Kara Swisher
Think Tank is an occasional series of conversations with Bay Area power players, conducted by San Francisco editors. See them all here:
Janice Li, Newly elected member of the BART board of directors
Rob Reich, Stanford Professor of Political Science
Virgie Tovar, Author, Activist, and Babecamp Founder
Rafael Casal, Hip-Hop Artist, Poet, and Actor
Michael Pollan, Author and UC Berkeley School of Journalism Professor
James Damore, Former Google Engineer
Michele Dauber, Stanford Professor Aiming to Unseat the Brock Turner Judge
Robert Lustig, Revolutionary Pediatrician
Carol Christ, UC Berkeley Chancellor
Brittan Heller, the ADL's woman in Silicon Valley
Ellen Pao, Venture Partner at Kapor Capital
Jesse Arreguin, Mayor of Berkeley
Jessica Nutik Zitter, Oakland Physician and End-of-Life Reformer
Kim Chambers, World Record–Holding Marathon Swimmer
Leila Janah, Founder and CEO of Samasource and LXMI
Barbara Lee, U.S. Representative, 13th Congressional District
Steve DeAngelo, Cofounder and Executive Director of Harborside
Bobby Seale, Political Organizer and Social Activist
Catharine Baker, Assemblywoman, 16th Assembly District
Suzy Loftus, Police Commission President
Sarah Shourd, Journalist and Playwright, and Jerry Elster, Community Activist
Anne Wojcicki, CEO and Cofounder of 23andMe
Cintra Wilson, Marin-Born Author
Aaron Peskin, District 3 Supervisor
Vicki Hennessy, San Francisco Sheriff
David Campos, District 9 Supervisor
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Oakland-Born TV and Film Director
Natalie Batalha, Astrophysicist in Search of Earth-like Planets
Marielle Heller, Bay Area–Born Writer-Director
Jack Davis, Crap-Slinging Political Consultant
Chad Robertson, Tartine Bakery Baker
Peter Ragone, Give-No-Shits Spokesperson
Ed Lee, First Chinese-American Mayor of San Francisco
London Breed, President of the Board of Supervisors
Daniel Handler, Swashbuckling Writer
Larry Baer, Giant-Sized Olympic Booster
Michael Tilson Thomas, Dynamo Symphony Conductor
Rebecca Kaplan, Would-Be Oakland Mayor
Richard Carranza, the "All-in" SF Unified School District Superintendent
Lacy T., Status Quo-Busting Raiderette
Kara Swisher, Straight-Shooting Tech Journalist
Mike Judge, Silicon Valley's Funny Man
Gabriel Metcalf, Urban Planning Guru
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