2022 Crosscut Festival Speakers

Climate and Public Health Reporter, Grist

Journalist, The Atlantic

First Vice President - Wealth Management

Sr. Vice President–Wealth Management, UBS

Broadcast Technology Reporter

Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Sr. Vice President - Investments, UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Financial Advisor, UBS Financial Services, Inc.

Wealth Strategy Associate, UBS Financial Services

Co-Founder, Local Progress

Chief Marketing Officer, Braver Angels

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Seattle University

Host, Amicus Podcast & Legal Correspondent, Slate

News Director, Slate & Host of Slow Burn: Roe v Wade

Chief Program Officer, FareStart

Professor & Former Director, Institute of Public Service, Seattle University

Senior Science Reporter, The Verge

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, UW

Asst. Managing Editor & Social Justice Columnist, Seattle Times

Columnist, NY Times; Podcast host, Ezra Klein Show, Author, Why We're Polarized

Writer, Speaker, Internet Yeller

Reporter, Grist

PhD Candidate, University of Washington

Water.org & WaterEquity

Author, Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America

Interviewer, host

Staff Writer, The Washington Post

Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara & Co-host, A Matter of Degrees

Staff writer, Grist

News Editor, Crosscut

CEO, WA Environmental Council/WA Conservation Voters

President and CEO, Washington State Hospital Association

U.S. Representative, CA 28th District

Editor-at-Large, Crosscut

City Reporter, Crosscut

Washington Bureau Chief, Mother Jones & Contributor, MSNBC

Host, Week in Review, KUOW

Science reporter & editor, NPR

Professor of Government, Harvard University

Professor of Psychology, host of the Happiness Lab

Political reporter, KIRO 7 Seattle

Host of Slate's What Next: TBD

Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch

Attorney General, State of Washington

Senior Scientist, Trout Unlimited

Co-founder, The Lincoln Project

Senior Reporter, Quartz

Author & Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Vice President, Seattle Education Association

Mayor, City of Tacoma

Environmental journalist & author

President & Morgridge Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

Food Systems Director, Founder, BIPOC Land Steward

Executive Director, American Compass

Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute

Author, "Work Won't Love You Back"

Author, Educator, Activist & Founder, Third Act

City Attorney, City of Seattle

CEO, King County Regional Homelessness Authority

Consultant & former White House Press Secretary for President Obama

Pulmonologist & Health Policy Expert

Mayor, City of Seattle

Columnist, New York Times & Author, Life's Edge

Journalist, author & political analyst

Editor, New York Times Book Review

KEYNOTE SPEAKER. Pulitzer journalist & creator of the 1619 Project

Governor, Washington State

Mayor, City of Bellevue

Associate, Sustainability Science, Harvard Kennedy School

Chief Medical Advisor to the President & NIAID Director

Professor of History and Italian Studies, NYU

Scientist, presenter and author of Ageless

Author, Dirty Work

Director of Outreach, ETS REACH

Anchor & Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour

Superintendent of Public Instruction, Washington State