Brandon Leake

Spoken Word Poet; Winner of America's Got Talent Season 15

Brandon Leake Delivers Emotional Spoken Word to His Daughter

Sunni Patterson

Spiritual Musician & Poet

Roxy Azari

Spoken Word Artist/Slam Poet, Social Justice Activist

#Create2030 poet Roxy Azari performs her poem at UNGA - YouTube

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Lincoln And Douglass: An American Friendship

Pat Williams

Motivational Speaker & Sports Executive; Senior Vice President of the NBA’s Orlando Magic

Deepak Chopra

Co-Founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing

Deepak Chopra Has Never Been Sick | The New Yorker

Ed Begley Jr.

Environmental Activist & Emmy Award-Nominated Actor

Ask On Begley Street: Ed Begley Jr., on making compost

Propaganda

Poet, Political Activist, Academic & Emcee

Ray Kurzweil

Chairman of Kurzweil Technologies; Inventor; Futurist

Amal Kassir

Syrian-American Muslim Storytelling Activist and Poet

Kwame Alexander

NY Times Bestselling and Newbery Award-Winning Author, Poet, Educator, Best Known for Novels "Booked" and "The Crossover"

This is the superpower teachers need to flex | Kwame Alexander | Big Think

Robert Earl Price

Award Winning African American Poet , Playwright, and Screenwriter

Benjamín Alire Sáenz

Novelist, Poet, and Children's Book Author

Andrea Gibson

Poet and Activist

Clint Smith

Writer, Educator, Researcher

"Counting Descent" by Clint Smith - YouTube

George Watsky

Rapper and Slam Poet from San Francisco; Featured on Season 6 of "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry"

Dr. Antonia Darder

Scholar, Artist, Poet, Activist and Public Intellectual

Ellen Bass

Poet and Author

Daniel Alarcon

Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Columbia University; Author, Known for "At Night We Walk in Circles" and "Lost City Radio"

Suzanne Collins

Author of "The Hunger Games" Trilogy