Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Shekinah Elmore

Oncologist; Dedicated to Pursuing Equity & Empathy in Oncology Care

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

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Shree Bose

Grand Prize Winner of the First Google Global Science Fair & Cancer Researcher

Bakari Sellers

Author, Attorney, Political Commentator & Youngest African American Elected Official in the U.S.

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Jennifer Thomas

Best-Selling Author, Motivational Speaker on Apology Languages and The Five Love Languages, Psychologist & TEDx Presenter

Seth Mattison

Co-Founder & Chief Movement Officer of Luminate Labs, Expert on Workforce Trends and Business Strategy; Author

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Emory Austin

Authority on Leadership, Change & Customer Service

Sharon Delaney McCloud

Emmy Award-Winning Journalist; Breast Cancer Survivor; Certified Diversity Executive & Resilience Expert

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Rye Barcott

Co-Founder & CEO of With Honor, Veteran and Author of "It Happened on the Way to War"

Dr. Sheila Robinson

Founder of Diversity Woman Media; DEI Expert; Author & Publisher

Brian Parsley

Recruitment & Employee Retention Expert, Managing Partner at The Constance Group

Rhiannon Giddens

Grammy-Winning & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Folk Singer Reclaiming African-American Musical Traditions

Richie Parker

Motivational Speaker; NASCAR Engineer Born Without Arms

Fay Cobb Payton, PhD

Author of "Leveraging Intersectionality: Seeing and Not Seeing" and Professor at North Carolina State University

Eduardo Bonilla Silva

Professor of Sociology at Duke University & Author of "Racism without Racists"

Lenora Billings-Harris

Multicultural Diversity Expert & Author; President & CEO of UbuntuGlobal

Steve Gilliland

Renowned Business & Motivational Leader; Award-Winning Author & Speaker

Justin Leblanc

Artist , Fashion Designer & Professor; Contestant on Season 12 of "Project Runway"

Mark Anthony Neal

Author, Cultural Critic, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies