Brittany M. Stalworth

TV & Film Producer Known for "She Did That!" & "Released"

Ayana Barber

Producer & Filmmaker Known for "She Did That" & "Ballet After Dark"

Cheryl Boone Isaacs

Founding Director of Arizona State University’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School; Former President of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Shonda Rhimes

Executive Producer, Screenwriter, & Author

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Viola Davis

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

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Janelle Monáe

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

Alice Waddington

Film Director, Writer, Photographer & Feminist

Ariana DeBose

Academy Award-Winning Actress Known for Hamilton & West Side Story

Victoria Mahoney

Filmmaker & Actress best known for Yelling to the Sky

Zazie Beetz

Emmy Award-Nominated Actress; Known for "Atlanta"

Millicent Shelton

Music Video & Television Director

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...

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

Ava DuVernay

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

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Julie Dash

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.

Regina Hall

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

Issa Rae

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

Alfre Woodard

Emmy Award-Winning Actress; Human Rights Activist

Todd Bridges

Author, Director & Actor Known for "Diff'rent Strokes"; Substance Abuse Recovery Advocate

Lindsey Granger

Journalist, Writer & Producer

Celine Tricart

Filmmaker, Storyteller & Founder of Lucid Dreams Productions

Tilane Jones

President of Array and Array Releasing

Mati Diop

French Actress & Director Known for "Atlantics"

dream hampton

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Cheryl Dunye

Filmmaker, Director, Writer & Actress

Christine Swanson

Filmmaker, Writer & Director

Joi McMillion

Award Winning Film Editor

Raoul Peck

Critically Acclaimed Haitian Filmmaker Known for "I Am Not Your Negro" & "Lumumba"

Mahershala Ali

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

Quinta Brunson

Emmy Award-Winning Creator of ABC's "Abbott Elementary;" Writer, Actress & Stand-Up Comedian