Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Rosa Clemente

Community Organizer, Journalist, Political Activist, President & Founder of Know Thy Self Productions

Eleanor Clift

Author; Washington Correspondent & The Daily Beast Columnist; Former "The McLaughlin Group" Panelist

Ellis Cose

Award-Winning Journalist & Author

Steven Cojocaru

Fashion Guru, Host, Television Personality & Kidney Disease Survivor

Mike Farrell

Actor & Human Rights Activist, Best Known for his Role in "M*A*S*H"

Antonia Juhasz

Leading Energy Analyst, Author & Investigative Journalist Specializing In Oil

Chris Hedges

Foreign Correspondent & Author

MK Asante

Best-selling Author, Award-winning Filmmaker, Recording Artist & Professor

Beautiful. And Ugly Too

Billy Bean

Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the MLB & Author of "Going the Other Way"

Corban Addison

Best-Selling Author, Attorney & Activist

Andrea Pino & Annie Clark

Founders of End Rape on Campus

David Corn

Veteran Journalist, Political Commentator & Washington Bureau Chief for Mother Jones Magazine

Tony Horwitz

NY Times Best-Selling Author

Rafe Esquith

One of America's Most Celebrated Schoolteachers

Nick Clooney

Journalist & Activist

Jacqueline Rhinehart

Jacqueline Rhinehart is Co-Founder of Organic Soul Marketing, a consulting firm integrating entertainment concepts into creative marketing solutions and branding opportunities. Career spans work with musically disparate artists:from Aretha to Lil' Wayne

Emily Giffin

NYT Best-Selling Author of "Something Borrowed" & "Heart of the Matter"

Christine Pelosi

Author & Activist