Gabriel Licina is a biohacker and the founder of Scihouse, a non-profit bioengineering group.

Vitali Shkliarov is an expert in US-Russian relations and worked on the Presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders.

Timothy Denevi is a professor at the MFA program at George Mason University, and is the author of "Hyper" and "Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism."

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a professor of English at Oxford University, and the author of numerous books, including most recently, "The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World."

Steve Fuller is a philosopher at the University of Warwick and the author of a number of book's including, "Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future."

Neil Lanctot is a historian and author, whose most recent book is "The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams and Their Clash Over America's Future."

Peter Neumann is a computer scientist at SRI International, edits ACM's RISKS Digest, and formerly worked at Bell Labs.

Derrick Jensen is an author, speaker and environmentalist. His most recent book is, "Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It."

Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician at Rutger's University, and is well known for his work in combinatorics and his strong opinions about the mathematical establishment.

Robert McChesney is a professor in the Department of Communication at University of Illinois, and is the author of several books, including "Dollarocracy" and "The Problem of the Media."