Jeff Orlowski-Yang

Award-winning Filmmaker, Photographer, Entrepreneur & Climate Change Activist

dream hampton

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

Charles S. Dutton

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

Julie Dash

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.

F. Gary Gray

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton" & "The Italian Job"

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"

Julie Taymor

Film, Opera, & Academy Award-Nominated Theater Director

Nev Schulman

Producer, Actor, Photographer & TV Host Known for MTV's "Catfish: The TV Show"

Robert Townsend

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

Dee Rees

Award-Winning Writer & Director Known for "Pariah"

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"

Evan Handler

Actor, Author, Screenwriter & Journalist; Best Known for “Sex and the City,” and "Californication"

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’

Peter Sagal

Host of NPR's "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!"

Tim Story

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

Lorraine Toussaint

Actress, Known for "Orange Is The New Black"

Elizabeth Alexander

Renowned Poet Known For Inauguration Poem "Praise Song for the Day"

The privilege of perspective ft. Elizabeth Alexander

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"

Justin Simien

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

Antoine Fuqua

Film Director & Producer Best Known for "Olympus Has Fallen" and "The Equalizer"

Antoine Fuqua dishes on 'The Equalizer 3'

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Zana Briski

Academy Award-Winning Director & Visionary Creator of Reverence