DeWitt Wallace| founder of Reader's Digest/ philanthropist;
Walter Mondale|former vice president of the United States and U.S. ambassador to Japan 1993-1997;
Kofi Annan|former UN secretary general and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate;
Siah Armajani| world-famous sculptor;
Tim O'Brien|award-winning novelist;
Charles Baxter| University of Minnesota professor and author and National Book Award Winner for The Feast of Love;
Carl Lumbly|actor;
Shawn Lawrence Otto|co-writer and co-producer of movie House of Sand and Fog;
Chank Diesel|American typographer;
Gary Arndt|Award winning travel photographer;
Paul Raushenbush|American Baptist minister and Editor of Religion at The Huffington Post;