Donna Brazile

Veteran Political Strategist, Best-Selling Author & Former Interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Erin Gruwell

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

Amy Goodman

Host & Executive Producer, Democracy Now!

Majora Carter

Real Estate Developer, Peabody Award-Winning Broadcaster & Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant

Aubrey de Grey

Biomedical Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation; Researcher on Preventing Aging

Noam Chomsky

Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT & Foreign Policy Author

Nelson George

Author / Filmmaker

David Horowitz

Nationally Known Author & Lifelong Civil Rights Activist, One of the Founders of the New Left

Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.

Bill Drayton

Social Entrepreneur, Founder & C.E.O of Ashoka. Leading an Everyone a Changemaker world movement.

Michael Gazzaniga

President of the Cognitive Neuroscientist Institute & Author of "Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience"

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

Jane Chen

Co-Founder & CEO of Embrace Innovations

Lynda Resnick

Vice Chair & Co-Owner of The Wonderful Company; Philanthropist

Lynda Resnick - UMASS intro to Daniel Ellsberg's honorary degree award

Jason Kottke

Designer of Silkscreen Typeface, Lifetime Achievement Award Blogger

Kate Clinton

One of America's Brightest Political Comedians

Marilynne Robinson

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Jane Elliott

Anti-Racism Activist, Educator, Feminist & LGBT Activist

Larry Irving

Internet Pioneer, Technology Strategist & Futurist; First African American Inducted Into Internet Hall of Fame; CEO of Irving Group

Carol Gilligan

Human Condition Psychologist & Ethicist; Founder of Difference Feminism

Patrick Meier

Founder of Climate Robotics Network; Creator of the Concept of Crisis Mapping

Patrick Meier | TEDxMombasa - Robots vs. Climate Crisis

Susan Herman

Constitutional Law Scholar; Former President of the American Civil Liberties Union

Ernest Green

Member of the "Little Rock Nine" / Consultant

Rosa Clemente

Community Organizer, Journalist, Political Activist, President & Founder of Know Thy Self Productions

Toni Blackman

First US Hip Hop Ambassador, Rapper & Mindfulness Educator

Toni Blackman A Dove Real Woman Role Model - DOVE Real Beauty Campaign

Keith Beauchamp

Emmy-Nominated Documentary Filmmaker

Clayborne Carson

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Keith L. Brown

Motivational Speaker on DEI, Workplace Wellness, Leadership & Improving Education; Youth Empowerment, Family Enhancement, Anti-Bullying & Social Justice Activist; Known as "Mr. I'm Possible"

Keith L. Brown

Ann Veneman

Former Executive Director at UNICEF & US Secretary of Agriculture

California Department of Food & Agriculture's Centennial ...

William Julius Wilson

Sociologist & Harvard Professor