Speakers

National Political Correspondent, NPR

Mara Liasson is the national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR’s award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered and Morning Edition, where she provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC – focusing on the White House and Congress – and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.

Former Chief Economist of CNBC, High Energy Speaker

Marci Rossell electrifies audiences nationwide, speaking on the nexus of economics, politics, culture and the media. Her animated style was honed when she served as the popular, lively Chief Economist for CNBC in the months immediately following September 11th. She takes complex economic issues, often dull in the button-down business press, and makes them relevant to people’s lives, families and careers.

Presidential Historian, NBC News and PBS NewsHour, New York Times Columnist and #1 Best-Selling Author

Michael Beschloss is an award-winning historian of the Presidency and the author of nine books, including the the most recent, Presidents of War, along with the bestseller Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989.   Beschloss writes a sports history column that appears in The New York Times both in print and online every Saturday, called HistorySource.

Get Your WOW Finder

Roshini Rajkumar is a former TV broadcaster who’s on a mission to help the world own their WOW! She always says it doesn’t really matter what you know if you don’t know how to communicate it.

Chief Political Reporter, ABC Affiliate, KSTP-TV