
Andrea Elliott
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist | Author of Invisible Child
We need to address the deep historical roots of poverty, racism and equality.
A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.
Our race keynote speakers are inciting real change: exposing the harmful policies and hidden biases that unfairly tip the playing field, and transforming them through art, photograph, film, writing, music, activism and more.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist | Author of Invisible Child
We need to address the deep historical roots of poverty, racism and equality.
Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University | Faculty Director of Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative | Author of Edge
Are you looking for an edge to help you succeed? Guess what—you've already got one.
Author of Juliet Takes a Breath and the Marvel comic series America
Living a revolutionary life starts with joy.
Founder of theBoardlist | Former president of StubHub | CEO OF XERO | Author of Choose Possibility
In a volatile world, our biggest opportunity lies in revolutionizing our relationship with risk.
New Yorker Staff Writer | Columbia Journalism School Dean | Speaker on race, history, politics and culture in America
In the fight for racial justice, we must face the past to forge a better future.
Civil rights legend who helped desegregate public schools
When we challenge what we know to be morally wrong, we grow as a society.
CEO of Historica Canada | Former Editor-in-Chief at MacLean's
To find out how to best move towards the future, we must look to the past.
Physician | Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University | Award-winning author of Dying of Whiteness
Gun violence is a symptom of our nation's unresolved conflicts. We need to step back and think of the broader questions if we want to build a better, healthier world.
Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School | Co-Host of Some of My Best Friends Are | Author of The Condemnation of Blackness
There is a gap between our aspiration for racial equity and our actualization of it.
An Extraordinary Business and Community Leader
Give people the tools they need, treat them with respect, and they will perform miraculous deeds.
Award-winning photographer | Associate professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago | MacArthur Genius
Art is a weapon. Photos can change society—our view of ourselves and our communities.
Author of Rage Becomes Her | Award-winning journalist | Co-Founder and Director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project
Our emotions aren't weaknesses. They're tools that we can use for greater personal and organizational success.
Activist | Founder & CEO of The North Star | Author of Make Change
If you've ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, now is the time to find out.
Award-winning filmmaker | Director of TikTok, Boom. and Coded Bias | TED Fellow
A digital world comes with digital dangers—here’s how to protect ourselves and our rights.
2018 MacArthur Fellow | Award-Winning Painter and Sculptor
Art isn’t about making pretty pictures. Images should be as challenging as the issues we face.
Award-winning author of Black Food | James Beard Leadership Award Winner | Founder of 4 Color Books
We need to open a transparent dialogue about food insecurity, structural racism, and poverty.
Director of Queen of Katwe, Salaam Bombay!, The Namesake, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Every film is a political act; it’s how you see the world.
Olympian, Activist, and Speaker on Indigenous Health and Reconciliation
Your struggle is your motivation in disguise.
Legendary human rights activist
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Concrete Rose and The Hate U Give
Young Black people need stories about how their dreams, voices, and lives matter. How do we tell those stories?
Founder and CEO of Tala
Radical trust is the currency driving the future of our financial institutions.
Oscar-Winning Director of BlacKkKlansman, Do the Right Thing, and When the Levees Broke
Film plays a central role in illuminating modern issues of race and representation.
Social Historian, Cultural Critic & Community Organizer | Author of We Gon’ Be Alright and Can't Stop Won't Stop
Real solidarity and racial justice begins when we bring community into everything we do.
Professor of Creative Writing at Harvard | Author of Black Paper | Former Photography Critic for NYT Magazine
This is a time for protest and activism, but it is also a time for subtlety, ambiguity and complexity.
Author of The End of Bias | Award-winning science and culture journalist
Bias has a real cost for your company. Fighting it is your greatest superpower.
Nike's Former Chief Marketing Officer | Author of Emotion by Design
Great brands don’t simply reach customers: they create real emotional bonds with them.
Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of The 1619 Project | Executive Producer of The 1619 Project Hulu Docuseries | MacArthur Genius
There isn’t a beat you can cover in America—education, housing—where race is not a factor.
Acclaimed Writer & Director of Rafiki | Co-Founder of AFROBUBBLEGUM
Embracing joy is an act of resistance, power, and creativity.
Social justice comedian | Director of The Muslims Are Coming! | Author of How to Make White People Laugh
We can dispel Islamophobia—and other forms of hatred—through jokes.
Cognitive Scientist | Expert in the Fields of Language and Cognition
How do humans get so smart? Language: it shapes our minds and the world around us.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of On Juneteenth | Harvard professor | MacArthur Genius
Telling the essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s profound importance to American history.
Civil Rights Attorney | Award-winning author of Black Was the Ink | Former civil rights attorney at the US Department of Justice
To achieve racial justice today, look to the unsung heroes of American history.
New York Times Bestselling Author Of All Boys Aren’t Blue & We Are Not Broken | Emmy Nominee | LGBTQIA+ Activist
Stories of queer identity and Black joy have the power to educate us on diversity, inspire social justice activism, and build community.
Author of instant New York Times bestseller Secret City | Tablet Magazine columnist | Award-winning journalist
The unsung gay heroes who quietly revolutionized society prove that ordinary people can make extraordinary change.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Stay True | New Yorker staff writer | CBS Sunday Morning contributor
Telling our own stories enlarges the circumference of our imaginations.