District of Columbia Speakers

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More media outlets have turned to Dr. Frank Luntz for focus groups and consulting than to any other political pollster, making him one of the most honored political and communication professionals in America today. In addition to having worked with the media, U.S. News, World Report and The Wall Street Journal, Luntz has written and supervised more than 400 surveys for political and corporate clients. Luntz understands that there’s no better way to get employees on board than letting them hear directly from their customers. Using focus-group techniques, Luntz can bring your customers to you─live. Using cutting edge technology, Luntz shows the audience, exactly how customers react. Luntz's best-selling book, Words That Work, offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. He is also the author of What Americans Really Want . . . Really: The Truth About Our Hopes, Dreams and Fears (2009) and Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary (2011).

Fee Range: $14,500–$44,000
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Katty Kay is the lead anchor of BBC World News America. Kay had served as the Washington Correspondent for BBC since 2002. Kay’s career with the BBC began in Zimbabwe in 1990 where she started filing radio reports for BBC World Service radio. From there she also covered the end of apartheid in South Africa.Kay then went on to work as a BBC correspondent in London, and later Tokyo, reporting on stories including the Kobe earthquake and the Japanese economic recession. Kay is a frequent guest commentator on "NBC’s Meet the Press", "The Chris Matthews Show", "MSNBC’s Morning Joe" and others. She is the co-author, along with Claire Shipman, of two New York Times bestsellers - The Confidence Code: The Art and Science of Self-Assurance—and What Women Need to Know (2014) and Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better (2009). Kay is married to Tom Carver, a strategic risk consultant. They live in Washington, DC with their four children.

Fee Range: $25,500–$38,000
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Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which recovers a forgotten history of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide, creating racially homogenous neighborhoods in patterns that violate the Constitution and require remediation. He is also the author of many other articles and books on race and education. Previous influential books include Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap and Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right.

Fee Range: $5,000–$14,000
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Rohit Bhargava is on a mission to inspire more non-obvious thinking in the world. He is the 3-time Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of eight books and is widely considered one of the most entertaining and original speakers on trends, innovation and marketing in the world. Rohit has been invited to deliver sold-out keynotes and workshops in 32 countries around the world to change the way teams and leaders think at the World Bank, NASA, Intel, LinkedIn, MetLife, Under Armour, Univision, Disney and hundreds of other well-known organizations. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur and founding two companies, he previously spent 15 years as a marketing strategist at Ogilvy and Leo Burnett where he advised global brands on marketing and storytelling strategy. Outside his speaking and consulting, Rohit has taught persuasive speaking and global marketing as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, is frequently quoted in the global media and writes a monthly column on trends for GQ magazine in Brazil. Rohit lives in the Washington DC area with his wife and is a proud dad of two boys. He loves the Olympics (he’s been to five!) and actively hates cauliflower.

Fee Range: $20,000–$35,000
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Fee Range: $26,000–$61,000
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On October 25, 2011, Jessica Buchanan and a colleague were kidnapped at gunpoint by Somali land pirates and held for 93 days, enduring the most harrowing and painful experience of her life. Today she shares with audiences the tools she quickly learned to find strength to face any situation no matter how large or small the challenges or obstacles. She learned first-hand how to remain hopeful, dig deep even when you feel completely empty of any resources and trust your instincts as all can find the inner strength to face any situation. She chronicled the story in the New York Times best-seller and 2013 USA Best Book Award/Autobiography, Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six (2013).

Fee Range: $12,000–$18,000
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Laura Ingraham is the most listened-to woman in political talk radio in the United States. "The Laura Ingraham Show" is heard on hundreds of stations nationwide and has been addicting legions of listeners since its launch in 2001. Ingraham is also the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the political news site LifeZette, which launched in 2015. Always smart and entertaining, Ingraham is a regular FOX News contributor and the principal substitute host on The O'Reilly Factor. She is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of five books: The Hillary Trap, Shut Up & Sing, Power to the People, The Obama Diaries, and new smash hit Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots. A former litigator and Supreme Court law clerk, Ingraham is a graduate of University of Virginia School of Law and Dartmouth College. She is also an avid supporter of our troops and a variety of military organizations. Ingraham lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her three children.

Fee Range: $35,000–$45,000
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Ms. Al-Suwaij is the co-founder and Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress (AIC), a nonprofit established in the wake of the September 11 attacks to build interfaith understanding; mobilize a moderate voice in the American Muslim community; and promote civil rights in the Muslim world. Al-Suwaij’s personal mission is to promote a positive Muslim-American voice that strengthens interfaith relations and addresses the many challenges in the Muslim world. She has developed classroom curricula; works with the Anti-Defamation League; and serves on Connecticut’s Hate Crimes Advisory Board. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Boston Globe, and Hartford Courant. Al-Suwaij has been interviewed on NPR, CNN, Fox, and Al-Jazeera. She has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, and many other campuses. She spoke alongside George Clooney at a massive April 2006 rally to Save Darfur in Washington, DC.

Fee Range: $6,000–$8,000
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Donna Brazile is an ABC News Contributor, veteran political strategist, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and the King Endowed Chair in Public Policy at Howard University. She previously served as interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute. She managed the Gore campaign in 2000 and has lectured at more than 225 colleges and universities on race, diversity, women, leadership and restoring civility in politics. Brazile is the author of several books, including the New York Times’ bestseller Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.

Fee Range: $12,000–$25,000
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Shannon Bream is the anchor of Fox News @ Night and Chief Legal Correspondent for the Fox News Channel. In that role, she has covered numerous political campaigns, landmark Supreme Court decisions and Washington scandals. Shannon is also the author of three bestselling books, Finding the Bright Side: The Art of Chasing What Matters and The Women of The Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today, which spent four weeks at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, and her most recent book, The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak. Prior to landing at Fox News, Shannon worked at local affiliates WFTS (ABC) in Tampa, FL, WBTV (CBS) in Charlotte, NC and WRC-TV (NBC) in Washington, DC.

Fee Range: $20,000–$40,000
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The owner of the Washington, DC-based CakeLove and the former host of the Food Network's “Sugar Rush”, Warren Brown is an entrepreneurial icon. Taking an unconventional career path, Brown left his job as an attorney for the federal government to pursue his dream. Passionate about cake and the happiness that it brings, Brown opened CakeLove and soon perfected his recipe for success, ultimately expanding to six retail storefronts. Warren Brown has been recognized for his entrepreneurial spirit by local and national media including “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, “The Today Show”, NPR, CNN, and Inc. magazine, and national advertisement campaigns for American Express and Dell computers. He has published several cookbooks: CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch, United Cakes of America, CakeLove in the Morning, and his latest, Pie Love. In this, his fourth book, Brown answers every baker's questions about making the perfect pie and includes recipes that range from sweet to savory.

Fee: $10,000
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Marcus Bullock is an entrepreneur, justice reform advocate, and TED speaker. Following his 2004 release from prison, he launched a construction business that grew to employ other returning citizens. Bullock is the founder and CEO of Flikshop, Inc., a software company that builds tools to help incarcerated people stay connected to their families and build community. The Flikshop mobile app enables families and non-profit organizations to send personalized postcards to any person in any cell in the US, with the mission of using social connections to decrease recidivism.

Fee Range: $15,000–$20,000
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Fee Range: $10,000–$18,750
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Stuart Butler is a member of the editorial board of Health Affairs, a member of the Board on Health Care Services of the National Academy of Medicine and a member of the Advisory Group for the Academy’s Culture of Health Program. He also serves on advisory councils for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, and the March of Dimes. In 2002, he was an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University. In 1990, he served as a member of Housing Secretary Jack Kemp's Advisory Commission on Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing. Most recently, he has played a prominent role in the debate over health care reform, and addressing social determinants of health. He has also been working on a wide range of other issues, including the future of higher education, economic mobility, budget process reform and federal entitlement reform.

Fee Range: $5,000–$10,000
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Amanda Carpenter is a political commentator for CNN and author of GASLIGHTING AMERICA: Why We Love It When Trump Lies To Us. Prior to CNN she was the Communications Director for Senator Ted Cruz, and previously served as Senior Communications Advisor and Speechwriter to Sen. Jim DeMint.

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• Professor of History and African American Studies, Georgetown University • Pulitzer Prize Winning Author • Author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America • Creator, #FergusonSyllabus

Fee Range: $22,000–$50,000
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Ceci Connolly, a nationally-recognized healthcare leader, is president and CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans. Previously, Ceci Connolly was the Managing Director of the Health Research Institute for PriceWaterhouseCoopers after having spent 25 years in the journalism field and is a well-respected author and TV commentator. A highly sought-after speaker, Connolly has the unique ability to translate complex subjects for audiences at all levels.

Fee Range: $14,000–$14,000
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Host, NPR’s All Things Considered

Fee Range: $16,000–$25,000
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An award-winning legal journalist, Jan Crawford has covered the Supreme Court for more than 10 years and has had extensive interviews with nine of its justices. She is also the New York Times best-selling author of Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court, hailed by CBS's Bob Schieffer as a "masterpiece of reporting." She has taught journalism at American University and frequently speaks about the Court to universities, law schools, legal organizations, and civic groups across the country. Combining her insider's knowledge and experience covering the Supreme Court , Crawford shares expert insight on the nation's legal issues

Fee: $6,000
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Bob Cusack has covered policy and politics in DC for more than 20 years. In 2003, he joined The Hill as Business and Lobbying editor and assumed the role of managing editor a year later. Prior to The Hill, he was a chief editor at Inside Washington Publishers. Through the years, he has developed a keen understanding and institutional knowledge of the behind-the-scenes happenings on Capitol Hill, K Street, and the White House.

Fee Range: $7,000–$15,000
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Fee Range: $18,000–$28,000
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A professor of cross-cultural communication at American University, trilingual poet, TV talk show host and positive rapper, Dr. Omékongo Dibinga’s writings and performances have appeared in O Magazine, as well as on TV and radio from CNN, BET, and the BBC to NPR, Music Choice, and Voice of America in millions of homes in over 150 countries. He has also written songs for major motion pictures as well as organizations such as NASA and the Enough! Project. He has spoken before the United Nations, partners with the State Department to conduct leadership training overseas, and speaks to corporate, government, and educational organizations across the country.

Fee Range: $15,000–$20,000
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Fee Range: $10,000–$20,000
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