Steve Chiger

Director of Literacy at Uncommon Schools; Author of "Love & Literacy"

Pandemic Classroom: Dispatches from Teachers

Hilderbrand Pelzer III

Multi-Award Winning Principal, Author of "Unlocking Potential: Organizing a School Inside a Prison" & Educational Equity Champion

Edwin De La Rosa

Ph.D. Student, Youth Empowerment Speaker, Motivational Speaker on DEI

Ssanyu Lukoma

Entrepreneur, Author & Founder of Brown Kids Read

Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo

Founders of the Racial Literacy Non-Profit CHOOSE & Authors of "Tell Me Who You Are"

Bryan Collier

Award-Winning Children's Author & Illustrator; Best Known for "Uptown"

Ice-T

Rapper, Record Producer & Actor Known for "Law & Order: SVU"

John Sculley

Vice-Chairman of MDLIVE, Former CEO of Apple Computers & PepsiCo; High-Tech Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist & Author

Jenna Bush-Hager

Best-selling Author; Contributing Correspondent, NBC's Today; Chair, UNICEF's Next Generation and Editor-at-Large, Southern Living Magazine

Superpower Sisterhood with Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce ...

Linda Ellerbee

Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

Justin Tuck

Former All-Pro NFL Player; Managing Director at Goldman Sachs

Nikhil Goyal

Journalist, Activist, & Author of "Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice"

Jon Scieszka

Children's Writer; Best Known for Picture Books Created with the Illustrator Lane Smith

Jennifer Serravallo

Author & Literacy Consultant

Tina Louise

Actress, Literacy & Academic Advocate, Best Known for her Role as Ginger Grant on 1960s TV Show "Gilligan's Island"

Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal is an editor for The New York Times Book Review

Jonathan Friedman

Director, Free Expression and Education Programs

R. Dwayne Betts

Founder of Freedom Reads, Poet, Author, Memoirist & Teacher

Patty Wright and Kate DiMeo

Literacy Consultants & Coaches; Units of Study Staff Developers

Mary Ehrenworth

Deputy Director of Teachers College Reading and Writing Project