Jeffrey Rosen

President & CEO of the National Constitution Center & Contributing Editor of The Atlantic

Paul Ortiz

Historian, Professor, Author of "An African American History of the United States"

Lillian Faderman

Renowned LGBT Historian & Author

Jeffrey C. Stewart

National Book Award Longlisted Author

Ijeoma Oluo

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

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Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Todd Purdum

Senior writer at POLITICO and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair

Laura Snyder

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Lesley Hazleton

Author of "The First Muslim," a New Look at the Life of Muhammad

Dr. Cornel West

Philosopher, Professor, Political Activist & Author of "Race Matters"; 2024 People's Party Presidential Candidate

Ric S. Sheffield

Author on Gender, Race & Ethnicity; Professor of Legal Studies and Sociology at Kenyon College

Joanne Freeman

Professor of American History and of American Studies, Yale University

Julian Chambliss

Educator, Writer & Researcher

Gil Troy

American Historian

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Associate Professor of History at Smith College, Expert on The History of Race, Citizenship & Slavery

Michele Bratcher Goodwin

Director of the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies and Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy at University of California Irvine; Founder of the Institute for Global Child Advocacy

Gilbert King

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Known for "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America"

Elliott J. Gorn

Historian, Author & Professor of American Urban History at Loyola University Chicago

Linda Gordon

Award Winning Author, Historian & Feminist

Jane Sherron De Hart

Political Historian & Author of "Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life"

Victoria Johnson

National Book Award Longlisted Author; Professor at Hunter College

Xernona Clayton

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

Fania Davis

Co-founder & Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

Jane Shaw

Historian & Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University

William J. Federer

Nationally Known Speaker, Bestselling Author & President of Amerisearch, Inc.

Stacey Abrams

Political Leader, Voting Rights Activist & New York Times Bestselling Author

Simran Jeet Singh

Executive Director of the Religion & Society Program at The Aspen Institute; Professor, Writer & Activist

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Timothy Snyder

Author, American Historian & Professor of History at Yale University