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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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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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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