• Oprah Winfrey

    At the height of her success, the talkshow host spread her knowledge to college students at Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management. There, Winfrey and her longtime boyfriend, Stedman Graham, co-taught a course titled the “Dynamics of Leadership” in 2001. The class, which held 110 students for two terms, discussed how students can achieve personal leadership.

  • Amal Clooney

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    In 2016, the award-winning attorney began teaching at Columbia University’s Law School, where she lectured about human rights litigation. Clooney also has an impressive resume to back up her credentials. As a human rights attorney, she’s argued before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, as well as domestic courts in the U.S. and U.K.

  • James Franco

    Since 2012, the Golden Globe-winning actor has been a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles’s School of Theater, Film and Television, where he has taught courses ranging from screenplay writing to classes in digital media.

  • Spike Lee

    After receiving his MFA in film production at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts, the director returned to his alma mater in 1993 to teach at its graduate film program. Lee also taught a course on filmmaking at Harvard University in 1991.

  • Matthew McConaughey

    In 2016, the Oscar winner had a brief stint as a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, his alma mater. McConaughey, along with “The Hunger Games” director Gary Ross, assisted UT film studies professor Scott Rice, in their joint class, “Advanced Producing: Anatomy of a Motion Picture.”

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