Theodore R. Johnson

Senior Advisor at New America & Columnist for The Washington Post; United States Navy Veteran

Kassie M. Edwards

Sexual Assault Victim Advocate & Board Member of DC Rape Crisis Center

Haile Gerima

Ethiopian Filmmaker & Film Professor at Howard University

Derrica Wilson

Co-Founder & CEO of the Black and Missing Foundation, Inc (BAMFI)

Nkechi Taifa

Civil & Human Rights Attorney, Best-Selling Author, Scholar Activist

Taifa keynotes 2021 HBCU Pre-Law Summit

Kelli Richardson Lawson

Founder & CEO of the JOY Collective and The SonRise Project

Matthew Vialva

Organizational Leadership Change Agent; Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Advocate; Mental Health Scholar and Practitioner

Charlene Wheeless

Communications Leader & Author

Justin Hansford

Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law

Kylar Broadus

Attorney, Author & LGBTQ Rights Activist; Motivational Disability Speaker; Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition

Jamika D. Burge

Head of Conversational Artificial Intelligence Insights at AI Design; Entrepreneur, Founder, Tech Researcher & Design Executive

Dr. Joyce Ladner

Civil Rights Activist, Author & Sociologist

Rodney Robinson

2019 National Teacher of the Year

Jasmine Wright

CNN Reporter at White House

Tiffany Cross

Co-Founder & Managing Editor of The Beat DC; Host of "Cross Connection" on MSNBC

Lola Adedokun

Health Equity Advocate; Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group; Co-Chair of the Aspen Forum on Women and Girls; Former Director at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Lola Adedokun - Aspen Ignites: Transforming Global Health

Ruby Sales

Founder & Director of The SpiritHouse Project

Nicaila Matthews Okome

Creator & Host of "Side Hustle Pro," The First and Only Podcast to Spotlight Bold, Black Women Entrepreneurs

Mignon Clyburn

Former Commissioner at the United States Federal Communications Commission

Angel Rich

Founder & CEO of The Wealth Factory