Trizonna McClendon

Emmy Award-Winning TV & Film Producer; Singer-Songwriter

Ayana Barber

Producer & Filmmaker Known for "She Did That" & "Ballet After Dark"

Shonda Rhimes

Executive Producer, Screenwriter, & Author

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Alice Waddington

Film Director, Writer, Photographer & Feminist

Ariana DeBose

Academy Award-Winning Actress Known for Hamilton & West Side Story

Cynthia Erivo

Singer-Songwriter & Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & Portraying Harriet Tubman in "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Cheryl Boone Isaacs

Founding Director of Arizona State University’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School; Former President of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Ava DuVernay

Academy Award-Nominated Director & Producer Known for "Selma," "13th" & "When They See Us"

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Regina Hall

Actress Known for "Scary Movie," "The Best Man" & "Ally McBeal"; First African American to Win a New York Film Critics Circle Award

Issa Rae

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

Janelle Monáe

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

Todd Bridges

Author, Director & Actor Known for "Diff'rent Strokes"; Substance Abuse Recovery Advocate

Lindsey Granger

Journalist, Writer & Producer

Celine Tricart

Filmmaker, Storyteller & Founder of Lucid Dreams Productions

Mati Diop

French Actress & Director Known for "Atlantics"

dream hampton

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

Victoria Mahoney

Filmmaker & Actress best known for Yelling to the Sky

Cheryl Dunye

Filmmaker, Director, Writer & Actress

Millicent Shelton

Music Video & Television Director

Ruth E. Carter

Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer; Best Known for Her Work on "Selma" & Marvel's "Black Panther"

The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Righ...

Raoul Peck

Critically Acclaimed Haitian Filmmaker Known for "I Am Not Your Negro" & "Lumumba"

Mahershala Ali

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

Lena Waithe

Emmy Award-Winning Screenwriter, Producer & Actress

John David Washington

Former NFL Running Back; Golden Globe Nominated Actor Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Ballers"

Amma Asante

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

Diane Guerrero

Immigration Reform Activist & Actress Known for "Orange is the New Black" & "Jane The Virgin"

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.

Yoruba Richen

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

Regina King

Academy Award-Winning Actress & Director

Lupita Nyong'o

Academy Award-Winning Actress; Known for "12 Years a Slave," "Black Panther" & "Us"