Liz Dozier

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Carin Taylor

Chief Diversity Officer at Workday; Consultant and Advisor at RISEQUITY

Jamira Burley

Head of Youth Engagement & Skills for the Global Business Coalition for Education

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Dena Simmons

Educator & Founder of LiberatED; Social & Emotional Learning Advocate

Angela Rye

CNN Political Commentator, NPR Political Analyst, Attorney, Principal & CEO of IMPACT Strategies

Kandice Sumner

Public School Educator & TED Speaker; Consultant on Race, Education, Gender and Equity

How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner

Brittney Cooper

Feminist Scholar & Author of "Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women"

Aprille Ericsson

Rocket Scientist, Technologist & STEM Educator

Ashanti Johnson

Geochemist & Chemical Oceanographer; Diversity & Women in STEM Advocate

Ayanna Howard

Pioneering Innovator, Entrepreneur & Inventor of Robotic Technologies & Artificial Intelligence; Dean of the College of Engineering, The Ohio State University

Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI

Simone Manuel

Olympic Sprint Freestyle Swimmer, First African-American Woman to Win Individual Olympic Gold Medal in Swimming

Charlene Carruthers

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Deshauna Barber

2016 Miss USA, IT Analyst & Army Reserve Officer, Mental & Physical Health Advocate; Vice Chair on the Board Of Directors at Service Women’s Action Network

Yvonne Cagle

NASA Astronaut, Aerospace Surgeon, Inventor, Consulting Professor for Stanford University’s Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Electrical Engineering & Retired Colonel of the US Air Force

Jedidah C. Isler

Astrophysicist & TED Speaker

Monique W. Couvson

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

Ayo Tometi

Human Rights Advocate, Strategist, Writer & Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Movement

Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington

Chief Environmental Research Scientist at Environmental Health Research Associates, LLC.

Pamela McCauley

STEM Advocate, Researcher & Author; Dean of Widener University