- Samantha Power
- Robert N. Bellah
- Richard Madsen
- Steven M. Tipton
- Ann Swidler
- William M. Sullivan
- Dorothy West
- Ishmael Reed
- Tayeb Salih
- Halldór Laxness
- Dick Gregory
- Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Karen E. Quinones Miller
- James Kelman
- Martha Southgate
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Wallace Thurman
- Xiaolu Guo
- George Steiner
- Ifa Bayeza