Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Kylar Broadus

Attorney, Author & LGBTQ Rights Activist; Motivational Disability Speaker; Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition

Aprille Ericsson

Rocket Scientist, Technologist & STEM Educator

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

Michael Twitty Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

Viola Llewellyn

Co-Founder & President of Ovamba Solutions; Leader in FinTech and Advocate for Diversity & Equality

Deshauna Barber

2016 Miss USA, IT Analyst & Army Reserve Officer, Mental & Physical Health Advocate; Vice Chair on the Board Of Directors at Service Women’s Action Network

Heather Booth

American Civil Rights Activist, Feminist & Political Strategist

Ashley Allison

CEO of Turner Conoly Group; Senior Biden Harris Campaign Official; Civil Rights & Political Strategist

Perianne Boring

Founder & President of Chamber of Digital Commerce

Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Katia Dean

Cybersecurity Expert, Career Coach, Author & Mentor

April Reign

Creator of the #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag; Editor of BroadwayBlack.com & NU Tribe Magazine

Nia-Malika Henderson

Senior Political Analyst for CNN

Bernard Coleman

Vice President of People at Swing Education, HR/People Leader; Former Head of Employee Engagement at Gusto & Former Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Uber

Michele Bratcher Goodwin

Director of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy at University of California Irvine; Founder of the Institute for Global Child Advocacy

Rolfe Carawan

President of LifeMatters International; Accountability & Leadership Performance Speaker

Angel Rich

Founder & CEO of The Wealth Factory

Brian Fanzo

Change Evangelist, Millennial Keynote Speaker & Podcaster

Mickey Edwards

Professor, Princeton University; Author, "The Parties Versus the People"; Former US Congressman

Justin Hansford

Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law