Adam Lorenzo

TV & Film Screenwriter; Comedy Writer for "Everybody Loves Raymond" & SNL

Everybody Loves Raymond, Everybody Hates Chris

Tembi Locke

Actress, Producer & Screenwriter; NYT Bestselling Author of "From Scratch"

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Documentary Director & Writer

Philip Wang

Co-Founder of Wong Fu Productions & Author of "Rise: A Pop History of Asian American from the Nineties to Now"

Sean Gullette

Lead Actor, "PI" by Darren Aronofsky, Filmmaker & Screenwriter

Henry Spoon

The Master Mind Of Comedy

Sylvia Longmire

Filmmaker, Solo Wheelchair Travel Writer & Disability Rights Advocate

Rollin Jewett

Award-winning Author, Playwright, Screenwriter, Poet & Actor

Karimah Westbrook

Actress, Writer & Producer; Best Known for "All American"

Ryan O'Connell

Star and Creator of "Special"; Author, LGBTQ Activist & Disability Advocate

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Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Stephen Walters

English Actor, Writer & Director; Known for Playing Angus in the Starz Series "Outlander"

François Clemmons

Singer, Actor, Playwright & Lecturer; Best Known as Officer Clemmons on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"

J. Michael Straczynski

Writer and Producer for TV series, Feature Films, Comicsa & Author of "Becoming Superman"

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Franklin Leonard

Film Producer, Cultural Commentator, Professor, Activist & Entrepreneur

Aija Mayrock

Activist, Poet, Performer & Bestselling Author of "The Survival Guide to Bullying"

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Writer & Director Known for "Love & Basketball" & Netflix's "The Old Guard"; First Black Woman to Direct a Major Comic-Book Movie

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Todd Haynes

Independent Film Director and Screenwriter Known for "I'm Not There" and "Far From Heaven"

Reginald Hudlin

Writer, Director and Producer; Known for "Django Unchained" &"House Party"; One Half of Hudlin Brothers Production Company

Zana Briski

Academy Award-Winning Director & Visionary Creator of Reverence

Wendy Calhoun

Writer & Executive Producer

Nicholas Stoller

English–American filmmaker

Freida Lee Mock

Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Director, Screenwriter & Producer; Co-Founder of the American Film Foundation

Arturo Castro

Actor, Producer, Writer; Known for his role in "Broad City"

Hideo Kojima

Japanese Video Game Designer, Screenwriter, Director, and Producer; Kojima Productions

Sabrina Wu

Comedian, TV Writer & LGBTQ Advocate

Sierra Katow

Comedian and Writer

Siddharth Kara

Foremost Expert on Modern Slavery, Human Rights Activist, Author & Researcher

Stefani Robinson

American Screenwriter; Best Known for FX's "Atlanta" & "What We Do in The Shadows"

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Sarah-Jane Murray

TED Speaker, Emmy-Nominated and Award-Winning Screenwriter and Filmmaker, Associate Professor of Great Texts and Creative Writing, Baylor University