Barbara Lee
As the first African American woman elected to Congress, Barbara has consistently used her platform to champion policies that uplift marginalized communities and promote equity. She was recently elected Mayor of Oakland, California.
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Michelle Saahene
Wellness, progress and justice activist focusing on healing within a system of institutional racism. Michelle creates spaces for dialogue on racial healing, growth and learning.
Mike Duncan
American political history podcaster and author. His award winning series, “The History of Rome,” remains a legendary landmark in the history of podcasting.
Betsy Gaines Quammen
Author of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God, and Public Lands in the West. Environmental historian and writer with a background in international conservation work, land issues, science denialism, and anti-government agitation in the American West.
Mariama White-Hammond
As a climate justice minister and a prominent figure in the intersection of faith and activism, Reverend White-Hammond emphasizes the moral imperative of addressing environmental issues related marginalized communities.
Vien Truong
One of the country’s foremost policy innovators and solutions architect on building an equitable green economy. She has dedicated her career to advocating for communities who have historically been excluded from environmental policy decision-making.
Angela Shelton
Be Your Own Hero! Angela Shelton shares heartwarming and hilarious real-life stories about moving from a life of abuse and hardships to activist, artist, performer, writer, and award-winning filmmaker.
Paul Watson
Co-founder of the Greenpeace Foundation, Marine wildlife conservation and environmental activist, Captain of Animal Planet’s WHALE WARS & Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Daniel H. Wilson
Award-winning SciFi author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and AI & Robotics Expert, Wilson was selected to write, “The Andromeda Evolution” with the Michael Crichton estate, which marked the 50th anniversary of “The Andromeda Strain”.
Jeffery Renard Allen
Award winning American poet, essayist, short story writer, and novelist. Winner of the P.E.N. Discovery Prize and a Whiting Writer’s Award.
Christine McKinley
STEM activist, mechanical engineer, musician, host of Discovery Channel’s Decoded, and author of Physics For Rock Stars. Her musical Gracie and the Atom won a Portland Drammy for Original Score.
Shola Lynch
Award-winning filmmaker, scholar, and film curator of documentaries: Free Angela & All Political Prisoners and Chisolm ’72-Unbought and Unbossed. Her current project, Number One On the Call Sheet, has been called “… as impressive a rundown of talent in a non-fiction project as you’re likely to see this year...”
Richard Morse
“With my music, I’m providing a safe haven for folks as the government fails…There are times when the Haitian people can’t speak out. But I can write a song.”
Charles Johnson
National Book Award winner for Middle Passage, Dr. Charles Johnson writes captivating novels that address issues of being African-American in today’s U.S. society.
Suzan Shown Harjo
President of The Morning Star Institute. Poet, writer, lecturer and policy advocate, who has helped Indigenous peoples protect sacred places and recover more than one million acres of land.
Kathleen Hanna
Unwavering feminist, legendary punk singer, artist and pioneer of the Riot Grrrl movement
Robert Kirshner
Part of the Nobel-Award winning research team on “cosmic expansion” — Executive Director of the TMT International Observatory, whose mission is to build and operate a world-leading astronomical observatory.
Derrick Pitts
NASA’s first Astrobiology Ambassador & Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director at the Franklin Institute. One of the world’s leading science communicators on astronomical phenomena and cosmic discoveries.