Raymond Winbush, also known as Tikari Bioko, is an American scholar, author, researcher, psychologist and educator who is known for researching the impact of racism and white supremacy on the global African community. Winbush was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. When Winbush was young, he scored high on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test and went on... read full bio
Peniel E. Joseph is an American historian, scholar, teacher, and activist who talks on race issues. Joseph holds professorship at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. Joseph was born and raised in New York and he went on to earn his B.A. in... read full bio
Otis Moss III is best known for being the pastor for Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ where he speaks on reaching inner-city black youth and talks on black theology. Moss is the son of Otis Moss Jr. who was an affiliate of Martin Luther King, Jr. where they worked together. Moss was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and originally... read full bio
Ory Okolloh is a Kenyan activist, lawyer, and blogger, who is best known for being the Director of Investments at Omidyar Network and for being the former Policy Manager for Africa with Google. Okolloh has previously earned her bachelor’s in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and also earned her law degree from Harvard Law School. As a writer,... read full bio
John Kasaona is a conservationist who is known for working with people to reinvent conservation in Namibia where he works to turn poachers into protectors of species. While under South African rule, the animals in Namibia began being poached drastically and after Namibia gain independence, the Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation worked with local communities such as Kasaona’s to... read full bio
Helene D. Gayle is an American doctor who is best known for being the CEO of The Chicago Community Trust, which is one of the nation’s leading community foundations that works with doctors, non-profits, residents, and community leaders to help create efforts to improve quality of life for the residents of Chicago. Gayle was born and raised in Buffalo, New... read full bio
Harry Edwards is an American sociologist and civil rights activist from East St. Louis, Illinois. Edwards has earned his B.A. from San Jose State University and has earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has been a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and during his career he has spent most of it researching on experiences... read full bio
Fred Ssewamala is the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor at the Brown School and is also Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. He has also been an Associate Professor of Social Work and International Affairs at Columbia University School of Social Work, has been a Global Through Fellow with Columbia University and a Senior Research Fellow with... read full bio
Charles Clark is one of the most sought after motivational speakers and mindset coaches. Throughout his long battle of pain and struggling, both physical and mental, Clark developed the skills to inspire those who would listen to him. Since 2014, Clark has been addressing wide audiences with the goal of turning their lives around – and he has very much... read full bio
Speaking, writing and media production professional Austin Channing Brown offers inspiring leadership on racial justice in America. She is the Executive Producer of the web series The Next Question and the author of the New York Times best-selling book I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, which was chosen as a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub choice. Her lectures and seminars... read full bio
Jessica Willis Fisher is a country and Americana singer/songwriter, performer and author. She thinks that by telling each other our stories, we may change the world. Jessica was the front woman of her renowned family band, The Willis Clan, until she left at the age of 23, having grown up as the oldest child in a strict and religious home. She is... read full bio
American actress Kate Moennig's outstanding performances have had a huge impact on the entertainment business. Moennig is most known for playing Shane McCutcheon in the revolutionary television series The L Word from 2004 to 2009. Her brilliance and adaptability have won many viewers. In the television series Young Americans in 2000, she made her acting debut as Jake Pratt, demonstrating her early... read full bio
Doc Hendley is the epitome of an individual who has made a difference. Tens of thousands of people around the world have clean drinking water they did not have before an idea popped into the head of this tattooed keg-tapper musicians head. At the bars where he worked, he started raising money to fight this water epidemic the best way... read full bio
Jacob Tobia is an American activist, producer, writer, television host and actor from Raleigh, North Carolina. Tobia is best known for their memoir entitled, “Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story” and for voicing the character Double Trouble in the television series “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power”. Tobia graduated from Raleigh Charter High School, where they were president of the Gay Straight... read full bio
Actor Tamika Danielle Mallory is from the United States. She and her three other co-chairs were acknowledged in the 2017 TIME 100 for their work organizing the Women's March, which she was one of the key figures in. In 2018, the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom presented her with the Coretta Scott King Legacy Award. Mallory... read full bio
Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, but he has also written serious journalism, comic verse, and several books of fiction. Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News... read full bio
Founder and chair of Free The Children, a unique international development and youth empowerment organization; Co-founder and director of Me to We, a social enterprise that makes ethical living the norm; Co-author of Take Action! A Guide to Active Citizenship", "Take More Action", and "Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World" as well as the soon to be... read full bio
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. interest in child development led to training in child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and the James Jackson Putnam Children's Center. T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. subsequently served as a Fellow with Professor Jerome Bruner at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University. There, the process of integrating his dual interests -- primary care pediatrics and... read full bio
Joan Van Ark is perhaps best known for her role as Valene Ewing on TV's Dallas and Knots Landing for 13 seasons. During her thirteen seasons on Knots Landing, Joan Van Ark earned six nominations and won Soap Opera Digest Awards for Best Actress. Her numerous theater credits include Barefoot in the Park, The School for Wives and The Rules... read full bio
Linda Armstrong Kelly's life story is captivating audiences everywhere. Linda Armstrong Kellys son, six-time Tour de France Champion Lance Armstrong, credits her as the unsung hero who assisted him in reaching his spectacular cycling victories - and in his triumph over cancer. Linda Armstrong Kelly is Lance's role model. Linda Armstrong Kelly's mission is to inspire, motivate, challenge and entertain... read full bio
