Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Erin Gruwell

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

Julianne Malveaux

Economist, Author & Political Commentator; President Emerita of Bennett College for Women

Tiffany Shlain

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

Neal Petersen

History-Making Extreme Adventurer, Award-Winning Author & Global Investor

Karen Palmer

Futurist & Thought Leader Using Immersive AI for Participants to Experience Societal Implications of AI and AI Bias; Award-Winning XR Creator; Winner of SXSW XR Competition 2023

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

Danielle Feinberg

Director of Photography at Pixar Animation Studios; STEM Advocate & Supporter of Girls Who Code

Bobby Seale

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Jamie Margolin

Climate Change Activist; Author; Founder & Co-Executive Director of Youth-Led Climate Action Group "Zero Hour"

Clayborne Carson

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Sonia Nazario

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & Journalist; Author of "Enrique’s Journey"

Scott Shellstrom

Creativity Innovator, Award Winning Creative Director & Keynote Speaker

Kate White

Former Editor-In-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine; New York Times Best-Selling Author

Simon Lovell

English Comedy Magician, Card Shark Actor and Con Man

Victoria Rowell

Actress, Producer, Director, Writer, American Ballet Theatre Alum & Founder of Rowell Foster Children's Positive Plan (RFCPP)

Asra Nomani

Journalist & Author, Women's Rights Activist

Judge Glenda Hatchett

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

Liz Nead

Adventure Speaker, Author & Life Coach

Dyana Valentine

Oracle & Entrepreneur; Founder of WHY and creator of Super Conditions for Greatness