Endorsed by

Ken Burns - Filmmaker, director of The American Revolution and The Civil War

Jill Lepore - New Yorker Staff Writer, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard, author of the bestselling history of America These Truths

Howard Rodman - Author, screenwriter, USC Professor, former Writers Guild of America West president

Philip J. Deloria - Harvard Professor, Chair, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, son of pioneering Native American scholar-activist Vine Deloria Jr.

Steve Ross - Dean's Professor of History at USC, author of Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America

George Saunders - MacArthur-winning novelist, short-story writer, widely beloved professor, and mentor

Patti Smith - Songwriter, poet, painter, National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids

Azar Nafisi - Bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Maxine Hong Kingston - Author of China Men, The Woman Warrior

Lynne Thompson - Award-winning Poet Laureate of Los Angeles

Amy Tan - Author of The Joy Luck Club

Susan Orlean - Author of Adaptation and The Library Book

Martin Luther King III - Chairman of the Drum Major Institute, Human Rights Advocate and Author of My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

June Hopkins - Granddaughter of Harry Hopkins, legendary New Deal administrator and FDR's closest advisor

Annie Proulx - Prizewinning author of The Shipping News and other novels and short stories, including "Brokeback Mountain"

Joy Harjo (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) - 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States

Douglas Brinkley - Bestselling American historian, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities at Rice University, author of books on Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, and Ronald Reagan

John Sayles - MacArthur-winning novelist and twice-Oscarnominated filmmaker (Return of the Secaucus 7, Eight Men Out, Matewan, Piranha, Alligator, The Howling)

Billy Ray - Writer-director (Captain Phillips, The Comey Rule, Breach, The Hunger Games, Shattered Glass), Democratic activist, fundraiser, speech ghostwriter

Rick West - Founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, former CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West

James Roosevelt - Grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Arndrea Waters King - President of the Drum Major Institute and Champion of Women's Rights

Maryemma Graham - Author of The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker, editor of The Cambridge History of African American Literature

Peggy A. Bulger - Former Director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

Jonathan Lethem - MacArthur-winning novelist (The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn)

William Ames - The Emerson Collective

Richard Powers - National Book Award, Pulitzer, and MacArthur winning novelist of The Overstory and many others

Ruth Dickey - Executive Director of the National Book Foundation

Dagoberto Gilb - PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of The Magic of Blood

Natasha Trethewey - Former Poet Laureate of the United States