Van Jones

CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN host, Emmy Award-winning Producer & NY Times Best-Selling Author

Xernona Clayton

Civil Rights Leader, Broadcast Executive, Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

Sir Richard Branson

Businessman & Founder of Virgin Group

Michael W. Twitty

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

Michael Twitty Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

Clayborne Carson

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Esther Dyson

Executive Founder of Way to Wellville

Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder & Former Executive Chairman of LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock

Ken Burns

Historian & Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

Jagdish N. Bhagwati

International Trade Theorist

Lidia Bastianich

Celebrity Chef, Author, Host of "Lidia's Kitchen"

William Easterly

Professor of Economics at New York University; Co-Director, Development Research Institute

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

Jimmy Carter

Former United States President (1977-1981), Author

Alan Dershowitz

Harvard Law School Professor; Leading Expert in Civil Rights

Alaina E. Roberts

Award-Winning Black & Indigenous Historian; Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Author of "I’ve Been Here All the While"

Keith Beauchamp

Emmy-Nominated Documentary Filmmaker

Bill George

Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School, Best-Selling Leadership Author & Former CEO of Medtronic

Gillian Caldwell

CEO of Global Witness