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

Robert Townsend

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

Stanley Nelson Jr.

Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker Known for "Freedom Summer" and "Attica"

Yoruba Richen

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Known For TED Talk on the Intersection of Civil Rights & LGBT Rights

Kevin Willmott

Civil Rights Activist, Filmmaker, Commentator and Professor at The University of Kansas

Naima Coster

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Trey Anthony

Award-Winning Playwright, Author, Producer & Lifestyle Coach

Justin Simien

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

Logan Browning

Actress & Singer-Songwriter; Best Known for Her Roles in "Bratz: The Movie" & Netflix's "Dear White People"

Amiyah Scott

Actress, Model, Author & LGBTQ Advocate

Alice Waddington

Film Director, Writer, Photographer & Feminist

Madison Butler

DEI Truth Teller, HR Change Maker, Builder of Inclusive Cultures & Startup Enthusiast

Amber Hikes

Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer, ACLU

Brandon Kyle Goodman

Actor known for "Big Mouth"

Cornelius Swart

Journalist & Filmmaker

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

Damon Davis

Activist, Multimedia Artist, Musician & Filmmaker; Director of Whose Streets?

Charlene Carruthers

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Wilson Cruz

LGBTQ Activist & Actor; Known for “My So Called Life,” “Thirteen Reasons Why” & “Star Trek: Discovery”

Wilson Cruz dishes on new comedy ‘Mother Of The Bride’

Laz Alonso

Actor & Producer Known for "The Boys"

Mark Anthony Neal

Author, Cultural Critic, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies

Bilal Baig

Actor, Writer & Director, Best Known for "Sort Of"

Robert Gibbs

Partner at Bully Pulpit International; Former Global Chief Communications Officer at McDonald's; Former Advisor & White House Press Secretary for the Obama Administration

Noam Chomsky

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT & Foreign Policy Author

Kumu Hina

Hawaiian Transgender Teacher & Community Leader

Chella Man

Transgender Model, Activist & Artist

I Always Knew Gender Was Fluid | It Gets Better: Chella Man

Christina Liaghati

Strategy Execution & Operations Manager at AI & Autonomy Innovation Center at MITRE

MITRE's Christina Liaghati on AI enabled cybersecurity systems ...

Holden Thorp

Chemist & Washington University in St. Louis Professor; Inventor & Entrepreneur

Stephanie Coontz

Director of Research & Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families; Marriage & Family Historian

Stephanie Coontz - 2020 Evergreen State College Commencement Address

Ann Meyers Drysdale

Vice President of the Phoenix Suns, Author & Broadcaster