Stacey Abrams

Political Leader, Voting Rights Activist & New York Times Bestselling Author

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

Wendy Davis

Lawyer & Democratic Politician; Founder of Deeds Not Words

William Frist

Chair, The Nature Conservancy Global Board; Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Heart Transplant Surgeon; Founder of Founding Partner of Frist Cressey Ventures and Hope Through Healing Hands

Dr. William H. Frist - Acceptance Speech

Emily Oster

Professor of Economics at Brown University; Author on Personal Finance & Family Planning

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis

Author of "The Rise," Curator & Assistant Professor at Harvard

Afua Hirsch

Award-Winning Writer, Broadcaster & Film Maker on Issues of Race and Equality, Co-host of "Enslaved" with Samuel L Jackson

Jemar Tisby

Christian Leader, Historian, Author of "The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism"

Qian Julie Wang

Author of "Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood"

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ph.D.

Award-Winning Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy