Christopher Storer

Producer, Director & Screenwriter Best Known as the Creator of "The Bear"

Adam Lorenzo

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

Everybody Loves Raymond, Everybody Hates Chris

Rachel Fleit

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

Lee Sung Jin

Writer & Director; Best Known for Creating the Netflix Series, "Beef"

Tembi Locke

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

Kaz & Ryan Firpo

Award-winning Directors and Screenwriters

Howard Michael Gould

Author of the Charlie Waldo Novels, Screenwriter, Producer, Director & Playwright

Nia DaCosta

Writer, Director & Filmmaker; First Black Woman to Direct a Marvel Film

Karimah Westbrook

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

Steven Canals

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

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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

Ryan O'Connell

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

Erin Foster

Co-Founder of Favorite Daughter & Co-Host of "The World's First Podcast"; Co-Founder of Oversubscribed Ventures

Erin Lee Carr

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

François Clemmons

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

Hannah Beachler

Academy Award-Winning Production Designer Known for Beyonce's "Lemonade" & Marvel's "Black Panther"

Raoul Peck

Critically Acclaimed Haitian Filmmaker Known for "I Am Not Your Negro" & "Lumumba"

Marsai Martin

Actress & Producer; Known for "Black-ish" & "Little"

Kenya Barris

Screenwriter, ABC's "Black-ish", Producers Guild Visionary Award Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing

Michael Schur

Emmy Award-Winning Producer & Writer, Creator of Hit TV Comedy "The Good Place"

Ginger Gonzaga

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

Franklin Leonard

Film Producer, Cultural Commentator, Professor, Activist & Entrepreneur

Ernest Cline

Screenwriter & Author

Chuck Lorre

Writer, Producer

Barry Jenkins

Writer & Director of the Academy Award-Winning "Moonlight"

Angela Bassett

Award-Winning Actress & Co-Founder of Bassett/Vance Productions

Rebecca Sugar

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

Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Academy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker & World-Renowned Photographer; Directors of "Meru" & "Free Solo"

Bess Kalb

Emmy-Nominated Writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live; 2016 WGA Award-Winner; Writer for Numerous Emmy and Academy Awards Shows; Author of "Nobody Will Tell You This But Me"

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’