Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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Dorothy Roberts

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Bobby Seale

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Jonathan Kozol

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Michael Rogers

MSNBC's 'The Practical Futurist' & Technology Expert

Dr. Will Miller

Educator, Psychotherapist, Author & Humorist; Authority on Stress & Coping; Ethics & Social Media Professor at Purdue University

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

Claude Steele

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

James Garbarino

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

Eduardo Bonilla Silva

Professor of Sociology at Duke University & Author of "Racism without Racists"

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

Clifton L. Taulbert

Author, Business Consultant, & Speaker; Best Known for "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored"

Tukufu Zuberi

Expert on Race Relations; Host, "PBS History Detectives"; Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania,

Dr. Crystal Kuykendall

Education, Leadership & Public Service Expert; Former Director of National Alliance of Black School Educators

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

Linda Tirado

Author On Poverty and the Working Class

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College