H.N. Hirsch, former professor and dean of arts and sciences

Eliot Schrefer, New York Times best-selling science writer with an affinity for the natural world

Mala Kumar, technology developer, formerly with GitHub and the United Nations, co-host of the podcast “Desi Women Diaspora”

Charles K. Carter, poet, mental health advocate, and former educator

Robert Bruegmann, historian of architecture, and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago 

Peter E. Fenton, playwright and paleontologist

Erin Becker, marketing and content strategist

Lee Airton, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario

Ronald Hunter, former hustler who sees himself as a successful survivor, rather than a victim

Trent Clifford, teller of stories, proclaimer of uncomfortable truth, queer survivor of domestic abuse, and insatiable artist