Peter Doolittle

Cognition Expert & Professor of Educational Psychology

Rita Dove

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

Brian Lamb

Journalist and Founder, Executive Chairman and Retired CEO of C-Span

Jack Trammell

Jack Trammell is Associate Professor of Sociology and disability expert, as well as historian and writer. He specializes in exceptionality, Otherness, folklore, disability policy, and social history.

Melissa Charles

Producing Artistic Director of DMR Adventures & Founder of Belmont Arts Collaborative

Michael Fath

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

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

E.D. Hirsch

Founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation

Charity Blackwell

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

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Writer, Spoken Word Artist, Activist & Cultural Strategist

Melissa Chiu

Museum Director, Asia Society

Reynold Levy

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

Caty Borum Chattoo

Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact, Professor for the School of Communication at American University

Alexa Meade

Mixed-Media Painter & Installation Artist

A'Lelia Bundles

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

Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave

Photojournalist, Historian, Author and Poet

Ariana Curtis

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

Stephen Trachtenberg

Authority on Higher Education, former President of George Washington University

Adam Liptak

Supreme Court Correspondent of the New York Times

Kyi May Kaung

Speaking Truth to Power--