Aspen Ideas Festival

Jamie P. Merisotis is president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, the nation’s largest private foundation committed solely to enrolling and graduating more students from college. Under his leadership, Lumina employs a strategic, outcomes-based approach in pursuing its mission of expanding... Read More →

Andrea Mitchell is NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and the host of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.” She currently covers foreign policy, intelligence, and national security issues, including the diplomacy of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for all NBC News... Read More →

Eduardo J. Padrón has served as president of Miami Dade College since 1995. The college is recognized as a national model of student achievement and is the largest institution of higher education in America, with more than 174,000 students. TIME magazine has included Padrón among... Read More →