Rose Mapendo

Humanitarian / Activist / Congolese Genocide Survivor

Amy DuBois Barnett

Chief Content Officer, theGrio.com & EVP Digital, Entertainment Studios

Azure Antoinette

CEO, Commissioned Poet & Author, Millennial Advocate

Tonya Lewis Lee

Author, Producer, Filmmaker & Entrepreneur; Women's Health Activist

Tonya Lewis Lee on the Black maternal mortality crisis

Alfre Woodard

Emmy Award-Winning Actress; Human Rights Activist

Mariane Pearl

Widow of Journalist Daniel Pearl

Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders

Former Surgeon General of the United States

Dawnn Lewis

Grammy Award-Winning Singer / Actress

Patti LaBelle

Grammy-Winning Singer & Cookbook Author

Patti LaBelle - Bloomberg Markets

Cheryl Brown Henderson

Founding President of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence & Research

Lucille O'Neal

Author & Motivator

Carmen Wong Ulrich

Personal Finance Expert

Somaly Mam

Survivor & Anti-Sex Slavery Activist

Sophia Nelson

Award-winning Author & Journalist; On-Air Commentator for CNN

Tyrese Gibson

R&B Singer, Actor & Author

Rain Pryor

Actress, Comedian & Multiple Sclerosis Spokesperson

Talib Kweli

Rapper, Emcee, Activist & Entrepreneur

Beverly Bond

Founder & CEO of Black Girls Rock!

Omarosa Manigault Newman

Former Contestant on "Celebrity Apprentice"

Tiffany Shlain

Founder of The Webby Awards; Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker, Bestselling Author, Internet Pioneer & Futurist

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

Presidential Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, BET News Correspondent, Human Rights Activist & Author

Immaculée Ilibagiza

Author, "Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust"

Sheryl Swoopes

3-Time WNBA MVP & Olympic Gold Medalist

Kelly McGillis

Actress Known for "Top Gun"

Kathy LeMay

Founder, President & CEO of Raising Change

Shirin Ebadi

Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Iranian Activist & Lawyer

Fredricka Whitfield

CNN News Anchor

Marshawn Evans

Performance Strategist & Author

Yaya DaCosta

Actress, Model & Activist

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"