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<p>Since making history at the age of 14 as the first and youngest female champion in the Skip Barber Racing Series, Julia Landauer has amassed dozens of racing series wins.

<p>Gordon is a Visiting Scholar at the USC Games and head of the USC Bridge incubator program, helping to cultivate the next generation of leaders in our craft.

<p>Paul Sean Hill is a 25-year veteran of NASA’s iconic Mission Control. In 2007, he became Director of Mission Operations, a role he served for seven years, transforming the leadership culture. </p>

<p>His approach to a set of leadership values reduced NASA costs and heightened its capabilities in ways that enabled the program to maintain planned missions in space. </p>

<p>As an executive consultant and speaker, Paul has been described as “a leadership evangelist.”</p>

<p>Dr. Scott Parazynski is a highly decorated physician, astronaut, explorer, technology startup founder and CEO who applies the lessons of calculated risk in extreme environment exploration to leadership, teamwork and innovation.</p><p>A graduate of Stanford University and Medical School, Dr. Parazynski trained at Harvard and in Denver in preparation for a career in emergency medicine and trauma. In 1992, he was selected to join NASA’s Astronaut Corps.

<p>Drawing from his remarkable scope of geopolitical and global economic expertise, Vijay Vaitheeswaran provides insight on how businesses can strategize, innovate, and find opportunity in today’s disruptive landscape.</p><p>With a career that has taken him from Mexico City to London to Shanghai, Vijay Vaitheeswaran brings an impressive breadth and depth of expertise to topics ranging from globalization, politics and economics to international trade, supply chain and labor disruptions.

<p>Respected internationally as a strategic thinker, inspirational speaker and consummate professional, Jesse J. Holland offers more than 20 years of public success as a nationally known political journalist,</p>

<p>African American historian and creative writing consultant. </p>

<p>Cameron Kasky is an American activist and advocate against gun violence who co-founded the student-led gun control advocacy group Never Again MSD.</p>

<p>He is also the co-founder of March for Our Lives nationwide student protest in March 2018. Kasky is a survivor of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He’s been featured in <i>Time Magazine</i>, and has appeared in dozens of talk shows, podcasts and news station throughout the U.S.</p>

Richie Reseda is a music, film and content producer, who was freed from prison in 2018.

He co-created and co-hosts the Spotify Original podcast “Abolition X.” While in prison he started Question Culture, the independent media collective that houses his projects, and cofounded Success Stories, the feminist program for incarcerated men chronicled in the CNN documentary, "The Feminist on Cell Block Y."

<p>The Black and Latina daughter of a working-class family, Victoria Pratt learned to treat everyone with dignity, no matter their background. When she became Newark Municipal Court’s chief judge, she knew well the inequities that poor, mentally ill, Black, and brown people faced in the criminal justice system.</p><p>Judge Victoria has gained national and international acclaim for her commitment to reform the criminal justice system.

<p>Former FOX News chief political correspondent and revered “dean” of the presidential campaign press corps, Carl Cameron gives audiences a front-row seat to the latest happenings in Washington, D.C.