Michelle Obama

Former First Lady of the United States & Bestselling Author

Joan Michelson

Co-Host of the Electric Ladies Podcast, ESG Consultant, Business Sustainability & Leadership Expert

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Rita Dove

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

April Reign

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

Bill Drayton

Social Entrepreneur, Founder & C.E.O of Ashoka. Leading an Everyone a Changemaker world movement.

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

Susan Goldberg

Editorial Director of National Geographic Partners & Editor in Chief of National Geographic Magazine

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

Marian Wright Edelman

Founder & President of the Children's Defense Fund

Dan Porterfield

President & CEO of the Aspen Institute; Advocate for Expanding Educational Opportunity & Improving the Human Condition

Dan Porterfield - Heart of Giving Podcast

A'Lelia Bundles

Author of Best-Selling Biography ON HER OWN GROUND: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Andrea Rodgers

Founder of AskMissA.com, Philanthropist, Charity & Lifestyle Blogger

Hope Giselle

National Organizer, Diversity and Inclusion Specialist & Trans Activist

Melissa Chiu

Museum Director, Asia Society

Ravi Hutheesing

Global Keynote Speaker | Empowering education and business leaders to build a future with millennials and beyond.

Kwame Alexander

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Chardelle Moore

Founder & CEO of Motivational Moore, Award-Winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Storyteller, Television Anchor, Poet

Narges Bajoghli

Award-Winning Anthropologist, Writer & Professor.at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies

Ashley Deese

Manager of Digital Media at Smithsonian Institution