Organization

Steve Wozniak

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October 1, 2013

Steve Wozniak (born August 11, 1950), known as Woz, is an American inventor, computer engineer, and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak single-handedly invented both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s. These computers contributed significantly to the microcomputer...

Al Gore

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November 12, 2013

Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a private investment manager. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, and a member of Apple, Inc.’s board of directors.

In the years following the 2000 election, Gore became increasingly...

Admiral Michael Mullen

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January 7, 2014

Michael Mullen (born October 4, 1946) is a retired United States Navy admiral, who served as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2011. In this position he served as the principal military advisor to the president, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security...

Andrew Weil

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January 21, 2014

Andrew Weil is a pioneer in the fields of health, wellness, and integrative medicine. He is founder, professor, and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Weil’s books, PBS specials, and frequent appearances on Today and The Dr. Oz Show have inspired people to lead healthier, happier...

Judy Smith

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February 18, 2014

Judy Smith is the founder and president of Smith & Co., a leading crisis management firm in Washington, D.C. and L.A. For more than 25 years she has brought her unique combination of communication skills, media savvy, and legal and political acumen to clients facing a wide array of crises.

She is best known for her crisis management...

Robert Ballard

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April 2, 2013

Robert Ballard is an underwater archaeologist, geophysicist, and educator. But he is best known for his amazing deep-sea discoveries: of the Titanic, the Bismarck, the USS Yorktown (while on a secret mission for the Navy, with the Titanic as his cover story) and John F. Kennedy’s PT-109. He was in the first team of scientists to view the...

Louise Leakey

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February 27, 2013

Louise Leakey, paleontologist, conservationist, educator, and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, is the third generation of the famous Leakey family to dig for humanity’s past in East Africa. She and her team, The Koobi Fora Research Project, have made discoveries that may rewrite humanity’s evolutionary timeline: her 2007...

Michelle A. Rhee

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January 29, 2013

Michelle Rhee is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, formed in response to the increasing demand for a better education system for all of our children, in every zip code. Before leading StudentsFirst, Ms. Rhee was a Teach for America corpsmember in Baltimore; founded The New Teacher Project to bring more excellent teachers to classrooms by...

Thomas Friedman

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January 8, 2013

Columnist for The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning author, TV documentarian: these are a few of the hats worn by Thomas Friedman, an intellectual the man in the street can look to for straight talk about our increasingly complex world. The titles of a few of his books say much about him: his newest, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell...

President Bill Clinton

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December 4, 2012

Under the presidency of President William Jefferson Clinton, the US enjoyed the longest economic expansion in its history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the US and...