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Tom Anderson

Maya Angelou

Tyra Banks

Bonnie Bernstein

Ryan J. Bingham

Meg Cabot

Nick Cannon

Sasha Cohen

Lauren Conrad

Chris Crutcher

Rosario Dawson

Kat DeLuna

Chris DeWolfe

America Ferrera

Ben Garant

Anastasia Goodstein

Adrian Grenier

Hill Harper

Rachael Harris

Molly Ivins

Mike James

Marty Kaplan

Sean Kingston

James Kotecki

Nicole Lapin

Norman Lear
Thomas Lennon

Maroon 5

Courtney E. Martin

Megan McCafferty

Naomi Shihab Nye

Sheila O'Donnell

The Onion

Hayden Panettiere

Amy Richards

Rob Riggle

Mark Ritchie

Henry Rollins

Romeo

Atoosa Rubenstein

Stuart Scott

Holly Shulman

Peter Sís

Amber Tamblyn

Aaron Tang

Aisha Tyler

Gabrielle Union

Sara Varon

Alice Walker

Joan Walsh

Marcellus Wiley
the guest editor of Declare Yourself, is a screen and stage actor best known as the star of TV’s “Ugly Betty,” for which she has won an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award. Her breakout role was in the independent film “Real Women Have Curves,” which lead to many more high-profile projects, including “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and its upcoming sequel, which is scheduled to release in August 2008. America is also a student of international relations at the University of Southern California.
Norman Lear, the founder of Declare Yourself, has enjoyed a long career in television and film, and as a political and social activist and philanthropist. His hit television shows include “All in the Family,” “Maude,” “Sanford and Son,” “The Jeffersons,” “One Day at a Time,” “Good Times,” and “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.” In 1999, President Clinton bestowed the National Medal of Arts on Mr. Lear, noting that “Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it.” You can visit Norman Lear online at normanlear.com.