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Minister, Attorney, Author & Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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First African American Woman POW in U.S. War History & Author of "I’m Still Standing"

Erin Brockovich

Consumer Advocate, Author, TV Host & Environmental Activist

Aisha Fukushima

Performance Lecturer, Justice Strategist, Facilitator, Vocalist & Founder of RAPtivism

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Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

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Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

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

April Reign

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

Dorothy Roberts

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Dr. Crystal Kuykendall

Education, Leadership & Public Service Expert; Former Director of National Alliance of Black School Educators

Amanda Seales

Poet, Spoken Word Artist & Media Personality Known for HBO's "Insecure;" Anti-Smoking Activist

Andrea Mitchell

Host of MSNBC’s "Andrea Mitchell Reports" & Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News

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Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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Catherine Crier

Acclaimed Author, Former Judge, Award-Winning Journalist & Television Broadcaster

Lynn Vavreck

Professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA & Political Columnist for the New York Times

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Erwin McManus

Author, Speaker, Futurist and Innovator

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Damon Horowitz

Philosophy Professor & Serial Entrepreneur, Former In-House Philosopher at Google

Alexis Hope

Designer & Researcher at MIT Media Lab, Expert in Creativity, Innovation & the Future of Work

Roosevelt Montás

Senior Lecturer in the Center for American Studies at Columbia University

Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz

Cultural leader, Oral Historian and Documentarian

Veronica Barassi

Anthropologist & Professor in Media and Communication Studies

Dr. Mike Magee

President of Positive Medicine, Inc., Health Journalist & Author

Sonia Sanchez

Renowned Scholar, Poet, Playwright & Activist

Anna Deavere Smith

Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

Erika Lee

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"

John Waters

Cult Filmmaker, Actor, Writer & Visual Artist

Jeremy Nobel

Founder & President at The Foundation for Art and Healing; Faculty, Harvard Medical School

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Danae Ringelmann

Founder, Indiegogo; Lodge & Farm Owner; Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum

Markus Gross

Director of Disney Research; Professor of Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

Peter Doolittle

Cognition Expert & Professor of Educational Psychology