Adam Braun

Adam Braun is 28-year-old Founder and Executive Director of Pencils of Promise, the nonprofit organization that has broken ground on 60+ schools in the developing world and amassed the largest social media following of any nonprofit founded in the last four years. PoP was founded with just $25 in October 2008 using what Braun describes as a "For-Purpose" approach to blending nonprofit idealism...

Adam Sterling

Adam Sterling is the director of the Sudan Divestment Task Force, a project of the Genocide Intervention Network. Adam has received a number of humanitarian awards and serves as an advisor on Sudan investment issues for numerous institutional investors, state pension funds, state legislators, and federal representatives. Additionally, Adam is a featured subject in the 2007 documentary...

Al Madrigal

The New York Times calls Madrigal's comedy "dynamic" and HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen named him "Best Stand-Up Comedian." His unique, spontaneous, and fast-paced lyrical, story-telling style has made him a regular favorite on television. He has been seen in numerous network series roles and starred in his own half-hour stand-up special, COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS: AL MADRIGAL...

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin has been nominated for an Academy Award and a Tony Award, he has received both a Golden Globe and an Emmy. He currently stars in the award-winning television series 30 Rock on NBC. Alec is a vigorous supporter and advocate for various causes, including...

Amy Sohn

For three years Amy Sohn wrote the autobiographical dating diary, "Female Trouble," in New York Press, which elicited loads of bitter invective from readers and shamed her parents at cocktail parties. After six years as a contributing editor at New York magazine, where she wrote about sex, relationships, and parenting, she is now at work on her third novel for Simon & Schuster, to be published...

Andrew Jenks

In fall 2010, award-winning documentary filmmaker, Andrew Jenks, took viewers on twelve unforgettable journeys as he captured a wide range of unique voices and personal stories in his docu-series on MTV, "WORLD OF JENKS." The series launch garnered over 5-million viewers, marking the highest rated series launch in the network's history...

Andy  Cohen

Andy Cohen is Bravo's Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development. He is responsible for overseeing the network's current development and production slate including hits such as the Emmy and James Beard award-winning "Top Chef," “Top Chef Masters,” "The Real Housewives” franchises, "The Millionaire Matchmaker," "Million Dollar Listing," “The Rachel Zoe Project,"...

Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich has created his own highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality...

Benny  Spies

Benny Spies is the real deal. This South Dakota native is young, charismatic and has a way of endearing himself to all he meets. He has a master's degree in communications from Florida State University and was formerly an NBC Page...

Betty Anne Waters

What would you do if your loved one was sentenced to life in prison – and you were 100% certain of his innocence? Betty Anne Waters – inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture Betty Anne Waters "Conviction" starring Oscar© winner Hillary Swank – lived that nightmare when, in 1983, her brother was sentenced to life without parole for a murder and robbery he swore he didn’t commit. When...

Bill Maher

Whether skewering Republicans, Democrats, the mass media or Hollywood, Bill Maher is one of the most perceptive and hilarious satirists at work today. From the podium he delivers his trademark blend of devastating social commentary and politically incorrect humor that always leaves audiences begging for more.

Bruce Cohen

Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen recently launched Bruce Cohen Productions, adding live events, theater, and new media to his existing film & television businesses...

Casey Connor

Casey Connor is an internationally recognized entertainer, highly sought after by an impressive collection of A-list clientele. Her innovative and self-styled manner of DJing and MCing constitutes more than spinning records. It is an all-inclusive performance in which Casey showcases her talents as an all around entertainer on the mic and interacts with her audience in a fashion that goes...

Cedric 'The Entertainer'

Cedric ‘The Entertainer’ is best known for his crowd-pleasing roles in the recent hit films Barbershop with Ice Cube, Be Cool with John Travolta, Madagascar (animated feature), Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney, and The Original Kings of Comedy, MTV’S documentary feature directed by Spike Lee. Additionally, in April 2004, Cedric was star and producer of the box office hit Johnson Family...

Christian Siriano

Oprah Winfrey calls his designs "works of art." Tim Gunn calls him "a prodigy" and "the next great American fashion designer." Only 24 years old, Christian Siriano was born to design. Raised by a creative family in Annapolis, Maryland, Christian began designing at just thirteen years old and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts and then went on to study at the American...

David Javerbaum

David Javerbaum was the Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central's Emmy Award-winning mock newscast which, according to a Pew Research Center poll, is a primary news source for over 20 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds.

David Simon

David Simon, 49, is a Baltimore-based journalist, author and television producer. Born in Washington, he came to Baltimore in 1983 to work as a crime reporter at The Baltimore Sun. While at the paper, he reported and wrote two works of narrative non-fiction, Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the former an account of a...

Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim is a critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning director and producer, whose early work includes many television dramas such as Deadwood, NYPD Blue and 24. He transitioned into directing non-fiction films with The First Year, which aired on PBS in 2001 and won a Peabody Award. An Inconvenient Truth, featuring former Vice President Al Gore, was theatrically distributed by...

Doug Ellin

Doug Ellin, Creator and Executive Producer of Entourage moved to Hollywood from his native New York in 1990 to become a stand-up comedian. While working the circuit at comedy club mainstays including The Improv and The Comedy Store, Ellin took a position in the mailroom of New Line Cinema. It was through this connection to New Line Production Head, Michael DeLuca, that Ellin's career was able...

Duff Goldman

Chef Duff Goldman started working for acclaimed Baltimore Chef Cindy Wolf while attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. After graduating with degrees in History and Philosophy, Duff left Baltimore to study pastries at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, California. While in Napa, Duff was a stagiere at the French Laundry, working under acclaimed pastry Chef...

Dustin Lance Black

Dustin Lance Black is a multi-talented writer, producer and director, having won the 2008 Academy Award and Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for MILK, the Gus Van Sant-directed biopic of the late gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Recently, Black filmed his feature directorial debut WHAT'S WRONG WITH VIRGINIA, a drama that stars Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris...

Ed Helms

Ed Helms was born and raised in Atlanta. After attending Oberlin College in scenic Ohio, he headed for New York City to pursue comedy. For years, Helms worked in the comedy trenches as a stand-up comedian which led to regular spots at NYC's top comedy clubs. His television credits include Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, numerous national voice-overs and a 2002 Super Bowl Budweiser...

Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker and visiting senior fellow at BrownUniversity's Watson Institute. After training at Princeton as a stage director, Jarecki turned to film in 1992, and his first short film, Season of the Litterbees, premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival before winning both a Student Academy Award and the Time Warner Grand Prize.

Eve Ensler

EVE ENSLER, playwright, performer, and activist, is the author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES, translated into over 45 languages and performed in over 130 countries, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment.) Her experience performing THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES inspired her to create V-Day, a global movement...

Geoffrey  Fletcher

Geoffrey Fletcher is an Academy Award winning writer and director who has penned numerous screenplays and directed many short films. Initially working with a video camera and cast of toys and action figures, he began making films as a child. Those films in part led to his acceptance to NYU's Tisch Graduate Film Program, which he attended after his graduation from Harvard University. He has also...

India Arie

INDIA.ARIE is known and cherished by fans and fellow musicians as a poet, a songwriter, a musician, an advocate, a friend and a philanthropist -- but she is possibly best known for the love in her music that has inspired and motivated people worldwide. India.Arie has sold over 8 million albums worldwide, including the double-platinum Acoustic Soul, the platinum Voyage to India and her...

Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone on November 23, 1980. When he was eleven, Ishmael’s life, along with the lives of millions of other Sierra Leoneans, was derailed by the outbreak of a brutal civil war. After his parents and two brothers were killed, Ishmael was recruited to fight as a child soldier. He was thirteen.

Jacob Soboroff

Jacob Soboroff is the founding correspondent of "AMC News" on AMC, hosting specials and reporting from film festivals and other industry events for the award-winning network. Jacob also hosts SoCal Wanderer for KCET, an online video series about outdoor life in Southern California. In 2010, Jacob co-hosted the NBC series "School Pride" and executive produced and narrated the AMC original...

James Franco

James Franco’s metamorphosis into the title role of the TNT biopic James Dean earned him career-making reviews, as well as a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture made for Television. He also received nominations for an Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award for this memorable performance. Franco earned an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead as well as nominations for an Academy...

Jay Manuel

Jay Manuel is no stranger to "the business of managing the esthetic", as he calls it. With an eye for creating stunning conceptual direction, Jay has spent more than a decade in the world of high fashion and beauty, both in front of and behind the cameras. Jay can currently be seen as Creative Director on the CW Television Network reality series America's Next Top Model and as the Host of the...

Jay Sean

Jay Sean is the international superstar behind songs such as "Down," featuring Lil Wayne, and "Do You Remember," chart-topping hits from his U.S. debut album All or Nothing, which helped catapult him into a league reserved for just a few. Now, he is gearing up for the release of his fourth album, the highly anticipated Cash Money/Universal Republic follow-up Freeze Time, with music, including...

Jeff Zaslow

Through his Wall Street Journal column and bestselling books, Jeffrey Zaslow has told the stories of some of the most inspirational people of our time. The Last Lecture, written with Randy Pausch, has been translated into 48 languages, and was #1 on best-seller lists worldwide. Five million copies are in print in English alone, and the book has remained on The New York Times best-seller list...

JoAnn Ward

When JoAnn Ward founded Master Matchmakers over 20 years ago, never did she think she would be advising the world on matters of the heart. Since 2009, JoAnn has been the co-host of the successful series “VH1 Tough Love”, which gives single women insight to male perspective on dating. JoAnn, along with son and business partner, Steven Ward, has been redefining the matchmaking business and...

John Cusack

With an impressive body of work spanning the course of two decades, John Cusack has evolved into one of Hollywood's most accomplished and respected actors of his generation, garnering both critical acclaim as well as prestigious accolades for his dramatic and comedic roles. Cusack first gained the attention of audiences by starring in a number of 1980s film classics such as "The Sure Thing,"...

John Legend

Recording artist, concert performer and philanthropist John Legend has won nine Grammy awards and was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. John launched his career as a session player and vocalist, contributing to best-selling recordings by Lauryn Hill, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z and Kanye West before recording his own unbroken chain of Top 10 albums -- Get Lifted (2004), Once...

John Leguizamo

A multi-faceted performer and Emmy Award winner, John Leguizamo has established a career that defies categorization. With boundless energy and creativity, his work in film, theatre, television, and literature covers a variety of genres, continually threatening to create a few of its own.

John Patrick Shanley

An accomplished and award-winning writer and director, John Patrick Shanley has written extensively for film and the stage. His play Doubt, which opened off-Broadway in 2004, became the first of his plays to transfer to Broadway and then to the screen. The screen adaptation of Doubt, written and directed by Shanley, has earned him 2009 Academy Award and Writers Guild Award nominations for best...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been working as a professional actor for twenty-three years. He recently starred in award-winning sleeper hit (500) Days of Summer for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe. After adolescence on the TV show 3rd Rock From The Sun, he took a break from acting to attend Columbia University and returned to earn his "indie cred" with films Mysterious Skin...

Josh Bernstein

International explorer, photographer, author, and television host Josh Bernstein has traveled more than 500,000 miles by train, plane, bus, bike and camel to over 40 countries, exploring the biggest mysteries of our planet in pursuit of knowledge and discovery.

Joss Whedon

Emmy and Oscar nominee Joss Whedon is one of Hollywood's top creators, scripting several hit films and creating one of television's most critically praised shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Born in New York June 23, 1964, Whedon is a third-generation television writer. His grandfather and father were both successful sitcom writers on shows such as The Donna Reed Show, Leave It to Beaver and...

Kara DioGuardi

While you may know her as the American Idol judge who sits between Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres, Kara's songs have appeared on more than 150 million albums, and she remains one of the industry's most sought after songwriters and producers. Kara is a Grammy nominated hitmaker, 2007 BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year, 2007 SOCAN Award winner, and has been awarded 15 BMI Awards for co-writing .....

Kat Von D

Kat Von D, 28, is one of the most respected and sought-after tattoo artists in the world. She's also the star of TLC's series "L.A. Ink," a spin-off of "Miami Ink," which Kat was featured on for two seasons. The hit series "L.A. Ink" will be airing new episodes this July centering on the talented artists working at Kat's tattoo shop - High Voltage Tattoo. Since "L.A. Ink" premiered in Aug...

Lynn  Nottage

Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined has also received an OBIE, the Lucille Lortel Award, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play (Manhattan Theatre Club, Goodman Theatre). It premiered in London at the Almeida Theatre in April 2010 and is touring several US regional theatres in 2010-2011. Other plays include Intimate...

 Matisyahu

Matisyahu, born Matthew Paul Miller, is an American reggae musician. Known for blending traditional Jewish themes with reggae and rock sounds, Matisyahu is most recognizable for previously being a member of Chabad-Lubavitch, a chassidic group of Judaism. As such, Matisyahu stands out for wearing the traditional clothing of Hasidic Jews and not performing on the Sabbath. Since 2004, he has...

Matt Harding

Recently named as TIME magazine’s “#1 Viral Video of 2008,” Matt Harding’s inspiring, universally appealing videos have reached over 30 Million viewers around the globe. At 26, Matt Harding quit his job as a videogame designer and spent his life savings on a trip around the world. He took a friend’s suggestion to perform his terrible dancing techniques in the various exotic settings he...

Michael Franti

THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE The Sound Of Sunshine -- the inspired and inspiring new album by Michael Franti & Spearhead -- is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world. "Music is sunshine," says Michael Franti, one of the most positive and conscious...

Mike Wolfe

If you would have told me fifteen years ago that I'd be picking for a living, I wouldn't have believed you. That said I've been looking for treasures in the trash forever. When I was five, I had my first big score when I found a pile of old bicycles in my neighborhood on trash day. And I was always bringing home old bottles and other random stuff. I never thought of it as junk: to me, it was...

Oliver Stone

OLIVER STONE has directed "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" (10), "W." ('08), "World Trade Center" ('06), "Alexander" ('04), "Any Given Sunday" ('99), "U-Turn" ('97), "Nixon" ('95), "Natural Born Killers" ('94), "Heaven and Earth" ('93), "JFK" ('91), "The Doors" ('91), "Born On The Fourth Of July" ('89), "Talk Radio" ('88), "Wall Street" ('87), "Platoon" ('86), "Salvador" ('86)...

Paul Rieckhoff

Paul Rieckhoff, 35, is the Executive Director and Founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), America’s first and largest organization for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. A nonpartisan, nonprofit founded in 2004 with over 200,000 members in all 50 states, IAVA’s mission is to improve the lives of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans and their families. From 2003 to 2004, Rieckhoff...

Paul Shaffer

World-renowned bandleader Paul Shaffer has been David Letterman's musical director and sidekick on CBS-TV's "Late Show" for the past 27 years. A Grammy Award-winning master of musical and verbal improv, he has conducted a televised jam that included Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Jeff Beck; been musical director at the White House...

Philip DeFranco

Philip DeFranco born Dec 1, 1985 in Bronx, New York is a self made Internet personality, most noted for "The Philip DeFranco Show"- the most watched Entertainment and News show on the web. It all started from his bedroom 5 years ago because he was bored, and has now blossomed into a next generation studio: 'DeFranco Inc.' Philip has also made and helped launch several prominent brands...

Rev Run

Recognized as a hip-hop pioneer, Rev Run is best known for being one-third of the legendary rap group Run-D.M.C. His brother, Russell Simmons, formed the hip-hop management company Rush Productions in the early '80s. By the mid-'80s, Russell had formed the pioneering record label Def Jam with Rick Rubin. Encouraged by his brother, Run and his friend Darryl McDaniels formed the rap group...

Ross Mathews

Over the last 9 years, Ross Mathews has interviewed some of the biggest stars in the world and has made the nation laugh all the while. Whether he was covering movie premieres, the Winter Olympic Games, the Academy Awards, jumping out of a plane or shopping in London with pal Gwyneth Paltrow, Ross' unique approach is always fresh, outrageous and fun. E! Entertainment Television named Ross one...

 RuPaul

RuPaul skyrocketed to international fame with the release of the CD, “SUPERMODEL OF THE WORLD,” which was followed by roles in several movies (The Brady Bunch, To Wong Foo..., But, I’m a Cheerleader), The RuPaul Show on VH1, a wax portrait at MADAME TUSSAUDS’ MUSEUM in Times Square, and many high profile endorsement deals, including a beauty contract with MAC Cosmetics. RuPaul is author of the...

Ryan  Bingham

For some artists, winning an Oscar would represent reaching a pinnacle. For Ryan Bingham, who took home the Academy Award for "The Weary Kind," his hauntingly beautiful theme song for the acclaimed film Crazy Heart, it instead represented a crossroads and a decision about which path to take. "When there are a lot of people around saying 'look, you have to capitalize on this and do something ...

Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones is a Tony Award winning playwright and performer. Her multi-character solo show Bridge & Tunnel was originally produced Off-Broadway by Oscar-winner Meryl Streep, and went on to become a critically acclaimed, long running hit on Broadway.

Seth Meyers

The New Hampshire-born Seth Meyers graduated from Northwestern University and soon joined the improv/sketch comedy group Boom Chicago, which performed in Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Singapore. Meyers also performed with Chicago's Improv Olympic, which has been used as a springboard by many other SNL cast members and writers.

Steve Ward

One of America's most successful professional matchmakers and relationship experts, Steven Ward is the star of “VH1 Tough Love,” a series that reveals a rare, inside look into the male perspective on dating and relationships. Steven, with help along the way from his mom and business partner JoAnn Ward, attempt to reshape a group of women’s “destructive” dating habits and help them find...

The Onion

The Onion is an award-winning satirical news organization, delivering unrivaled journalism and reaching millions of fans through print, broadcast, radio, online, and mobile outlets. Founded in 1988 as a student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Onion now has a devout following of 2 million readers per week in print and has been described as "arguably the most popular...

Todd McShay

Todd McShay joined ESPN in 2006 as a football analyst, providing in-depth scouting information on college football players across the country, including the nation's top NFL Draft prospects. McShay is a year-round contributor across ESPN's multiple platforms, including SportsCenter, NFL Live, College Football Live, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine, ESPNU and ESPNEWS... 

Tom Shadyac

What makes you happy? Tom Shadyac certainly knows how to make people smile and laugh having directed Hollywood comedic blockbusters Ace Ventura, The Nutty Professor, Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty and Liar Liar, among others. Now Tom finds his more serious and introspective side as a life threatening accident causes him to not only seek life's meaning but question the "American Dream." In the up...

Whitney Port

Whitney Port is not just another pretty face in Hollywood. Port is paving her own way, and making sure that she builds a solid foundation that she is proud of...

The Daily Show  Live

INDECISION 2012 TOUR This hilarious multimedia, hybrid (lecture/ stand-up) event features three correspondents / friends from THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART on Comedy Central. Tour is sponsored by both Comedy Central and The Daily Show and gives the audience an inside looking into one of the most popular shows on television. Each will speak / perform then have a group Q & A with...

Kimberly Peirce

Kimberly Peirce staked her place as a director of singular vision with her unflinching debut feature, BOYS DON'T CRY, which became one of the most acclaimed and talked about films of the year, earning numerous honors including the Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe for the film's star, Hilary Swank. Chloe Sevigny was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and...