The first African-American to direct a major presidential campaign, Donna Brazile is a veteran political strategist, university professor, author, columnist, and the Democratic National Committee's Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation. She is an Adjunct Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, a weekly contributor and political commentator on CNN's The Situation Room and Election Coverage.

Helen Thomas has been a fixture of the White House press corps since 1961 when, as a member of the UPI team, she began covering President John F. Kennedy. She has traveled around the world several times with Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, during the course of which she covered every economic summit.

Three-time Emmy award winning journalist and anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, Anderson Cooper has covered nearly all of major news events around the world including the 2008 Presidential elections, the economic crisis, Hurricane Katrina, and the bombings in London.

Lawyer, teacher, actor, comic, economist, father, novelist, essayist, expert on finance, meet Ben Stein! An Emmy award-winning actor, comedian and game-show host, Ben is famous for his monotonous yet humorous voice in acting. Ben has worked, demonstrated and struggled for voting rights for African Americans, and was also a speech writer for Richard Nixon and for Gerald Ford.

Geraldine A. Ferraro is an attorney, journalist, author, business women, a Democratic politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice-Presidential candidate representing a major American political party and served in the 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

News editor, columnist, political commentator, pundit, reporter and author, Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. Her column, Capitol Letter is posted each week on Newsweek.com and MSNBC. She is a regular political panelist on The McLaughlin Group and is a political contributor for the Fox News Channel.

E.J. Dionne Jr. employs his passions for people and politics and his keen intellect to deliver reasoned analysis that is followed by a wide circle of policy-makers nationwide - on the left, right and center. Dionne demonstrates that he "knows the present with the keen sense of a beat reporter and the past with the perspective of a scholarly historian". His 2008 book, Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right was praised as "deeply personal and searchingly intelligent" by The New York Times Book Review and as "an insightful look into the intersection between religion and politics" by The Wichita Eagle.

Emmy-nominated comedian, satirist, actor and writer, known for his ironic style and deadpan comedic delivery, Stephen Colbert was host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show and currently hosts The Colbert Report. He is author of the NYT's number one bestseller, I Am America (And So Can YOU!).

Barry presents his commentary in an entertaining, easily-understood style. Recognized for his views on making U.S. companies world-class competitors by focusing on delivering value to the customer, he addresses many of the opportunities and challenges facing American business today. His comments on business, the economy, the future, globalization and public policy are rooted in factual information, enthusiasm and humor.

Thomas Barnett is a New York Times-bestselling author and a nationally-known public speaker. Dr. Barnett is in high demand within government circles as a forecaster of global conflict and an expert of military transformation, as well as within corporate circles as a management consultant and conference presenter on issues relating to international security and economic globalization.