Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

The Freedom Writers Diary Teacher's Guide

Judge Glenda Hatchett

Former Juvenile Court Judge & Star of "Judge Hatchett" and "The Verdict"

Temple Grandin

World-Famous Animal Scientist, Autism Self-Advocate & Author of "Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism"

TEMPLE GRANDIN on the Three Kinds of Kids

Linda Ellerbee

Award-Winning Journalist & Television Producer; Breast Cancer Survivor

Roya Hakakian

Iranian Poet, Journalist & Author

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

Behavioral Scientist & Best-Selling Author

Dr. Brenda Combs, Ed.D.

Ambassador of Inspiration

Jonah Edelman

Advocate for Public Education, CEO of Stand for Children

Linda Darling-Hammond

CEO of Learning Policy Institute & Founder of the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education; Leader of President Obama’s Education Policy Transition Team

Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch

U.S. Army Veteran & Author

Jennifer James

Cultural Anthropologist & Expert on Change

Ellen Goodman

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Author, Speaker & Commentator

James Garbarino

Author, Psychologist, Expert on Violence & Children; Senior Faculty Fellow, Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University

Ellen Galinsky

Leading Authority on Work-Family Issues, Author, Creator of Mind in the Making Programs

Donna Brazile

Veteran Political Strategist, Best-Selling Author & Former Interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Gloria Feldt

Leading Activist & Best-Selling Author

Myrlie Evers-Williams

Civil Rights Activist

Linnda Durre, Ph.D.

Psychotherapist, Consultant, Speaker, Trainer, Published Author, Magazine and Newspaper Columnist, TV and Radio Talk Show Host