Jon Favreau
Founder, Crooked Media, Host of Pod Save America; Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama (2009-2013)
Under $25,000California
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Meredith Vieira
Emmy Award-Winning Host, Executive Producer and Co-anchor, Today, NBC (2006-2011)
Over $70,000New York
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (2014–2017); Director, Office of Management and Budget (2013–2014)
Contact WSB for FeesDistrict of Columbia
Bill Press
Host, The Bill Press Pod; Syndicated Columnist and Bestselling Author; Former Co-Host, CNN's Crossfire
Under $25,000District of Columbia
J.C. Watts
Visionary Conservative Leader
$25K - $40KVirginia
Erskine Bowles
Co-founder, the Campaign to Fix the Debt; Former Co-chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010); President Emeritus, University of North Carolina; Former White House Chief of Staff and Former Administrator, Small Business Administration
$40K - $70KNorth Carolina
Christopher Dodd
U.S. Senator (1981-2011) and Senior Counsel, Arnold and Porter
$40K - $70KDistrict of Columbia
William Cohen
Distinguished Statesman, Secretary of Defense (1997-2001) and CEO, The Cohen Group
$25K - $40KDistrict of Columbia
George Tenet
CIA Director (1997-2004)
Contact WSB for FeesMaryland
Sarah Brown
Founder and Chair, Theirworld; Executive Chair, Global Business Coalition for Education; Global Champion, White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood; Author
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Dan Coats
Director of National Intelligence (2017– 2019); Ambassador; Politician
Contact WSB for FeesVirginia
Neil Pasricha
Author of Ten #1 International Best Sellers Including The Happiness Equation
$40K - $70K
James Bullard
Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University; Board Member, MNI Connect Advisory Board
$40K - $70KIndiana
Dan Heath
Innovative Business Thought Leader and New York Times Best-Selling Author
Contact WSB for FeesNorth Carolina
Mark King
Innovation Culture Expert | Award-Winning Former CEO of Taco Bell & TaylorMade | Former President of Adidas North America
$25K - $40KCalifornia
Robert Costa
Chief Washington Analyst, CBS News; National Correspondent, CBS "Sunday Morning"
Contact WSB for FeesVirginia
Michael Smerconish
Host of The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM, Host of CNN's Smerconish and Contributor, Newspaper Columnist and Best-Selling Author
$25K - $40KPennsylvania
John Sitilides
Former National Security Senior Fellow, Senior Fellow for Global Risks at the Center for the National Interest; State Department Diplomacy Consultant (2006-2023); Expert on Geopolitical Risk, Global Affairs, and American Politics
$25K - $40KVirginia
John Hope Bryant
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Operation HOPE
$40K - $70KGeorgia
Ivo Daalder
Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Contact WSB for FeesIllinois
Donna Brazile
American Political Strategist; ABC News Contributor, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, and New York Times Best-selling Author
Under $25,000District of Columbia
Nina Schick
Author, DEEPFAKES; CEO and Founder, Tamang Ventures; Advisor, Truepic and Synthesia; Qlik AI Council Member; AI Strategic Advisor; Globally Recognized AI Commentator
$40K - $70KTexas
David Malpass
President of World Bank (2019-2023); U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs (2017-2019); Leading Wall Street Analyst; Economic Columnist
$40K - $70KDistrict of Columbia
Sue Herera
CNBC Anchor at Large
Under $25,000New Jersey
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