Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Julianne Malveaux

Economist, Author & Political Commentator; President Emerita of Bennett College for Women

Kylar Broadus

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

Aprille Ericsson

Rocket Scientist, Technologist & STEM Educator

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

Michael Twitty Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

Anna Escobedo Cabral

Former Treasurer of the United States, Partner at The Cabral Group & Jesse Ball duPont Fund Trustee

Viola Llewellyn

Co-Founder & President of Ovamba Solutions; Leader in FinTech and Advocate for Diversity & Equality

Deshauna Barber

2016 Miss USA, IT Analyst & Army Reserve Officer, Mental & Physical Health Advocate; Vice Chair on the Board Of Directors at Service Women’s Action Network

Marty Makary, M.D.

Healthcare Futurist, Johns Hopkins Surgeon & Professor of Public Health

Asra Nomani

Journalist & Author, Women's Rights Activist

Ashley Allison

CEO of Turner Conoly Group; Senior Biden Harris Campaign Official; Civil Rights & Political Strategist

Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

April Reign

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

Nia-Malika Henderson

Senior Political Analyst for CNN

Bernard Coleman

Vice President of People at Swing Education, HR/People Leader; Former Head of Employee Engagement at Gusto & Former Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Uber

Leslie Sanchez

Media Entrepreneur, Author & Political Analyst for CBS News

Face the Nation - Anthony Salvanto, Leslie Sanchez, Amy Walter

Alan Keyes

Former US Ambassador to the UN Social & Economic Council; Conservative Speaker

Party of the Constitution Republican Leadership Conference 2023

Angel Rich

Founder & CEO of The Wealth Factory

Justin Hansford

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

Kimberley Doyle

Keynote Speaker; Consultant; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Expert