Victor Rios

Educator, Author, & Creator of Project GRIT

Dr. Chyng Sun, Ph.D.

Scholar & Filmmaker; Clinical Professor of Media Studies at NYU School of Professional Studies

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

Abby Ferber

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

Elijah Anderson

Professor of Sociology; Author of "Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City"

Dorothy Roberts

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Dr. Tracy Brower

PhD Sociologist, Author of "The Secrets to Happiness at Work" and "Bring Work to Life", Vice President of Workplace Insights for Steelcase, Contributor to Forbes.com & Fast Company

Ann Mullen

Sociology Professor at the University of Toronto; Social & Gender Inequality Researcher; Author of "Degrees of Inequality"

Yves Morieux

Senior Advisor & Former Senior Partner & Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group

Ruha Benjamin

Sociology & African American Studies Scholar; Author of "People's Science" and "Race After Technology"

Ruha Benjamin - Spelman Convocation 2024

Peter Kageyama

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

Karl A. Pillemer, Ph.D

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

David Williams

Professor of Public Health at Harvard University

Peter Phillips

Political Sociologist

Juliet Schor

Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Tukufu Zuberi

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

Laura Delizonna

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

Spencer Wells

Geneticist, Anthropologist, Author, Entrepreneur, Adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Michael Kimmel

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

Brian Solis

Digital Analyst, Futurist & Author of "What's the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences"