Kristie Kennedy

Women's Worth & Wellness Expert, TEDx Audacious Leadership Transformational Speaker

James Conlon

Award-Winning Symphonic/Operatic Conductor & Educator; Founder of the OREL Foundation; Recipient of Legion d’Honneur

Freedom From Fear: James Conlon

Jodi Bondi Norgaard

Founder of Dream Big Toy Company & Creator of Go! Go! Sports Girls; Change Maker & Stereotype Breaker

Lisa Gay Hamilton

Award-Winning Director, Film, TV & Theater Actress

Deanna Van Buren

Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

Michael W. Twitty

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

Michael Twitty Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

Craig Steven Wilder

Historian of American Institutions and Ideas, Professor of History at MIT

Edmond Davis

Speaker, Historian, Author, Contributor, College Instructor, Expert on 21st Century Law Enforcement and Communities of Color

Hank Willis Thomas

Conceptual Artist

Latondra Newton

SVP & Chief Diversity Officer at The Walt Disney Company

Annette Gordon-Reed

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

Stedman Graham

CEO of S. Graham & Associates, Leadership Development Expert & Author

Melissa L. Cooper

Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark; Author of "Making Gullah" & African American History Expert

Victoria Smalls

Executive Director at Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, Public Historian & Arts Advocate

Mike Grier

General Manager of the San Jose Sharks, First Black GM in NHL's History

Trevor Stuurman

Award-Winning Visual Artist & Creative Director

Luana M. Graves Sellars

Community Activist & Cultural Influencer

Tarik Karenga

Entrepreneur & Leadership Speaker; Expert in African History

Carolyn Roberts

Assistant Professor in History of Science & History of Medicine; African American Studies Professor at Yale University

Natalie Nixon

Future of Work Expert, Author of "The Creativity Leap", Innovation, Creativity & Leadership Strategy Consultant

Lettie Gore

Historian, Host of "Sincerely, Lettie" Podcast

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

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

Clare Waight Keller

Givenchy's First Female Artistic Director

Chris Emery

American Author & Former Government Official

Who Killed the President?

Jeffrey C. Stewart

National Book Award Longlisted Author

Xernona Clayton

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

Azania Andrews

Vice President of Michelob Ultra at Anheuser-Busch

Boots Riley

Rapper, Producer, Screenwriter & Director; Known for "Sorry To Bother You"

Jharrel Jerome & Boots Riley On ‘I’m a Virgo’ | SXSW 2023

Kris Boesch

Founder & CEO of Choose People, Author of "Culture Works: How to Create Happiness in the Workplace"

Joshua Kissi

Photographer and Co-Founder at TONL & Street Etiquette