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

Charles S. Dutton

Actor & Director Known for "Roc" and "The Piano Lesson"

Rebecca Sugar

Award-Winning Animator, Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Songwriter; Known as the Creator of "Steven Universe"

Zazie Beetz

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

Amma Asante

British Screenwriter & Director Known for "Belle" and "A Way of Life"

Reginald Hudlin

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

Stanley Nelson Jr.

Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Known for "Freedom Summer" and "Attica"

Karimah Westbrook

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

Ryan O'Connell

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

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

Gina Prince-Bythewood: ‘I have fought for my vision’

Tim Story

Film Director Known for "Ride Along" & "Think Like A Man"

Lorraine Toussaint

Actress, Known for "Orange Is The New Black"

Franklin Leonard

Film Producer, Cultural Commentator, Professor, Activist & Entrepreneur

Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Writing for a Broken World: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor

Ginger Gonzaga

Actress, Director, Writer, Comedian, Mental Health Advocate, Known For Disney/Marvel's "She-Hulk: Attorney At Law," CBS’ "True Lies"

Zana Briski

Academy Award-Winning Director & Visionary Creator of Reverence

Erin Lee Carr

Documentary Director, Producer & Author of "All That You Leave Behind"

Rachel Fleit

Documentary Filmmaker & Alopecia Awareness Advocate Known for "Bama Rush" and "Introducing, Selma Blair"

Kelly Oxford

Kelly Oxford is a Canadian author, screenwriter, social media blogger and microblogger, and stay-at-home mom.

Anthony Padilla

One Part of Comedy Duo Smosh Brothers, Internet Comedian

Christina Hodson

Screenwriter, Known for "Bumblebee" & "Birds of Prey"

Jonny Sun

Humorist, Author & Illustrator

Steven Canals

Screenwriter and Producer; Co-Creator & Executive Producer of FX's "Pose"

François Clemmons

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

David Baddiel

Comedian, Author, Screenwriter & Television Presenter

Freida Lee Mock

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

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Creator & Showrunner of "BoJack Horseman;" Actor, Writer, Comedian and Author

Sabrina Wu

Comedian, TV Writer & LGBTQ Advocate

Tembi Locke

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