Leslie Marmon Silko

Acclaimed Novelist, Poet & Essayist

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Creator & Showrunner of "BoJack Horseman;" Actor, Writer, Comedian and Author

Lawrence B. Jones III

Conservative Commentator and Editor-in-Chief, Campus Reform

Elaine Welteroth

Co-host of CBS “The Talk,” NYT Bestselling Author, Award-Winning Journalist, Former Editor-in-Chief of Teen Vogue

Ellen McGirt

Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine & "RaceAhead" Columnist

Lydia X. Z. Brown

Disability Justice Advocate, Attorney, Writer

Eugene Lee Yang

Filmmaker, Actor, LGBTQ Activist

Ijeoma Oluo

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

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Donald Glover

Award-Winning Actor, Comedian, Writer, Director & Musician; Performs as Childish Gambino

Ryan O'Connell

Star and Creator of "Special"; Author, LGBTQ Activist & Disability Advocate

Robert Hackett

Senior Writer at Fortune; Co-Founding Editor of The Ledger, Fortune's Fintech Franchise; Co-chair of the Brainstorm Finance Conference

Kenya Barris

Screenwriter, ABC's "Black-ish", Producers Guild Visionary Award Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing

Sarah Kliff

Health Policy Journalist & Senior Policy Correspondent at Vox.com

Ronny Chieng

Actor, Comedian & Correspondent on "The Daily Show"

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Scott Stossel

Editor of The Atlantic; NY Times Best-Selling Author of "My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind"

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Morgan Jerkins​

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

The Power in Telling Your Story with Morgan Jerkins | Black America ...

Lois Lowry

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" and "The Giver"

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author

Ashly Perez

Internet Star; Former Video Producer at BuzzFeed Motion Pictures

Eric Kripke

Television writer, director, and producer. He is the creator of The WB series Supernatural and more recently the NBC series Revolution.