Xernona Clayton

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

Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington

Chief Environmental Research Scientist at Environmental Health Research Associates, LLC.

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

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

Alaina E. Roberts

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

Peter van Manen

Electronic systems expert

Ric S. Sheffield

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

Keith Beauchamp

Emmy-Nominated Documentary Filmmaker

Christine Walker, MPPA

Founder of the Chasing Hope Foundation; Author, Professor & Expert on Public Policy

Gillian Caldwell

CEO of Global Witness

Carol Gilligan

Human Condition Psychologist & Ethicist; Founder of Difference Feminism

Melissa Chiu

Museum Director, Asia Society

Channing Gerard Joseph

Queer Culture Historian; 2022 TED Global Visionary; Award-Winning Journalist & Writer

Keisha N. Blain

Award-Winning Historian & Writer

Aubrey de Grey

Biomedical Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation; Researcher on Preventing Aging

Noam Chomsky

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT & Foreign Policy Author