Jeff Orlowski-Yang

Award-winning Filmmaker, Photographer, Entrepreneur & Climate Change Activist

Jovan Todorovic

Photographer & Film Director

Zana Briski

Academy Award-Winning Director & Visionary Creator of Reverence

Ed Saxon

Academy Award Winning Producer

Zazie Beetz

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

Lorraine Toussaint

Actress, Known for "Orange Is The New Black"

Reginald Hudlin

Writer, Director and Producer; Known for "Django Unchained" &"House Party"; One Half of Hudlin Brothers Production Company

Julie Taymor

Film, Opera, & Academy Award-Nominated Theater Director

Leslie Iwerks

CEO and Creative Director of Iwerks & Co.

Alexandra Cuerdo

Director, Writer, Photographer, Advocate for Inclusion & Representation in the Arts

Erin Lee Carr

Documentary Director, Producer & Author of "All That You Leave Behind"

dream hampton

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

Hiro Murai

Music Video Director, Known For Childish Gambino's "This is America"

Tim Story

Film Director Known for "Ride Along" & "Think Like A Man"

David Vassar

Oscar Nominated and Emmy Winning Writer, Producer, Director

David Bianchi

Founder of Exertion Films, Self-Propelled Entrepreneur, Producer & Actor

Sharon Calahan

Director of Photography of "The Good Dinosaur," Pixar Animation Studios

Deeyah Khan

Activist & Emmy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker, CEO of Production Company Fuuse

Amma Asante

British Screenwriter & Director Known for "Belle" and "A Way of Life"

Julie Dash

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.

Wong Fu Productions

Asian-American Filmmaking Group

Kirby Dick

Award Winning Documentary Director; Best Known for "The Invisible War" & "The Hunting Ground"

Haben Girma

First Deafblind Graduate of Harvard Law School; Skadden Fellowship Attorney at Disability Rights Advocates

Zack Kass

Futurist & Former Head of GTM at OpenAI

AI Futurist Zack Kass Joins UVA McIntire as Executive-in-Residence

Wendy Mogel

Clinical Psychologist, NY Times Best Selling Author

Inky Johnson

Sports Motivation Expert, Author, Mentor to Athletes & Underprivileged Youth; Former Collegiate Football Player

Elica Le Bon

British-Iranian Attorney, Activist & Artist

Mary Katharine Ham

CNN News Contributor

Doug Flutie

Former NFL Quarterback & College Football Analyst; Advocate for Autism Awareness

Dr. Bon Ku

Program Manager at ARPA-H; Emergency Medicine Specialist & Former Director of the Health Design Lab at Jefferson University

Bon Ku - 2019 Jefferson Innovation Speaker Series