Festival Speakers

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2025 Festival Speakers
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Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Koch Industries, Inc. (Festival Underwriter)
Dean, Yale College and Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies, Yale University
Senior Vice President of Editorial, First Look Media; Columnist, Sunday Book Review, The New York Times
Anchor and Managing Editor, “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt”; Anchor, “Dateline NBC”
Journalist; Author, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China
Chairman and CEO, Stand Together; President, Charles Koch Foundation and Charles Koch Institute
Associate Director, Citizenship and American Identity Program, The Aspen Institute
Writer/Filmmaker, Environmental Defense Fund; Author, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman
Dog Cognition Scientist and Professor, Barnard College of Columbia University; Author, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know