Astrophysicist

To discuss NASA's New Horizon Spacecraft mission to Pluto, we FEATURE Dr. Jane Rigby, who is an Astrophysicist at NASA. She has four years of experience at NASA and is the principal investigator on multiple scientific programs using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and the Herschel Space Telescope. Her media experience includes Nature, Science, TEDx, Physics World and Astrobetter.

Author, Speaker, Founder of The unPrison Project

After Obama commuted the sentences of 46 non-violent drug offenders and became the first president to visit a federal prison, we FEATURE Deborah Jiang Stein. She is the author of Women Behind Bars collected interviews, and the memoir, Prison Baby, a national speaker and consultant, and founder of The unPrison Project, a nonprofit working to empower and inspire incarcerated women and girls with life skills and mentoring. Her media experiences include MPR, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, and American Public Radio.

Former US Assistant Surgeon General; Real Admiral (ret), First Deputy Asst. Secretary for Women's Health; Visiting Professor, MIT Media Labs; Distinguished Provost Professor, Northeastern University; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.

According to the United Nations Aid agency, the goal to get HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has already been met. To comment, we FEATURE Susan Blumenthal, M.D., a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the New America Foundation. She also serves as a Senior Policy and Medical Advisor at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and is Chair of the Global Health Program at the Meridian International Center where her work focuses on a broad range of public health and science issues facing the nation and world. Formerly, she served as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General, Senior Global Health Advisor and the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Women’s Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services and was a White House Advisor on Health. Her media experience includes PBS, Huffington Post, S News and World Report, Elle, and PBS.

Distinguished Fellow

To discuss the implications of the Iran nuclear deal that was agreed on Tuesday by six world powers, we SPOTLIGHT Barbara Slavin, a regular commentator on US foreign policy and Iran. She is the author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the US and the Twisted Path to Confrontation, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and Washington correspondent for Al-Monitor.com, a website devoted to news from and about the Middle East. Her media experience includes The Washington Times, USA TODAY, The Economist, the New York Times.