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Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn

Academy Award-Winning Actress & Advocate

Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award-winning actress, producer, director, best-selling author, and fierce children’s mental health advocate. Known to millions as one of the screen’s most beloved actresses, her memorable performances have endeared audiences around the world and she has touched millions more with her work as a best-selling author…

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Dr. Moogega Cooper

Dr. Moogega Cooper

Award-Winning engineer of the Mars Rover "Perseverance" Mission and real-life “Guardian of the Galaxy”

On Feb. 18th, 2021, Dr. Moogega “Moo” Cooper helped make history when the Mars Perseverance Rover successfully landed on the Red Planet. Part of the famed NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team, Moo is blazing a trail as a real life ‘Guardian of the Galaxy’ holding the awesome responsibility of…

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Liz Cheney

Liz Cheney

U.S. Representative for Wyoming's At-Large Congressional District (2017 – 2023)

Liz Cheney served as the U.S. representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023. She chaired the House Republican Conference, the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership, from 2019 to 2021, and served as the Vice Chair of the Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. She…

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Dr. Lisa Genova

Dr. Lisa Genova

Neuroscientist and Best-Selling Author of Still Alice

A Neuroscientist and #1 international best-selling author, Genova is one of the world’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases, their origins, and the state of current research in the quest for their cures. Lisa Genova wields her ability to tell a story and her knowledge of the human…

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H. R. McMaster

H. R. McMaster

Retired US Army Lieutenant General & Former National Security Advisor

Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster (USA Ret.) was assistant to the president for National Security Affairs from 2017-2018. He is renowned and distinguished as a pre-eminent “warrior-thinker” and “iconoclast general.” McMaster currently operates from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His PhD in History from UNC Chapel Hill grounds his…

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Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Foreign Affairs Columnist and Best-Selling Author

Thomas Friedman is one of America’s most visionary thinkers. This three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner is one of the world’s preeminent commentators on international affairs. When events in this nation and abroad seem too menacing to comprehend, the American public looks to him for the straight talk and reliable information we need.…

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