Charlene Carruthers

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Kylar Broadus

Attorney, Author & LGBTQ Rights Activist; Motivational Disability Speaker; Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition

Kumu Hina

Hawaiian Transgender Teacher & Community Leader

Erin Gruwell

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

David E. Hull-Watters

Inclusion, Learning & Development Specialist

Jeffrey Marsh

Nonbinary, Genderfluid Author of “How To Be You”

Gavin Grimm

Transgender Activist; National Face of Transgender Student Rights

Mitch Teemley

Writer, Filmmaker & Humorist; Best Known for his Multi-Award-Winning Feature Films "Healing River" & "Notzilla"

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Nicholas Pratley

Mental, Emotional and Well-Being Expert, Licensed NLP Therapist, Motivational, Social & Emotional Intelligence Trainer, Wellness Advocate & Creator of Luminous Energetics

Lillian Faderman

Renowned LGBT Historian & Author

Raquel Willis

Transgender & Gender-Nonconforming Activist; Executive Editor of "Out" & Former National Organizer for Transgender Law Center

Eliza Byard

Senior Executive Advisor to GLSEN and the Board of Directors; Former Executive Director of GLSEN

Chuck Freilich

Senior Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor

Kevin Madden

Partner at Hamilton Place Strategies; National Press Secretary and Senior Communications Strategist for Governor Mitt Romney’s 2008 Presidential Campaign

Nick Schifrin

Foreign Affairs & Defense Correspondent for PBS NewsHour

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Gordon G. Chang

Columnist, Author & Lawyer

Dr. David Oualaalou

Global-Affairs Analyst, Professor of International Security & Author of "Volatile State: Iran in the Nuclear Age"

Flynt Leverett

Flynt Leverett is an expert on the Middle East and international energy issues with insider credentials and a willingness to be outspoken.

John Sitilides

Geopolitical & Government Affairs Specialist; Business & Investment Strategies Expert; State Department Consultant

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Juliette Kayyem

CEO of Zemcar, National Security Expert, Columnist & Author

Safiya Ghori-Ahmad

South Asia Director at McLarty Associates; Former Political-Military Team Leader at the Office of the Special Representative to Afghanistan & Pakistan

Robert S. Spalding III

Author, National Security Policy Strategist & Entrepreneur

Ray Takeyh

Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies

Lee Ann Savio Beers

Medical Director, Municipal and Regional Affairs, Child Health Advocacy Institute; Director, DC Mental Health Access in Pediatrics; and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health, Children's National Health System

Charles Bierbauer

Charles Bierbauer has built a highly respected career in broadcast journalism.

Linda L. Singh

Retired Major General of the Maryland Army National Guard

Angela McGlowan

Founder and CEO of Political Strategies & Insights (PSI)

John Fund

National Affairs Columnist for National Review Magazine & On-Air Analyst on Fox News

Justin Constantine

Nationally Renowned Leader in the Wounded Warrior Community; Chief Business Development Officer at JobPath Partners

Laura S. Washington

Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and Political Analyst for ABC 7-Chicago