Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Jonathan Kozol

Educator & Social Justice Advocate

Bertice Berry

Sociologist, Author and Educator

Dr. Antonia Darder

Scholar, Artist, Poet, Activist & Public Intellectual

Monica Martinez

Education Advocate, Author & Strategist; Speaker on Innovation, Teaching, Learning, and Education Policy

Tukufu Zuberi

Expert on Race Relations; Host, "PBS History Detectives"; Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania,

Lizzie Velasquez

Motivational Speaker; Author of "Lizzie Beautiful" & "Be Beautiful, Be You;" Once Labeled "The World's Ugliest Woman"

Sonia Nazario

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & Journalist; Author of "Enrique’s Journey"

Angela Davis

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Royel M. Johnson

Associate Professor of Education & Social Work and Co-Chair of the Rossier School of Education PhD Program at the University of Southern California

Jamie Margolin

Climate Change Activist; Author; Founder & Co-Executive Director of Youth-Led Climate Action Group "Zero Hour"

Dr. César Cruz

Education Activist, Author, School Designer & Co-Founder of Homies Empowerment

Brian Hare

Co-founder of Dognition & Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University, Author of "The Genius of Dogs"

Victor Rios

Educator, Author, & Creator of Project GRIT

Kathryn Edin

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

Presidential Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, BET News Correspondent, Human Rights Activist & Author

Dr. Gregory Stock

Healthcare Futurist & Biotech Pioneer

Claude Steele

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

Esmeralda Santiago

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Historical & Transcultural Novels and Memoirs

Jennifer James

Cultural Anthropologist & Expert on Change

Maria Echaveste

President & CEO of the Opportunity Institute, Former U.S. Presidential Advisor to Bill Clinton, Co-Founder of Nueva Vista Group

Roosevelt Montás

Senior Lecturer in the Center for American Studies at Columbia University

Tania Israel

Award-Winning Author of "Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide," Professor of Counseling Psychology & Associate Dean for DEI

Dr. Claudia Espinosa

Founder & Executive Director of L.O.V.E. Mentoring; Social Entrepreneur; Changemaker

Edith Treviño

Bilingual & ESL Educator; Storyteller & Author

Johanna Fernández

Historian, Activist, Abolitionist & Author of "The Young Lords: A Radical History"

Juana Bordas

President of Mestiza Leadership International & Founder of the National Hispana Leadership Institute

Samy Nour Younes Figaredo

Transgender Activist, Actor & TED Resident

Dorothy Roberts

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate