James Gilligan

Psychiatrist & Expert on Violence

Noël Jones

Writer, Slam Poet, Former member of the 2000 National Poetry Slam Champion Team NYC-Urbana

Leslie Bennetts

Vanity Fair Contributing Editor and Expert on Women in the Workplace; Author, The Feminine Mistake

E.J. Dionne, Jr.

Syndicated Washington Post Columnist; Political Analyst for National Public Radio

Alan Mallach

Author; Senior Fellow at the Center for Community Progress & The National Housing Institute

State Policy and Equitable Revitalization: A Conversation with Alan Mallach

Paul Lewis

The Guardian's Washington Correspondent. 'Best Twitter Feed', Online Media Awards. Formerly Special Projects Editor.

William A. Galston

Wall Street Journal Columnist; Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow for Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution

Lia Epperson

Professor at American University's Washington College of Law

Farah Pandith

Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard Kennedy School; Special Representative to Muslim Communities U.S. State Department

Tanya Brown

Mental Health & Domestic Violence Prevention Advocate

Scott Poland

Internationally Recognized Expert on School Crisis

Natanya Anderson

VP of Customer Enablement & Education at Spredfast

Chris Hansen

Emmy-Winning Dateline NBC Correspondent

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Author of "Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx"

Linda Fairstein

Criminal Lawyer & Best-Selling Crime Novelist

Iya Dammons

Founder & Executive Director of Baltimore Safe Haven

Ryan T. Anderson

Founder and Editor of Public Discourse and Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation

Erna Solberg

Prime Minister of Norway; Co-Chairs the UN Secretary General's Advocacy Group for the Sustainable Development Goals

Ernest Green

Member of the "Little Rock Nine" / Consultant

Willie Brown

41st Mayor of San Francisco & 58th Speaker of the California State Assembly

Matthew Claudel

DesignX - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LouAnne Johnson

Inspirational Teacher & Author

James Johnson Jr.

Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center

Maralee McLean

Child Advocate & Domestic Violence Expert

Richard Buery

Chief Executive Officer at Robin Hood; Social Innovator, Urbanist & Educator

Robin Hood Heroes 2023: CEO Richard Buery, Jr. & Nana Zakia of FHJC

Jill Iscol

IF Hummingbird Foundation, President

Paul Yip

Director of Centre for Suicide Research & Prevention at The University of Hong Kong; Professor of Population Health

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Former Mayor of Baltimore; Former Secretary of the Democratic National Committee; Former President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors

Yariela Kerr-Donovan

Community Education Programs Senior Director at Johns Hopkins Medicine; Chair of the Baltimore Workforce Development Board; Former Director of Minority Affairs at Cornell University

Sandy "Pepa" Denton

Rapper, Salt-N-Pepa