Dr. Wilson Fallin, Jr.

Professor, Author, Civil Rights and Social Justice Advocate

Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr.

Civil Rights Movement Leader, Minister, Educator, and Lecturer

Nikki R. Lanier

Labor Attorney, Racial Equity Strategist & Federal Reserve “Insider”

Amali Tower

Climate Displacement, Migration & Refugee Expert; Founder of Climate Refugees

Q&A: Amali Tower on Climate Migration and 'Evolution Earth'

Sydney Freeland

Award-Winning LGBTQ Navajo Filmmaker & Emmy-Nominated Director

Manjusha P. Kulkarni

Executive Director of AAPI Equity Alliance & Co-Founder of Stop AAPI Hate

2022 AAYLC Keynote Speaker Manjusha P. Kulkarni

Sophie Santos

2022 Lambda Literary Award Winner, Comedian, Writer, Actor & Author of The Best-Selling Memoir "The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had)"

Sophie Santos' New Love

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

Award-Winning Author & Historian

Shereen Marisol Meraji

Senior Producer & Co-Host of the 'Code Switch' Podcast on NPR

Ivelyse Andino

Founder & CEO of Radical Health

Shannon Joyce Prince

Lawyer, Legal Commentator & Author

Carolyn Roberts

Assistant Professor in History of Science & History of Medicine; African American Studies Professor at Yale University

Jill Savitt

President & CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Georgina Pazcoguin

"The Rogue Ballerina" & Civil Rights Activist

Kedra Newsom Reeves

Managing Director & Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Center for Illinois’ Future Board Member & DEI Advocate

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

Author & African American History Professor

Bob Woodson

Founder of The Woodson Center and 1776 Unites

Elle B. Mambetov

Fashion Designer, Author & Activist For Prison Reform

Chloe B. McKenzie

Bestselling Author, Financial Trauma Researcher & Founder of BlackFem

Nury Turkel

Commissioner at US Commission on International Religious Freedom