Strobe Talbott, author of six books on U.S.-Soviet relations and nuclear arms control, served in the State Department for 8 years, including a year as Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. He entered government service after twenty-one years as a journalist for Time magazine. His last position there was as Time's Editor-at-Large and foreign affairs columnist.

A Baptist minister, political and civil rights and social justice activist, and radio talk show host of Keepin It Real, Al Sharpton fights injustice wherever he finds it. He makes regular guest appearances on The O'Reilly Factor and MSNBC and is praised as "a man who is willing to tell it like it is".

Senior analyst for ABC News and a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, Fawaz Gerges is an academic and author with expertise on the Middle East. He is currently the Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Easter Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.

The New York Times bestseller - The Faith Club; A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding. An interfaith memoir of spiritual reflections written in three voices and now a moving presentation will help your audiences look at themselves, their lives and the broader world in a new way. Pioneering, timely, and deeply thoughtful, The Faith Club's caring message will resonate with people of all faiths.

Baron Robertson of Port Ellen was the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 1999-2004. He served as Defense Secretary for the UK from 1997-1999 before taking up his NATO position and becoming a life peer of Islay in Argyll and Bute. He has received numerous honors and holds the directorships of several notable companies.

Professor of economics and author of Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus is famous for his successful application of microcredit: the extension of small loans. He is the founder of Grameen Bank and in 2006 was awarded the Nobel Peach Prize. He is one of the founding members of Global Elders and serves on the board of directors of the United Nations Foundation.

E.J. Dionne Jr. employs his passions for people and politics and his keen intellect to deliver reasoned analysis that is followed by a wide circle of policy-makers nationwide - on the left, right and center. Dionne demonstrates that he "knows the present with the keen sense of a beat reporter and the past with the perspective of a scholarly historian". His 2008 book, Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right was praised as "deeply personal and searchingly intelligent" by The New York Times Book Review and as "an insightful look into the intersection between religion and politics" by The Wichita Eagle.

Civil rights and environmental advocate working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental justice, Van Jones is the president and founder of Green For All and the Ella Barker Center. He is a Senior Fellow with Center for American Progress and a Fellow at IONS. His work is currently focused on green economic development.

Benjamin R. Barber has combined a career as a distinguished scholar and political theorist with a life of practical commitment to democratic civic practices and the arts that has given him widespread experience as an educational and ...

Paul Loeb has spent over thirty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment--asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain.

He has written five widely praised ...