An successful American actress and former reality television celebrity, Jamie Jilynn Chung. She first rose to fame in 2004 as a cast member of the well-liked MTV reality series "The Real World: San Diego." She gained notoriety through her appearances on the program and its spin-off, "Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II," and she went on to become the... read full bio
Andre Norman’s knowledge and skills allow him to speak on and build training programs on topics including: families in crisis, substance abuse and teen drinking, re-entry, ex-offender, gangs, prison reform, and mentoring. Andre presents at schools, churches, and community centers across the globe, serving as a mentor and friend to youth and community members alike. He is consistently a lead... read full bio
Angelica Ross is an American actress, entrepreneur, and transgender rights advocate. She started her career in the U.S. Navy before being discharged due to being harassed by men. She then moved back home and made friends with a drag queen who helped her gender transition. Her parents didn’t take the news well and threw her out and she moved in... read full bio
Phillip Picardi is an American journalist and editor who is best known for being the editor-in-chief of Out. Picardi attended Central Catholic High School where he became one of the founders of the now-annual student fundraiser, Catwalk4Cancer. Upon graduating from high school, Picardi studied at New York University. He started his professional career as an intern at Teen Vogue. He... read full bio
Ryan O’Connell is an activist, author, and writer. He is best known for speaking out on his upbringing and growing up with cerebral palsy and discovering he was gay in his 20’s. Ryan has published a book “I’m Special And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves” which has been adapted in a short-form series for Netflix that’s produced by Jim Parsons... read full bio
Jess Morales Rocketto is the Political Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and is also Executive Director of Care in Action. She is known for her political advocacy campaigns that focus on sexual harassment, economic justice, immigration reform and the future of work for domestic workers in the United States. Apart from her work with the NDWA, Rocketto... read full bio
Tarana Burke is an American activist who is best known for being the founder of the Me Too movement. The Me Too Movement started out as a viral hashtag when women began using it to tweet about the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. This then turned into a huge international movement and Burke was behind starting it so women... read full bio
Natan Sharansky is among the world's most consistent advocates of democratization as a basis for foreign policy. Born in Ukraine, he received a degree in mathematics from Moscow's Physical Technical Institute. A brilliant mathematician and chess master, he entered the limelight as a spokesman for the movement to emancipate Soviet Jewry. Arrested by the Soviet authorities for his refusenik activities,... read full bio
Judy and Dennis Shepard are human rights activist who were the parents of the late Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old that was a student at the University of Wyoming. Matthew was beaten and pistol-whipped in Laramie, Wyoming. He died six days later in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado and the case gained attention country wide as it was... read full bio
Dr. Alaa Murabit is a Libyan-Canadian physician, security expert, and women’s rights activist, who is the Voice of Libyan Women founder and founder of The Omnis Institute. Murabit was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and while growing up and seeing that her parents treated her differently from her brothers, she knew she wanted to become a women’s rights activist. She... read full bio
Alexandria Villasenor is an American climate activist who is a follower of the Fridays for Future movement and is the co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and founder of Earth Uprising. Villasenor was born in Davis, California, and has since moved to New York. Villasenor first gained attention for her work in activism after she was found caught in a... read full bio
Katie Garner is a renowned keynote speaker, author and literacy consultant with 30 years of teaching experience. She is the author of Secret Stories® Cracking the Reading Code with the Brain in Mind. Her "backdoor-to-the-brain" strategy for teaching phonics simplifies reading-based education by integrating current curricula with neuroscience research demonstrating how children's brains learn most effectively. Katie highlights scientifically supported methods... read full bio
Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality. Professor Davis’ teaching... read full bio
Travon Free is a writer, director, producer, comedian, and five-time Emmy Award winner. Two Distant Strangers, Travon's debut short film, was written and co-directed and took home the Oscar for Best Live Action Short. Most recently, Travon co-directed the HBO documentary BS HIGH, which was co-produced by Adam McKay and Michael Strahan and focused on the Bishop Sycamore High School... read full bio
After publishing a collection of short stories, Adora started giving writing workshops at neighborhood schools. She later started speaking out at education conferences in favor of student voice. She gave a TED talk titled "What Adults Can Learn from Kids." The speech has been translated into more than 40 languages and has amassed over 5 million views on TED.com alone.... read full bio
Dr. Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to improve the environment and the world. He is an academic and the author of the best-selling The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. He challenges mainstream concerns about the environment and points out that we need to focus attention on the smartest solutions first. Lomborg is the director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center... read full bio
Scott Harrison, has had a life path that can only be characterized as transforming. Harrison had a wealthy and egotistical existence as a club promoter before committing himself to humanitarian work. He got a deep insight about the meaninglessness of his existence and the necessity to have a constructive impact on the world, though, during a wild vacation to Uruguay. Harrison... read full bio
Philippe Cousteau is an explorer, social entrepreneur, and environmental advocate. He is the President of EarthEcho International, a non-profit organization whose goal is to engage and empower youth to take action for a brighter future and co-founder of Azure Worldwide, a strategic environmental design, development and marketing company. Philippe partnered with AdvisorShares Investments to launch the Global Echo Fund on... read full bio
Candice Patricia Bergen, an American actress and former fashion model, is best known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown, for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal , for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a... read full bio
Robin McGraw, wife of best-selling author and television talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw, has made family first her mission. A constant presence on the Dr. Phil show since the very first episode, viewers worldwide have embraced Robin's contributions to the show whether it be discussing her experiences as a mother and wife, or dealing with issues that women... read full bio
