Bun B

Rapper Known for Having Been Half of the Southern Rap Duo UGK; Guest Lecturer at Rice University

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"

Annette Gordon-Reed

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

Glenn Loury

Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences & Professor of Economics at Brown University

Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

David Adjaye

Renowned Architect; Lead Designer of The National Museum of African American History & Culture

Scholl Lecture Series: David Adjaye in Conversation with Franklin ...

Patrisse Cullors

Artist, Activist & Organizer; Co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter

David Oyelowo

Actor Known for "Selma," "The Butler" & "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

Amanda Palmer

Musician, New York Times Best Selling Author, Performer and Provocateur

Elizabeth McKee Gore

Co-Founder of Hello Alice; Former Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Dell

James Heckman

Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago, a Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economics, and an Expert in the Economics of Human Development

Margot Stern Strom

Margot Stern Strom is a social change agent and the executive director of Facing History and Ourselves.

Shane Ortega

The US Army's First Openly Trans Soldier

Peter W. Singer

Technology & Security Futurist; New York Times Best-Selling Author

Featured Speaker: Dr. Peter Warren Singer

Peniel E. Joseph

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Speaker; Ethics and Political Values Expert; Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin

Josh Nesbit

Co-founded Medic Mobile

Anne Mahlum

Social Entrepreneur & Founder of Back on My Feet

Anne Mahlum Sizzle Reel

Danae Ringelmann

Founder, Indiegogo; Lodge & Farm Owner; Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum

Angélique Kidjo

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Singer & Songwriter

Justin Dillon

CEO of FRDM & Made In A Free World; Expert on Supply Chain Risk, Modern Slavery & Child Labor

Reverend Al Sharpton

Baptist Minister, Political, Civil Rights & Social Justice Activist