Charlene Carruthers

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Dorothy Roberts

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

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Deanna Van Buren

Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

T. Morgan Dixon

Women's Health Advocate, Co-Founder & CEO of GirlTrek

T. Morgan Dixon GirlTrek Founders on "Black News Tonight"

Monique W. Couvson

Social Justice Scholar & Author of "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools"

Dwinita Mosby Tyler

Equity Advocate, TED Speaker & Author

Lola Adedokun

Health Equity Advocate; Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group; Co-Chair of the Aspen Forum on Women and Girls; Former Director at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Lola Adedokun - Aspen Ignites: Transforming Global Health

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

Co-Executive Director at Highlander Research & Education Center; Activist

Cornell William Brooks

Former President & CEO of the NAACP; Civil Rights Attorney; Social Justice Activist; Ordained Minister; Professor at Harvard Kennedy School

John H. Bracey, Jr.

Co-Director of the African Diaspora Studies at Amherst College

Public Enemy

Hip Hop Group; Known for their Politically-Charged Music

Samuel Sinyangwe

Co-Founder of Mapping Police Violence & Campaign Zero

Annette Grotheer

Founder of The Shop Docs

Troy Duster

Former President of the American Sociological Association; Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley

Felwine Sarr

Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University

Afrotopia

Anthea Butler

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Berry Gordy, Jr.

Founder of Motown Records

Tony Iton

Senior Vice President of Programs & Partnerships at The California Endowment; Lecturer of Health Policy & Management at UC Berkeley

Pamela Newkirk

Journalist, Professor, Author & Multi-Disciplinary Scholar Whose Work Challenges Depictions of African Americans in Popular Culture

Isabelle Kamariza

Founder & President of SolidAfrica; Food & Medicine Advocate

Melissa L. Cooper

Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark; Author of "Making Gullah" & African American History Expert

Vindell Washington

Chief Clinical Officer for Care & Director of the Health Equity Center of Excellence at Verily

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Robert F. Smith

Technology Investor & Founder of Vista Equity Partners

Dr. Vicki Crawford

Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Collection at Morehouse College

60 years after March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Joe Johns

Political News Correspondent (CNN)

Kassie M. Edwards

Sexual Assault Victim Advocate & Board Member of DC Rape Crisis Center

Shawn Ginwright

One of the Nation’s Leading Innovators, Provocateurs, & Thought Leaders on African American Youth, Youth Activism, & Youth Development; PhD, Author & Professor

ImeIme Umana

President of the Harvard Law Review

Lonnie G. Bunch

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution