Peter Ghavami

Head of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence at Fannie Mae

Big Data Governance: Modern Data Management Principles for Hadoop, NoSQL & Big Data Ana...

Charity Blackwell

Diversity Equity and Inclusion Practitioner, Spoken Word Artist & Host/Emcee

Hope Giselle

National Organizer, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist & Trans Activist

Michael Fath

World Class Guitarist, Composer, Producer, Author & Martial Arts Expert

Danny Farrar

CEO & Founder of Soldierfit ED; Executive Director & Founder of Platoon 22

Olu Burrell

Executive & Leadership Coach; People Strategy Consultant

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Writer, Spoken Word Artist, Activist & Cultural Strategist

Ariana Curtis

Curator for Latinx Studies at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

April Reign

Creator of the #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag; Editor of BroadwayBlack.com & NU Tribe Magazine

Adam Liptak

Supreme Court Correspondent of the New York Times

Joe Madison

Civil Rights Activist & American Radio Talk-Show Host Known as “The Black Eagle” on SiriusXM’s Urban View Channel

Radio's Joe Madison on Ending Hunger Strike in Fight for Voting Rights

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Jim Ball

Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist Who Assisted in Creating Over 20 New Businesses Including The Discovery Channel

Jeff Shesol

Best Selling Author, Historian, Speechwriter for Former President Bill Clinton

Todd Howard

Video Game Designer, Director & Executive Producer at Bethesda Game Studios

Alan Pell Crawford

Author, Journalist, former Speechwriter for a US Senator and former Press Secretary to a US Congressman

Robert Bobb

Mr. Robert C. Bobb has more than 30 years of executive management experience. Most recently, he served as Emergency Financial Manager of Detroit Public Schools where he led a successful campaign for a $500.5 million bond issuance to build and modernize 26

Reynold Levy

Philanthropist, Businessman, Author & Former President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Robin Hood Foundation

Waikinya Clanton

Impact Strategist, Community Activist, Advocate & Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center