Carlotta Gall
Istanbul bureau chief for the New York Times
Holden Thorp, Gil Eyal, Tess Lanzarotta, Damon Scott Tweedy and Yolonda Y. Wilson
Ian Bogost
Professor and director of film & media studies; professor of computer science & engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
Joy Williams
Short-story writer and novelist
Kevin McKeegan
Distinguished Professor of Cosmochemistry and Geochemistry, University of California -Los Angeles
Laurel Kendall
Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections,American Museum of Natural History
Moogega Cooper
Lead planetary protection engineer, NASA
Natalia Aleksiun
Professor of modern Jewish history, Touro College; incoming Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida-Gainesville