With Thomas C. Reed (a former nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Secretary of the Air Force under Presidents Ford and Carter; Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Policy)
With David Sinow (Clinical Professor of Finance in the College of Business and Director of the Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research at the University of Illinois)
With Jerome E. Granato, M.D., F.A.C.C. (Medical Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Allegheny General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Drexel College of Medicine)
With Aaron Glantz (Independent Journalist and currently a Rosealynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at the Carter Center)
With Robert Hironimus-Wendt, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Western Illinois University)
With Walter Isaacson (CEO of the Aspen Institute and Writer)
With Jabari Asim (Editor-in-Chief of the NAACP's "The Crisis" magazine; Playwright; Journalist; Scholar-in-Residence in African American Studies and Journalism at the University of Illinois)
With John Foreman (Publisher and President of The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and News-Gazette Community Newspapers; Director and Past Chairman of the Illinois First Amdendment Center), and , and Mary Cory (Publisher and General Manager, Illini Media Company)
With Scott Spies (Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection)
With Joel Berg (Executive Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger)
