Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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Jonathan Kozol

Educator & Social Justice Advocate

Claude Steele

Social Psychologist & Stereotype Expert

Dr. Will Miller

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

Michael Rogers

MSNBC's 'The Practical Futurist' & Technology Expert

Bobby Seale

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Clifton L. Taulbert

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

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Linda Tirado

Author On Poverty and the Working Class

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Popular Sex Therapist Known for "Sexually Speaking" a.k.a. "Dr. Ruth Show"; Author & Teacher at Columbia's Teachers College

James Garbarino

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

Tukufu Zuberi

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

Clinton R. Van Zandt

FBI Profiler, Hostage Negotiator, Vietnam Veteran and Sr. TV Commentator

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

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

Tony Wagner

Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute

William Julius Wilson

Sociologist & Harvard Professor

Michael Kimmel

Author & Sociologist, The Nation's Leading Scholar on Men & Masculinity

Peter Phillips

Political Sociologist

Michael Thompson

Child & Family Psychologist

Peter Kageyama

Peter Kageyama is the author of "For the Love of Cities" and the co-founder of the Creative Cities Summit