Issa Rae

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

Boots Riley

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

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

Damon Davis

Activist, Multimedia Artist, Musician & Filmmaker; Director of Whose Streets?

Jordan Peele

Filmmaker, Producer, Actor & Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter; Known for "Get Out" & "Us"

Jordan Peele and Dev Patel Break Down Their Directing Processes

Spike Lee

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

Erin Gruwell

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

Rama Allen

Executive Creative Director at The Mill

Rick Famuyiwa

Director, Producer & Screenwriter; Known for "The Wood" and "Brown Sugar"

Rain Valdez

Transgender Actress, Filmmaker and Advocate

Byron Hurt

Activist, Lecturer, Writer & Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Ruth E. Carter

Academy Award-Winning Costume Designer; Best Known for Her Work on "Selma" & Marvel's "Black Panther"

The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Righ...

Effie Brown

Creative Producer, Known for "Dear White People" and "Real Women Have Curves"

Lena Waithe

Emmy Award-Winning Screenwriter, Producer & Actress

Diane Guerrero

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

Yoruba Richen

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

Pendleton Ward

American animator, screenwriter and producer

Franklin Leonard

Film Producer, Cultural Commentator, Professor, Activist & Entrepreneur

Kevin Willmott

Civil Rights Activist, Filmmaker, Commentator and Professor at The University of Kansas

Janelle Monáe

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

Pharrell Williams

Singer-Songwriter, Producer & Entrepreneur; Known for the Hit Single, "Happy"

Andy Cohen

Emmy Award-Winning Host & Producer of Bravo’s "Watch What Happens: Live"

Andy Cohen reacts to his infamous New Year’s Eve rant

Maya Washington

Filmmaker, Actress, Writer, Poet, Creative Director & Arts Educator

Wendy Calhoun

Writer & Executive Producer

Joanna Peña-Bickley

Founder & CEO of Vibes Ai, Founder & Fellow of A.I. Design Corps Host of "DesignedBy.Show" Podcast

Joanna Peña-Bickley – Empowered by wearable tech | The Conference 2015

Charles D. King

Entrepreneur, Investor, Activist, Producer, CEO of MACRO

Charles D. King Talks Macro Film Studios, Ownership Vs Capitol ...

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

Film Directing, Editing & Screenwriting Team, Known for "Captain Marvel"

Autumn de Wilde

Photographer & Filmmaker

Tony Weaver

Award-Winning Writer, Educator & Influencer; Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education; Creator of "The UnCommons"

Weirdo

Sarah Sophie Flicker

National Organizer at Women's March & Creative Director

Lisa Gay Hamilton

Award-Winning Director, Film, TV & Theater Actress