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Ronald A. Klain is a lawyer and Democratic political strategist born in 1961 in Indianapolis. He was chief of staff to two Vice Presidents, Al Gore and Joe Biden, and served on the Democratic campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry. He attended Harvard and Georgetown Universities. He was played by Kevin Spacey in Recount, a TV movie about the Florida recount in the 2000 Presidential election. He has worked for the investment and venture capital firms Case Holdings and Revolution Ventures. He is married to Monica Medina, a lawyer and environmental activist, and they have three children.  On Oct. 17, 2014, he was named to the position of Ebola response coordinator by Pres. Barack Obama.

The Foo Fighters is a rock band founded in Seattle in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. The band started as a one-man project and released it’s first album “Foo Fighters” in 1995. The Foo Fighters now consists of Grohl, lead singer; Chris Shiffett, guitarist; Pat Smear, guitarist; Nate Mendel, bassist; and Taylor Hawkins, drummer. The Foo Fighters have recorded a total of eight albums, with the most recent “Sonic Highways” to be released November 14, 2014. The group has won a total of eleven Grammy Awards, including four for Best Rock Album and three for Best Hard Rock Performance.

Kesha Rose Sebert, known as Kesha, was born March 1, 1987 in Los Angeles, California. Kesha is a singer-songwriter and rapper who signed with producer Dr. Luke’s record label Kemosabe at age 18. Her debut album Animal, which released in 2010, reached number one on the charts. Animal included two number-one singles Tik Tok and We R Who We R. Kesha released her second studio album Warrior in December 2012. Kesha is the daughter of singer-songwriter Patricia Rose “Pebe” Sebert and he has an older brother, Logan.

Paul Graham is an English computer programmer, essayist, and venture capitalist, born in 1964. He is a co-founder of Viaweb, which later became Yahoo Store. His writing includes essays on the programming language Lisp, being a nerd in high school, and the hypothetical programming language Blub. He has published three books, including a collection of essays titled Hackers And Painters. He is one of the creators of the startup incubator Y Combinator and the social news site Hacker News. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting in Italy. He is married to Jessica Livingston.

Jeremy Seth Levine is a venture capitalist born in 1974. He graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a BS in Computer Science and Economics, and worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co. and an associate at AEA Investors from 1995 to 1999, when he joined internet company Dash. He joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2001 and led the company’s investments in Yelp and LinkedIn. He has also served on the boards of Pinterest.com, Wikia, GraceNote, Soap.com, Diapers.com, Onestop, Shopify, and other startups. He is married with three children, and is based in Larchmont, N.Y., and Silicon Valley.

Dylan O’Brien is an American actor born in New Jersey in 1991. Starting out by posting YouTube videos as a teenager, he achieved mainstream success with his role as Stiles in the MTV series Teen Wolf. He has appeared in the films The First Time, High Road, and The Maze Runner and won the Teen Choice Award for Best Villain and Young Hollywood Award for Breakthrough Actor.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster is a British actor and musican born in 1990 in London. He is known for his role in Love, Actually for which he was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award and a Young Artist Award. He also appears in The Maze Runner, Game of Thrones, Nanny McPhee and as the voice of Ferb in animated series, Phineas and Ferb. Brodie-Sangster plays bass guitar for the band Winnet. Brodie-Sangster is the son of actors Mark Sangster and Tasha Bertram and has one sister, Ava.

Ezra Klein is a Jewish American journalist and blogger who defines himself as “an opinionated reporter. Klein was born on May 9, 1984 in Irvine, California. At age 19 he began blogging and was noticed and hired by the American Prospect in Washington DC in 2005. In 2009, the Washington Post hired Klein to be the paper’s first blogger on politics and economics. Klein won several awards for his blog with the Post, and in 2011 was named one of the 50 most powerful people in Washington Dc by GQ magazine. In January, 2014, Klein quit his job with the Post and established his own news site with Vox Media. Klein married Annie Lowrey in October, 2011.

Mary Elle Fanning is born April 19, 1998 in Conyers, Georgia. Fanning is an actress, appearing in her first role in the movie I am Sam at the age of two. Fanning appears in the movies Daddy Day Care, We Bought a Zoo, Young Ones, Low Down, Maleficent and The Boxtrolls. Fanning is the daughter of Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven J. Fanning and the sister of actress Dakota Fanning. She attends Campbell Hall School in Los Angeles.

Kristian Nairn is a DJ and actor born in 1975 in Lisburn, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. He is best known for his role of Hodor on the HBO series Game Of Thrones. He headlines the Rave of Thrones dance music events with tour dates in Australia and the U.S., and has been a longtime resident DJ at Belfast gay club Kremlin, as well as DJing at many other events including supporting Mylo, Scissor Sisters and Calvin Harris. He is a dedicated World of Warcraft player and has appeared in the Channel 4 show The Salon and the BBC series Ripper Street.