial Action Project; former U.S. Senate candidate; featured in The Reunited States documentary
Caleb Hyun
Founder & CEO, Balanced Media
Tim Urban
Co-Founder & Writer/Illustrator, Wait But Why
Vance Cryer
Senior Manager, Weapons Integration & Business Development, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control
Lonnie Ali
Founder, Muhammad Ali Enterprises
Gary Lauder
Co-Founder, Laura & Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund
David Einhorn
President, Greenlight Capital; & Founder, Einhorn Collaborative
Adam Sher
President, ITV America
Laura Lindenfeld
Dean, School of Communication & Journalism, Stony Brook University
Corey Lewis
CEO, 1AND1
Farah Pandith
Author of How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat
Erskine Bowles
President Emeritus, UNC
Yascha Mounk
Founder, Persuasion
Suzanne Firstenberg
Social Practice Artist; Creator, In America: Remember
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
John Delaney
Entrepreneur, CEO, & Public Servant
Mats Lederhausen
Founder & CEO, Be-cause
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Award-Winning Author & Scholar of Extremism & Radicalization, American University
Nick Hamburger
CEO & Founder, Quevos
Susan David
Psychologist & Bestselling Author, Emotional Agility
Laura Schmiegel
SVP of Strategic Partnerships, Orion Talent
Shelly Lazarus
Chairman Emeritus, Ogilvy
Akiko Cooks
Community Organizer & Co-Founder, #1865 No Racism in Schools
Peter Coleman
Psychology & Education Professor, Columbia University
Tim Phillips
Founder & CEO, Beyond Conflict
Caroline Mehl
Co-Founder & Executive Director, OpenMind
Mark Selleck
Founder, 360Insight, a Social Purpose Corporation
Ken DeAngelis
Co-Founder & General Partner, Austin Ventures
John Wood Jr.
National Ambassador, Braver Angels; Opinion Columnist, USA Today
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
Author; Minister, Middle Church
Robert (Bobby) Barad
Excel Sports Management
Alia Braley
Researcher, Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Scott Shigeoka
Entrepreneur, Storyteller, & Designer
Benji Backer
Founder & Executive Chairman, American Conservation Coalition
Tony McAleer
Speaker & Author, The Cure For Hate
Yasmin Green
CEO, Jigsaw
Simran Jeet Singh
Author, The Light We Give; Executive Director, Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program
Shamil Idriss
CEO, Search for Common Ground
Leon Ford
Survivor of Police Brutality, Activist, Writer, Entrepreneur, & Change-Maker
June Cohen
Co-Founder & CEO, WaitWhat
Fred Zeidman
Chairman Emeritus, Gordian Group
Shelly Sethi
Practicing Physician, Author, & Speaker on Integrative Health & Wellness
Rabbi David Wolpe
Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple
Dov Baron
Leadership Expert, Inc. Top 100 Leadership Speaker
Garry Kasparov
Former World Chess Champion & Chairman, Renew Democracy Initiative
Roy Spence
Chairman & Co-Founder, GSD&M
Jim Whitehurst
Former President, IBM
Wes Moore
Governor of Maryland, Combat Veteran, Social Entrepreneur, & Former CEO, Robin Hood
Kristin Frank
Media & Data Expert; CEO, AdPredictive; Past COO, MTV; Director, BCOV & GAIA
Stanley Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.
Humera Khan
President & Co-Founder, Muflehun
Scott Budnick
CEO, 1Community; Founder, Anti-Recidivism Coalition
Ariel Burger
Founder & Senior Scholar, The Witness Institute
Anastasia Williams
Founder & CEO, TheAList
Kevin Schmiegel
Lieutenant Colonel, USMC (Ret.); CEO & Founder of ZeroMils
John Burnett
Retired NPR Correspondent
Deb Roy
Professor & Director, MIT Center for Constructive Communication; Co-Founder & CEO, Cortico
Mike Erwin
Executive Director, Team Red, White & Blue
Jacob Weisberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Pushkin Industries
Daisy Khan
Founder & Executive Director, WISE Leaders
Jonathan Greenblatt
CEO & National Director, ADL
Alan Fleischmann
Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Laurel Strategies
Dhani Jones
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, NFL Linebacker, Author, Host, & Explorer
Michael Tennant
Founder & CEO, Curiosity Lab; Creator, Actually Curious
Jason Alexander
Actor, Writer, Composer, Director, & Producer
Susan McPherson
Founder & CEO, McPherson Strategies
Joel Fields
Writer & Producer
Dominic Packer
Psychology Professor, Lehigh University; & Co-Author, The Power of Us
Dolores Morton
CEO, Step Up
Eric Liu
Co-Founder & CEO, Citizen University
George Atallah
Assistant Executive Director of External Affairs, NFL Players Association
Julia Minson
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Lydia Winkler
Co-Founder & COO, RentCheck; Founder, REEPNow
Todd Connor
Founder & CEO, Veterans for Political Innovation
Nicole Mutchnik
Founder, California Democracy Fund
Nathan Lockwood
Executive Director, Rank The Vote
Kiera Peltz
CEO, The Coding School
Wendy Kopp
CEO & Co-Founder, Teach For All
Clara Tsao
Co-Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Eboo Patel
Founder & President, Interfaith America
Elisa Vilaneuva Beard
CEO, Teach For America
Ed Latimore
Writer, Retired Boxer, & Self-Improvement Enthusiast
Ryan Modjeski
Executive Director, Empatico
Joe Cobbs
Sports Business Professor, Northern Kentucky University; & Co-Founder, Know Rivalry Project
Jamil Zaki
Director, Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory
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