Donna Brazile

Veteran Political Strategist, Best-Selling Author & Former Interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

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Eleanor Clift

Author; Washington Correspondent & The Daily Beast Columnist; Former "The McLaughlin Group" Panelist

Bay Buchanan

Real Estate Agent, Public Speaker, Author, Political Analyst & Former U.S. Treasurer

Amanda Gore

CEO of The Joy Project; Author & Psychologist; Emotional Intelligence and Performance Expert

Rita Dove

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Former Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress & Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing

Gloria Borger

Award-Winning Chief Political Analyst & Columnist for CNN

Johnnetta Cole

Former Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

Margaret Carlson

Daily Beast Columnist

Melissa Chiu

Museum Director, Asia Society

Susan Eisenhower

Award-Winning Author, Strategist, National Security & International Affairs Expert

Sarah Chayes

Former Senior Fellow in Carnegie's Democracy & Rule of Law Program, Author of "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security"

Marie Wilson

Founder and president of The White House Project, co-creator of Take Our Daughters to Work Day

Tony P. Hall

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food & Agriculture; Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Tubby Smith

Former Men's Basketball Head Coach at High Point University; 1998 National Champion with the University of Kentucky

Suzanne Malveaux

Former CNN National Correspondent & Anchor

A'Lelia Bundles

Author of Best-Selling Biography ON HER OWN GROUND: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Alan Pell Crawford

Author, Journalist, former Speechwriter for a US Senator and former Press Secretary to a US Congressman

Maureen Bunyan

Former News Anchor at WJLA-TV

Susan Molinari

Former Representative from New York’s 13th District; Trailblazer for Liberal Republicans