Nkechi Taifa

Civil & Human Rights Attorney, Best-Selling Author, Scholar Activist

Taifa keynotes 2021 HBCU Pre-Law Summit

Kylar Broadus

Attorney, Author & LGBTQ Rights Activist; Motivational Disability Speaker; Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition

Huda Essa

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant, TEDx Speaker, Educator, Author

Dr. Bernice King

Minister, Attorney, Author & Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Se-ah-dom Edmo

Executive Director at Seeding Justice; Racial & Social Justice Activist

JLove Calderon

Award-Winning Author, Producer, Director & CEO of Social Impact Firm Inspire Justice

Ric S. Sheffield

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

Khaled A. Beydoun

Law Professor, Author & Islamophobia Expert

Lydia X. Z. Brown

Disability Justice Advocate, Attorney, Writer

Colette Pichon Battle

Founder of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy; Works to Dismantle Structural Racism Exacerbated by Climate Change

Ijeoma Oluo

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

Tarana Burke

Social Activist & Founder of the Me Too Movement

Nick Turner

President of Vera Institute of Justice

C. Nicole Mason

Author, Racial & Gender Equity Advocate, President & CEO of the Institute for Women's Policy Research

Charlene Carruthers

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Yara Shahidi

Award-Winning Actress Known for "Black-ish," Youth Advocate & Voting Activist

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED

Monique W. Couvson

Social Justice Scholar & Author of "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools"

Dorothy Roberts

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Yoruba Richen

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

Charles Blow

Visual Op-Ed Columnist for The New York Times; CNN Contributor & NY Times Best-Selling Author of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"

Janet Mock

Author, Feminist, Transgender Rights Activist, TV Host & Founder of #GirlsLikeUs

Fred D. Gray

Veteran Civil Rights Attorney; Represented Rosa Parks & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Saira Rao

Co-Founder, Race2Dinner; Co-author of the New York Times Bestseller "White Women"

Chambermaid: A Novel

Justice Shannon Frison

Marine, DEI Expert & Trial Advocacy Teacher

Rebecca Cokley

First Disability Rights Program Officer at the Ford Foundation; Co-Founder of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress & TEDx Speaker

Boyah J. Farah

Author of "America Made Me A Black Man," Winner of the NPR Best Book of 2022

Bonny P. McClain

Data Literacy Expert, Author of "Python for Geospatial Data Analysis” & "Geospatial Analysis with SQL"

Bonny McClain Speaking Sample

Nonette Royo

Human Rights & Environmental Lawyer; Indigenous Peoples Activist

Charles O. Prickett

Civil Rights Activist & Attorney

Lam Ho

Founder & Executive Director of the Community Activism Law Alliance