Diane Guerrero

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

Shonda Rhimes

Award-Winning Executive Producer, Screenwriter & Author; CEO of Shondaland

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

Lena Waithe

Emmy Award-Winning Screenwriter, Producer & Actress

Ava DuVernay

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

Regina Hall

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

F. Gary Gray

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

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Gina Rodriguez

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

Lucy Alibar

The movie that Alibar cowrote, Beasts of the Southern Wild, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah; at Cannes in May, where it was given a 15-minute standing ovation, it scored the Camra dOr prize for best first feature.

Kelly Hu

American actress and model; best known for her role as Rae Chang on "Sunset Beach" and as Lady Deathstrike in "X2"

Rebecca Sugar

Award-Winning Animator, Director, Screenwriter, Producer & Songwriter; Known as the Creator of "Steven Universe"

Issa Rae

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

Viola Davis

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Lena Dunham

Writer, Director, Actor & Producer Best Known for HBO’s “Girls”

Ben Vereen

Tony Award-Winning Entertainer

Rosie Perez

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

Spike Lee

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

Daniel Dae Kim

Actor, Director & Producer

Angela Bassett

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

Alice Waddington

Film Director, Writer, Photographer & Feminist

Michaela Coel

Actress, Screenwriter, Director, Producer & Singer

Sunita Mani

Actress, Dancer & Comedian

Adepero Oduye

Nigerian-American Actress, Director, Singer & Writer

Zazie Beetz

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

Nzingha Stewart

Television Writer & Director

Christine Swanson

Filmmaker, Writer & Director

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Director & Storyboard Artist; Best Known for "Kung Fu Panda 2"

Kali Uchis

Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Music Video Director & Fashion Designer

Mahershala Ali

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

Amma Asante

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

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