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By Daniel Kaluuya

21 Savage
By Burna Boy

Alia Bhatt
By Tom Harper

Jenny Holzer
By Kiki Smith

Colman Domingo
By Lenny Kravitz

Da'Vine Joy Randolph
By Uzo Aduba

Lauren Groff
By Ann Patchett

Jeffrey Wright
By Octavia Spencer

Fantasia Barrino
By Taraji P. Henson

Leslie Odom Jr.
By Kate Hudson

LaToya Ruby Frazier
By Lynn Nottage

Alex Edelman
By Phoebe Waller-Bridge

James McBride
By Ethan Hawke

Brooks Headley
By David Chang

Kylie Minogue
By Chris Martin

Elliot Page
By Raquel Willis

Burna Boy
By Angélique Kidjo

Michael J. Fox
By Ryan Reynolds

Thelma Golden
By Michelle Obama

Sofia Coppola
By Rashida Jones

Jenni Hermoso
By Mana Shim

Frank Mugisha
By Hillary Rodham Clinton

Motaz Azaiza
By Yasmeen Serhan

Sakshi Malik
By Nisha Pahuja

Mark Cuban
By Ashton Kutcher

Hayao Miyazaki
By Guillermo del Toro

Suzanne Simard
By Jeffrey Kluger

Julienne Lusenge
By Volker Türk

Rosanna Flamer-Caldera
By Sanya Mansoor

Satya Nadella
By Mellody Hobson

A'ja Wilson
By Tom Brady

Kelly Ripa
By Anderson Cooper

Jack Antonoff
By Maren Morris

Thasunda Brown Duckett
By Jamie Dimon

Donna Langley
By Jordan Peele

Beth Ford
By Larry Fink

Wang Chuanfu
By Herbert Diess

Kelley Robinson
By Sarah Kate Ellis

Chizuko Ueno
By Leta Hong Fincher

Jesper Brodin
By Arianna Huffington

Larry Ellison
By Tony Blair

Joanne Crevoiserat
By Mary Barra

Max Verstappen
By Sean Gregory

Narges Mohammadi
By Nadia Murad

Donald Tusk
By Ursula von der Leyen

William Lai
By Jon Huntsman

Greg Abbott
By Philip Elliott

Marina Silva
By Christiana Figueres

William Burns
By Walter Isaacson

E. Jean Carroll
By Tarana Burke

Rena Lee
By Sylvia Earle

Javier Milei
By Vera Bergengruen

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
By Charlie Campbell

Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani
By Karl Vick

Elise Stefanik
By Charlotte Alter

Diana Salazar Méndez
By Samantha Power

Jack Smith
By Neal Katyal

Rachel Goldberg-Polin
By Yasmeen Serhan

Ajay Banga
By Janet Yellen

Gavin Newsom
By Brian Bennett

William Ruto
By Justin Worland

Giorgia Meloni
By Yasmeen Serhan

Li Qiang
By Charlie Campbell

Jigar Shah
By Richard Branson

Lauren Blauvelt
By Rebecca Gomperts

Andriy Yermak
By Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Maya Rudolph
By Amy Poehler

Shawn Fain
By Joe Biden

Siya Kolisi
By Trevor Noah

Akiko Iwasaki
By Anthony Fauci

Ynon Kreiz
By J.J. Abrams

Tory Burch
By Naomi Watts

Rachel Hardeman
By Lauren Underwood

Katsuhiko Hayashi
By Shinya Yamanaka

Dominique Crenn
By Alice Waters

Dave Ricks
By Shantanu Narayen

Connie Walker
By Julian Brave NoiseCat

Julie Sweet
By Klaus Schwab

Jonathan Anderson
By Luca Guadagnino

Marina Tabassum
By Sarah M. Whiting

Lesley Lokko
By Ava DuVernay

Ophelia Dahl
By John Green

Kennedy Odede
By Salma Hayek Pinault

Yoshua Bengio
By Geoffrey Hinton

Asma Khan
By Padma Lakshmi

Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein
By Zoe Saldaña

Priyamvada Natarajan
By Shep Doeleman

Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Dan Drucker
By Alice Park

Sam Tsemberis
By Ann Marie Oliva

Sharon Lavigne
By William Barber II

Stuart Orkin
By Alice Park
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Audience: Samantha Cooney, Annabel Gutterman, Kitty Ruskin, Kari Sonde, and Meg Zukin
Contributors: Charlotte Alter, Alex Altman, Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna, Naina Bajekal, Aryn Baker, Emma Barker Bonomo, Aman Batheja, Brian Bennett, Vera Bergengruen, Eliza Berman, Judy Berman, Solcyré Burga, Massimo Calabresi, Charlie Campbell, Andrew Chow, Leslie Dickstein, Jamie Ducharme, Philip Elliott, Koh Ewe, Lori Fradkin, Mahita Gajanan, Alejandro de la Garza, Sean Gregory, Anna Gordon, Chad De Guzman, Will Henshall, Jeffrey Kluger, Cady Lang, Sam Lansky, Tara Law, Belinda Luscombe, Kyla Mandel, Megan McCluskey, Moises Mendez II, Elizabeth Murray, Mandy Oaklander, Alice Park, Billy Perrigo, Astha Rajvanshi, Tessa Berenson Rogers, Lily Rothman, Dayana Sarkisova, Yasmeen Serhan, Simmone Shah, Simon Shuster, Jeff Smith, Rachel Sonis, Karl Vick, Vivienne Walt, Olivia Waxman, Lucas Wittmann, Elijah Wolfson, Justin Worland, and Julia Zorthian
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