Jeff Chang is an award-winning author focused on topics of culture, politics, and art (in various forms). His books have garnered honors from the American Book Award to the Asian American Literary Award. He has authored books including Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, and We Gon’ Be Alright:... read full bio
Susan Pinker is a renowned developmental psychologist. She incorporates her psychology background into the diverse world of social science. She has published work in a variety of journals and releases, including the New York Times, The Financial Times, Oprah Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Pinker has won various awards for her research including The William James Book Award by... read full bio
David Wallace-Wells is an author and editor. Currently, he is the deputy editor of New York Magazine, where he frequently contributes his insight into climate, science, and technology. He is well-known for his cover story on global warming and climate change worst-case scenarios. Wallace-Wells authored the best-selling The Uninhabitable Earth, which confronts key questions regarding global issues caused by potential... read full bio
Andrew Marantz is a technology expert. He’s well-versed in areas of social media, the alt-right, press, comedy, and pop culture. As a writer for The New Yorker, Marantz covers topics in the spectrum of American controversy and social issues surrounding the aforementioned topics. Marantz has authored the book Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation. Marantz,... read full bio
Mackenzie Phillips is an American actress, speaker, and singer who is best known for playing Julie Cooper on the series “One Day at a Time” and Molly Phillips in series “So Weird”. She got her start at a young age when she formed a band with her classmates. Phillips was then spotted by a casting agent during one of their... read full bio
Haben Girma is an American lawyer and disability rights advocate who is best known for being the first graduate to be blind and deaf from Harvard Law School. Girma was born in Oakland, California, and she lost her vision as well as her hearing at a young age. While growing up, she benefited from the Americans with Disabilities Act and... read full bio
Princess Sarah Culberson is an American dancer, actress, philanthropist, writer, speaker, and academic administration who is a Mende princess of Bumpe in Sierra Leone. Culberson was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, to an American mother and a Sierra Leonean father. She was adopted as an infant and moved to West Virginia where her adoptive father was a professor at West... read full bio
David Gottfried is a top name in the environmental movement. Best known as the father of the global green building movement, Gottfried’s pursuits have made a huge impact on reducing the effects of global warming. Gottfried founded the U.S. Green Building Council and World Green Building Councils in over 100 countries. This movement incited the building of hundreds of thousands... read full bio
Laurie Smith was the one of the first designers to hit the airwaves on TLCs breakout hit show Trading Spaces. Going into the shows sixth season fans get to see Laurie's modern classic design each week as they remake a space in just 48 hours. While design is now Laurie's first passion, her roots began in television first. After receiving... read full bio
Mari Lynn Foulger, better known by her stage name Bob Bland, is an American activist and fashion designer. She leads Manufacture New York, a company that supports moral business conduct and environmentally friendly clothing. Bland, who is the daughter of two public school teachers, was born in Northern Virginia in 1982. When she was eight years old, she started sewing,... read full bio
For Cornell Brooks, becoming the leader of the nation’s oldest, largest and most widely respected civil rights organization is the culmination of both a notable career advocating for equality and justice and an enduring family legacy of fighting for civil rights.A graduate of both Head Start and Yale Law School, Brooks is a champion of the transformative power of education... read full bio
Patricia Field was born in New York City to parents who immigrated from Plomari, Lesbos, Greece—a Greek father—and an Armenian mother. She claims to have invented the contemporary legging for women's fashion in the 70s and she was raised in Astoria, Queens. Patricia Field is the proprietor of the boutique bearing her name. During the filming of Miami Rhapsody, Field met Sarah Jessica Parker.... read full bio
Somalian model, writer, actress and social activist Waris Dirie has also served as a Special Ambassador for the UN. She played a little role in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, which launched her career. She also appeared on the catwalks in New York City, Milan, Paris and London. She has appeared in publications like Elle, Glamour, Vogue and a BBC documentary about... read full bio
Carrie Gress is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as a Scholar at the Catholic University of America's Institute for Human Ecology. She is the editor of the online women's magazine Theology of Home and holds a degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of America. Aleteia, Catholic Vote, Catholic World Report, National Review,... read full bio
Dr. Angela Farris Watkins is a civil rights activist, author, presenter, and educator. Dr. Farris Watkins has long been an advocate for the needs of different learners as well as those of African American students who are subjected to injustices. Her publications, Learning Styles of African American Children: A Developmental Consideration (Journal of Black Psychology) and Nurturing African American College... read full bio
Serving Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy and family was Tricia Harris' first professional assignment. She progressed over her ten-year employment from the position of Intellectual Property Licensing Administrator to Chief Operating Officer of the King family's private business and legal concerns, as well as the global public and private interests of Dr. King's legacy. Tricia contributed to the family-owned... read full bio
At CA Technologies, Montreece Smith is the Diversity Recruitment Program Manager for North America. In this role, she is responsible for establishing strategy and designing programs to attract top talent from a variety of underrepresented groups, including the LGBT community, women, people of color, Veterans, and disabled professionals. Externally, she sits on the National Labor Exchange (NLX) Operations Committee and... read full bio
John is the younger of Thurgood Marshall's two sons, who served as the principal counsel in the case Brown v. Board of Education and was the first African-American Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court. John specializes in motivational speeches about his father's place in American history and his contribution to the nation's civil rights movement. Additionally, he has spoken... read full bio
One of the world's foremost authorities on indigenous peoples' climate change adaptation and mitigation is Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. She is the president of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) and a member of the Mbororo pastoralist community in Chad. In the global effort to combat the effects of climate change, Oumarou Ibrahim is an advocate for... read full bio
Jeff Caldwell is known to audiences nationwide as a clean, clever comedian with one of the brightest standup acts around. He is also known for being a great keynote speakers to Fortune 500 companies and organizations. Whether at a comedy club or a corporate event, Jeff delivers smart, funny jokes on topics ranging from the daily news to the daily... read full bio
