Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and staff writer for The New Yorker.

Richard Linklater is an Academy Award-nominated independent filmmaker. His newest film, Boyhood, was filmed over 12 years with the same cast and is already generating Oscar buzz.

Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley are husband-and-wife indie rock pioneers who formed the influential and much-admired band Yo La Tengo three decades ago. Their thirteenth album, Fade, was released last year.

Noel Wells is a featured player on Saturday Night Live, her first season on the program. In 2010 she moved to Los Angeles and appeared in numerous online comedy videos. Her self-produced sketch videos have over 12 million views on YouTube.

Russell Gold is the Senior Energy Reporter at The Wall Street Journal and author of the new book The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World. Gold was part of the Journal's reporting team on the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill and explosion of the Deepwater Horizon.

Martin Baron is Executive Editor of The Washington Post, overseeing the Post's print and digital news operations. The Post was recently awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. Before joining the Post, Baron was editor of The Boston Globe for 11 years.

Jeffrey Tambor is a six-time Emmy-nominated actor best known for playing two of the greatest characters ever to grace a television screen: Hank Kingsley in The Larry Sanders Show and George Bluth Sr. in Arrested Development. He recently starred in Amazon’s web-only pilot Transparent.

Brian Stelter is CNN's Senior Media Correspondent and host of Reliable Sources. Stelter joined CNN in November after six years at The New York Times, where he covered the television and digital media industries. Stelter also wrote the New York Times best-seller Top of the Morning, which uncovers the darker side of morning television.

Jason Schwartzman is an actor and musician whose credits include the HBO series Bored to Death and the films Rushmore, I Heart Huckabees, Funny People, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and, now in theaters, The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Joel Klein has been called one of the most influential people in public education. He was chancellor of New York City schools for eight years under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He is the current CEO for Amplify, the educational division of News Corp.