Steve Thomas Rooney

Steve Thomas Rooney is an American author and television personality

Ayanna Howard

Pioneering Innovator, Entrepreneur & Inventor of Robotic Technologies & Artificial Intelligence; Dean of the College of Engineering, The Ohio State University

Sex, Race, and Robots: How to Be Human in the Age of AI

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Renowned African Novelist & Speaker

Wendy Osefo, PhD

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Award-Winning Filmmaker, Literary Scholar, Journalist & Cultural Critic; Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University

Kathryn Edin

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

John Holdren

Professor of Environmental Policy & Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Jennifer Doudna

Technology Co-Inventor of CRISPR- Cas9

Rami Nashashibi

Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN)

Franklin Leonard

Film Producer, Cultural Commentator, Professor, Activist & Entrepreneur

Adam Sacks

Chef Instructor & Sports Nutritionist at Johnson & Wales University

Jonathan Metzl

Professor of Sociology & Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University

Geeta Menon

Business Professor at NYU, Former Dean of NYU

Eileen Pollack

Director of Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan; Author of "The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys' Club"

Narges Bajoghli

Award-Winning Anthropologist, Writer & Professor.at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies

Penny Chisholm

Award-Winning Oceanographer & Professor, MIT

Professor Penny Chisholm on Earth Week

Johanna Fernández

Historian, Activist, Abolitionist & Author of "The Young Lords: A Radical History"

Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Expert on Race, Immigration & Mass Incarceration; Professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA

Damon Rich

Co-Founder of Hector, Designer & Urban Planner

EbonyJanice Moore

Activist, Professor, Author, Womanist Scholar