Linda Darling-Hammond

CEO of Learning Policy Institute & Founder of the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education; Leader of President Obama’s Education Policy Transition Team

Robyn Jackson

Founder of Mindsteps Inc.; Expert on Helping Educators Use the Tools They Have to Build Better Schools

Liz Dozier

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"

Eduardo Briceño

Founder & CEO at Growth.how, Former CEO of Mindset Works, Facilitating a Growth Mindset

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

John H. Bracey, Jr.

Co-Director of the African Diaspora Studies at Amherst College

Dena Simmons

Educator & Founder of LiberatED; Social & Emotional Learning Advocate

Carol Geary Schneider

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

Kristie Kennedy

Women's Worth & Wellness Expert, TEDx Audacious Leadership Transformational Speaker

Monica Martinez

Education Advocate, Author & Strategist; Speaker on Innovation, Teaching, Learning, and Education Policy

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Former Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tonya Lewis Lee

Author, Producer, Filmmaker & Entrepreneur; Women's Health Activist

Tonya Lewis Lee on the Black maternal mortality crisis

Marcia Chatelain

Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University & Author of "South SIde Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration"

Yvette Campbell

President, CEO, The Harlem School of the Arts

Kanya Balakrishna

Co-Founder & CEO of The Future Project; Youth Empowerment & Education Advocate

Olympia LePoint

Former NASA Rocket Scientist, Author, TED Speaker & Artificial Intelligence Ethics Professor

Olympia LePoint Science News

Rebecca Walker

Bestselling Author & Founder of the Third Wave Feminism Movement

What's Your Story? with author Rebecca Walker

Judge Glenda Hatchett

Former Juvenile Court Judge & Star of "Judge Hatchett" and "The Verdict"

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Trish Millines Dziko

Former Microsoft Programmer; Co-Founder & Executive Director of Technology Access Foundation

Marla Blow

President & Chief Operating Officer of the Skoll Foundation

2021 Reach Symposium: Keynote by Marla Blow - YouTube

Chitra Aiyar

Executive Director, Sadie Nash Leadership Project

Cassandra Worthy

Change Enthusiasm, Mindset & Leadership Speaker; Disruptive Thought Leader

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Dr. Alison Thompson

Humanitarian & Author of The Third Wave

Nadia Lopez

Founding Principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy; Best-Selling Author; STEAM & Mental Health Advocate

Joy-Ann Reid

MSNBC Correspondent, Political Author & Host of "The ReidOut"

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

Parul Sehgal

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

Malcolm London

Young Poet, Educator, Activist & TED Speaker Known For "High School Training Ground"

Justine Simmons

Motivator & Philanthropist