Philip Wang

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

dream hampton

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"

J. Michael Straczynski

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

Becoming Superman Lib/E: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood

Aija Mayrock

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

Francine Rivers

New York Times Best-Selling Author

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Chris Lehane

Head of Global Policy & Public Affairs, Airbnb

Andy Buckley

Actor, Screenwriter & Stockbroker; Known for his Role as David Wallace on "The Office"

Todd Haynes

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

Freida Lee Mock

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

Terence Winter

Emmy Award-Winning Writer, "Boardwalk Empire," "The Sopranos"

Justin Simien

Writer, Director, Actor & Producer; Best Known for Directing the Award-Winning Film "Dear White People"

Stefani Robinson

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

Writer Stefani Robinson Interview: Chevalier

Sarah-Jane Murray

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

Scott Steindorff

An American film and television producer who specializes in adapting literary bestsellers into movies, one being The Lincoln Lawyer (2011).

Robert Townsend

Award-Winning Filmmaker & Former CEO of the Black Family Channel

Jillian Bell

Actress & Comedian Known for "Workaholics," "22 Jump Street" & "Idiotsitter"

Stanley Nelson Jr.

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

Lucy Alibar

The movie that Alibar cowrote, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah; at Cannes in May, where it was given a 15-minute standing ovation, it scored the Camra dOr prize for best first feature.