Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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

Dorothy Roberts

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Bertice Berry

Sociologist, Author and Educator

Bill Drayton

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

Kathryn Edin

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

James Garbarino

Author, Psychologist, Expert on Violence & Children; Senior Faculty Fellow, Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University

Ric S. Sheffield

Author on Gender, Race & Ethnicity; Professor of Legal Studies and Sociology at Kenyon College

Chloe Hakim-Moore

Founder of NEXT Memphis, Wellness Strategist, Entrepreneur, Sociologist, Forbes 30 under 30, TEDx Speaker

Jennifer James

Cultural Anthropologist & Expert on Change

Laura Delizonna

Chief Learning Officer at Wisdom Labs, Inc.; Clinical Psychiatrist & Happiness Coach

Abhijit Naskar

Celebrated Neuroscientist, International Bestselling Author, Speaker

Jonathan Metzl

Professor of Sociology & Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Medicine, Health & Society at Vanderbilt University

Anindya Kundu

Sociologist & Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Florida International University

Victor Rios

Educator, Author, & Creator of Project GRIT

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

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

Abby Ferber

Director of the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity & Inclusion; Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Eve Ewing

Sociologist of Education & Assistant Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago

William Julius Wilson

Sociologist & Harvard Professor

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Professor Emerita of Sociology at UC Berkeley, Author of 'The Outsourced Self'

Karl A. Pillemer, Ph.D

Professor of Human Development at Cornell University; Internationally Renowned Gerontologist & Speaker on Aging-Related Issues