Ben Vereen

Tony Award-Winning Entertainer

Spike Lee

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Mitch Teemley

Writer, Filmmaker & Humorist; Best Known for his Multi-Award-Winning Feature Films "Healing River" & "Notzilla"

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Rick Famuyiwa

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

Lynn Novick

Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer & Documentary Filmmaker on Culture, History, Politics, Sports, Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music

Stanley Nelson Jr.

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

F. Gary Gray

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton" & "The Italian Job"

Issa Rae

Actress, Writer, Director & Producer Known for HBO's "Insecure" & "Awkward Black Girl"

Carvens Lissaint

International Award-Winning Poet, Actor & Singer

Cesar Kuriyama

Director, Producer & TED Speaker; Known for 1 Second Everyday

Pharrell Williams

Singer-Songwriter, Producer & Entrepreneur; Known for the Hit Single, "Happy"

Martin Scorsese

Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Known for "Goodfellas," "Taxi Driver," "Silence" & "Killers of the Flower Moon"

Matthew Morgan & Jocelyn Cooper

Producers of The Afropunk Festival

Rachel Morrison

Academy Award-Nominated Cinematographer Known for "Mudbound" & "Black Panther"

Mahershala Ali

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for "Moonlight" & "House of Cards;" First Muslim Actor To Win An Oscar

Evan Ross

Actor & Singer

Nikki Deloach

Ashlee Nicole "Nikki" DeLoach is an American actress and former singer.

Will Smith

Actor, Producer, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist & Author

Bethany Joy Lenz

Actress, Singer-Songwriter & Filmmaker; Known For "One Tree Hill"

Gina Rodriguez

Award-Winning Actress, Producer, Director, Model & Humanitarian

Kevin Willmott

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

Valerie Red-Horse

Investment Banker, Filmmaker, Owner & Founder of Red-Horse Native Productions

Tiffany Shlain

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

Rosie Perez

Actress, Choreographer, Activist & Former Co-Host of "The View"

Angela Bassett

Award-Winning Actress & Co-Founder of Bassett/Vance Productions

Martin Lisius

"The Storm Whisperer", Cinematographer, Producer, Director & Founder of Prairie Pictures and StormStock

Charles D. King

Entrepreneur, Investor, Activist, Producer, CEO of MACRO

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Benjie Williams

Jessica Pettitt

Jonathan Mayes

SVP, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Albertsons Companies