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Activist, Professor, Author, Womanist Scholar

Lettie Gore

Historian, Host of "Sincerely, Lettie" Podcast

Tiffany Jewell

Anti-Racist Educator, Author of "This Book is Anti-Racist"

David Ikard

Professor of African American & Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University

Paul A. Kramer

Historian & Writer

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Vocal Percussionist Who Defies Gender & Other Social Constructs

Jesse Holland

Award-Winning Journalist on Race, Ethnicity, Demographics & Afro-futurism

Christine Michel Carter

Bestselling Author; Women Empowerment, Mental Health & Working Parents Advocate; #1 Global Voice For Working Moms

Edward L Ayers

Author of "The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America," Co-host of BackStory Podcast

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson

Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize Winning Author of "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy," Historian at the University of Michigan

Eliza VanCort

CEO & Founder of VanCort Consulting; Author of "A Woman’s Guide To Claiming Space"

Ingrid Gould Ellen

Paulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning & Faculty Director at the NYU Furman Center

Raymond Santana Jr.

One of the Central Park Five, Filmmaker & Creator of Park Madison NYC Clothing Line

Michelle Kuo

Teacher, Lawyer, Writer & Passionate Advocate of Prison Education

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Johanna Neuman

Historian, Author, Lecturer on Women's Suffrage & Former Journalist

Kevin Richardson

One of the Central Park 5, American Criminal Rights Activist & Businessman

John W. Dower

Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-Founder of MIT's "Visualizing Cultures" Project & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Diane McWhorter

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Dan Fagin

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Known for "Toms River"

Chris Emery

American Author & Former Government Official

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Marcia Chatelain

Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University & Author of "South SIde Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration"

T Kira Madden

Author of "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls"

William von Hippel

Author & Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland

Shariff Abdullah

Director of Commonway Institute

Anne F. Broadbridge

Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago

Ron Powers

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author

Alice Johnson

Prison Reform Activist, CEO of Taking Action for Good & Author of "After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom"

Xernona Clayton

Civil Rights Leader, Broadcast Executive, Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

No-No Boy

Multimedia Story Telling Performers Retelling Experiences of WWII Japanese Incarceration Camp Survivors

Tommie Smith

World Record Breaking Gold Medal Olympian & Civil Rights Icon Famous for Black Power Salute at the Olympics