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