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Gloria Feldt, former CEO and president , Planned Parenthood Federation of America (1996-2005); author, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power (2010) and co-author, Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on…

Chris White, actor; Michael Parola, percussion; Hsiao-Ling Lin, piano; Tahirah Whittington, cello; "Core Ensemble: Of Ebony Embers-Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance"  

Robert Walters P'13, executive vice president and general counsel, Energy Future Holdings Corporation; "Powering America: The Big Technological, Cost, and Environmental Issues Confronting Electric Power in the Future"  

Zalmay Khalilzad P'05 P'13, United States Ambassador to the United Nations (2007 to 2009); United States Ambassador to Iraq (2003-2005) and United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (2005-2007); co-author, The United Stat…

Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman senior fellow for counterterrorism and national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations; author, Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge (2011) and Digital Dr…

Philip Norman Bredesen, Jr., former governor, Tennessee (2003-2011); author; "Fresh Medicine: How to Fix, Reform and Build a Sustainable Health Care System" (2011) (12:00 p.m.)  

Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit (2004) and "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change" (2006)  

Noa Baum, performance artist; member, National Storytelling Network; author, "A Land Twice Promised" (2002)  

Bei Dao, poet; author, Midnight's Gate: Essays (2005) and At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996 (1996); "An Evening with the Poet"  

Ishmael Reed, lecturer emeritus, Department of English, U.C. Berkeley; editor, From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002 (2003) and author, Blue City: A Walk in Oakland (…