Shannon Reeves is a civil rights advocate, speaker, and political strategist who is the Assistant Professor of Political Science at Alabama A&M University. Through his work with Alabama A&M University, Reeves teaches undergraduate courses in American Politics and Public Administration. Reeves was born in San Francisco, California, and he has earned his B.A. in Political Science from Grambling State University... read full bio
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
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
Cristina Jiménez Moreta works as a storyteller, political strategist, and community organizer. She is the former executive director and co-founder of United We Dream (UWD), the nation's largest youth-driven organization run by immigrants. At the age of 13, she and her family fled Ecuador for the United States, where she grew up without documentation. Under Cristina's direction, UWD has expanded... read full bio
Growing up as the daughter of renowned broadcaster Joan Lunden, Jamie appeared to have it all. but almost lost everything due to a terrible and covert drug addiction. Her recuperation experience gave her a fresh perspective, based on the notion that success and pleasure are mostly dependent on gratitude. This idea rekindled her passion, which she utilized to manage accounts... read full bio
Renowned speaker and animal champion Lee Asher founded The Asher House, a nonprofit organization devoted to saving and caring for high-risk animals for the rest of their lives. Lee, who has a strong voice for animal welfare, has enthralled audiences with his inspirational speeches in which he discusses the value of improving the world and his own story of overcoming hardship... read full bio
Ellen Galinsky was elected President of the Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) and President of the Families and Work Institute. She is also the School Superintendent Organization's senior research advisor. Prior positions include faculty at Bank Street College and Chief Science Officer at the Bezos Family Foundation. Work-life balance, child and adolescent development, youth voice, childcare, parent-professional relationships, and... 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
