R.K. Russell

Former NFL Football Player, Social Justice Advocate, Published Poet, Essayist & Artist

Lex Gillette

Blind Paralympic Athlete & Motivational Speaker

Aaron Rose Philip

First Black, Transgender, Disabled Model to Sign with a Major Agency

Reggie Butler

Founder & CEO at Performance Paradigm LLC

Lonnie Johnson

Engineer; Inventor Best Known for the Super Soaker Water Gun; CEO of Johnson Battery Technology

Ukonwa Ojo

Former Chief Marketing Officer of Prime Video & Amazon Studios

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Author of "Heads of the Colored People"

Austin Channing Brown

Racial Justice Advocate & Bestselling Author of "I'm Still Here"

Safiya Noble

AI & Algorithmic Discrimination Expert; Associate Professor at UCLA; Researcher on Race, Gender, Technology & Design

Patrice A. Harris

First African-American Woman President of the American Medical Association; Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association & Consultant on Health Service Delivery

James Lawson

Reverend & Civil Rights Activist

Wanda Durant

Advocate for Underserved Communities; CEO of Hope, Dream, Believe & Achieve; Mother of Kevin Durant

Ruth E. Carter

Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer; Best Known for Her Work on "Selma" & Marvel's "Black Panther"

The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Righ...

Alondra Nelson

Science & Technology Policy Leader, Former Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden & Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

AI Regulation is Not ‘Staunching Innovation’ in the Workplace

Tarell Alvin McCraney

Award-Winning Playwright & Screenwriter, "Moonlight"

Dena Simmons

Educator & Founder of LiberatED; Social & Emotional Learning Advocate

Angela Rye

CNN Political Commentator, NPR Political Analyst, Attorney, Principal & CEO of IMPACT Strategies

Brittney Cooper

Feminist Scholar & Author of "Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women"

Ayanna Howard

Pioneering Innovator, Entrepreneur & Inventor of Robotic Technologies & Artificial Intelligence; Dean of the College of Engineering, The Ohio State University

Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI

Simone Manuel

Olympic Sprint Freestyle Swimmer, First African-American Woman to Win Individual Olympic Gold Medal in Swimming