Dena Simmons

Educator & Founder of LiberatED; Social & Emotional Learning Advocate

Kristie Kennedy

Women's Worth & Wellness Expert, TEDx Audacious Leadership Transformational Speaker

Walter Hood

Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at UC Berkeley

Yvette Campbell

President, CEO, The Harlem School of the Arts

Heather Staker

Senior Research Fellow on Education at the Clayton Christensen Institute, Child Education Specialist

Judge Glenda Hatchett

Former Juvenile Court Judge & Star of "Judge Hatchett" and "The Verdict"

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Dr. Alison Thompson

Humanitarian & Author of The Third Wave

Spike Lee

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Daymond John

"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship

Lisa W. Wardell

President & CEO of Adtalem Global Education; Only African-American Female CEO of a Fortune 1000 Company

Liz Kleinrock

Founder of Teach and Transform; Anti-Bias & Anti-Racist Educator

SJ Murray

Emmy-Nominated Writer, Producer & Story Designer

Kimberly Bryant

Founder & CEO of Ascend Ventures & Black Innovation Lab; Founder of Black Girls CODE

Cynthia Germanotta

Co-Founder of the Born This Way Foundation with Daughter Lady Gaga; WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health

Cynthia Germanotta - Psych Hub Podcast

Janet Mock

Author, Feminist, Transgender Rights Activist, TV Host & Founder of #GirlsLikeUs

Nontombi Naomi Tutu

Race, Gender & Human Rights Activist; Daughter of Desmond Tutu

Kay Toliver

Teacher & Subject of PBS Special

Monica Strobel

Igniting Positive Culture, Positive Leadership, High Performance & Engagement with America's Go-To Appreciation Expert

Deborah Prothrow-Stith

Youth Violence Expert / Physician

Charles J. Ogletree

Legal Theorist / Mentor / Activist

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Olympic Legend, Philanthropist, American Record-Holder in the Long Jump & Founder of the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation

Hill Harper

Best-Selling Author, Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist & Actor; Best Known For "CSI: NY" & "The Good Doctor"

Stedman Graham

CEO of S. Graham & Associates, Leadership Development Expert & Author

Bertice Berry

Sociologist, Author and Educator

David C. Banks

President & CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation; Education Reformer & DEI Expert

Claudia Miner

Executive Director & Co-Founder of Waterford UPSTART at Waterford.org

Estela Mara Bensimon

Professor & Co-director, Center for Urban Education at University of Southern California

Morgan Jerkins​

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"