Cheryl Boone Isaacs

Founding Director of Arizona State University’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School; Former President of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Dr. Monica F. Cox

Professor & Chair of the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State University; CEO of STEMinent LLC

Loretta Ross

Founder of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective; Reproductive Justice Activist & Professor

Stan Foster

Film/TV Writer, Director, Producer & Speaker

Jamila Lyiscott

Tri-Tongue Orator Known for her TED Talk "3 Ways to Speak English"

Logan Browning

Actress & Singer-Songwriter; Best Known for Her Roles in "Bratz: The Movie" & Netflix's "Dear White People"

Kip Fulbeck

Professor of Art at UCSB; Award-Winning Filmmaker, Author, Artist & Spoken Word Poet

John Gray

Christian Comedian, Pastor & Author; Star of "The Book of John Gray"

Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder & Former CEO, PolicyLink

Maurice Ashley

First African-American Chess Grandmaster; Author, Puzzle Inventor & Motivational Speaker

Darryl Strawberry

Former American Major League Baseball Outfielder

Mark Anthony Neal

Author, Cultural Critic, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies

Jamal Simmons

Democratic Strategist & Political Commentator

Esera Tuaolo

NFL Veteran & LGBT Role Model

Rob Smith

Openly Gay Iraq War Veteran & Author of "Closets, Combat, and Coming Out"

Lawrence Hill

Canadian Novelist, Essayist & Memoirist Best Known for "The Book of Negroes" & "Black Berry, Sweet Juice"

dormtainment

Comedy Group Known for Their Internet Skits

Shirley Ann Jackson

Theoretical Physicist & Inventor; President of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; National Medal of Science Recipient

Kadir Nelson

Award-Winning African-American Artist, Illustrator & Author; Designed the Cover of Drake's Album Nothing Was The Same

Momma Dee

TV Personality on VH1's "Love & Hip Hop"; Mother of Lil Scrappy

Peter Parros

Actor & Screenwriter Known for his Roles on "As the World Turns" and "The Haves and Have Nots"

What Could Have Been a Final Season Of Knight Rider I Peter Parros

Tamala Jones

Actress Known for "Castle" & "Up in the Air"

Michael Baisden

Renowned Radio Personality, Author and Motivational Speaker

Rae Lewis Thornton

Emmy Award-Winning AIDS Activist

Chenoa Maxwell

Photographer, Actress, Life Designer & TV Personality on OWN's "Love in the City"

Quddus

Former MTV VJ for "Total Request Live" and Host of ABC's "Duets"

Melba Pattillo Beals

Journalist, Author of "Warriors Don't Cry" & Member of the "Little Rock Nine"

Seaton Smith

Actor & Stand Up Comedian Known for "Mulaney"

Mother Love

Mother Love, renowned television and radio talk show host, film and tv veteran, and noted author, is committed to changing lives through healthy living.

Erica Dixon

Reality TV Personality on VH1's "Love & Hip Hop"