Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

Presidential Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, BET News Correspondent, Human Rights Activist & Author

Maria Echaveste

President & CEO of the Opportunity Institute, Former U.S. Presidential Advisor to Bill Clinton, Co-Founder of Nueva Vista Group

Bertice Berry

Sociologist, Author and Educator

Jonathan Kozol

Educator & Social Justice Advocate

Kathryn Edin

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Claude Steele

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

Eduardo Bonilla Silva

Professor of Sociology at Duke University & Author of "Racism without Racists"

Dr. Gregory Stock

Healthcare Futurist & Biotech Pioneer

Jennifer James

Cultural Anthropologist & Expert on Change

Linda Tirado

Author On Poverty and the Working Class

Mary Pipher

Psychologist / Author

Victor Rios

Educator, Author, & Creator of Project GRIT

Ann Mullen

Sociology Professor at the University of Toronto; Social & Gender Inequality Researcher; Author of "Degrees of Inequality"

Pearl Duncan

Author

Mehret Mandefro

Writer, Anthropologist, Physician & Film Producer Known for "Difret"

Michael Wesch

Cultural Anthropologist, University Distinguished Scholar, Kansas State University

David Sloan Wilson

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University