Dena Simmons

Educator & Founder of LiberatED; Social & Emotional Learning Advocate

Sam Fulwood III

Senior Fellow

Jonah Edelman

Advocate for Public Education, CEO of Stand for Children

Lisa W. Wardell

President & CEO of Adtalem Global Education; Only African-American Female CEO of a Fortune 1000 Company

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

Dr. Artika R. Tyner

Associate Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of St. Thomas

Cynthia G. Brown

Vice President, Education Policy

Erika Hayes James

Dean, Wharton School of Business; First Black Woman to Lead a Top MBA Program; Expert on Organizational Psychology & Executive Leadership

Dr. Erika James talks becoming Wharton School's dean

Joseph Edwards

International Teaching Artist, Award Winning Actor and Playwright, Reparations Truth and Reconciliation Advocate, Growth Mindset Coach

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Trish Millines Dziko

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

Cory Booker

U.S. Senator from New Jersey; Author of "United" & Former Democratic Presidential Candidate

Carrie Billy

Former President & CEO of American Indian Higher Education Consortium

Horacio Sanchez

Clinician, Author, Education Advocate, and Mental Health Authority; President & CEO at Resiliency Inc.

Tamir Harper

Co-Founder & Executive Director of UrbEd Inc., Advocate for Public Education & Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholar

Hannah Bricker

Inclusive Education Advocate, Program Director at The Rise School of Austin & Co-Founder of Teaching2gether

Steve Chiger

Director of Literacy at Uncommon Schools; Author of "Love & Literacy"

Pandemic Classroom: Dispatches from Teachers

Carol Geary Schneider

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

Shadrack Frimpong

Founder of Cocoa360