James Garbarino

Author, Psychologist, Expert on Violence & Children; Senior Faculty Fellow, Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University

Kathryn Edin

Sociologist & Distinguished Professor at Princeton University

Ric S. Sheffield

Author on Gender, Race & Ethnicity; Professor of Legal Studies and Sociology at Kenyon College

A Lenten Journey through Black History in Rural Ohio

Elijah Anderson

Professor of Sociology; Author of "Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City"

Patricia Hill Collins

Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, Social Theorist

DeAngelo Burse

Relationship Strategist

Dr. Melvin Mahone

Assistant Sociology Professor at Paine College, Writer & Author

Anindya Kundu

Sociologist & Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Florida International University

The Power of Student Agency: Looking Beyond Grit to Close the Opportunity Gap

Robert Wiedemer

President of Aftershock Publishing and a Managing Director with Ark Financial Management

Peter Phillips

Political Sociologist

Jonathan Metzl

Professor of Sociology & Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University

Ranjay Gulati

Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Robert Eccles

Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Saïd Business School, Oxford

Yin Myo “Misuu” Su

Founder & Managing Director of Inle Heritage

Anthony Christian Ocampo

Ford Foundation Fellow, Scholar, Writer & Sociology Professor at Cal Poly Pomona

William Julius Wilson

Sociologist & Harvard Professor

Tiffany Jenkins

Sociologist, Cultural Commentator, Author & Culture Editor for the Journal "Sociology Compass"

Mark Granovetter

Joan Butler Ford Professor of Sociology at Stanford University

Mario Small

Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; Award-Winning Author on Urban Poverty & Personal Networks

Christiane Saba

Director of International Relations at ACCLI; Economic Development & Future of Work Expert