Van Jones

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

Erin Gruwell

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

Lena Waithe

Emmy Award-Winning Screenwriter, Producer & Actress

Angela Rye

CNN Political Commentator, NPR Political Analyst, Attorney, Principal & CEO of IMPACT Strategies

Laura Ingraham

Political Commentator, Television Host & Journalist

Michaela Jaé Rodriguez

Actress & Singer; Known for "Pose"; HIV Awareness Advocate

LZ Granderson

CNN & ESPN Columnist; Celebrated Voice on Sports, Race & Gay Rights

Anderson Cooper

Journalist, TV Personality, Anchor of CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360°"

Geoff Colvin

Senior Editor-at-Large at Fortune & Bestselling Author

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Linda Ellerbee

Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Renowned African Novelist & Speaker

Merril Hoge

Former Football Player & ESPN Football Analyst; Cancer Survivor; Author of "Find a Way" and "Brainwashed"

Mutale Nkonde

UN Advisor on AI, CEO of AI for the People & Fellow at Stanford

Mutale Nkonde AI for the People at Techonomy 23

Bob Costas

Award-Winning Sportscaster, Broadcaster & Best-Selling Author

Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Phil Ford

Retired Professional Basketball Player; Named National Player of the Year, First-Team All-America, ACC Player of the Year & Olympic Gold Medalist

Lindsey Granger

Journalist, Writer & Producer

Thimali Kodikara

Climate Storyteller; Host of "Mothers Of Invention" Podcast

Leticia Gomez

Head of Ascendant Entertainment Division of CEO Branding Leader The Ascendant Group; Former CEO & Founder of Savvy Literary Services