Denise Ryan is a leading advocate for organic farmers. As the External Relations Manager for the Organic Farming Research Foundation, she helps build bridges between organic farmers, researchers, policy makers and the public. She has extensive strategic marketing experience in the technology, renewable energy, alternative healthcare, natural product and eco-travel industries. Denise serves on the Board of the Marina Technology Cluster and several early stage ventures. She was the Communications Strategist for Ocean Champions, the leading political voice for ocean health and sustainability and also Marketing Strategist for California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF).

General Yeager is one of the most famous and celebrated aviators of all time. He was the first person to exceed the speed of sound, the first commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School which produced astronauts for the NASA and USAF space program and a decorated war hero, recipient of the Purple Heart, the World War II Victory Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Yeager’s work as a USAF test pilot, and later with the space program, was profiled in the book and subsequent motion picture, The Right Stuff. General Yeager, at age 89, continues to lead and inspire. Among other recent accomplishments, he flew supersonic October 14, 2012, 65 years to the minute after he first broke the sound barrier.

Three-time Emmy winner Dick Cavett hosted “The Dick Cavett Show” late-night on ABC, PBS, USA network and CNBC. His shows were hailed for their wide variety of guests, it’s frequent controversy, and Cavett’s ability to attract “ungettable” guests. His most recent book, “TALK SHOW” is a collection of his blogs written for his online New York Times column.

Tom Tancredo represented Colorado’s 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999-2009. Universally recognized by both sides of the issue as the most vocal opponent of illegal immigration in Washington. Tancredo founded the House Immigration Reform Caucus. He sought the 2008 Republican nomination for President with the intention of forcing the immigration issue into the debate.

Neil Barofsky served both the Bush and Obama administrations as the watchdog of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). From December 2008 until March 2011, he was the Special Inspector General for TARP, working to ensure against fraud and abuse in the spending of the $700 billion allocated for the bailouts. In his book BAILOUT: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, he presents a scathing indictment of how those funds were mishandled and reveals the extent to which government officials of both parties, across two administrations, served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public.

LARRY KING has been dubbed "the most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever" by TV Guide and "master of the mike" by TIME magazine. The Emmy Award-winning King hosted CNN's Larry King Live, the first worldwide phone-in television talk show and the network's highest rated program for 25 years. In December 2010, King temporarily hung up his suspenders but in July 2012, his collaboration with Carlos Slim debuted the on-line Ora.tv network with "Larry King Now", a daily new and different show featuring celebrities and newsmakers from around the world.

John King's career as a writer began when joined the Associated Press in 1985. In 1991, King was named chief political correspondent and headed the AP's political coverage of the 1992 and 1996 elections. Also in 1991, King won the top reporting prize from the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association for his coverage of the Gulf War in Kuwait. In 1997, King joined CNN where he served as the senior White House correspondent from 1999 to 2005. In 2005, King was named CNN's chief national correspondent, a position he still holds. He frequently appears on the nightly news programs The Situation Room and Anderson Cooper 360.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald and won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, in addition to many other awards. He is also the author of several novels including Freeman, Before I Forget and Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.

Norman Ornstein is a long-time observer of Congress and politics. He writes a weekly column for Roll Call called "Congress Inside Out" and is an election eve analyst for CBS News. He served as co-director of the AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project and participates in AEI's Election Watch series. His many books include "The Permanent Campaign and It's Future," "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track," and, most recently, the New York Times bestseller, "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism."

Patti Solis Doyle is a political organizer and strategist who has been part of several of the most important campaigns of the past 30 years, including Richard Daley's 1990 campaign for mayor of Chicago, Bill Clinton's successful bid for president in 1992, Hillary Clinton's election to the U.S. Senate in 2000 and Clinton's failed campaign for president, and Barack Obama's victory in 2008. Solis Doyle was also the first Hispanic woman to lead a U.S. presidential campaign.