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Kwame Alexander

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

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

George Takei

Actor, Social Justice Activist & Social Media Mega-Power

Erica Jong

Feminist, Social Critic, Poet & Author of "Fear of Dying"

Kyla Jenee Lacey

Writer, Poet, Performer, Spoken Word, & Visual Artist Behind “White Privilege"

Hickory Dickory Dock I Do Not Want Your C*ck: A Book About Patriachy For Manchildren

Enuma Okoro

Nigerian-American Author and Lecturer; Columnist, Financial Times; Global Citizen

Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent

Sejal Shah

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Ayana Gray

NY Bestselling Author of "Beasts of Prey"

Kirstin Chen

Author of "Bury What We Cannot Take"

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame

Kim Fu

Award-Winning Author, Known for "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore"

Samantha Irby

Essayist and New York Times Best Selling Author

Quietly Hostile: Essays

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Mia Alvar

Author Best Known For "In the Country: Stories"

Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal is an editor for The New York Times Book Review

Quinta Brunson

Emmy Award-Winning Creator of ABC's "Abbott Elementary;" Writer, Actress & Stand-Up Comedian

Matika Wilbur

Native American Photographer

Gabrielle Scrimshaw

Native American Speaker, Writer & Entrepreneur; Worldwide Education Strategy at Apple

Tyler Blackburn

Actor Best Known for his Role as Caleb Rivers on the Hit ABC Family Series "Pretty Little Liars" & the Spinoff "Ravenswood"

Dr. Qaali Hussein

Trauma Surgeon; Founder & CEO of Defiance Academy

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

President of the Association for Indigenous Women & Peoples of Chad (AFPAT)

Judge J. Machelle Sweeting

Civil Court Judge, Only African American Woman Jurist & Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court

Carol Geary Schneider

Fellow, Lumina Foundation; Former President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Angel Rich

Founder & CEO of The Wealth Factory

Donna Brazile

Veteran Political Strategist, Best-Selling Author & Former Interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee

Siobhan Wescott

Alaska Native; Public Health Physician Researcher; Health Equity Advocate

Shohini Ghose

Award-Winning Physicist & 2018 TED Senior Fellow

Crystal Martin

Software Developer & Consultant at Slalom; Advocate for Diversity in Tech & Business