Sarah Jones

Tony Award-Winning Solo Performer, Writer, Comedian & Activist

Sonya Renee Taylor

Founder & Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology

Kwame Alexander

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Warsan Shire

Award-Winning Poet' Displacement & Belonging Advocate; Author of "Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth"

Elizabeth Alexander

Renowned Poet Known For Inauguration Poem "Praise Song for the Day"

The privilege of perspective ft. Elizabeth Alexander

Diane Rehm

Radio Talk-Show Host

Eugenia Cheng

Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Author of "How to Bake Pi"

The joy of abstract mathematical thinking - with Eugenia Cheng

P. Gabrielle Foreman

Award-Winning Professor, MacArthur "Genius Grant" Award Winner, Leader in the field of Black Digital & Public History

Saul Williams

Spoken Word Artist

Charity Blackwell

Diversity Equity and Inclusion Practitioner, Spoken Word Artist & Host/Emcee

Sonia Sanchez

Renowned Scholar, Poet, Playwright & Activist

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Rita Dove

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

Felipe Luciano

Poet, Community Activist, Journalist, Media Personality & Politician

Bonafide Rojas

Bonafide Rojas is the author of “Renovatio, When The City Sleeps & Pelo Bueno” & is the founder of Grand Concourse Press.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet & Professor at NYU

Roxy Azari

Spoken Word Artist, Slam Poet & Social Justice Activist

Afaa Weaver

Award Winning Poet, Playwright & Translator

Vanessa "The Hebrew Mamita" Hidary

Actress / Performer / Writer / Director

Erica Collins

Host Blog Talk Radio's Enterprise, Author, Speaker, Media & Public Relations Consultant, Plus Model/Actress, for. Miss Plus America, fmr. Miss New York Plus America